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Steve Martin and Martin Short will bring double the Martin to Riverside Theater in November

September 21, 2015

// There are comedy legends, and then there are Comedy Legends. Steve Martin and Martin Short clearly belong in the latter, capitalized category. Alone and together, the two Martins have redefined stand-up co...

Hannibal Buress rises to the occasion at Riverside Theater

Tyler Maas

September 21, 2015

// Hannibal Buress is having a moment right now. Since packing Turner Hall in February of 2014, the comedian/actor's star has grown exponentially, oddly, due in part to being among the first to publicly re...

Nate Seek returns home with new perspective

Tyler Maas

September 16, 2015

// Milwaukee's stand-up comedy scene experiencing a state of transition. This summer alone has seen four of the city's best and most active comedic performers leave Milwaukee to see how their material fares i...

Jen Kirkman is manic, magnificent in Turner Hall debut

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2015

// With her New York Times best-selling book I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids, her self-flagellating Netflix special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), and her Drunk ...

Mike Berg is impressing with depressing comedy

Tyler Maas

August 28, 2015

The struggle many comedians face is the task of harvesting laughs from difficult topics. However, if framed and delivered correctly, literally no topic is off limits. Less than a year into stand-up, Mike Berg h...

Kevin Nealon and Norm Macdonald bring SNL cachet to Northern Lights Theater

Tyler Maas

August 24, 2015

Though neither Kevin Nealon nor Norm Macdonald presently boast the status of internationally quoted body builder, network sitcom namesake, and edgy ESPY Awards host that, between them, they once did, the twin b...

Bill Burr will perform a pair of Riverside Theater shows on October 27

Tyler Maas

August 20, 2015

With all due respect to Louis CK, Aziz Ansari and other top-tier contemporary comic talents, you'd be hard-pressed to find a comedian in today's saturated stand-up comedy market who has more loyal fans than Bil...

Jacob Bach’s Yeah, Bro! podcast straightens out gay misconceptions

Tyler Maas

August 20, 2015

As part of long-running The Improvised Musical (aka T.I.M.) and a variety of other ComedySportz productions, Jacob Bach has honed his ability to pulls laughs out of audience-inspired unfamiliarity. Having a fir...

The Ryan Rumble: Comedy from a common name

Tyler Maas

August 19, 2015

You have to hand it to Milwaukee comedians for continually churning out new, interesting, and sometimes just plain weird ideas for stand-up showcases. In recent months, comics have ridiculed videos of their old...

The Sklar Brothers head Adler’s Comedy Classic lineup October 9

Tyler Maas

August 17, 2015

Way back in the early 2010s, FM102.1's "Kramp & Adler" morning program was metro Milwaukee's go-to destination for laughs between 20-year-old songs by The Offspring. For a couple years before Brian Kramp wa...

Sammy Arechar gives Milwaukee one last laugh

Tyler Maas

August 12, 2015

Milwaukee's ongoing comic exodus is no joke. Within the last two months, veteran road comic Johnny Beehner and the Late Show With David Letterman appearance credit he acquired in January moved to Los Angeles. H...

Brian Posehn ends Milwaukee Comedy Fesitival strong at Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

August 10, 2015

The 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival was far and away the event’s biggest and best year yet. The festival’s first three days found comedy fans filling Next Act Theatre while taking in a diverse and altoget...

A comprehensive guide to the 2015 Milwaukee Comedy Festival

Tyler Maas

August 5, 2015

Between the true opening night of the Milwaukee Comedy Festival on Thursday, August 6 through Sunday night's finale with beloved alt-comic Brian Posehn at Turner Hall, Milwaukee will be a very funny place. A co...

Todd Barry quietly kills at Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

July 25, 2015

For 27 years, beginning long before the term "alternative comedy" was in circulation, Todd Barry has managed to stand out in the world of stand-up with his dry, sardonic witticisms delivered in his patented sof...

Milwaukee Record presents “Extra Laughs” Milwaukee Comedy Festival pre- and post-show series

Tyler Maas

July 22, 2015

Entering its 10th year, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival is a true local treasure. A four-day celebration (August 6-9) of stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy that melds some of Milwaukee's best and a cluster of th...

End of an error: Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe scales back

Tyler Maas

July 21, 2015

Last week, a new era dawned upon Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe. Though it was “consistently rated as one of the best comedy clubs in the country for two decades” (source: a Shepherd Express print ad that gave no attr...

Hannibal Buress is coming to Riverside Theater on September 19

Tyler Maas

July 20, 2015

In February of 2014, Chicago-born comic Hannibal Buress filled Turner Hall Ballroom on the weight of his role in the new Broad City series, his co-hosting gig on the incomparable cult classic The Eric Andre Sho...

Comedian J.J. Harris comes clean about going dirty

Tyler Maas

July 16, 2015

No matter how you cut it, stand-up comedy isn't easy. That said, you're unlikely to have a smoother entrance to this altogether difficult art form than Christian comedy. Just ask Milwaukee comic "Loveable Mr." ...

Tyler Menz talks Voyager, opening for Todd Barry

Tyler Maas

July 15, 2015

Milwaukee comedian Tyler Menz isn't the type of performer who's comfortable standing still. Sure, he's prone to dust off his now-classic "Muffins Milwaukee" joke from time to time, but the busy local comic reve...

Jeff Wheatley-Heckman suits up for ComedySportz’s Summerfest lineup

Tyler Maas

June 30, 2015

In 2010, Jeff Wheatley-Heckman moved from Maryland to Milwaukee with the intent of helping inner city youth. After the comedy fan's noble work experience concluded, he decided to stay in town and help himself t...