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Yllana’s 666 Comedy - Funny as Hell

666 is a rude and ribald collision between wordless Commedia dell’arte, physical theater, and slapstick.

Spoken Funk: Laughs Meet Enlightenment in LA

There are two types of big-city nights out: the kind where you want to let loose, and the more sophisticated kind.  But what about those nights when you want to relax/laugh and do something cultural/intellectual?
LA’s “Spoken Funk” is the best of both worlds– the worlds of comedy and poetry, to be exact.  The locally-touring show [...]

LIMP: iO West’s Crash Course in Filmmaking

In LA, catching a movie being filmed is nothing to bat an eye at, let alone pay for as a form of entertainment.  But how many Angelenos can say that they’ve seen a film shot, scored and edited before their eyes in the span of a Saturday night out?
LA comedy landmark the iOWest’s the Live [...]

Miranda Sings! at Birdland

Once the headquarters for jazz legends like Coltrane and Count Basie, NYC’s Birdland seems like the last place that would let a YouTube sensation showcase her shenanigans.  But ‘Miranda Sings!‘ is just that, and she’s preparing to make her highly-anticipated return to the jazz landmark, having performed there several times in the past year to [...]

Pavlov is Doggone Hilarious in Dallas

Who is “Pavlov?”  To the psychology community (or anyone who took a basic psych course in college), Pavlov is the father of classic conditioning, whose experiments with salivating dogs earned him the Nobel Prize at the turn of the century.  But to the Dallas-Fort Worth comedy scene, the name refers to four hilarious men who [...]

Pocket Sandwich: The Most Fun You Can Have in a Dallas Theater

It’s rare a venue that allows patrons to throw food at the performers, let alone encourages it.  Dallas’ Pocket Sandwich Theatre does both, supplying each theater-goer with a tray of popcorn prior to each performance, and urging them to hurl handfuls at the stage –and at each other– as the show begins.  Impromptu popcorn fights [...]

7th Annual LA Improv Comedy Festival (Celebs Return)

Big names and celebs will bring some glitter once again to this year’s 7th Annual Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival running June 1-6 at iO West Hollywood. Every year celebs return to their roots at the Festival making this one of the best Improv Festivals in the country. Some performers include According to Jim’s, Larry [...]