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By Nicole Finkbiner
7 Things You Absolutely Do Not Need to Know About Sketch Comedy Troupe ManiPedi
They write their own sketches. They make many of their own costumes and props. They shoot their own videos. They book their own gigs. And, of course, they have day jobs. Aubrie Williams, Shannon Brown, Kaitlin Thompson, Briana Kelly and Madonna Marie Refugia: A year into their existence as a troupe, the five comedians who call themselves ManiPedi have already played three big national comedy festivals.
By Brian McManus
Bathe in the Unique Light of Comedian Reggie Watts
Now, as the big man with the funny hair and funny voices rambling in a stream of conciousness and rapping about fuck-shit stacks gains exposure, he’s no longer confusing audiences.
By Tara Murtha
The Incredible Smirking Woman: A Q&A With Comedian Lily Tomlin
In light of her exclusive area performance at the Keswick Theater, the first woman to ever star in her own Broadway show gave PW a ringy-dingy to talk comedy, love and breaking into the business by playing Kitty Genovese in a re-enactment scene for an unaired documentary.
By Nicole Finkbiner
F. Harold Comedy Festival Returns for Its Second Year
Besides being the only exclusively local comedy festival, broken up into eight half-hour blocks, each of the nightly performances will showcase a mix of stand-up, improv, sketch and storytelling. Even better: admission to the nightly smorgasbord of laughs is only $10 while a full festival pass will run you a mere $25.
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- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Comedian Rob Delaney is Disgusting, and It’s Hilarious
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Q&A With Comedian Dave Hill
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Local Comics Celebrate (and Mock) One Another at WitOut Comedy Awards
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Q&A With the Undisputed Champion of Smirk, Dennis Miller
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > LGBT Community Jumps Into Growing Comedy Scene
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > PW Rounds Up Comedy Month's Must-See Shows
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Exhibit Honors the Late Mitch Hedberg's Comic Brilliance
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Funny Business: The Best of Comedy This Fall
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Storytelling—the World's Oldest Pastime—Gains Popularity in Philly
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Andrew Dice Clay Returns to the TLA
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > 15 Minutes With Lizz Winstead, Political Comedian Extraordinaire
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > It's That Time: Tig Notaro Time!
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Q&A with Comedian Dan St. Germain
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Düofest Kicks Off
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Q&A with Seth “The Zog” Herzog
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > The Real Doug Stanhope Stands Up
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Tina Fey Makes Her Way To Philly
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Bill (Burr) of Rights
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > We Like Our (Neil) Hamburger Raw
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Real Housewives of South Philly
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Re-Introducing the "Very Famous" Michael Ian Black
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > The Full Effect of Oddball Comedian Reggie Watts
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Found Comedy: Guilty Pleasures
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Charlie Murphy Will Not Apologize
- ARTS AND CULTURE: COMEDY > Tim and Eric: Awesome and Awkward
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Jamie Crewe is Poisonous Relationship, and his excellent new house record is called “Garden of Problems”
By Bill ChenevertThose guys over at Butt Magazine are often on the cusp of great things of all different sorts: fashion, photography, music, writers, etc. They do stellar interviews that, somehow, read like high non-fiction. Yes, sometimes high like they’re done on weed (or poppers), but more like they elevate gay culture and talking about gay culture [...]
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On The Record: Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood, Eve, Pinata Protest, Demi Lovato, Bibio, and Wild Nothing
By Bill ChenevertMark Lanegan & Duke Garwood Black Pudding (Ipecac) Sounds like: The nearly 50-year-old Screaming Trees founder teams with a master composer/producer for darkly beautiful and haunting Americana. Free association: His dusty sadness is a perfect match for Garwood’s ambient score. For fans of: Quiet Dinosaur Jr. x Nick Cave, Damien Jurado/Seattle grunge, Waits. Eve Lip Lock (From the Rib/Sony/RED) Sounds like: The Philly native’s [...]
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Prince Royce Headlines Saturday’s El Zol Fest at the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
By Bill ChenevertIt’s funny how a cover can launch a career. And with Prince Royce, his 2010 version of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” shot him into the stratosphere of superstardom. The 24-year-old Bronx-raised singer, born Geoffrey Royce Rojas, has seen an astonishing amount of success in his first few years out of the gate. Growing [...]
