- Andy Batt
- Champs.
Portland sketch comedy duo the Aces have been selected to perform at the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival this year! This is a big deal—Sketch Fest, happening this weekend, is the biggest sketch comedy festival in the country, hosted annually at Stage 773 in the heart of Chicago’s beloved comedytown*, and the Aces are among only a handful of acts from the Pacific Northwest in a Chicago- and NYC-heavy lineup.
One-half of the Aces Shelley McLendon (the other half is Michael Fetters—read about ’em here) says they’re “excited and nervous,” but prepared with animal impressions. “We have chosen 40 minutes worth of our favorite Aces sketches from the past 3 years, which include a lot of sketches where we play animals (such as gorillas, an owl, a dog, etc.) as well as regular people,” she says. “We have been running the sketches over and over and trying to find new and funny elements in sketches that we already love.”
Break a leg, Aces! Show those midwesterners how it’s done! And if someone offers you something called Malort, don’t drink it!
*The neighborhood of comedytown post-Cubs drunk bro-ville Lakeview would like me to clarify that it’s actually called Lakeview.