Floodwater Comedy Festival Presents: Natasha Leggero IMU Main Lounge — Thursday, Apr. 21 at 8 p.m. Get ready, Iowa City — Natasha Leggero will be performing in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge on Thursday, Apr. 21 at 8 p.m as part of the Floodwater Comedy Festival. Tickets are $25 in advance and are available […]
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Comedian Rachel Bloom talks Iowa, Seth Green and transcendental meditation
Rachel Bloom The Englert Theatre — Saturday, Mar. 5 at 8:30 p.m. As part of the Green Gravel Comedy Festival, Rachel Bloom, Eric Dadourian and Megan Gogerty, with host Dan Gill, perform live at the Englert Theatre on Saturday, Mar. 5. Tickets are $12–17 for this event; festival passes and a full line-up listing are […]
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Just announced: Natasha Leggero and more to headline Floodwater Comedy Festival
Floodwater Comedy Festival Iowa City — Apr. 22–24, 2016 Iowa City’s Floodwater Comedy Festival is back for its second year of bringing a wide array of comedy programming and workshops to Iowa City. This year, comedian Natasha Leggero comes to town as the stand-up headliner. Known for her Comedy Central show Another Period (with Garfunkel […]
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Green Gravel Comedy Fest announces ticket sales, lineup additions
Tickets go on sale today for the Green Gravel Comedy Festival. This third annual event will be taking place at a variety of locations across Iowa City, Mar. 4–5. Available now are presale passes and individual tickets to select highlight shows. Prices range from $5-17; tickets are available on their website. Little Village is a […]
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Rachel Bloom and Bill Plympton to headline 2016 Green Gravel Comedy Fest
Green Gravel Comedy Festival Iowa City — Mar. 4–5, 2016 This time just two years ago, the folks at Green Gravel Comedy Festival were wrapping up an Indiegogo campaign to get their first event, in 2014, off the ground. Now they’re coming up on year three, and this fledgling fest is jam-packed with even more […]
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Comedian, UI alum and former ‘SNL’ cast member Brooks Wheelan to perform last-minute show at the Yacht Club
Comedian Brooks Wheelan The Yacht Club — Monday, Dec. 28 at 10 p.m. ($3 door charge) Stand-up comedian and former SNL cast member Brooks Wheelan, an Iowa native, is snowed in after returning to Iowa for the holidays. The good news? The University of Iowa alum announced earlier today on Twitter that — given his […]
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Local comics explore the darker side of sketch comedy in KNOCK IT OFF
Billed as a “scary laughing show,” KNOCK IT OFF is a new web series that mixes sketch comedy and horror tropes. The project is the brainchild of Alosha Robinson and Carter Davis, who write and direct the shows and appear in some of the skits. The camera work is by local artist Lev Cantoral.
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Listen: Little Village Comedy Podcast featuring Tim Barnes
Comedian Tim Barnes discusses his stand-up comedy career, the right to be an absurd person of color, how Woody Allen’s delivery and his anxiety over ethnicity influenced his comedy, Ira Glass’s confounding fondness for ellipsis in evasive emails, the art of crafting an N-word joke for a white audience and much more. Barnes will […]
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Little Village Comedy Hour presents Chris Thayer
Little Village Comedy Hour with Chris Thayer The Mill — Saturday, Oct. 17 at 10 p.m. Little Village Comedy Hour hosts L.A.-based stand-up comedian Chris Thayer at The Mill on Saturday, October 17 at 10 p.m. The show is part of Thayer’s Road Worrier tour. Thayer came to the attention of many comedy fans as […]
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Interview: Comedian John Hodgman brings ‘Vacationland’ to the Englert Theatre
Comedian John Hodgman Englert Theatre — Friday, Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. The characters of “John Hodgman” include resident expert, deranged millionaire, and stockpiler of mayonnaise and urine for the impending apocalypse. He has appeared on The Daily Show, Bored to Death, Parks and Rec, Community, Married and a slew of other awesome television shows, […]
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Little Village presents the experimental comedy of Ian Abramson
Declared the “Best Experimental Comedian” by Chicago magazine and the host of the A.V. Club’s new Chicago comedy show series The Bell Hop, Ian Abramson…
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Sixth annual Comedy for Charity event trades laughs for cancer-fighting funds
Laughter is always a great medicine, and for people who want to help fight cancer, Comedy for Charity is a great way to help…
