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Seattle Rep’s DRY POWDER: Beyond the Theater
Seattle Repertory Theatre presents DRY POWDER by Sarah Burgess from March 17 – April 15, 2017. Set in the top echelons of today’s morally-compromised financial sector, this dark comedy explores the uneasy relationship between being good and doing well. Librarians at Seattle Public Library … Continue reading
Movie Mondays: What’s So Funny about Sports?
I love comedies. I don’t love sports. But I do love the sports comedy sub-genre. These four films rise to the top of the ranks in my book (along with the best sports comedy ever, Caddyshack, which I’ve blogged about previously and … Continue reading
Posted in FILM & TV
Tagged A League of Their Own, Bad News Bears, comedy, Dodgeball, Frank B., Kingpin, Movie Mondays, sports
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Jet City Improv presents Live Theatre at the Library!
Posted by Elizabeth W. Come and contribute to a lively, rollicking comedy show where your participation is key! Jet City Improv’s talented performers will collect ideas from audience members to create short-form, unique sketches in a style similar to “Whose … Continue reading
Movie Mondays: Kings of Comedy
This fall we saw the publication of books about two comedy giants – the biography Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him by Henry David and the autobiography Still Foolin’ Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell … Continue reading
Posted in FILM & TV, History and Biography, Nonfiction
Tagged Billy Crystal, comedy, Frank B., Movie Mondays, Nonfiction, Richard Pryor
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Sit Down with Stand-Ups
My colleagues inform me that March is the official month of mirth, a more depressing concept I truly cannot think of. Despite my enormous reservations with such a frivolously joyful demarcation (what next, Cake and Presents Day?!?), I resign myself … Continue reading
Posted in BOOKS, CULTURE
Tagged comedians, comedy, funny, humor, Mike S., stand-up comics
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