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Comedy in DC: She-Ha 2
On the heels of the very successful Girls’ Night Out at the Eleventh Street Lounge at the beginning of March, it’s time for She-Ha 2: When Laughter Attacks, the follow up to last year’s sellout She-Ha: Princesses of Power, featuring DC’s funniest women. She-Ha will rock your socks off on April 9th at 8PM in [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Table Scraps Edition
These next couple of weeks are a little sparse on the comedy front, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do. The Washington Improv Theater FIST competition continues apace, with round 1 finishing up this weekend. They’ve already got some highlight video posted, so you can see if competitive amateur improv looks like a fun [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Flooded Basement Edition
‘Drafthouse at dusk’ courtesy of ‘wfyurasko’ I love it when all the pent-up Snowpocalypse comedic frustration is unleashed upon an unsuspecting region. There’s a lot going on, but here are my picks for the week: Thursday night is BrightestYoungThings’ “Family Hemerlein Variety Show,” featuring music and comedy, MC’d by Seaton Smith (for whom my fandom [...]
More »Don’t Let Snow Madness Happen To You
Maybe it’s just the cabin fever, but I laughed disproportionately hard at this video about the very serious condition “Snow Madness,” starring Hampton and narrated by Aparna Nancherla. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
More »Comedy in DC
‘Jason Saenz Stand-up 4′ courtesy of ‘Aaron Webb’ It’s the grossest part of the winter. You need a laugh. The DC Improv is sold out all weekend already (no, really, they are). What will you do? Fortunately, the local (and not so local) comedy is plentiful. If sketch/improv is what you’re after, the Upright Citizens [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Laughing the Cold Away
‘The LPs in the Window’ courtesy of ‘andertho’ First, do I need to remind you that Hampton is recording a CD tomorrow night at the Comedy Spot in Ballston? The show is planned for the 95-seat black box theater, but if enough people show up, there’s the possibility of moving to the main stage. If [...]
More »Comedy in DC, on CD
Today we’re going to talk about DC comics whose work you can purchase, to listen to in the privacy of your own home. Why? Two reasons: 1. The holidays cause a lull when there aren’t that many shows, but I’ve still got a regularly-scheduled column to write, and: 2. Hampton is going to record a [...]
More »Comedy in DC: The Last of the Christmas Cookies
‘Jason Saenz Stand-up 4′ courtesy of ‘Aaron Webb’ Much like the last Christmas cookies rattling around in the tin your grandma sent you, the last comedy shows of the year are kind of an odd, mismatched bunch. And yet still delicious. I usually leave theater to Jenn and Don to talk about, but comedian Judy [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Pre-Christmas Funny
‘Settle down people – this is serious.’ courtesy of ‘TheeErin’ We are getting into another seasonal comedy lull as bars and hotels fill their less-used back rooms with professional minefields office holiday parties and as comics make plans to visit their (often highly dysfunctional, comedic goldmine) families, so there are only a few shows of [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Still Talking About That Same Festival
‘shure beta’ courtesy of ‘billaday’ Yeah, okay, so… the big news in DC comedy is still the Bentzen Ball. I rounded up some clips for you (and some fussing about the “curation” of the festival) a couple of weeks ago, then Washingtonian inexplicably profiled the least representative sample possible of comics appearing. Dandy. But what [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Bentzen Ball Preview
So, this Bentzen Ball thing. Everyone’s talking about it, but they keep talking about Tig Notaro and Patton Oswalt’s involvement in a show that’s about “alt-comedy” without even mentioning the numerous local comics interspersed throughout the various shows. Patton Oswalt was in a Pixar movie, for God’s sake. He’s hilarious, but he’s there so that [...]
More »Funniest Celeb in Washington Recap
Sam Donaldson throws out the “Ceremonial First Joke” by Corinne Whiting Sometimes DC and its power players are unintentionally hilarious. This past Wednesday evening, however, at the 16th Annual Funniest Celebrity in Washington Contest, politicos, media folk and other local “celebs” took to the stage to be purposefully funny. Some jokes triumphed, filling Connecticut Avenue’s [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Updates
‘Ben and the Microphone’ courtesy of ‘CJ Sorg’ School is back in session and that means the college audiences that fuel small local shows are also back and looking to laugh. Which is good, because there are comedians STANDING BY to tell jokes! Tonight, the Hot Broth Comedy open mic rages on at the Comedy [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Around the Intarwebs
Kind of a mish-mash this week of different stuff for the end of DC’s sleepy August… First, a video (above): Jewish Guilt vs. Catholic Guilt go head-to-head in the 1976th annual Guilt-Off, starring Jared Stern and Chris White. The infographic is cracking me up all on its own. Second, a show: Friday September 4, DC [...]
More »Comedy in DC: In Your Feed Reader
Jake Young, Courtesy Aaron Webb So what do I do, when searching anxiously for the next comedy thing to entertain myself with? Comedian blogs. The problem is, standup is not something the translates well to the written word, so there aren’t that many local comics that do it (though Twitter is helping- something about the [...]
More »Comedy in DC: The Reruns Edition
‘Roast of Jay Hastings 82 – Version 2′ courtesy of ‘YoLoPey’ The comedy calendar hasn’t changed much since the last Comedy in DC feature, so today it’s just a short entry with a little review: There’s still the “There Will Be Laughter” show at the Drafthouse on Friday the 31st. Hampton Yount and Will Hessler are [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Gimme Some Variety
‘Last night at Dr. Dremos – 35′ Hampton Yount courtesy of ‘Aaron Webb’ Mid summer ( I KNOW, HOW IS IT THE MIDDLE OF JULY ALREADY?!) is kind of a weird time for comedy. The college audiences that fuel the smaller shows have gone home, but that also means that bored comics get… experimental. In [...]
More »Comedy in DC: Hot, Steamy, Humid Standup
‘Seaton Smith’ courtesy of ‘NikolasCo’ I know you’re all coming to the We Love DC 1st Anniversary Party tonight, but once that’s over, you’ll need some other entertainment to distract you from humidity, hordes of tourists, Metro problems, dognappers, and all the other stuff that goes along with the height of summer in DC. So [...]
More »Comedy in DC: You got comedy in my music venue
Okay, so first I have to get this Dylan-with-an-arrow-through-his-head thing out of the way. There’s this show at the Velvet Lounge on July 10th. It’s called 3 Chord Comedy, and it is, as the image above implies, comedy in a venue that generally focuses on music. It starts at 7PM, and the cover is [...]
More »Comedy In DC: At Your Desk
Tyler Sonnichsen, whose picture I’m using because I couldn’t find a decent video clip courtesy of ‘Aaron Webb’ A comedian acquaintance and I were lamenting the challenges of acceptably promoting local comedy recently, and something we both noted was the utter lack of demo clips that are professional and showcase the comedian to his or [...]
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