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This is how the scene must have looked at the Backdoor Comedy Club downtown on the night of February 1: It's open mike night. In the lobby, a middle-aged woman with a mop of spiral curls is ...
But 50 First Jokes remains the best venue at which to see a jury of funny deliberate live—and render their own verdicts. Comedians listening on stage, during the first half.
The Masked Observer has seen a few mystic societies that decided to improvise their tableaux (Yes, we’re looking at you, Fifty Funny Fellows. But we’ll get to that.), so he was a little ...
For the recent MTV Movie Awards, pop culture aficionados were delighted to see the resurrection of Les Grossman, the feral, vulgar movie producer from the Ben Stiller film Tropic Thunder, as the pu… ...
If you’re a family man or woman, it is nearly impossible to see live comedy with your little ones. That’s because the man or woman of the hour-and-a-half-or-so on stage either made his ...
The invitation for the public opening (6-9 tonight) of an exhibit of paintings by Murray Whisnant lists him as “an architect, designer, inventor, furniture maker and artist.” ...
At the Fifty Funny Fellows’ 92nd anniversary gala, the Observer realized right away that he was being transported into the gleaming past of Mobile glory.
Cam Newton laughed at and belittled one of my sportswriting colleagues at The Observer Wednesday, and that is inexcusable.
When the Observer-Reporter purchased the Waynesburg Democrat-Messenger and Monongahela Daily Herald in 1986, coming with it was the right to publish Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts,” but only in the Greene ...
Dateline Houston cannot adequately communicate how vivid and disturbing the Houston Press’s new cover story profiling Lloyd Oliver is. You’ll just have to read it. Oliver, of course, is the ...
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