Michael Bublé Gets Stalked By A Velociraptor is everything it sells itself to be. The website that speaks only in pictures features the Canadian singer/songwriter being stalked by one of the most menacing creatures of the Jurassic Park series. As very quickly we learn, Bublé cannot even buy groceries or walk solemnly down an alley […]
Comedy
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Bridgetown: Testosterone at the Tanker
I got a late start to last night’s Bridgetown Comedy Fest, so I went straight to the Tanker for the fun, open-mic-ish Comedy Cavalcade. Basically it’s comedians trying to make a room full of other comedians laugh. Sometimes it works (Brody Stevens!), sometimes not so much. There was a lot of testosterone flying around the […]
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TGIF Because You Suck At Life
Hey Blogtownies. I know how hard it is for you. What with the pouring of liquids and draping of blankets. You are not alone! The subjects of this daring documentary* are with you! Luckily there are a delightful array of products designed to help you cope with . . . basic things. Thank God! *okay, […]
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Bridgetown is HERE!
Oh hot damn, this is one of my favorite times to be in Portland—seriously. The way Bridgetown is set-up down on SE Hawthorne, with all the venues packed tightly together and a festival bracelet you just can’t go wrong. It’s too much fun. If you’ve never seen live comedy, I swear there’s no better way […]
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Win Free Bridgetown Tickets
There are just a few more hours to save $10 on pre-sale Bridgetown passes. But if tax-day put some more hurt on you than expected, maybe you should take this quiz—the winner gets two passes to the festival. And the contests continue: You can get back to Live Wire! via their Twitter page. The lineup […]
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Better Know A Bridgetown Comic: Part 7 of 150
First things first: there are just a few days left to save $10 on Bridgetown’s pre-sale passes. Four days, 150+ comics, just $50 bucks if you buy before Friday. Now, meet Hari Kondabolu, a festival veteran. Kondabolu played last year’s Bridgetown and stunned the audience at Mt. Tabor. His style mixes serious politics, racial identity […]
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Conan O’Brien Debuts Comedy Tour in Eugene; KILLS
Popeater’s got the details of Conan O’Brien’s first stop on his nationwide “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On TV Tour” that kicked off in Eugene last night—but here’s the long and short of it. “This is the first time anyone has paid to see me. They’ve paid me to go away,” O’Brien told Monday’s audience […]
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Doug Benson Extended Interview
In this week’s print edition I wrote a feature on comedian Doug Benson, who’s performing at 8:00pm tonight at the Aladdin Theatre. We spoke for quite some time and covered some great stuff that could fit into the paper, especially Doug’s take on why live comedy is either amazing or excruciating: This is how I […]
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The High Road
The Stoner Stylings of Comedian Doug Benson
Comedian Doug Benson has made a career of telling pot jokes—but there’s (slightly) more to him than that.
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Team Coco / Better Know A Bridgetown Show: Pt. 5 of 125
Holy Crap—first of all, it looks as if there are actually a few tickets available to the Conan O’Brien live tour stop in Eugene on April 12th. This comes as some surprise to me, as I checked a few weeks ago and the only tickets available were part of the insanely expensive Meet and Greet […]
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Buy Your Tickets Now: The Cody River Show
The Bellingham-based sketch comedy duo the Cody Rivers Show will be in town this weekend, playing three shows at Curious Comedy. I’m not going to post any YouTubes of the Cody Rivers Show, because video makes live theater look unfunny and irrelevant, and the Cody Rivers Show is the exact opposite of those things. Instead, […]
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Better Know A Bridgetown Comic: Pt. 4 of 125
Meet Morgan Murphy I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Ms. Murphy a number of times, first at Bridgetown, and more recently in New York at the venerable Comedy Cellar. Every time she’s been terrific. Murphy is quite tall, and really enjoys bringing the weird, uncomfortable, fear of touching on an awkward Facebook blind date vibe. […]