Results tagged “standup”

Here's one for the standup comedy junkies: Comedy.com has posted their list of 10 funniest comedians in Philadelphia. (Even better, they didn't go with "Phunniest," for which we must give them mad props.)

A lot of comedians need a shtick. And that's not to say it's a bad thing: heck, a lot of trailblazing comedians relied on their shticks and achieved great success and influenced comedians who followed them. George Carlin's profanity and Sam Kinison's scream (without either of which, we would not have the brilliance of Denis Leary), Gallagher's sledge-o-matic (which is directly to blame for Carrot Top, who was actually surprisingly funny when this Phillyist saw him many, many years ago), Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck..." (which is probably the greatest one-liner gimmick ever). So we love comedians with shtick; but sometimes, it's refreshing to see a comedian who can just go on stage and be themselves, and be very, very funny. We also love local talent. To our delight, we found both in local comedian Chip Chantry.

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If you're still finalizing your weekend plans, you might want to add Aisha Tyler's show to your list. phillyBurbs had a little chat with her, and we say anybody that can put away that many cheesesteaks in one sitting can't be bad. We are also giggling imaging her yelling "BOOOYAAAA" to her 79-year-old grandfather, because that's the kind of Obamaphiles we are. She'll be at Helium tonight and tomorrow at 8 & 10:30PM, with or without protective head gear.

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October 6, 1889 was the day on which Thomas Edison first displayed his moving picture device to the world. On the same day in 1927, The Jazz Singer became the first popular talking movie. And on the same day in 2008, you're going to The Troc to see Iron Man.

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For those of you who don't know, Larry Mendte used to do stand-up out in California. Now that he has some free time, maybe he'll pick up the mic again.

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Doug Benson (Best Week Ever, Last Comic Standing, Marijuana-Logues, Doug Benson's I Love Movies) took a joke from his stand-up act about Morgan Spurlock’s documentary, Super Size Me and made it into his own movie called, wait for it, Super High Me.

What would Tom Shillue have thought of the "Philly's More Fun When You Sleep Over" campaign?

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Local sketch comedy group Meg and Rob

On Saturday, members of the Philadelphia Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), set off to march twenty-five miles from the National Constitution Center to Valley Forge National Historical Park, "to show support for veterans and service members testifying at Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan," an IVAW event occurring in Washington, D.C. March 13-16. The event gets its name from a quote by Thomas Paine, who said that winter soldiers are those who stand up for their country even in its darkest hours, and will be an opportunity for veterans who served in both locations to give "an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground" in the Middle Eastern war zones.

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