Description: The N Crowd wants you to share a laugh at the Actors Center. They perform improv entirely dependent on suggestions provided by the audience. When you come, you’re expected to have a slew of things to yell out when asked for suggestions. You can purchase tickets in cash at the door or online with a major credit card. Doors open at 7:30 pm. RSVP’s are held until 7:50 pm.
Style: Improv
Host: The N Crowd
Date: Reoccuring, every Friday
Time: 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Admission: $10 in advance, $15 at door
Location: The Actors Center – 257 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA
Description: The N Crowd wants you to share a laugh at the Actors Center. They perform improv entirely dependent on suggestions provided by the audience. When you come, you’re expected to have a slew of things to yell out when asked for suggestions. You can purchase tickets in cash at the door or online with a major credit card. Doors open at 7:30 pm. RSVP’s are held until 7:50 pm.
Style: Improv
Host: The N Crowd
Date: Reoccuring, every Friday
Time: 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Admission: $10 in advance, $15 at door
Location: The Actors Center – 257 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA
Description: The N Crowd wants you to share a laugh at the Actors Center. They perform improv entirely dependent on suggestions provided by the audience. When you come, you’re expected to have a slew of things to yell out when asked for suggestions. You can purchase tickets in cash at the door or online with a major credit card. Doors open at 7:30 pm. RSVP’s are held until 7:50 pm.
Style: Improv
Host: The N Crowd
Date: Reoccuring, every Friday
Time: 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Admission: $10 in advance, $15 at door
Location: The Actors Center – 257 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA
Description: The N Crowd wants you to share a laugh at the Actors Center. They perform improv entirely dependent on suggestions provided by the audience. When you come, you’re expected to have a slew of things to yell out when asked for suggestions. You can purchase tickets in cash at the door or online with a major credit card. Doors open at 7:30 pm. RSVP’s are held until 7:50 pm.
Style: Improv
Host: The N Crowd
Date: Reoccuring, every Friday
Time: 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Admission: $10 in advance, $15 at door
Location: The Actors Center – 257 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA
Description: SketchPlayground! is a FREE variety show loaded with puns, antics, and impersonations. Each week features a different popular Philly comedian as the guest host, along with mixed improv and sketch groups. You really shouldn’t miss this.
Style: Sketch, improv, stand-up
Host: Dan Vetrano
Date: Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Time: 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Admission: Free
Location: Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar – 200 South 12th St., Philadelphia, PA
Helium Comedy Club put the line-up for the 6th Annual Philly’s Phunniest Person Competition on their website. Spanning across most Sunday nights this summer, the contest pits Philadelphia’s stand-up comedians against on another in eleven preliminary rounds, with three comics advancing each night based on audience voting. Those three comics will go on to the semi-finals, from which ten comics will make the final round. There, 2011′s Philly’s Phunniest Comedian will be decided. The line-up for this year is as follows:
June 5th
Jay Galgiardi
Ian Fidance
Barry Yelowitz
Matt Reiss
Paul Goodman
T.J. Hurley
Blake Wexler
Noah Houlihan
Chip Chantry
Tom Cassidy
Erik Whitacre
James E. Collins, Jr.
Kevin Lau
Steve Ozer
Saturday Night Live is woven into the culture of America. People debate which were the best seasons or the funniest sketches and talk about the ups and downs over the years. For fourteen years, MADtv offered some company and competition to SNL in the late-night sketch comedy arena, producing some really amazing comedy that deserves to be recognized and remembered. The show changed and grew over the years and showcased some extremely talented cast members that need to be seen more.
MADtv had a golden age from 1999 to 2004, in my opinion. After starting as a TV version of the magazine of the same name, it found its identity and produced some stellar comedy before its eventual end.
Some really, really excellent work was produced before season 5 and after season 9, but I’ll highlight this era. The humor relates to when it was created, but stands the test of time. Here’s a list of 25 extraordinary sketches that provide clever ideas, fun characters, solid writing, and stupendous acting—at times daring to be experimental and boundary-pushing.
25. Man Up! Regional Championships
Sketch comedy has often struggled to write from different perspectives, and I think this sketch is a great example of African-American cast members creating something that doesn’t just fill a quota but stands out as great comedy.
24. Sick Wife
Michael McDonald and Stephnie Weir worked amazingly well together, and I dare say that this sketch says something about the human condition.
Comedian and Republican City Council candidate Steve Odabashian is getting some serious print for his campaign. The latest comes from City Paper on his appearance at a Temple candidates forum. [City Paper]
The Get Offended Variety Show with headliner Geno Bisconte is this Friday at Connie’s Ric Rac. Lots of different acts, all promising to make you feel slightly uncomfortable. [Facebook Event]
The folks at SuperDPS posted some clips from the Main Street Comedy show at Mad River in Manayunk this past Wednesday. And here they are for you, also.
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