Everywhere I go — there’s more Mike Birbiglia. He performed at the taping of This American Life and now this. A tour. The first time I heard Mike Birbiglia’s stand up he was opening for Jon Stewart at Merriweather Post. We’d missed the majority of his routine thanks to lousy dinner planning, but we caught [...]
One of our dear friends (and admin of this very blog) has been booked for her first professional comedy gig (that means she’s getting actual cash money to tell jokes), so come out next Friday (July 14) to the Laugh Riot Bethesda Hyatt (7400 Wisconsin Avenue) at 7 p.m. $10 + a 2 drink [...]
Because I recently missed Snow Patrol and the Decembrists because they were sold out, and because Ted Leo,Lily Allen, Kaiser Chiefs, TV on the Radio, and Arctic Monkeys are all sold out at the 930 and the Killers are sold out at the Patriot Center, I don’t want you to miss your chance on these:
Lily [...]
This being the third time I’ve seen Jon Stewart’s stand-up routine (first at the Meyerhoff in Baltimore and the second at DAR here in D.C.), I expected to be slightly disappointed in the show only because I didn’t anticipate much new material; however, I think the Washington Post reviewer nailed it when he wrote that [...]
Avast ye, scurvy dogs! ‘Tis a day for parlaying like pirates or buccaneers or privateerrs whichsoever ye prefer to be called.
Land lubbers can be checking out this guide for pirate lingo more advanced than “Arrr!”:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html
It hardly seems like we’d have to import people from New York for political humor and I’m seriously wondering why it’s at Meriwether Post, but there are still lawn tickets for Jon Stewart available on Ticketmaster for Saturday, 16 September.
I’ve seen him a couple of times, and he’s definitely funnier in person than on television. [...]
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