Description: Louis CK at the Merriam Theater
Style: Stand-up
Date: January 16 -18
Time: 8pm
Admission: Tickets available online
Location: Merriam Theater – 250 S. Broad St.
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Description: Featuring Multi-Cultural Stand Up Comedians Representing: Jamaica, Trinidad, U.S.A. And Africa. Owen “Blakka” Ellis, Errol Fabien, Keisha Brownie, Tommy Joseph, Trixx And A.G. White. Live Musical Performance By The Legendary DJ Professor Nuts Style: Stand-up Date: January 19 Time: 9pm Admission: Tickets available online Location: Gallerie Isad - 3320 Collins St. Philadelphia Description: With Sommore, DL Hughley, Bruce Bruce, and Tony Rock Style: Stand-up Date: February 16 Time: 8pm Admission: Tickets available online Location: The Liacouras Center – 1776 N. Broad St. Description: Jeff Dunham at the Wells Fargo Center. Style: Stand-up Date: January 25 Time: 8pm Admission: Tickets available online Location: The Wells Fargo Center – 3601 S. Broad St. As the year winds down, WitOut collects lists from comedy performers and fans of their favorite moments, comedians, groups, shows, etc. from the last year in Philly comedy. Top 5 of 2012 lists will run throughout December–if you’d like to write one, pitch us your list at contact@witout.net! Running an open mic with five other people can be rough sometimes. Egos tend to get in the way, especially when people start picking favorites. That’s why I’ve ranked the top five members of Tight Six in no particular order. 1. Aaron Nevins 2. Elise Thomson Hohl 3. Dan Vetrano 4. Mikey Garcia 5. Becca Trabin RUNNER UP: Robert X I’ll be honest. I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t make the cut, but fair is fair. Time to quit comedy forever. Joe Bell is a stand-up comedian and co-runs Tight Six, a weekly open mic on Sundays at Fergies Pub. He’s a real swell fella with a brilliant smile and a lot of class. Follow him on Twitter @Joebeii and give him a dollar if you see him in person.
Follow Witout on Twitter for updates from our site, as well as retweets of more of the best 140-character-or-less jokes from Philly comics. Description: The 2013 WitOut Awards for Philadelphia Comedy, sponsored by Philly Improv Theater and Narragansett Brewing Company, will be held at World Cafe Live on Sunday, January 13th at 6pm. The show promotes and celebrates Philadelphia comedy while at the same time parodying and poking fun at traditional entertainment awards shows. This year’s show will be hosted by Philadelphia-based improv duo Grimacchio, known best for their Fringe Festival production of The Grimacchio Variety Hour. Grimacchio will be joined onstage by live band Philly Slick, Samantha Brown and The Grimacchio Dancers, and local comedians serving as presenters for each of the 13 awards categories. Pre-show festivities will include red carpet photography by Tom Lovelund, and an after-party will be held in the venue immediately following the show. Tickets to the show and after-party will be on sale online via World Cafe Live. All tickets include free admission to the after-party and one free Narragansett beer. Style: Awards Show Date: January 13 Time: 6pm Admission: Tickets available online Location: World Cafe Live – 3025 Walnut St. Contact: Facebook Event Description: The Live, Love, Laugh Comedy Show will take place on Saturday February 2, 2013 in the wonderful Germantown section of Philadfelphia. The Live, Love, Laugh Comedy Show will bring the funniest comedians in the country as well all of your favorite local comedians. The Live, Love, Laugh Comedy Show is hosted every month by two of the funniest comedians in Philadelphia, Kendrick Jones and Shanell Renee. Both are two of the fastest rising and supremely funny comedians that Philadelphia has to offer. This first installment of The Live Love Laugh Comedy Show brings you the in your face comedy of newcomer Stax. Stax has been tearing up stages in Philadelphia recently. Here’s your chance to catch him before the ticket price goes way up. Our featured comedian for the night and is one of the funniest comedians in the city and east coast, Jonas. Jonas brings a very high energy brand of humor that you don’t want to miss. Our headliner for the night, hailing from Baltimore, MD, is the ultra hilarious Timmy Hall. With appearances on Def Comedy Jam, BET Comic View and One Mic Stand, Timmy Hall has proven that he can command the crowd and has performed with comedy heavy weights Kevin Heart, D.L Hughley, Ricky Smiley, George Wilburn, Monique, Guy Torry, and Tommy Davidson just to name a few of his peers. With over SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND (68,000) YouTube views, comedy lovers around the world love Timmy Halls explosive stand-up routine which makes him a star on the rise. Style: Stand-up Date: February 2 Time: 7pm Admission: $10, Tickets available online Location: East Eden Catering – 5600 Germantown Ave Contact: Facebook Event Description: Comic Energy Sketch Comedy, featuring crazy sketches that bridge generation to generation. Described as a cross between old time Saturday Night live and Monty Python…the group combines smart comedy with crazy situations…with original characters and impersonations… Style: Sketch Date: January 4 Time: 8pm, 10pm Admission: Pay what you can Location: The Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom St. Contact: Facebook Event As the year winds down, WitOut collects lists from comedy performers and fans of their favorite moments, comedians, groups, shows, etc. from the last year in Philly comedy. Top 5 of 2012 lists will run throughout December–if you’d like to write one, pitch us your list at contact@witout.net! Comedians love two things: giving themselves too much credit and giving their friends and peers a hard time in the name of having fun. And they also probably love their families and other stuff. Here are my five favorite things I did in 2012 that may make me an as*hole but myself and others enjoyed: 1. Sent Mentos an email to a YouTube link with a message saying “someone’s using your product to promote date rape.” 3. Conspired with other comedians to let Rob DeSantis’s comment in a Twitter thread just hang after he went racial with it. 4. Having this song lyric I made up stuck in my head for a week: We gonna fly down to
Osage Avenue. And set the block on fire. 5. Asking Pat House “New Foo Fighters sweatshirt?” when he was always wearing the same Foo Fighters sweatshirt. ALWAYS. Jim Grammond is a comedy performer and writer based in Philadelphia. He performs stand-up wherever they’ll have him, and is the host of Reasonable Discourse with Jerks, a monthly panel comedy show at Philly Improv Theater . Jim is also a writer for The Monthly Hour with James Hesky and a sketch performer with The Flat Earth.
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