Category Archives: Comedy
Piccolo Fringe wraps
Tonight was the 84th and last show of this year’s Piccolo Fringe called the Fringe Finale. It featured the one and only Have Nots! and the whole Theatre 99 gang. Guests included the Upright Citizens Brigade, Jazz Hand: Tales of a One-Armed Woman, and The Cody Rivers Show. There were many gems but my favorite […]
Quote of the week
That has to go to Charlie Sanders, who was wrapping up a performance by the Buffoons Wednesday night at Theatre 99, when someone from the audience leaped on stage to give him a little love.
“I just got mouth-raped by a racist,” he said. “I never thought I’d say that.”
The lowcountry’s favorite morning show
Mary Kay Has a Posse performed its second-to-last show last night. The final show is June 5 at 4 p.m. Members of the this local fave live all over the East Coast now. When they get together for Piccolo and the Charleston Comedy Festival, it’s a rare treat to see the lowcountry’s favorite morning TV […]
And the joke of the (second) week goes to . . .
The Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company.
The long-form improv troupe out of New York performed last night at Theatre 99 and managed to riff off one of humankind’s most arcane topics — labial tattoos (yes, this is another vagina-oriented joke, but hey, I don’t make this shit up, I just report it). They struck gold when […]
They thought I was taking a picture
We were walking by the American Theater last night when we saw the sketch comedy group Harvard Sailing Team posing for pictures. They’d just finished a show there. I quickly got in line, but forgot that I had my camera set to video mode instead of picture mode. It was an unexpected bit of comedy.
Harvard […]
Comedy is good
Here’s what you’ll feel like after seeing some of the Piccolo Fringe.
All smiles!
How YouTube is like vaudeville
K. Brian Neel was running a fever the entire time he was performing Vaud Rats on Wednesday night. I found this out afterward while we talked about his interest in the rich history of vaudeville.
As we talked about the play within the play aspect of his show, he asked me what I thought of the […]
More evidence that 2008 is the trickster
OK, so the musical that has everyone buzzing this year is Monkey, about a monkey who’s basically a jester, a fool, a trickster, a shape-shifter (he turns into a bee at one point) and who finds redemption and enlightenment, and who does so only by admitting to his own foolishness.
Then Amistad has a character called […]
And the joke of the day goes to . . .
I Live Next Door to Horses, the sketch comedy duo from Chicago and members of the improv group, The Reckoning. They gave their final show of this year’s Piccolo Spoleto tonight at Theatre 99.
One sketch involves two elderly ladies watching old TV shows from days when they were fresh and beautiful and young.
They reminisce about […]
A mind puzzler
How do you string to following together and make it funny? And by the way, they were inspired by toast. Yes, toast.
Back to the Future
Robots a la The Stepford Wives
A Rube Goldberg machine
Danny DeVito
pederasts
empty movie theaters
predestination
ghost writers
meta-murder mysteries
Pee Wee Herman
Indian baseball Chicago Cubs fan who only goes to games to sing songs during the seventh-inning […]
