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hang-on-lil-tomato · 6 months

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Rhys Darby at The Keswick Oct 17, 2023

What a GREAT time!

I realized today how much LOVE was in that room! Love for rhys, for his “essence” (har har) and love right back at us!

it was a delightful time, rhys doing his greatest hits,

he can’t promote OFMD, which is fine since half the audience was dressed as pirates. We know about his little pirate rom com.

but…he very subtlety did a riff on “come back to me” and not so subtlety did “I did a punch”. Pretty awesome ways he had of sneaking that stuff in!

he got the best cheers for that bit of fan service.

his opening act was great, and he was doing a bit about usa tv, and CSi. It was ok, but it was kind of flat for him until he said something about the kind of shows you guys watch are about gay pirates, and we all went wild.

I met a cool fan with the same name as me, she was just back from NYCC. That was great! So we hung out, had dinner, and chatted. It was so nice to rave on with someone about OFMD details, and of course Rhysie. Really made the experience so much better, because I always go alone to things.

Steve was also joking about “where the hell are we? Rhys asked me to a show in Philly with him, but this isn’t Philly, is it?”

GLENSIDE, we shouted. It’s actually a very cute, upscale, suburban bedroom community for Philly. And we call everything around here Philadelphia, so that’s hysterical.

philadelphia factory outlets is in Sanatogo,

Philadelphia folk festival is in Schwenksville.

today I told everyone at school I saw Rhys Darby, and they looked at me like “Is that a band?” 😂🤣😂

Rhys asked the audience if anyone was local to Glenside. YES! And you’ve heard of me?

😂🤣

the capacity was 1300 but I estimate it was only 3/4 on attendance max, so maybe 800, but many DEVOUT fans. The orchestra was filled with SUPERFANS.

Anyone who pays any attention to my silly blah blah blog know I adore Rhys, but these folks are NEXT LEVEL. I had an excellent seat, but I’m glad I wasn’t quite in the gravy basket with the priesthood up front. May Rhys Bless Them from on high.

no merch table, just two guys doing stand up. Just down and dirty, simple and great.

unfortunately he and Steve couldn’t meet and greet as they had to drive up to Connecticut. But Rhys and he drove by and honked at the crowd in front of the theater. Unfortunately for me, I was on the wrong side of the street.

see Rhys LIVE! It’s a special experience.

oh, and don’t use AXL ticketing with their stupid app. Luckily I was prepared with my proof of purchase, ID and CC. Never again!

but I’d definitely see Rhys again.

the audience is part of the show!

#ofmd #our flag means death #rhys darby #You’ve heard of me #rhys montague darby #i love Rhysie to piecie!#stede bonnet #fan service #comedy show #live comedy #i love him your honor!

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timplatt · 1 month

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Rude Tales of Magic is performing LIVE at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY on March 30th! We’re be playing as our Class Dismissed characters so I’ll be returning to Stirfry. If the show sells out then I’ll perform him chaste.

I’ll also be performing my favorite Rude Tales song LIVE!

and ALSO there will be exclusive merch from artists that fans of the show will know and love!

Get tix before they sell out: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rude-tales-of-magic-lent-enders-live-at-the-bell-house-tickets-818721767847

#rudetalesofmagic #rude tales #stirfry #ttrpg #comedy #live comedy #live ttrpg

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picturethisshow · 16 days

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#NewYork #Brooklyn We are celebrating 8 years of doin the show in #NY with our Union Hall family & friends! Comedy by: Dylan Adler (Late Late Show) Myq Kaplan (Conan) Nico Carney (Late Night) Nina Tarr (VICELAND) Mic Nguyen (Asian Not Asian Podcast) Animation by: Jason Chatfield (The New Yorker) Bryan Brinkman (SNL, Tonight Show) Chrissy Fellmeth (Titmouse) Emily Flake (Mad Magazine) Smo (Adult Swim) Hosted by: Samantha Ruddy (Tonight Show) TICKETS: $10 pre-sale, $15 day-of/at the door https://www.eventbrite.com/e/picture-this-live-animated-comedy-tickets-879909331497?aff=erelexpmlt

Masking HIGHLY encouraged when not actively eating or drinking.

21+, Street Parking available, ride share encouraged

Lineup subject to change without notice

Flier art by Jason Chatfield

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jadeestebanestrada · 16 days

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Comedy in the City of Dreams

On July 19, I'll be representing Team USA at the 4th Annual Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in Amsterdam. Looking forward to performing alongside comedians from all over the world!

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nakedcomedy · 16 days

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#NYC Marley's Mind is BACK with a new discount code for $1 tix!!! But that doesn't mean the lineup is discount at all:

Jared Goldstein

Katrina Davis

Honey Pluton

Charlie Bardey

& Garnet Williams

Hosted by Marley Gotterer!

6:30 doors / 7 show / 21+ / Downstairs at the Fever Dream Lounge / $15 day of OR Use code MIND online to $ave money on tix for drinks!!!

https://www.ticketweb.com/event/marleys-mind-416-feverdream-lounge-tickets/13620063?pl=kftour&REFID=clientsitewp

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lisaplant4 · 1 month

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Had such a lovely night tonight with Mom. We went to see Rob Brydon: A Night of Songs and Laughter at the Curve Theatre.

We danced, we sang, at times I had literal tears of laughter running down my face.

I did not expect to enjoy the evening half as much as I did.

We were even treated to a guest appearance from Bryn West and a rendition of 'Islands in the Stream'.

A brilliant night of entertainment!

#rob brydon #bryn west #live comedy #live music

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superdynamo · 3 months

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Ben Bailey - Half to death!!!

#ben bailey #realbenbailey #comedy #stand up #stand up comedy #funny #live comedy #still makes me laugh

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notwiselybuttoowell · 2 years

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The fringe never stopped being an education for me. When I was starting to write hourlong shows of my own, I went to see Bridget Christie and realised everything I was doing was shit and needed to be overhauled. I have watched shows by contemporaries, such as my ex-flatmate turned sitcom superstar Rose Matafeo, the sketch masters Lazy Susan and the genius/serial award-loser James Acaster, that reminded me why I fell in love with comedy.

When I hosted Edinburgh Nights for the BBC in 2018 and 2019, I was even forced to watch things that weren’t comedy. I saw Rachael Young marry live music, dance and Afrofuturism in Nightclubbing, a show that paid homage to Grace Jones. I saw Pussy Riot and was fortunate enough to interview them, where I was informed that they hadn’t been smuggled out of Russia to perform at the festival, as reported in the press, but had travelled “by unicorn”.

When I wasn’t watching shows, I was performing; learning how to be a comedian, step by excruciating step. In 2010 and 2011, I performed in a sketch double act with Tom Neenan. We were called the Gentlemen of Leisure and the show was a parody of The Culture Show on BBC Two and was exactly as financially profitable as it sounds. But we learned a huge amount about joke-writing and the partnership ended up with Tom becoming my partner in crimes against comedy on various radio shows and The Mash Report.

Meanwhile, I was doing standup on the Free Fringe, where the audience members aren’t charged, but can offer a donation to the performers on leaving the venue. The aim is for the donation to be in cash, but we were often compensated in old playing cards, flyers for our own show and bits of string. Still, these were formative experiences, performing on 25 consecutive days, accelerating my development more than months of infrequent gigging on the open mic circuit in London possibly could.

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At times, it can feel as though defending the fringe is morally indefensible, like eating meat or supporting Manchester United. Landlords have been encouraging students to stay in their flats in August, leading to a shortage of properties and driving up prices. The Fringe Society was forced to launch a drive to find Edinburgh residents who would be willing to rent properties to performers for less than £280 a person a week. Some performers are staying out of town in caravans or on campsites.

Meanwhile, the Fringe Society is facing criticism for scrapping its app, a valuable tool for performers to direct audiences to their shows, sell more tickets and hopefully mitigate some of those astronomical rents.

The fringe is supposed to be a place where performers can come to experiment and evolve. However, it is turning into a playground for those born wealthy – like Monaco, but with more people who went to clown school.

It has been heading this way for years – and I am not exactly an example to the contrary. I grew up middle class and went to a fancy university that subsidised my first two trips here. More significantly, when I started doing solo standup shows, my first three were paid for by a management company. At the time, the going rate for a solo show (including venue hire, accommodation and PR costs) was about £10,000. I was performing in venues that were so small that even if I had sold every single ticket I would still have lost money.

It would be disingenuous not to acknowledge my fortune. It would make me no better than the swines in our cultural and political life who are the children of wealth, but proudly proclaim that they “did it on their own, without any help”. It is our most pernicious myth, aside from the one that brussels sprouts taste nice if you fry them with bacon. Your dad bought you a flat and the thing that tastes good is bacon. Sprouts taste like small, hard farts.

This is to say nothing of the woeful underrepresentation of female acts, ethnic minorities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Organisations such as Fringe of Colour and Best in Class work hard to address this, but wholesale change is needed. No one seems to be able to put the finger on who is to blame. Landlords, venues, PRs, Edinburgh university and the Fringe Society blame each other, but in the end the bill is footed by performers.

It is no wonder that younger comedians are increasingly seeing the benefits of social media exposure to their careers; the startup costs required are minuscule in comparison to those of doing a show on the fringe. But allowing the fringe to slip slowly into obsolescence would be a shame. At its core, it offers performers a boot camp to hone their skills and a collision of different styles of performance.

Being a performer at the fringe can feel like being a character on a film set in Las Vegas, because the house always wins. And I mean one of the bleak Vegas films, not Ocean’s Eleven – there is no sign of Clooney or Pitt. The only time it resembles Ocean’s Eleven is when you hear some drama student attempt a truly disgraceful cockney accent that would make even Don Cheadle say: “Bleeding heck, guvnah.”

I still believe in the fringe. Perhaps that is inevitable, given my whole life is tied to it, like a pointless Forrest Gump. My birthday is in August, so I can measure my life through the festivals I have attended. My first years I was there, I spent almost every waking moment with Tom and Ed Gamble. In the past three years, I have been best man at their weddings. In 2010, I met a woman who was funny and charming, but whom I presumed disliked me intently. In October, we will have been in a relationship for 10 years. I cannot separate my own life from the fringe and the city of Edinburgh. It has given so much to me, professionally and personally.

But even I understand that it stands at a crossroads. It must find a way to recapture its egalitarian spirit to remain relevant. It is not enough for charitable organisations to fill in the gaps; systemic change is needed. I say this not out of malice, but simply because I strongly believe, to quote my own mother: “If you love something, you must be willing to relentlessly point out everything that is wrong with it,” a phrase she often says to and about me.

#excerpts #edinburgh fringe #fringe festival #british comedy #nish kumar #live comedy #wish I could have seen the Culture Show parody

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mywaysthehighway · 8 months

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Yesterday I finally saw my hero, (one of) the funniest men on earth, Kevin James 🤩 my baby and I had some of the best seats in the house and we both laughed ourselves into a stupor the entire 2 hours. I really needed that.

#kevin james #king of queens #stand up #comedy #comedian #live comedy #Personal #doug heffernan

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timespanner · 8 months

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Preview for Swines - To be released at 6pm Today Irish Time - for free :-D

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#Swines #Foil Arms and Hog #youtube premiere #comedy #sketch comedy #live comedy #(I mean - it's a recording of a live show)#24 August 2023 #Youtube

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hang-on-lil-tomato · 7 months

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Omg….this is happening

If any of my fellow OFMD / Rhys Darby fanatics are going to this show, give me a shout. Love to meet my fellow crew members and Rhysbians.

if I get to meet him I WILL be totally cringe and make a drooling idiot fangirl MORON IDIOT out of myself. It’s my nature. I will no doubt say something really embarrassing that I will regret for the rest of my life.

at least I’m consistent.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #rhys darby #rhys montague darby #live comedy #i can’t believe I’m going to see Rhys live #keswick #anyone else going?#South East Pennsylvania #Philadelphia suburbs #October 17 2023 #Ofg this is happening #This isn’t sold out?!?!.#ofmd s2 #no spoilers #spoiler free #not a spoiler #cryptid factor

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jamesadomian · 8 months

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SOUTHBOUND & DOWN!

Six cities in one week with Gilbert Lawand!

All tickets on linktr.ee/jadomian and elsewhere!

FRI 8/25

BIRMINGHAM

8pm - Don't Tell Comedy

SAT 8/26

CHARLESTON

8pm - The Sparrow

TUE 8/29

ATLANTA

8pm - Urban Tree Cidery

WED 8/30

CHATTANOOGA

8pm - JJ's Bohemia

THU 8/31

ATHENS

8pm - 40 Watt Club

FRI 9/1

ASHEVILLE

7pm & 9:30pm - Catawba Brewing

🎨: Wojtek Arciszewski

#james adomian #jamesadomian #birmingham comedy #charleston comedy #atlanta comedy #chattanooga comedy #athens comedy #asheville comedy #dont tell comedy #the sparrow #urban tree #jjs bohemia #40 watt #catawba brewing #modelface #standup #standup comedy #live comedy #comedy tour

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picturethisshow · 17 days

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#LA & #Livestream: We're back at our OG home base THE VIRGIL and we're back to livestreaming the show so you can join us from ANYWHERE!!

Comedy by: Ify Nwadiwe (The Dropout) Vinny Thomas (AppleTV+) Sammy Mowrey (Femmes the Rules) Bardia Salimi (Hulu) Bri Giger (Netflix is a Joke Festival) Addie Weyrich (HBO) Animation by: Mike L. Mayfield (Adult Swim, FOX) Mike Hollingsworth (Bojack Horseman) Craig Bartlett (Hey Arnold Creator) Marie Cheng (Disney) Katie Hood (Netflix) Davey Jarrell (Bento Box) Addie Weyrich (YES, Addie's doin comedy AND drawing!) Hosted by: Brandie Posey(Lady to Lady) LIVE SHOW TICKETS: $10 pre-sale, $15 day-of https://www.thevirgil.com/#/events/101155 21+ / Lineup subject to change without notice LIVESTREAM ONLY: $10 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-only-picture-this-live-animated-comedy-tickets-879986050967?aff=oddtdtcreator *Not all performers guaranteed to be on the livestream

Flier Art by Davey Jarrell

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awaitingarsooz · 9 months

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SOLD OUT SATURDAY! Can’t wait to see how many days this happens. GO SOOZ!

#sooz kempner #comedy #live comedy #queenpod #mystery on the rocks #edinburgh fringe #fringe festival #trans ally #lgbtqia+#the + is for cabaret acts

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nakedcomedy · 16 days

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#LosAngeles #WestHollywood Roomies RETURNS this Monday 4/15 with a helluva lineup for Naked Comedy fans:

Laci Mosley (iCarly)

Clare O'Kane (SNL)

David Brown (Jury Duty)

Jared Goldstein (Comedy Central)

& Best Actress!! (Monica Loomba, Chelsea Morgan & KP Parker!)

8p doors / 8:30p show / 21+ / ONLY $5 while pre-sale supplies last!!!

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kjblynx · 9 months

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The video. I need the video.

It's a stage comedy where this guy (played by a short feminine person in a horribly fair moustache) is seducing this woman while getting undressed, putting on a robe, and shaving.

But we see a body double for all the body shots.

The main lead talks with their head out while behind a room splitter, then ducks down and the body double walks through the scene with something covering their face.

As the main lead opens their robe in a mirror the wall slides open to show the body double behind it. The face mirror drops and both the main lead and the body double see each other in surprise.

It ends with the woman trying to leave and finding two people smashed beyond the door and she tries to climb out.

I swear I saw it here.

#comedy #comedy sketch #live comedy

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