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Description: Dinner and a comedy show. Style: Stand-up Date: The last Saturday of every month Time: Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm Admission: $25 (includes dinner and a show) Location: The Conshohocken Cafe – 521 Fayette St. Conshohocken Contact: Website Description: Polygon Comedy is a Philadelphia community arts organization devoted to building a thriving and sustainable comedy scene for area comedians. Polygon Comedy works to raise awareness and understanding of local comedians and independent comedy troupes as well as providing teams and performers with resources to help their projects thrive. Are you an independent comedian, sketch group, or improv team in Philly? Looking to perform? “Like” us on our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter, and send us a line for more info on how you can be a part of our upcoming shows! Style: Variety Date: April 16 Time: Doors-7:30pm, Show-8pm Admission: Make your Polygon Comedy experience that much easier (and cheaper!) by Ticket Sales: Tickets available here >>> http://polygoncomedy.com/ Location: L’etage – 6th and Bainbridge St. Contact: Website Description: ”ComedySportz presents…” is an an ongoing series of fun, new comedy shows featuring your favorite CSz Players and Philadelphia comedians. January 25: Adrift Style: Improv Date: The last Friday of every month Time: 8PM Admission: Tickets available online Location: The Playground at The Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom Street Contact: Web site This Wednesday at Chris’ Jazz Cafe (1421 Sansom St.) the Tight Six crew will host Not Jazz 2, an evening of stand-up comedy featuring John Nunn, Mary Radzinski, Dan Scully, Trevor Cunnion, Gregg Gethard, and Keane Cobb. The Sideshow Presents: Iron Lung’s 2 Year Anniversary Show/Party this Friday at The Arts Parlor (1170 S. Broad St). The show will feature improv from Iron Lung, Kid Twist, Cock Hat, and Bed Savage as well as sketch from The Flat Earth and stand-up from Sidney Gantt. Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham will bring his array of characters to perform at the Wells Fargo Center (3601 S. Broad St.) this Friday. Tickets are available online. In addition to their regular, weekly shows ComedySportz Presents: Adrift and ComedySportz’ The Blue Show will be held this Friday at The Adrienne Theater (2030 Sansom St.) ComedySportz Presents is “an ongoing series of fun, new comedy shows featuring your favorite CSz Players and Philadelphia comedians.” Always on the last Friday of every month The Blue Show promises to feature “your favorite players doing stuff no Brown Bag could ever rectify.” The Center Square Fire Company (1298 Skippack Pike, Blue Bell PA) is celebrating their 100th anniversary this Saturday with a comedy show featuring stand-up from The Legendary WID, Mike Morse, Robin Fox, and Grover Silcox. Tickets for the show can be purchased online and include a souvenir cup, beer, soda, and snacks. Jim Gaffigan visits Philadelphia for a show at the Tower Theater (69th and Ludlow) this Saturday. Tickets can be purchased online. The Captain Action Comedy Show makes its Saturday debut this week at the Conshohocken Cafe (521 Fayette St. Conshohocken) with a show featuring Jim Ginty, Jon DelCollo, Aaron Nevins, Dave Terruso, and Dan Vetrano. This Sunday Bedtime Stories Presents: Behind the Scenes at a Soft Rock Radio Station in Nahua, NH at Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.). The show will feature comedians telling the stories behind WHFMTOWNDZ-FM (The Breeze On Top of the Mountain Near Nashua) — the number two rated soft rock/adult contemporary radio station in New Hampshire’s second biggest radio market. ComedySportz for Kids — a “fun-sized version of our long-running comedy show only shorter, sillier and kiddy-er” will be this Sunday at The Adrienne Theater (2030 Sansom St.) The monthly comedy show for children will take place at 11 am. Tickets can be purchased online. Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe are looking for new artists. Live Arts will select up to 5 artists through an audition process. If selected, artists will be presented in a showcase format for two nights, will receive a stipend of $500 and 5 hours of rehearsal time in the LAB in preparation for their performance. Live Arts is seeking work which demonstrates a commitment to forward thinking ideas and aesthetics. Any live performance genre is acceptable including theater, dance, music and performance art. Visit www.livearts-fringe.org/ If you have any Philly comedy news worth mentioning – send it our way with an email to contact@witout.net
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. Self-proclaimed “slowest-rising comedian in America” Alex Pearlman may not be able to call himself that for much longer—he’s opening for Todd Barry at Urban Saloon this Sunday. Here’s him talking about that, and some other stuff! WitOut: You’re opening for Todd Barry this Sunday at Urban Saloon! How did that happen? Alex Pearlman: Mainly networking and a lot of grunt work. I like to call myself the “slowest-rising comedian in America” considering how long I’ve done this. But the number one rule is networking. You never know who’s booking shows or who’s doing what, so try to be polite to people’s faces, and keep your bitter tweets cryptic. Continue reading “Try to be Polite to People’s Faces” – Interview with #bigshotcomic Alex Pearlman Name: Get Real – Comedy of skeptic proportions Description: Philly’s most irreverent comedy show returns for a second installment, starring The Evolution of Comedy Tour w/ Ian Harris & Jason Resler from LA, plus local support from the sketch sensation ManiPedi, stand up from Doogie Horner and Steve Gerben, and hosted by Dave Terruso. Also featuring special musical guest Mercury Radio Theater along with DJ Dave Mass to close out the night. Style: Stand-up, Sketch & Variety Date: Saturday February 2nd, 2013 Time: 9pm-2am Admission: $15 advance / $20 door Location: UNDERGROUND ARTS – 1200 Callowhill St. Phila, PA 19123
If you are a Philadelphia comedy performer that produces a podcast, web series, sketch video, humor column, or any other online content let us know by emailing us at contact@witout. In case you missed Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host The Golden Globes, here’s a video that cuts the show down to just their parts. The Comic’s Comic has shared the full list of comedians set to appear on the second season of Comedy Central’s The Half Hour. The YouTube channel LOUD just released the first episode of a new six-part web series called Coogan Auto, written and directed by Rob Riggle. Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced they will be starting their own production company. Friend of Philly comedy and member of UCB team Scraps Angel Yau sent us her group’s new Banned Diversity PSA sketch, which you can check out online. Tina Fey revealed the secret to her success. Comedy Bang Bang and other Earwolf Network podcast have joined the Video Podcast Network. Nick Kroll’s new Comedy Central show Kroll Show debuted. Splitsider breaks down what to expect from the sketch show in this preview. In 2012 comedian Rory Scovel made this video (part one) documenting every single day of his life (part two). Oh man, you know when you have a great idea for a sketch, and you get your iPad out, but then you can’t write it because you don’t have the right screenwriting software on it? Isn’t that the worst??? I wouldn’t know, because I don’t have an iPad or write sketches (yet), but I assume it’s the worst. Lucky for you guys, WitOut just got a hot tip that the new Final Draft iPad app is currently available at a discount on iTunes. It has all the stuff people love about the desktop version, plus some new unique features like One Touch Element selection and Character Highlighting for character development or table reads. Here are some fancy screenshots!
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