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Tampa Bay's best comedy gigs this week, including Healing with Humor fundraiser, Kill Tony and more
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (844+ words) Healing With Humor, a non-profit founded by local comedian (and previous Best of the Bay winner) Rahn Hortman, raises funds for individuals and their families impacted by sickle cell disease. The comedy show is the second such fundraiser for the…...
Steve Arik fundraiser tops list of Tampa Bay's best comedy gigs'April 23-May 6
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (806+ words) Local comedians will be sharing laughs to help a fellow funnyman on Friday. The benefit show, which is free to attend and will have a donation jar and a 50/50 raffle, raises money for Steve Arik, a longtime performer who's been…...
Ali Wong is doing two nights of standup in St. Pete
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (249+ words) It's been 10 years since a massively pregnant Ali Wong made her Netflix standup special debut with iconic lines about not wanting to work. She's selling t-shirts with the line, "I don't want to lean in, I want to lie down'and…...
Comedian and former 'Cum Town' host Adam Friedland comes to Tampa this month
4+ week, 1+ day ago (141+ words) Comedian, podcaster and current talk show host Adam Friedland brings his "dirtbag left" style of comedy to Tampa this spring." The 39-year-old is arguably best known for his work on the popular and incredibly absurd podcast Cum Town with fellow…...
Show from Chris Rock's brother, Tony, tops list of Tampa Bay's best comedy gigs March 27-April 5
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (737+ words) He's not the most-famous comedian in his family, but Chris' little brother has a successful decades-long career in his own right (you don't get to host HBO's Def Comedy program and The Apollo's competition show without a legit resume, plenty…...
Interview: Before solo "Hamlet" in Tampa, Suzy Eddie Izzard says drama and acting "was a substitute for love and mum"s affection"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (883+ words) If you were going to pick a Shakespeare play to adapt into a solo work, you probably wouldn't pick "Hamlet." The bard's longest work is known through the centuries for its psychological complexity and its interweaving subplots. And if you…...
Interview: Before two Tampa shows, Vermin Supreme talks origins, fighting fascism, and more
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (306+ words) The 64-year-old has two Tampa performances this weekend: A Friday comedy cabaret at the Commodore, and an appearance before the screening of the documentary "Who Is Vermin Supreme" happening at Sun-Ray Cinema." Creative Loafing Tampa Bay caught up with Vermin…...
Creative Loafing editor to kick 2026 season of "Salud and Happy Days" improv show
4+ mon, 21+ hour ago (168+ words) Since its inception in December 2023, The Commodore's "Salud and Happy Days" series has worked to celebrate Tampa by getting locals to tell stories onstage before improv comedians act out scenes based on what comes out in the interview. The series…...
Tampa's Jobsite Theater isn't pretending'Comedy of Errors'is a thesis statement
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (590+ words) Shakespeare skeptics, relax. This one isn't trying to teach you anything. It's trying to make you laugh. That's the guiding principle behind'Jobsite Theater's upcoming production of'The Comedy of Errors, running Jan. 14 Feb. 8 at the'Jaeb Theater. Set in the groovy, slightly…...
Review: In Clearwater, 'Weird Al' Yankovic triumphantly closes his biggest and weirdest tour yet [PHOTOS]
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (240+ words) A lot has happened since Alfred Matthew Yankovic made his Tampa Bay debut 38 years ago, as an opening act for The Monkees" first reunion tour. One biopic and a new polka medley later, the "Bigger and Weirder" tour brought back…...