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Two exciting announcements: 1) SketchFest Seattle is offering a 5-week sketch writing workshop this summer, taught by the one-and-only Mike Mathieu of The Cody Rivers Show. This is an excellent chance to elevate your comedy-writing skills to the next level, or learn what it takes to get started, with one of…
Do you love sketch comedy, but hate knowing what the hell’s going on? Well, this Monday, SketchFest Seattle and Showbox SoDo will be bringing you Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Adult Swim‘s surreal and abrasively funny late night sketch show on Cartoon Network. Congratulations to all our winners of the Tim and Eric contest who won free…
Two of the three weeks of Sketchingham! – Sketchfest’s kid sister to the north – are already over. This weekend is the last chance to catch this wunderkind of alternative stand-up, sketch, clowning, and wild experimentation, and it’s not too late to get your tickets here! This year’s closing acts include Seattle stand-up Emmett…
The end of January means the end of two SketchFests – Chicago and San Francisco. And I think there’s some sort of sporting event going on today. Falling so close together, the Chicago/San Fran leg of the sketch circuit is an infamously arduous trip. However, our friends in the New York…
The house has gone dark on another SketchFest Seattle, which closed to packed houses this past weekend. Coverage of this year’s festival may have suffered while we were busy making the comedic ends meet, but the fest went off with few problems. The first weekend saw the return of old…
2 weekends. 7 cities. 15 groups. 49 comedians. The nation’s original festival devoted to sketch comedy returns! 15 of the hottest and funniest sketch comedy groups from across the USA will descend upon Capitol Hill this September 6th through 15th at the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway. THE SKINNY: What: SketchFest Seattle…
The stage is dark on yet another Best of the Best SketchFest, which celebrated its fifth year this past weekend. The SketchFest Seattle Party Posse was only able to attend the second of the two nights, so our report is a bit stunted. However, the digest of our sister fest to the…
Wednesday June 20 – one night only! SketchFest Seattle invades Laff Hole with sketch, sketch, and more sketch! Each and every week, People’s Republic of Komedy and Capitol Hill Arts Center bring you a brilliant showcase of Seattle’s most cutting edge, innovative comedians. Combine hilarious stand-up comedy with a fantastic smattering of alternative sketch/improv and…
7:00 – Becky & Noelle With a small silo of unusual musical instruments and an avant-guard sensibility, this third two-woman group of the fest finds a way to satirize performance art while simultaneously BEING performance art. 7:30 – kevINda At the top of the show, this two-person African American…
7:00 – Slow Children At Play This young group takes straight-up, no-gimmick sketch with familiar premises and makes them fresh again with strong performances, good ideas and a good command of the form. A worthy successor to similar groups like Elephant Larry and TROOP! 8:00 – Dance Party Newfoundland…
