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Cinema & Sips | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
4+ hour, 29+ min ago (166+ words) 7PM Local Short Films by SAFILM Festival | 8PM Featured Film Showtime Escape the midweek grind at The Rock with “Cinema & Sips”, a curated weekly film series designed exclusively for adults. Join us every Thursday this July for an evening of local culture,…...
“Silent Summers”: Alice Howell comedy shorts
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (205+ words) This year we highlight the ladies of silent comedy! The evening begins with a presentation about Alice Howell, the nearly forgotten frizzy-haired slapstick comic whose on-screen working girl character always found herself in awkward situations. Audience in attendance will then…...
While Fiesta crowns royalty, Cornyation crowns comedy at the Empire Theatre
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (499+ words) Amid Fiesta’s celebrations of royalty, Cornyation returns to the Empire Theatre for a three-night, adult-themed parody skewering politics, celebrities and local culture through about a dozen satirical skits and eccentric costumes. This year’s theme is “The Court of Radical Highfalutin…...
Hot Cheetos and a sad devil: New Centro de Artes exhibition explores Latino identity through humor
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (644+ words) A new exhibition at the Centro de Artes Gallery, titled "A Postmodernist Says ¿Qué?", brings together Latino artists exploring identity through humor across a range of mediums, including collages, sculptures, ceramics, and installations. Curator Vikky Jones said the show uses…...
'Smack Talk Open Mic': Where standup comedy meets improv and wrestling
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (77+ words) Texas Public Radio | TPR 'Smack Talk Open Mic': Where standup comedy meets improv and wrestling Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with actor and former wrestler Shane Hartline, the creator of the NAW or NEVER Smack Talk Open Mic in…...
Chris Duffy discusses his new book, 'Humor Me"
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (460+ words) Chris Duffy is a comedian, but he'd reached a point in his life where he'd nearly forgotten the joy of laughter. CHRIS DUFFY: I was teaching at a school, and I was dealing with a lot of really tough issues....
Jackbox creative director on party game’s roots in Chicago’s Second City improv comedy
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (803+ words) For over a decade, Jackbox Games has specialized in outrageous party games, played on consoles, computers and smart TVs. The company’s latest edition, The Jackbox Party Pack 11, out Thursday, tasks players to decorate digital cookies, sniff out phony detectives and…...
Rob Reiner and Michael McKean discuss 'Spinal Tap II: The End Continues"
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (72+ words) NPR's A Martínez speaks with Rob Reiner and Michael McKean about "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues." The sequel comes more than 40 years after the original rock band mockumentary. Rob Reiner and Michael McKean discuss 'Spinal Tap II: The End…...
Spinal Tap is back. Director Rob Reiner says they're still dialed up to 11
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (467+ words) In 1984, the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap lampooned heavy metal bands and rock documentaries — and introduced audiences to a new film genre. "What we were doing was not only satirizing heavy metal, we were satirizing the documentary form and…...
Pop music's funniest newcomer is Audrey Hobert
11+ mon, 4+ day ago (412+ words) The opening track of Audrey Hobert's debut album came to the 26-year-old when she was sitting at home on a Friday night, watching a documentary about Steve Martin. "I noticed that his whole career and life fell into place once…...