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Becky and Noelle (NYC/Seattle)
Friday, Sept. 25 @ 9:30
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Becky Poole and Noelle Romano are crazy. They are also brilliant. This pattern has recurred in history many times, but never to such hilarious effect. If you can explain it with words, I'll give you a dollar. It's beautiful. It's a barrage.
"Think Tenacious D meets Lili Taylor's character in Mystic Pizza" – nytheatre.com
www.beckyandnoelle.com
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CACTUS - the seduction ..., by Jonno Katz (Melbourne, Australia)
Thursday, Sept. 24 @ 7:30
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Internationally acclaimed performer, Jonno Katz, presents this award-winning solo piece, a physical and imaginatively absurd search for love in the desert. Equal parts sketch, stand-up, improv and theater, this journey through harsh and hilarious terrain charts vast stretches of unmapped comedic territory.
"Katz's manic, psychotic presence flips the traditional theatre atmosphere on its ear" - Edmonton Journal
"CACTUS is a must-see. Jonno Katz is brilliant.” - The Times-Colonist
www.epicworlds.com
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Charles (Seattle)
Wednesday, Sept. 23 @ 7:30
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A hybrid of traditional sketch and stand-up, Charles seamlessly moves between intricate and surreal vignettes, forever forcing familiar situations into absurd circumstances. Chuck and Charlie will batter you with wit and intellect. So much intellect. The good kind though, not the annoying kind. Same with the wit.
www.seattleuntimely.com
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The Cody Rivers Show (Bellingham, WA)
Monday, Sept. 21 @ 7:30
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Pushing the envelopes of dance, music, physical theater, and intellectual, non-derivative, high-concept comedy, The Cody Rivers Show delivers unique shows unlike any other comedy act, past or present.
"The closest experience to it would be seeing Waiting for Godot performed by Chinese acrobats.” - New York Theatre Wire
www.codyrivers.com
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The DK and Morgan Show (Bellingham)
Wednesday, Sept. 23 @ 7:30
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This sketch, improv, and stand-up duo from the wilds of the far Northwest throws nothing but curveballs. Mustering myriad styles, far-ranging premises, and immeasurable amounts of charisma, they will charm your socks off, and then they will knock your socks off. Bottom line: Wear three pairs of socks.
www.dkandmorgan.com/
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The Entertainment Show (Seattle, WA)
Tuesday, Sept. 22 @ 7:30
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Travis Vogt and Kevin Clarke have been producing patently ridiculous comedy shows for almost an entire HALF DECADE (give or take). Regular fixtures at hilarious happenings all over town, their sketches combine a love of movies and absurd melodrama with shocking twists and frequent incidence of guns and blood.
"...a party not to be missed." - KEXP
"Totally fucking funny." - SLOG
www.myspace.com/clarkethevogt
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Generation Friends (Olympia)
Tuesday, Sept. 22 @ 7:30
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This massive comedy explosion comes to us from down yonder at Evergreen State College. The rambunctious verve of youth crossed with wisdom beyond their years has produced a rowdy and smart troupe that goes everywhere in fifth gear. And I do mean everywhere. And I do mean fifth gear.
www.myspace.com/generationfriends
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Gude/Laurance (Seattle)
Thursday, Sept. 24 @ 7:30
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This absurdist duo has been haunting the halls of Seattle's comedy and theater scenes for ages, leaving audiences in tears, or in, like, crying tears, or stunned, or all three, while they also do five or six other things to them that are intense and provocative and weirdly brilliantly funny. Paul Gude and Ben Laurance do it all, and they do it all well, and they do it all in a way that is hard to explain to someone who wasn't there. So ... don't not be there.
gudelaurance.blogspot.com
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History: Deleted Scenes & Extras by The Chocolate Prophet (Toronto)
Thursday, Sept. 24 @ 9:30
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Remember all that stuff you never learned in history class? Of course you don't. Even if you had been paying attention you never would have gotten anywhere near the razor-sharp and transcendentally hilarious look at the world's inglorious past offered by one of Canada's hottest young stand-ups. Don't miss it this time around, because it doesn't get any better than this. Plus, no test. Bonus!
"... rips apart what we thought we knew about the western world and re-arranges it with intelligence and irony … the show is smart.” - CBC
"Mind-blowingly funny ... no stone is left unturned." - Montreal Mirror
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Hey You Millionaires (Chicago)
Friday, Sept. 25 @ 9:30
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One of the most innovative groups around, HYM aspires to stretch the boundaries of the sketch universe by delivering material that is dark, meaningful, and funny for reasons both explicable and not.
"This group’s potential to take over the heavyweight title is apparent." - Time Out Chicago
Named 2008's "Best Sketch Group in Chicago" by The Chicago Reader
www.heyyoumillionaires.com
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Killer Donut (Seattle)
Wednesday, Sept. 23 @ 7:30
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Seattle's very own Killer Donut is a team of crack improv actors turned inventive sketch comedians. Trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York as well as at Unexpected Productions here in the Emerald City, Killer Donut delivers sketch comedy that is smart, witty, intelligent, clever, adept, brainy, keen, crafty, sharp, shrewd and nonredundant.
www.killerdonut.com
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Morgan Brayton (Vancouver, BC)
Friday, Sept. 25 @ 7:30 |
In 2001, Morgan Brayton came to SketchFest Seattle with her group 30 Helens and stole the festival. Now, eight years later she triumphantly returns with a raucous solo show cavalcade of jaw-droppingly peculiar characters. Smart, sweet, extreme.
"Vancouver's funniest of funny ladies" - The Georgia Straight
www.morganbrayton.com
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The People’s Republic of Komedy (Seattle)
Thursday, Sept. 24 @ 7:30 & 9:30
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The vanguard of Seattle’s alternative Stand Up scene once again graces the SketchFest stage, hosting our Thursday shows and keeping things live with that signature PROK joie de vivre.
www.prokomedy.org
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Pork Filled Players (Seattle)
Tuesday, Sept. 22 @ 7:30
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Seattle’s longest-running sketch group, and the Northwest’s oldest Asian American theater company, PFP wields humor like a scalpel, dissecting the racial, class and political norms of 21st century America. Warning: Known to tongue-in-cheekily fan the flames of racial disharmony and pierce comfort zones with an assertive, yet fine-tuned, geek sensibility.
www.porkfilled.com
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The Riot Act (L.A./Seattle)
Saturday, Sept. 26 @ 9:30
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A true comedy supergroup, this trio unites members of several past SketchFest favorites, including Flaming Box of Stuff (Seattle), TROOP! (L.A.), and All American Push Up Party (Seattle). When a storied ensemble such as this brings its copious comedy genius to bear, expect the finest in sketch to overrun your cup, slosh across the stage, and get all over everything.
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Seeder and Lee (Chicago/L.A.)
Saturday, Sept. 26 @ 7:30
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One of the most adventurous groups around, Seeder and Lee takes comedy to places that few others would dare, defying expectations and rejecting comedy clichés with a vengeance. These two are sentimental technicians, like a metal robot with a human heart, two heads and a great sense of humor.
"... fascinating and funny." - The Chicago Reader
"Poignant...Seeder and Lee pull heartstrings as much as they tickle the funny bone." - Backstage
www.seederandlee.com
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Sidecar (NYC)
Saturday, Sept. 26 @ 9:30
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Masters of sketch and masters of improv, Sidecar has deftly married the two forms with their brand new hybrid show, Sidecarmageddon, which will allow you to experience first-hand the joys of spending the rest of your post-apocalyptic life in a bomb shelter with your fellow audience members and three dudes you probably shouldn't trust. Get comfortable.
www.sidecarcomedy.com
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Slow Children Crossing (L.A.)
Saturday, Sept. 26 @ 7:30
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SCC delivers a fast paced roller-coaster of high and low brow, political, satirical, scatological, and musical humor. It's Kids in the Hall meets In Living Color, tweaked out for those who equally likely to laugh at funerals and sex-ed classes, crude irreverence and CNN.
www.slowchildrenxing.com
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Ubiquitous They (Seattle)
Thursday, Sept. 24 @ 9:30
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This is a comedy ensemble so large that you might actually be a member. Let's do a test: Do you look at the world in such a sideways fashion that instead of seeing, for instance, a flower, you see a big-rig truck with a famous person's portrait painted on its side barreling down a marmalade highway with equations and squirrels spraying out of the exhaust stack? If not, rest assured you are not a member of Ubiquitous They. Sit back and enjoy the ride. You're in good hands.
www.ubiquitousthey.com
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Uncalled For (Montreal)
Friday, Sept. 25 @ 7:30
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One of Canada's premier comedy troupes, Uncalled For is among the cream of the crop of the sketch world. Their latest show 'Today Is All Your Birthdays' has been slaying audiences across the continent with its airtight writing and unparalleled innovation, and it will slay you too...comedically speaking.
"A hilarious, often dizzying rocket ride through time and space." - Eye Weekly
"It's inventive, it's intelligent, and best of all, it's funny as all giddy-up." - Ottawa XPress
www.uncalledforimprov.com
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The SketchFest Seattle Opening Night Kick-Off Gala:
Monday, Sept. 21 @ 7:30
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The 11th annual SketchFest lifts off with an action-packed night featuring the 2009 SketchFest Video Contest, teasers from SketchFest groups, and a set from the one-and-only Cody Rivers Show.
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The Women Only Sketch Comedy Intensive
Monday, Sept. 21 - Saturday, Sept. 26 @ 4:00 - 6:30
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Write and perform your own material with other funny women in this six-day series of workshops. All women are welcome, regardless of experience level in theater or comedy. Participants will write, direct, and act in their own sketches - culminating in an informal showing on the final Saturday of SketchFest. Taught by sketch comedian and performing artist, Becky Poole (of MEAT and Becky & Noelle). Details at: www.sketchfest.org.
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The SketchFest Forum on Professional Comedy:
How to Make a Living in Comedy
Saturday, Sept. 26, Noon - 2:00pm
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A panel discussion by local, national, and international comedy professionals on the ins-and-outs of creating and developing careers in comedy, facilitated by SketchFest's Artistic Director, Andrew Connor. This is a free event that is open to the public. Panel participants will discuss a range of topics on making it happen in the comedy business, and will participate in a Q&A with the audience at the end of the program.
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The SketchFest Mash-Up
Saturday, Sept. 26, 11:00pm
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It's like an All-Star game, a foreign exchange program, a triathalon, a mix-tape, and a quilting bee, all rolled into one. At the beginning of the festival we select a raft of courageous performers from among the participating groups and crush them into one megagroup that spends the whole week in lockdown, writing and rehearsing a brand new show of all original material that will be performed once, and once only. Witness this rare and electric collaboration between comedy luminaries from across the continent. Magic guaranteed.
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The 2009 SketchFest Video Contest
Monday, Sept. 21 @ 7:30, as part of the Opening Night Gala
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Video sketches from across the nation will be judged by our live audience for a chance to win cash and prizes!
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SketchFest Seattle 2008:
All American Push Up Party (Seattle, WA)
Angel Yau (Los Angeles, CA)
Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
The Birthday Boys (Los Angeles, CA)
Charles (Seattle, WA)
The Cody Rivers Show (Bellingham, WA)
The Cory and Doug Show (Seattle, WA)
The Entertainment Show (Seattle, WA)
Found Magazine (Ann Arbor, MI)
Hey You Millionaires (Chicago, IL)
The People's Republic of Komedy (Seattle, WA)
The Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA)
Sidecar (New York, NY)<
Slow Children Crossing (Los Angeles, CA)
The Sound of Young America (Los Angeles, CA)
Ubiquitous They (Seattle, WA)
Unexpected Productions (Seattle, WA)
SketchFest Seattle 2007:
The 3rd Floor (Portland, OR)
The Apple Sisters (New York, NY)
The Cody Rivers Show (Bellingham, WA)
The Cory and Doug Show (Seattle, WA)
Drop Six (New York, NY)
Girly (Chicago, IL)
KARLA (Los Angeles, CA)
Kasper Hauser (San Francisco, CA)
Keilly and Roeters (Los Angeles, CA)
Party Central USA (New York, NY)
Scarecrow and Mr. Vogt (Seattle, WA)
Ten West (Los Angeles, CA)
THEM! (Seattle, WA)
A Week of Kindness (New York, NY)
SketchFest Seattle 2006:
Dry Clean Only (Los Angeles, CA)
The Cody Rivers Show (Bellingham, WA)
All American Push Up Party (Seattle, WA)
Elephant Larry (New York, NY)
Karla (Los Angeles, CA)
Bucket (Vancouver BC)
Summer of Tears (Los Angeles, CA)
Oh, You and Your Bone Spurs (Los Angeles, CA)
kevINda (Chicago, IL)
Becky & Noelle (New York, NY)
SketchFest Seattle 2005:
The Animal Club (Chicago, IL)
Becky & Noelle (New York, NY)
The Cody Rivers Show (Bellingham, WA)
Champagne (Seattle, WA)
Elephant Larry (New York, NY)
Flaming Box of Stuff (Seattle, WA)
Fresh Meat NYC (New York, NY
HYPNAGOGIA! (Seattle, WA)
Prank the Dean (San Francisco, CA)
Real Good Turbo (New York, NY)
Ten West (Los Angeles, CA)
TROOP! (Los Angeles, CA)
SketchFest Seattle 2004:
The 3rd Floor (Portland OR)
Bald Faced Lie (Seattle WA)
Elephant Larry (New York NY)
Flaming Box of Stuff (Seattle WA)
FURIOSO! (Seattle WA)
Kazoo! (Seattle WA)
MEAT (New York NY)
The OOPS GUYS (Orlando FL)
Riegel and Blatt (Los Angeles CA)
The Royal We (New York NY)
Ten West (Los Angeles CA)
TROOP! (Los Angeles CA)
SketchFest Seattle 2003:
The 3rd Floor (Portland OR)
The Animal Club (Chicago IL)
Bald Faced Lie (Seattle WA)
The Defiant Thomas Brothers (Chicago IL)
Flaming Box of Stuff (Seattle WA)
Gut-Wrench (Vancouver BC)
Jeff [Schell] & Dave [Swidler] (Hollywood CA)
Long Hard Comedy Rocket (Vancouver BC)
PUNCH DRUNK (Dallas TX)
Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie (Edmonton AB)
TROOP! (Los Angeles CA)
Wig Box (Los Angeles CA)
White Noise (San Francisco CA)
SketchFest Seattle 2002:
Bald Faced Lie
Cupid Players
The Class Project
Catch 24
Kasper Hauser
Hoskins & Breen
Latino Comedy Project
Lo Blo
The Midwesterners
Oops Guys
Pink Steel
Some Kind of Cult
Superpunk
Totally False People
TROOP!
SketchFest Seattle 2001:
30 Helens
The 3rd Floor
Actual Size
The Class Project
Disgruntled Bit-Players
Kasper Hauser
Killing My Lobster
Pork Filled Players
The Midwesterners
Slide County
Some Kind of Cult
Theater on the Rocks
TROOP!
Van Gogh-Goghs
SketchFest Seattle 2000:
The 3rd Floor (Portland)
The 3rd Floor (LA)
Bald Faced Lie
The Class Project
Disgruntled Bit-Players
The Habit
Kazoo!
LO BLO
Some Kind of Cult
Pork Filled Players
Up in Your Grill
Theater on the Rocks
Van Gogh-Goghs
SketchFest Seattle 1999:
Bald Faced Lie
Disgruntled Bit-Players
The Habit
Kazoo!
LO BLO
Some Kind of Cult
Several Canadian Husbands
Pork Filled Players
Up in Your Grill
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