Don't be a fool!

Coming soon to a Curious Comedy Theater near you...the Curious Fools Festival! Starting on Wednesday April 1st and going until Sunday April 5th, we'll be hosting a slew of comedic acts on our stage. You'll get to see some of the best acts from the northwest like the Brody Theater, Super Project Lab, The Liberators, and of course the Curious Main Stage Players.

But that's not all! You'll also get to see amazing acts like Gustafer Yellowgold from New York, Unexpected Productions from Seattle, and the Great Miasma from Eugene.

Still not convinced? Wait, there's more! Sunday night at 8pm we'll be treating you to Joe Raiola, editor of Mad Magazine, and his one man show Almost Obscene, a show all about censorship.

So don't be a fool! This is a festival you don't want to miss. Want tickets? Click here!

Curious Comedy Main Stage Show

Starting this Friday (the 13th!) the Curious Theater will be starting a new weekly show called the Curious Comedy Main Stage Show. This new show will feature original sketches from the Main Stage Players, as well as short form and long form improv. You also might get to see some stand up, musical comedy, and heck we might even slaughter a goat.

Um...scratch that. We will not slaughter a goat.

This week's show will feature the "Fit to Print" format in the first half and the "Commando" format in the second (don't worry, that doesn't mean we'll be performing without underwear). Each half will be about 45 minutes long and each one will leave you wanting more. But that's why we are doing the show twice a week. So come on Friday and then bring your friends back on Saturday.

Curious Comedy Main Stage Show

Fridays & Saturdays 8pm

from Now until Eternity

$12

Hurricane Dopamine

There's a storm a brewin'! It's headed this way. We will call it Hurricane Dopamine. It's going to be hitting Portland hard throughout the month of March. Come on down to the Curious Comedy Theater to get a first hand look at the mayhem.

Cheap Date: Featuring - Dopamine

Thursday, March 5th, 8pm

$5

The Cody Rivers Show was...AWESOME!

This weekend was Kuh Ray Zee! The Cody Rivers Show rolled into town with their two man sketch comedy show and a fleet of loyal fans marched in droves to the theater to greet them. Unfortunately on Friday night, for their first show, Mike (pictured in blue) was horribly sick and not able to make it to the show. Andrew (in red) showed up anyway and along with Curious Comedy cast members Stacey Hallal, Bob Ladewig, and Craig McCarty from they put on an impromptu improv show that knocked the socks off the audience. 

Saturday night Mike was back in good health and he and Andrew combined their powers to form the 2 man sketch show known as the Cody Rivers Show. It was incredible. From synchronized monologues to full blown conversations on opposite day to time traveling radio interviews, their show blew my mind for an hour straight. And then, they did a scene where two chair made out. Weird. But awesome. 

Sunday night they did a make up show for the people who didn't get to see them on Friday and their fans proved just how loyal they are by coming out on Oscar night to see the true Cody Rivers action. 

It was a great weekend and a lot of fun. We certainly hope to see them again sometime soon.

Highlights from Shoshinz

Are YOU HERE Yet?

Our new sketch show, Are We There Yet OR Don't Make Me Turn This Country Around, debuted this weekend. It's really great! You should have seen it! If you did see it, you and I are now best friends! If you didn't see it, don't fret! You still have a chance to become my best friend. You could come next weekend, or the weekend after that! You could even come three weekends after this week, but my offer to be my best friend will be off the table. It will still be a funny show though.

Also this weekend is the Cody Rivers Show. Friday and Saturday night they'll be performing after Are We There Yet? They are amazing and if you miss your chance to see them you will never be able to forgive yourself. You don't want to live the rest of your life like that, do you? No, some come on out! We've got great comedy and ladies...we've got a really cute bartender.

Woweee!

What a weekend we just had. Shoshinz, the female japanese duo, graced our stage 3 times and wowed us with their hilarious physicality. Without saying a word they had us laughing through their whole show. Being the fan of classic slapstick that I am, I was excited to see that this style of humor could still get big laughs in a time where stand up comedy and sex jokes dominate the comedy scene. 

If Shoshinz was the only special guest group to join us this week we would have counted ourselves lucky. But we had the extra bonus of watching the Liberators explode in our theater. There shows are always high energy and exciting. We can't wait to have them back!

If you feel like you missed out on a great weekend don't worry because we've got another great one coming up. This week we are debuting our next great sketch comedy show, Are We There Yet? Or Don't Make Me Turn This Country Around! We tested a lot of the material out last week and the audiences really liked it.

Also, keep your eyes on this blog for upcoming information about the Cody Rivers Show coming in a few weeks. 

Japanese Female Comedy Duo!

Looking for something completely different this week? Come check out Shoshinz! Shoshinz is a female Japanese duo and is one of the most renowned comedy troupes in Japan. We're really excited to have this completely different comedic experience in our theater and we hope you'll join us for it.

Thursday 8pm - $12

Friday 8pm - $12

Saturday 10pm - $12

New Year - New Shows

2009 is just around the corner and so are our new shows! Those old shows are so...2008. But these new shows are totally shiny and awesome! And some of the shows we did back in 2008 have been revamped to have a more modern and 2009 feel to them. Come check them out! Want more information? You can get that information on the INTERNET, which you are currently on, but in a different location on the INTERNET. That location is here. The future is now!

Debuts, Santas, and Birthday Cake

This weekend was a lot of fun. Friday night we did our first showing of "Who's Playing Santa This Year?" On Saturday night we debuted "An Entirely Secular Totally Non-Denominational Completely All-Inclusive Winter Holiday Celebration Comedy Sketch Show." This show opened up with a slo-motion Santa fight scene which then turned into a dance number featuring the whole cast dressed up as Santa Clause. We ended that show with an improv set that took us to a snowboarding lesson that involved Scott Rogers and Bri Pruett flailing all over the stage and I ended up on the balcony at the "top" of the mountain. Good times.

Then, because it was my birthday, Stacey and Kathryn went out and got me a cake. And I sat onstage and blew out the candles, and then by popular demand I shoved my face in the cake. Fun times had by all.

Come See Super Project Lab!

Last night 3 members of the improv troupe "Super Project Lab" took over our stage and presented their show, "3Some." It was great. They did the kind of improvised scene work that makes me think I need to be rehearsing more. Everything they did onstage was meaningful and added something to the scene but never once seemed laborious. Seamless would be a good word for their show last night. They will be doing another show tonight and two more shows next week. The show starts at 9:30 and tickets are $10, but they told me to tell you that if you come to our 7:30 show you can stay for their show for free! Oh, and if you want to get into our 7:30 show for free, just say "And you smell like one too," at the door. Trust me!

Gobble Gobble

Our first run of shows is officially over and with Thanksgiving here we're ready to launch into our holiday shows. We've got a holiday improv show called "Who's Playing Santa This Year?", a holiday kids show called "Fruitcake," and an assortment of improv shows with a thick candy shell. We'd love to sit back and look at our first run and say, "Wow, good work team!" But we just don't have time for that. I hear the change train a comin'. Choo choo!

Standing Room Only

Tonight the Liberators brought their show and a gigantic audience to our theater. Opening for them was the local chapter of the School of Rock. Kids between the ages of 8 and 18, and holy crap balls of fire could they rock. And they had a lot of fans. We actually had to take a van back to Stacey's house to get more chairs. Thank God we got our liquor license today. Everyone is having a great time. Thank you Liberators and thank you School of Rock! 

Practice makes Perfect

Actually practice makes more comedy. Tonight nobody showed up for our sketch show. Frowny face. (I need to learn how to use emoticons) But since no one showed up and we had a bunch of wait staff hanging around and some new sketch ideas we wanted to try out, we did a practice show. We tried out new ideas like, "McGoogle" - a guy named Hank McGoogle with a kiosk at the mall who gives people information they are searching for. Or "Singing Cab Driver" - a cab driver...an indian cab driver who sings 80's pop songs really horribly. Or "Reading Motivator" - a british guy who motivates people to read. 

It's kind of cool to have our own comedy playground to try jokes out. If you don't think about the fact that we're trying to make money, it's pretty fun to show up to the theater and hang out with other comedians and goof around on stage for them. Of course, if you think about the fact that we're losing money...well then it's depressing. Please come see our shows!

Cheap Date tonight

Just under 3 hours until show time. Tonight's show is Cheap Date. You get to see 2 longform improv teams perform for only $5. It's gonna be fun!

Made a Change

Last night was incredible. In. Cred. Ible. Here at the theater we hosted an Election viewing event that was open to the public. The event was organized and publicized by Reverend Renee who did a great job getting the local community to join us in what became a joyous occasion. As we watched the news that Barack Obama was projected to win, I turned around to see a little 82 year old black woman, Annie Caville, with tears streaming down her face. It was just the most amazing sight I have seen in a long time.

Kristian Foden-Vencil from OPB was there to capture the moment and he reported on it. You can read his more graceful account of the evening here.

We also had some photographers from the Oregonian take some...photographs. 

Thank you to everybody who came out to share this evening with us. We hope you'll come back to see a show soon!

Welcome to our new Blog

Well well well. What do we have here? Oh, a little bloggy pooh for our faithful fans to read. We realized our website was a little 90's and needed something hip and cool to keep people coming back for more. So we've added a blog. What's that you say? Too 2004 for you? If we really want to be hip we need to have a twitter account? BLAM! Twitter account! Yeah, that's right! We don't mess around here. Consider us modernized. 

Now some of you might be saying, "but what about the forums? What happened to the Curious Comedy Forums?" Well, the forum...let's face it, the forum kind of sucked. But, this blog can be a forum because anyone can post a comment. So let the foruming continue!

Keep checking back for news, commentary, and miscellaneous posts pertaining to the Curious Comedy Theater.