It’s festival season: Celebrate Fall Fest in Tysons Corner, Art All Night in all eight wards, clay pottery in Brookland, or Petworth (in Petworth).
The perception of D.C.’s tech and comedy scenes, says one of the organizers, is that both tend to send their strongest talent to New York and Los Angeles. But the two have plenty to offer each other in D.C. as a result.
Fugazi’s Brendan Canty will direct the New York transplant who once though Karl Rove was a sign of the end times.
The new Beltway Pundit competition has sold out its first three events, in which competitors prepare speeches and improvise puns in an effort to tickle the judges’ funny bones.
Journalist Josh Rogin says Dan Nainan punched him over tweets critical of the comedian’s standup. Nainan denies Rogin’s version of events.
Mark Anderson, the owner of the DC Improv who went missing last month, was found dead in a hotel room in Buckeye, Ariz. on Wednesday. He was 60.
Long before Borat ever walked the street, Tom Green made his living on MTV shocking strangers, his parents, and television audiences with his brand of feigned naïveté. You may remember the Canadian comic giving his parents’ car a “Slutmobile” paintjob that he thinks they’ll love, or making an embarrassing fuss about buying condoms. Following a bout with testicular cancer, Green went on to make several movies, marry and divorce Drew Barrymore, work with Letterman…
Iron Chef on speed Yesterday at the DC Improv, the Food Network’s Robert Irvine filmed an episode of “Dinner: Impossible”. For those of you not aware of the premise of the show, Irvine is tasked with cooking for a large number of people in a limited amount of time. Throwing an improvisational theme into the show, Irvine made a gourmet meal for 200 people using some very strange ingredients offered up by the improv students…
>> Fort Reno soldiers on tonight, with Mess Up the Mess, Julie Ocean, and the final ever performance from Three Stars alums The Sentiment, who are calling it quits as a group after tonight. 7:15 p.m. >> Debuting tonight is “Bomb Shelter,” a weekly stand-up showcase featuring five local improv personalities. Why the militaristic name? Because there is no “bombing” here. The comedians promise to stun weapons of mass hilarity, which means no random drunk…
Kicking off Friday with a one-hundred and seventy-five person audience at George Mason University, the fourth annual DC Improv’s Funniest College tourney has officially started. Whatever their US News and World Report rankings, the eight D.C.-area universities participating have the chance to out-smart each other in the subject of Laughter. Spanning over the next eight weeks, the competition allows individual students (grad and undergrad) to perform stand-up against fellow classmates inner-collegiately and against rivaling schools….
