Execution in the ol’ US of A comes with a few perks, including your choice of last meal and the chance to get your departing words recorded for posterity. Most inmates take that chance, and truTV.com showcases an intriguing selection of these final statements. It’s haunting to stare into a mugshot of a dead serial […]
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Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, and Tracy Morgan Collaborate on New Comedy Project!
A TEST: So. If I told you there was a film that pooled the comedy talents of • Will Arnett• Zach Galifianakis• Tracy Morgan and then I said that the film also featured • Sam Rockwell• Penélope Cruz• Bill Nighy• Steve Buscemi• Loudon Wainwright III You’d be like “Where the fuck do I sign up?!”, […]
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Goodnight, Sweet Dom
Among the many movies my stepfather pirated when I was a kid was Cannonball Run. As a pre-teen, it quickly became one of my favorite movies, most likely due to the bad language, the huge quantities of cleavage, the fast cars, and the fact that my stepfather looked uncannily like Burt Reynolds. Of all the […]
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Bridgetown Comedy Festival – Saturday
Man oh man, my funny muscles are sore and my head is throbbing from last night’s antics at the Bridgetown Comedy Fest. It was a blur really, but I will try to recap. I hit the evening off at the Eagles Lodge where I caught a funny set from Nikki Glaser, who attempted to reconcile […]
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Bridgetown Comedy Festival – Friday
Some very quick thoughts about the Bridgetown Comedy Festival last night. (I apologize for not having pics, names, or any otherwise useful facts.) After a guest list snafu, I got the wristband and went down to the Hawthorne Theatre to see a couple acts, including a Seattle comedian who insisted that Seattle has better bands […]
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On the Bridgetown Comedy Fest
Commenter Badina, aka local comedian Virginia Jones, says: Bridgetown kicked off with a bang last night! Janeane did a secret late-night show in a fifty-person room, Jimmy Dore came at a heckler in defense of Brody Stephens, and the Tanker was an amazing crapshoot of amazing walk-up comedy! It’s like the Disneyworld of stand-up- but […]
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Comedy for the People
(Or: Patton Oswalt, Midgets, and Embarrassing Confessions Involving The King of Queens)
“Dude, I’m not going to recite my bits into a vacuum, you know?” Patton Oswalt tells me. Fair enough, considering I just asked the comedian if he feels obligated to be funny with interviewers. “I mean, if it’s conversational and natural and it turns funny, that’s fine,” he answers. “The only time when it’s frustrating […]
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Simply the Best
Only the Best Are Invited to the Best Comedy Sketch Festival
The first national Sketch Fest was held in Seattle in 1999, conceived both as a showcase for touring sketch comedy groups, and an opportunity for sketch comics to meet, network, and show off. Each year since, the concept has grown in popularity, as other cities quickly jumped on the bandwagon. Sketch comedy festivals are held […]
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Reverend Bob Levy and the Killers of Comedy
The Reverend Bob Levy has a dirty mouth, loves to lick women’s asses (two separate qualities), cures hangovers with booze, and, along with the rest of the Killers of Comedy, is a regular guest on the Howard Stern Show. See the Reverend, Sal the Stockbroker, Shuli, Yucko the Clown, Jason Stewart, and Oregon’s own Gary […]
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Funny That Way
Local Comedy Duo Kelley and Jason and the Never-Ending Honeymoon
Young love is a beautiful and funny thing, and in the case of Kelley Bryant and Jason Eksuzian, it’s more specifically a tenderly delivered dick-joke thing. The two first met years ago when they were both students at Bennington College and eventually moved out to Portland, where they began gaining attention in the arts scene […]
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“Oh, I Love the Stockholm Syndrome!”
An Interview with Comedian/Author Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho is an actor, comedian, and author famous for her hilarious take on culture and politics from the perspective of a Korean-American feminist. She’s coming to Powell’s this week (1005 W Burnside, Thurs Nov 3, 7:30 pm, free) in support of her new book, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight, the title of […]