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1 week agoFor Now, ABS Makes Good Theater | Defector
Under the ABS challenge system, a team begins each game with two challenges. If a player gets an umpire's call overturned, their team retains the challenge. In effect, this means a team has unlimited challenges until they get two wrong.
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fromBrooklyn Paper
5 days agoSteve Schirripa to host "Garden of Laughs" at Radio City Music Hall with star-studded lineup on April 13 * Brooklyn Paper
Steve Schirripa will host the fifth 'Garden of Laughs' fundraiser benefiting the Garden of Dreams Foundation on April 13 at Radio City Music Hall.
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fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThere's a type of person who becomes the funniest one in every room and the loneliest one in every car ride home. The humor isn't hiding sadness. It's redirecting attention so skillfully that nobody ever thinks to ask the comedian a real question. - Silicon Canals
Humor often masks emotional struggles, as those who use it to deflect may be the least comfortable expressing their true feelings.
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2 months agoKemah Bob is on a mission to help women and trans folks take up more space in comedy
Navigating an industry dominated by white, cisgender, heterosexual men takes a lot of courage, thankfully, Kemah Bob is brimming with it. In 2018, she founded The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club, better known as FOC, with the aim of giving women and trans comedians the tools to take over the comedy world. The American comedian, who uses she/they pronouns, has appeared on Richard Osman's House of Games and BBC's QI. Her comedic skill is undeniable,
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fromFuncheap
2 months ago"Loserland" Join Big Mike's Wild Ride: Comedy + Clowning (SF)
Ever feel like a LOSER? Beaten down by capitalism, the housing crisis, and little hope of getting ahead? "brilliant, well-observed character comedy" - Stage Whispers (Australia) Meet one Aussie bloke who can relate... He's crass, chain-smokes, blows his paycheck on KFC and Marvel tatts and stumbles into knife fights. This is Big Mike - a wiry, heart-on-his-sleeve barista with big plans, good intentions and a magnetism for tragedy.
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fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 month agoCurtain Calls: Unfinished stories come to life in light-hearted comedy Improbable Fiction'
Masquers Playhouse presents Alan Ayckbourn's Improbable Fiction with strong direction, versatile performances, and outstanding costumes that bring imagined stories vividly to life.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoThe "Ins" and "Outs" of Comedy: Dealing With the Outflow
Readers who saw my previous post will recall its focus on a recurring pattern of laughter and humor found during my deep dive into the humor of the Seinfeld series. I wondered why we tend to laugh at various things going into our bodies and tried to explain why we might be so inclined using the Mutual Vulnerability Theory of Laughter.
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fromFuncheap
1 month agoHecklers Welcome: SF's First Stand-Up Comedy Show That Invites Heckling
Welcome to Hecklers Welcome!, San Francisco's only stand-up show where you get to talk back. This is not your average comedy night-this is a full-blown verbal brawl, where comics come ready to spar and the audience gets a license to heckle. Got jokes? Bring 'em. Got beef? Air it. Think you're funnier than the pros? Talk back and find out.
Humor
fromFuncheap
1 month agoHecklers Welcome: SF's First Stand-Up Comedy Show That Invites Heckling
Welcome to Hecklers Welcome!, San Francisco's only stand-up show where you get to talk back. This is not your average comedy night-this is a full-blown verbal brawl, where comics come ready to spar and the audience gets a license to heckle. Got jokes? Bring 'em. Got beef? Air it. Think you're funnier than the pros? Talk back and find out.
Humor
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoComedians pick on me for my loud laugh but nothing will make me stop | Jane Howard
He had already picked on me several times for laughing too loud, too readily (that wasn't even a joke, he chastised me at one point). I was trying hard to suppress my laughter to hold it in, to hold it back, to not fully express the joy I was feeling. I was being somewhat successful. And then I wasn't. Everyone in the audience was laughing but I was laughing too much.
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