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Third Thursday: LOL MIA
We got silly with local comedians from the Theater of Public Policy.
We took part in live museum label Mad Libs.
We created our own museum comics.
We embarked on a spontaneous “tour” guided by unexpected characters.
We took in the sweet jams of Hot Freaks and Apollo Cobra.
We hung around for in-gallery comedic performances and elevator improv games.
We recorded reactions to goofy prompts in the Funny Face photobooth.
Official Beer: Summit
Music Partner: Local Current from 89.3 The Current
Event partner: Theater of Public Policy
See the "Nothing You Ever Wanted to Know About Wheezy Waiter" video
It's been a year since my proverbial head bump on the bathroom sink causing a vision of the flux capacitor (a la Doc of Back to the Future). Only my head bump was a day with no customers at the restaurant and my flux capacitor was Wheezy Waiter.Special thanks to Ze Frank, Ryan Wolff, Andy Garfield (my boss at my editing job back in Madison), Ashleigh (for introducing me to Ze Frank) and all of you.WARNING: movie may contain scenes too genuine for some viewers. This video was originally shared on blip.tv by cgbenzine with a No license (All rights reserved) license.
This event will bring together activists and comedians to discuss the ways in which comedy can push forward agendas such as #metoo and contemporary women’s rights movements, and how this effort can translate into meaningful change in women’s lives. The event will also showcase the work of UN Women and Mythos Labs in countering violent extremist recruitment narratives—and their understandings of gender—through comedy. It features a comedy set by renown comedian and actress Aparna Nancherla.
In early 2018, UN Women partnered with Mythos Labs to produce a series of comedy videos to counter the messaging of terrorist groups in the Asia region. Working with female comedians in South Asia and South-East Asia, these sketches challenge the narratives used by violent extremist groups and counter extremist ideology in the online space. While this work was originally piloted to prevent and counter violent extremism, the implications go far beyond this realm. Comedy can and is being used to promote broader themes of women’s empowerment and gender equality, by not just making us laugh, but by challenging stereotypes with a broad and engaged audience.
This project is part of UN Women’s Empowered Women, Peaceful Communities programme, which is funded by the Government of Japan. This programme works in the Asia Pacific region to challenge the gendered dynamics of violent extremism and reverse its growing trend, through prioritizing women’s rights, empowerment, participation and leadership—in national decision-making and at the community level.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
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Comedy and Tragedy
1808
Pine (originally painted)
Made by William Rush, American,
born 1756, died 1833
William Rush created these two sculptures, Comedy and Tragedy, for Philadelphia's first theater, the New Theatre, at Sixth and Chestnut Streets. Until this time, Rush had been known for his carvings of ship's figureheads and for his ornamental work. This commission marked the beginning of the artist's creation of large-scale public sculptures.
Other works carved by Rush for Philadelphia include allegorical representations of the Schuykill River for the original waterworks (where City Hall stands today); a set of figures for the second waterworks at Fairmount (now part of the Museum's collection); and a full-length figure of George Washington.
Purchased with funds contributed by The Mary Anderson Trust,
1985-6-1,2
Two eroded concrete / cement markers by the side of Rosemarkie golf course, looking like Greek theatrical faces.
Four English Comedies
Jonson: Volpone,
Congreve: The Way of the World,
Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer,
Sheridan: The School for Scandal.
Penguin - Harmondsworth, 1983
cover: "The Laughing Audience" by William Hogarth
Artist-Baker Sara Reiss's special alien cupcakes.
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This is me hanging out in the basement of Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco before doing my Dave Hill Explosion show with guests Dick Cavett and Gordon Gano in 2010. Dan Dion took this photo. He rules. So does my outfit.
One of the wackiest shows I had ever seen. Just sketch after sketch of craziness, some of it close to the bone causing one or two couple to leave the audience. Evidently they were not ready for this type of humour?
Friday 17 July 2009
James & Leon's stellar night of stand up, sketch and musical comedy mayhem comes to the Southbank Centre for one night only.
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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Ken Dodd, The Comedy Carpet, Blackpool. Sunday 21 July 2013.
I do like this :)
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Comedy and tragedy masks charted for a dishcloth
The wavy lines can be replaced by lace.
I haven't knitted or transcripted this yet, so I don't know if it works.
NYC: Day 3!
This was the line for our comedy club reservations. I wish I would have gotten a picture of the rat that walked through the line, but I was too busy reassuring Michele that it was, in fact, a very small rat.
Sony WX350
Divine Comedy 2010
Knives in Hens
Director: Weronika Szczawińska
The Olsztyn version of Harrover’s drama, popular on Polish stages, resembles a new linguistic theatrical experiment rather than a study in women’s alienation. Its director discovers a true semantic treatise under the feature and psychological layer of the text. Three actors are placed within an empty, white space. Words and notions are written out on the walls. With the help of letters and pictograms, the protagonists make attempts to decipher the sense of life and the world. What betrayal means, what the constituent elements of jealousy are, what love is, what a woman is, and who a man may be. Emotions become separated from words, the text of the role assumes the form of a complex language code. What notions are taken to form a hero? At the beginning of the play, the Ploughman, deserted by Wife who chose the Miller, uses the wall to writes the fundamental equation: “horse, field, woman = entire me”. In this world, the task of the Miller is to spoil the inscriptions, change the meanings of words by obscene word endings and drawings. In the thus formatted world, love must also assume a written form. And suddenly everything is like in Greenaway’s Pillow Book: a naked man is writing on a naked woman. This means: now you are mine, you are a sheet of paper that I may fill with writing as I want, and once I am done, I will create you anew. Another production by Weronika Szczawińska, where the laboriously discovered, radical and new form affords a different sense to a well-known work.
Photography: Grzegorz Ziemiański
Rob gets up on stage to open the show. Hanks Saloon runs a Dive Comedy show every Wednesday night starting from 8 PM. I wasn't too sure what to expect when I showed up and I was half planning to just leave when Rob's act was over...but I'm glad I stayed for the whole thing!
The Dive Comedy show at Hanks' is really an intimate venue where comedians can try out new material with a live audience so they can tweak it. I think it's great because it's almost like open mic (but with like actual professional comedians). There were about 6-8 different comedians all performing with material at different stages so I got to see acts which ranged from brand new, to diamond-in-the-rough to nearing polished and ready for prime time.
I really admire them because I think it takes a lot of guts to get up there and tell jokes, not knowing whether they're going to fall flat or not. And so much of it is really dependent on the audience...I have to say a lot of the references quite frankly went over my head - some jokes were really targeting NYC/Brooklyn audiences with neighbourhood specific references and I was a bit like "huh?!". I also really liked Allison Castillo's set and will see if I can catch anything else she's doing while I'm here.
It was also really awesome because we all got free chocolate cake with peanut butter cream icing at the end (definite perk)! Plus it's such a small venue that you can actually go up to people at the end and talk to them. I am totally going to miss places like this in Sydney.
Pyramus & Thisby - A Magical Comedy!
The wild fairies are back to tickle and tease Colombo audiences with their supernatural mayhem in this wild adaptation of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'! Watch them as you've never seen before in this updated version of the show!
Devised and Choreographed by Jehan Aloysius and presented by CentreStage Productions
Sponsored by The Lionel Wendt Memorial Trust.
Co-Sponsored by Cargills.
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19-20 November 2016
Scraplift of an amazing page by Melissa Lewis:
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Background paper by Brenda Miller; Circle papers, flower, stars, & "squiggle" by Rhonna Farrer; Cardboard by Tracy Blankenship; Barcode by Shandy Vogt; Tag by Nina; Stitches by Bren Boone; Fonts are Arial, Arizona, Courier New, & Old Town. Whew that's a lot of credits!
Jason Norman & Douglas Ridloff bring their adult humor and drama in American Sign Language which can be viewed and enjoyed with an interpreter provided for the hearing.
This event is R-rated... well, perhaps X-rated. Hell, it could be 'safe sex' redefined, depending on your point of view... Stories may be too hot to handle. Please take a moment to acknowledge that you've been warned.
Tickets are $15 plus a two item minimum (food or drinks). Buy them online here: