Humor

Humor

The first thing I found when I was rehearsing Hamlet was that I felt very at home. I just felt very at ease and happy to be there. But the first time I performed to be or not to be on stage, there was a sense of aren't bells supposed to ring here? Isn't there supposed to be a klaxon? I come to to be in a slightly different way each night so hopefully the audience haven't seen it done that way before.

50 weekends a year, the critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench, an attempt to perform 30 bite-sized plays in a frantic race against the clock, in an order determined by you, the audience. Each week, the ensemble offers up new plays ranging from the personal, to the political, to the profoundly WTF, all truthful and inspired by the lived experiences of the performers.

Rex Navarrete has been one of the leading Filipino stand-up comedians on the circuit for years. A comedian's comedian, he's performed alongside George Lopez, Ali Wong, and Robin Williams. His brand of "Pinoy" humor touches on his life as a Filipino, but all cultures are able to appreciate the themes of his jokes. After all, laughter is one of the great ways to connect with any human. His bit "What are Filipinos" will make anyone laugh hysterically.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BRAINY BRITCHES! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX -our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we'll be testing your knowledge on EVERYTHING that happened in the year 2025 in the thrilling "Part Two" of our trivia recap of the year! (Look, I get it... you never want to think about 2025 again... so fill out this quiz, slam your pencil down,

It may be TMI, but I have a weak bladder. Now, I know what you're thinking: Isn't having a weak bladder an issue for a guy whose job is to search for the internet's absolute funniest photos? The answer is "yes." Peeing your pants on the job is no fun. But I forge onward for all of you! What's that? You're also wondering what my co-workers think of this? They don't mind - because they know that when they see me looking like the two gents below,

John Antrobus, who has died aged 92, was just 21 when in 1955 he joined the writers' cooperative Associated London Scripts. Based in an office above a greengrocer's shop in Shepherd's Bush, it housed a cradle of talent shaking up postwar television and radio comedy. Newly out of army officer training at Sandhurst, with a father who was a regimental sergeant-major and arriving wearing a herringbone suit, he found himself among a new generation sticking two fingers up at the establishment.