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This Year, Both David Cross and Kyle Kinane Are Taping Brand New Comedy Specials

February 9, 2016
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austin, chicago, comedy special, david cross, kyle kinane, metro chicago, moontower, paramount theater, texas

If you’re having a bad 2016 thus far, look forward to these.

If you don’t have a chance to catch either David Cross on his Making America Great Again tour or Kyle Kinane while he tours across the country this spring (and making a stop in Australia), fret not. At the end of each of their tours, they’ll be taping a brand new comedy special.

Cross will be taping his Making America Great Again special while at Austin’s Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival in The Paramount Theater on Fri. Apr. 22nd. Tickets go on sale Thurs. Feb. 11th here.

Kinane will be taping his latest special at The Metro in Chicago, IL on Sat. May 21st. Tickets for the 7:30PM and 11PM are now on sale.

OK, that should be enough advance warning to be able to catch both.

We’re Really Glad We Stopped by Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival and Comedy Scene

September 7, 2015
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7 minutes in purgatory, aaron urist, adam cayton holland, andres du bouchet, andrew orvedahl, anthony jeselnik, ben roy, comedy works, denver, drennon davis, fine gentlemen's glub, funky brunch, haley driscoll, high plains comedy festival, ian abramson, karen kilgariff, kristin rand, mara wiles, mutiny information cafe, narrators, noah gardenswartz, paramount theater, ron lynch, sammy arechar, sean jordan, sean patton, stand up, the grawlix, these things matter, uncalled four

From what we saw, Denver has a good thing going in its comedy scene.

As you might imagine, we don’t get out of LA often or, really at all since there is so much to cover around the scene. 

However, last month, we found our way to Denver, Colorado for the 3rd Annual High Plains Comedy Festival and we sure didn’t regret taking a week to explore the ins and outs of comedy in Denver. The Grawlix, which created the upcoming truTV series Those Who Can’t, rose to their current station from Denver and following in their stead is a great bunch of comics operating in what seems to be a well-balanced eco-system of comedy.

With the bureau’s budget, we could only send one person to Denver, so here’s the highlights of what they were physically able to catch at High Plains as well as bit of the local scene on the eve of the festival:  

-Everything we’ve heard about Comedy Works in Downtown Denver being one of the best comedy clubs in the entire country, which comes from so many respected people that we and everyone know, is absolutely true. The set up of low ceilings and no tables and stadium seating eliminated any possible distraction from the person on stage. We got to see Ron Funches warm up for his album taping and it was electric.

–The Fine Gentlemen’s Club has established as another solid, rising grouping of stand-ups in Denver. Chris Charpentier, Sam Tallent, Bobby Crane, and Nathan Lund made quite the showing at their own weekly show at The Deer Pile as well as their High Plains show at Three Kings Tavern.

-The storytelling showcase The Narrators, created by The Grawlix’s own Andrew Orvedahl, ran the gamut of emotions from hysterical to sobering to hysterical again. They just branched out to San Diego FYI.

-The three primary venues for High Plains were The Hi-Dive, 3 Kings Tavern, and Mutiny Information Cafe, which were all about two blocks from each other. That’s always a big plus at any comedy festival.

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Sean Patton, photo by Carlos Madrid

–Sean Patton got to headline several shows throughout the festival, which is a real treat to see his rich and deeply colorful comedy for both fans and first timers alike. 

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Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, and Ben Roy, photos by Emily Coates

-Hometown heroes The Grawlix (Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, and Ben Roy) got a rousing, rollicking homecoming when they headlined at 3 Kings. At one point, Roy lead almost half the crowd, pied piper like, up on stage and through the green room just for the hell of it.

-Recent LA transplants via Denver, Kristin Rand and Haley Driscoll put on a display of how spirited and charming they are several times at High Plains as well as at a few shows we caught before the festival.

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Kristin Rand, photo by Carlos Madrid

–Mara Wiles and The Funky Brunch was one of our favorite shows at High Plains. It pitted stand-ups to do sets that had to finish with a funk/soul-inspired obstacle/restriction like literally being tied up with rope as a silky smooth love song is playing.

-One of the after parties featured German rock “group” Total Ghost where The Nix Brothers, highly regarded directing duo from Denver, pretending to play their instruments during a crazy multimedia light extravaganza. It was a pretty solid way to kick off an after party of a comedy festival.

–Ian Abramson’s 7 Minutes in Purgatory made yet another great festival appearance that took its concept of isolating performers from the audience with sound proof headphones and made them perform on the street with a whole other random crowd watching. The sheer number of levels of which of which you could enjoy the show on were pretty great.  

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Ian Abramson, photo by Carlos Madrid

-High Plains’ marquee show The Paramount Theater was a real sight to see with a near 2000 people in attendance to see Anthony Jeselnik headline. As Anthony himself noted, it was nice to see that he didn’t get too high like some folks have gotten at past years of High Plains.

-Denver’s own Aaron Urist was also on that big show at The Paramount and killed with his dark observational humor.

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Aaron Urist, photo by Emily Coates

-On a live recording of Kevin O’Brien and Taylor Gonda’s These Things Matter podcast, we really enjoyed Jay Larson not having seen a good majority of the favorite movies and TV of the hosts and guests Ron Funches, Jonah Ray, and Karen Kilgariff, which each guest has to defend why it’s their favorite.

-Hailing from Portland, Wisconsin, and NYC respectively, Sean Jordan, Sammy Arechar, and Noah Gardenswartz gave Denver a great taste of their comedy brand with Sean and Sammy on the more silly side of the comedy spectrum and Noah on the sharper, precise side.

–Guy Branum proved why he’s an exquisite comedy force over the course of several shows on the festival as well as why he deserves to be on way more stages doing comedy than the many he is doing currently.

-The edgy competitive Madlibs adjacent game of Uncalled Four, birthed and grown in Denver, showed why it could become a game show for those looking for something a little darker/more blue/more fun than Steve Harvey’s reactions to answers on Family Feud.

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Kurt Braunohler, Matt Braunger, Beth Stelling, Byron Graham, and Guy Branum at Uncalled Four, photo by Emily Coates

-The absurdists Ron Lynch and Andrés du Bouchet had a ball at High Plains, making people double over while probably redefining their entire perception of the art form of comedy.

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Ron Lynch, photo by Carlos Madrid

-Recently formed comedy music duo Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff have been making a case to rethink you possible prejudices against musical comedy so you can enjoy some of the funniest and best crafted songs, often made up almost entirely from Drennon’s loop pedal, to come along in the last several years. Their performances at the festival furthered that notion.

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Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff, photo by Emily Coates

-We have to give a big hand to Andy Juett for being at the helm of High Plains as well as Sexpot Comedy, which he co-founded, being a big driving force behind the festival and making something that should become an institution in Denver comedy if it already isn’t one.

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Andy Juett, photo by Carlos Madrid

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You’re Still Here (Zoom Live-stream)

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Ben VS Fans: PS4 Madden Challenge (Twitch Live-stream)

March 4 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Coffee Chat with Jana Schmieding – Indigenous Comedian (Live-stream)

March 4 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Dirty Dancing Riff-a-thon (Crowdcast Live-stream)

March 4 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Ga’riffs with Gareth Reynolds (IG Live-stream)

March 4 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Judah Friedlander: Pre-Existing Fascism (Live-stream)

March 4 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Stream of Blood: Neptune Society (Twitch Live-stream)

March 4 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Stand Up Comedy Talk (Clubhouse Live-stream)

March 4 @ 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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giraffe: a new comedy by Fielding Edlow (Live-stream)

March 4 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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The Horny Hour (IG Live-stream)

March 4 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Coffee with Tony (Twitch Live-stream)

March 5 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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Hot & Rich (Twitch Live-stream)

March 5 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Hack City (Zoom Live-stream)

March 5 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Bitches Brew (Zoom Live-stream)

March 5 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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Sixteen Candles

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Comedy Crossing (Live-stream)

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Self Care Comedy (Zoom Live-stream)

March 5 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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TALKIES – LIVE COMEDY AND SHORT FILMS (Twitch Live-stream)

March 5 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Black Laughs Matter (Zoom Live-stream)

March 5 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

March 5 @ 8:15 pm - 10:30 pm
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Piff The Magic Dragon: Live From Las Vegas (Zoom Live-stream)

March 6 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Gleib Off The Top – A Night of Improvised Stand-up with Ben Gleib (Zoom Live-stream)

March 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Mr. Jackson & Mr. Tompkins: A Two Gentleman Improv Show (Live-stream)

March 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Brian Kiley & Frenemies (Zoom Live-stream)

March 6 @ 5:00 pm
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Cabin Fever Comedy (Twitch Live-stream)

March 6 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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Coping Mechanism with Sofiya Alexandra and Alex Hooper (Zoom Live-stream)

March 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Nowhere Comedy Club: Judah Friedlander (Zoom Live-stream)

March 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Mary Lynn Rajskub (Live-stream)

March 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Sarah Silverman (Live-stream)

March 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Shrimptown: 2 Year Shrimpiversary (IG Live-stream)

March 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Magic Asphalt: Drive-In Comedy Under The Stars (in LA)

March 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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KO Comedy (Zoom Live-stream)

March 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Sandwich Lovers Unite (Clubhouse Live-stream)

March 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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International Women’s Day Comedy Extravaganza (Live-stream)

March 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Zoom Diner (Zoom Live-stream)

March 7 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Tight Five with Blaire Postman (Zoom Live-stream)

March 7 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Annabelle Gurwitch’s YOU’RE LEAVING WHEN? in convo w/ Andie MacDowell (Live-stream)

March 7 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Punch Line’s SF Comedy Showcase (Zoom Live-stream)

March 7 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Influential Ladies of Comedy: Part II Lecture (Live-stream)

March 8 @ 7:00 am - 8:00 am
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Coffee with Tony (Twitch Live-stream)

March 8 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour (Live-stream)

March 8 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Self Care Comedy (Zoom Live-stream)

March 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Coffee with Tony (Twitch Live-stream)

March 9 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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Eddie Pepitone: Live from the Bunker (Livestream)

March 9 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Hot & Rich (Twitch Live-stream)

March 9 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Last Stream on the Left (Livestream)

March 9 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Mary Houlihan’s Painting Party (Planet Scum Live-stream)

March 9 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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In Conversation with Rachel Bloom: Co-Creator and Star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Live-stream)

March 9 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Stand Up Comedy Talk (Clubhouse Live-stream)

March 9 @ 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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In The Green Zoom (YouTube Live-stream)

March 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Self Care Comedy (Zoom Live-stream)

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Coffee with Tony (Twitch Live-stream)

March 10 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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March 10 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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March 10 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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March 10 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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The MOTHER of all Comedy shows (Zoom Live-stream)

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Ga’riffs with Gareth Reynolds (IG Live-stream)

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Nowhere Comedy Club: Gilbert Gottfried (Live-stream)

March 11 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Stand Up Comedy Talk (Clubhouse Live-stream)

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Robby Hoffman Consulting Group (Live-stream)

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Self Care Comedy (Zoom Live-stream)

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Coffee with Tony (Twitch Live-stream)

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March 12 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Hot & Rich (Twitch Live-stream)

March 12 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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RISK! True Tales Boldly Told (Zoom Live-stream)

March 12 @ 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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Self Care Comedy (Zoom Live-stream)

March 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Piff The Magic Dragon: Live From Las Vegas (Zoom Live-stream)

March 13 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Greg & Gleib It’s a G thing: Improvised Comedy with Greg Proops & Ben Gleib (Zoom Live-stream)

March 13 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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The Couples Therapy Quarantine Party 1-Year in Isolation (Live-stream)

March 13 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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March 13 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Setflix (Live-stream)

March 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Improv Live Comedy Drive-In: Fortune Feimster

March 13 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Sandwich Lovers Unite (Clubhouse Live-stream)

March 13 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Jay Shingle Online Comedy Show/PDX Mutual Aid Fundraiser (Live-stream)

March 13 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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UnCabaret Zoom Edition [LA] (Zoom Live-stream)

March 14 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Nowhere Comedy Club Origin Stories: Ben Gleib (Zoom Live-stream)

March 17 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Your Carriage Awaits with Katie Hughes (Live-stream)

March 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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The Dollop LIVE ONLINE (LoopedLive Live-stream)

March 18 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Thu 18

What’s Your Story Presents: “What I Learned During Lockdown” w/ Dave Holmes (Live-stream)

March 18 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Thu 18

Robby Hoffman Consulting Group (Live-stream)

March 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Thu 18

Amy Solomon discusses and signs Notes from the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-Grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy (Crowdcast Live-stream)

March 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Piff The Magic Dragon: Live From Las Vegas (Zoom Live-stream)

March 20 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Sat 20

Wild Horses (YouTube Live-stream)

March 20 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: Stream of Consciousness (Zoom Live-stream)

March 20 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sat 20

Yannis Pappas (Live-stream)

March 20 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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The Sklar Brothers Live Stand Up Plus Live Cheap Seats!!! (Zoom Live-stream)

March 20 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Sandwich Lovers Unite (Clubhouse Live-stream)

March 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Tight Five with Blaire Postman (Zoom Live-stream)

March 21 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Nowhere Comedy Club: Sam Morril Working Out New Material (Live-stream)

March 22 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Doughboys Munch Madness Finale (Live-stream)

March 23 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Nowhere Comedy Club: Eddie Pepitone (Zoom Live-stream)

March 24 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Dynasty Confidential (YouTube Live-stream)

March 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Nowhere Comedy Club: Mike Birbiglia: Working it Out (Virtually) (Zoom Live-stream)

March 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Gareth Reynolds (Live-stream)

March 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Robby Hoffman Consulting Group (Live-stream)

March 25 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Nowhere Comedy Club: Mike Birbiglia: Working it Out (Virtually) (Zoom Live-stream)

March 26 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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Nowhere Comedy Club: Birthday Double Crowd Work Show with Todd Barry & Natasha Leggero (Zoom Live-stream)

March 26 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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The Comedy Store Drive-In

March 26 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Piff The Magic Dragon: Live From Las Vegas (Zoom Live-stream)

March 27 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: Stream of Consciousness (Zoom Live-stream)

March 27 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Sandwich Lovers Unite (Clubhouse Live-stream)

March 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Jam in the Van: Hunter Hill (in LA)

March 27 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Sat 27

The Comedy Store Drive-In

March 27 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Jam in the Van: Hunter Hill (in LA)

March 27 @ 10:00 pm - 11:30 pm
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Dr. Katz Live (Live-stream)

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