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Angel Yau (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday Sept. 25th @ 7:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 9:00
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Angel Yau's mixture of true monologues seem random at first, but the
patterns of her brain slowly emerge as awkwardness turns into charm and charm turns into madness.
www.angelyau.com
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Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
Thursday Sept. 25th @ Midnight, as part of 3pm Beijing Time
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Assaulted Fish, a Pan-Asian Canadian comedy collective, has established itself as one of Vancouver's funniest acts with intelligent writing and energetic performances that range from well-observed character studies to absurdist slapstick.
www.assaultedfish.com
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The Birthday Boys (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday Sept. 26th @ 9:00 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 6:00
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Graduates of the Upright Citizens Brigade and Improv Olympic, The Birthday Boys write and perform sketches that combine classic comedic scenarios with inventive performance.
They are regular performers at the UCB Theatre of Los Angeles, where their newest show Hotdoggin' (directed by Neil Campbell and Paul Rust) debuted this spring to sold-out crowds.
www.myspace.com/birthdayboyscomedy
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Charles (Seattle, WA)
Directed by Becky Poole
Thursday Sept. 25th @ 7:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 9:00
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A hybrid of traditional sketch comedy and standup, a Charles show seamlessly moves from dialogue, to sketches, and back into dialogue. The vignettes are intricately surreal without being haughty, and much of the humor comes from an explicit awareness of the medium. Also, funny.
www.seattleuntimely.com
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The Cody Rivers Show (Bellingham, WA)
Wednesday Sept. 24th @ 7:30 as part of the Opening Night Gala
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Pushing the envelopes of dance, music, physical theatre, and intellectual, non-derivative, high-concept comedy, The Cody Rivers Show delivers unique shows unlike any other comedy act, past or present.
www.codyrivers.com
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The Cory and Doug Show (Seattle, WA)
Friday Sept. 26th @ 7:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 10:30
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A sketch comedian who dabbles in improv met an improv comedian who dabbles in sketch. Together they perform two-man comedy of both the traditional and the experimental variety.
thecoryanddougshow.blogspot.com/
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The Entertainment Show (Seattle, WA)
Directed by Mike Mathieu
Thursday Sept. 25th @ 7:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 9:00
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Kevin Clarke and Travis Vogt have been a fixture at Seattle’s Laff Hole for over a year, contributing sketches and videos on a near-weekly basis. The duo's love of movies is always on display in their high-energy, ridiculous sketches, which generally feature intense melodrama, crowd interaction and mind-blowing twist endings. Oh, and lots of comedy.
www.myspace.com/clarkethevogt
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Found Magazine (Ann Arbor, MI)
Friday Sept. 26th @ Midnight
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Davy and Peter Rothbart, the genius brothers behind the creation of Found Magazine - an assembly of lost or discarded pictures, notes, letters, music, confessions, threats and mysteries - read from their favorite works, role play characters, and sing original songs based on the treasures found by the public at large.
www.foundmagazine.com
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Hey You Millionaires (Chicago, IL)
Friday Sept. 26th @ 7:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 10:30
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As a group, we aspire to stretch the boundaries of sketch comedy and deliver material that is dark, meaningful and accessible. We aim to create comedy that not only entertains and surprises our audiences, but our comedy peers as well.
www.heyyoumillionaires.com
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The People's Republic of Komedy (Seattle, WA)
Directed by Becky Poole
Thursday Sept. 25th @ 10:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 7:30
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Stewards of Seattle's beloved alternative stand-up comedy scene - one of the most vibrant and innovative in the nation - The People's Republic of Komedy has offered up a handful of its top stand-ups as a sacrifice to the sketch gods. Watch as these daring comics bring their unique sensibilities to the sketch form.
www.prokomedy.org
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The Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA)
Thursday Sept. 25th @ Midnight, as part of 3pm Beijing Time
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The Pork Filled Players wield humor like a scalpel to whack at the racial, class and political norms in 21st century America.
As Seattle's oldest sketch group, and the Northwest's oldest Asian American theatre company, they are armed to achieve maximum tongue-in-cheekiness and racial disharmony!
www.porkfilled.com
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Sidecar (New York, NY)
Thursday Sept. 25th @ 10:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 7:30
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Sidecar is a crackerjack New York based sketch and improv team. We do highly theatrical, brainy-broad comedy. Eventually we will tell a joke about the Teapot Dome Scandal. Sidecar: you may have to explain us to your bartender.
www.sidecarcomedy.com
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Slow Children Crossing (Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday Sept. 25th @ 9:00 & Friday Sept. 26th @ 10:30
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Slow Children Crossing is a melange of political, intelligent, low-brow, inappropriate, satirical, spoof and topical humor. Think Kids in the Hall meets In Living Color. We specialize in comedy that inspires our audience to look at the world differently.
www.slowchildrenxing.com
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The Sound of Young America (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday Sept. 27th @ 3:00
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The Sound of Young America is a public radio show about things that are awesome. Each week on the show, host Jesse Thorn, "America's Radio Sweetheart," hosts in-depth discussions with personalities from the world of entertainment & the arts. Think of it like Conan O'Brien on public radio, or "Fresh Air," but more fun.
www.maximumfun.org
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Ubiquitous They (Seattle, WA)
Directed by Mike Mathieu
Thursday Sept. 25th @ 10:30 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 7:30
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Defined by their youthful irreverence, Ubiquitous They pokes fun at everything from the commonplace everyman and the absurdities of history, to the fundamentals of physics and social taboos.
www.ubiquitousthey.com
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Unexpected Productions (Seattle, WA)
Friday Sept. 26th @ 9:00 & Saturday Sept. 27th @ 6:00
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Unexpected Productions is one of the most storied and well-respected improv theater companies in the nation. A Seattle institution for several decades, Unexpected has summoned its improv genius to create a sketch show from the nexus of the two disciplines. Sketch and improv collide, and Unexpected brings you the best of both worlds.
www.unexpectedproductions.org
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The SketchFest Mentoring Program
As a part of our ongoing mission to foster great local sketch comedy, this year SketchFest Seattle will be pairing four up-and-coming acts with experienced sketch directors.
Be sure to check out this next generation of Seattle sketch!
Groups:
Charles
The Entertainment Show
The People's Republic of Komedy
Ubiquitous They
Mentors:
Mike Mathieu, member of The Cody Rivers Show and co-founder of Sketchingham!
Becky Poole, member of New York's MEAT, Becky and Noelle, and a producer for SketchFest NYC.
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Opening Night Gala
Wednesday Sept. 24th @ 7:30
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The 10th annual installment of SketchFest Seattle explodes with an action-packed night full of stand-up comedy, The 2008 SketchFest Video Contest, teaser preview sets from participating SketchFest groups, and a closing act by the one-and-only Cody Rivers Show.
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3pm Beijing Time
Thursday Sept. 25th @ Midnight
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Stay up late for two of The Pacific Northwest’s longest-running and most accomplished sketch troupes: Seattle’s Pork-Filled Players and Vancouver’s Assaulted Fish. These two companies join forces at SketchFest Seattle for the delight of all audiences not afraid of having devastating observations and hilariously weird ideas smashed in their faces. Repeatedly.
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The Sketch Death Match
Saturday Sept. 27th @ Midnight
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Already seen all 15 groups participating in this year’s SketchFest? Great. Don’t go home yet, because we’re going to close out this year’s festival with a bang, by ripping all of the participating performers (who aren’t too afraid) out of their groups, putting them in a big hopper, mixing them up, and reconstituting them into new groups that have never existed before. We will then give those groups a disturbingly short time to write and rehearse sketches, which they will then perform against one another in a pitched battle to the death, as decided by audience vote.
Come for the carnage, stick around for the closing night party.
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The SketchFest Seattle Forum on Professional Comedy
Saturday Sept. 27th @ Noon - 2pm
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Comedy performers, producers and other industry professionals, gather for a facilitated discussion about developing a more robust professional comedy infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest.
This is a free event that is open to the public. Panel participants will discuss a range of topics regarding the comedy business, and will participate in a Q&A with the audience at the end of the program.
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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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