The Seattle Channel’s local arts show, Art Zone, recently did a story on Sketchfest, the Seattle comedy festival going on this weekend which is being hosting by the People’s Republic of Komedy (pictured). Watch the video here (the Sketchfest piece is about 15 minutes in).

(photo by Heather Christianson)

Come celebrate the birthday of teen sensation RYAN CUDDIHY tonight at Lo-Ball, the Local Ballard Comedy Show. Also on the show, making his STAND-UP COMEDY DEBUT will be Seattle improv master IAN SHEMP (Dart-Mondo, Jet City Improv). There will be plenty of other great comedians too, including:

Blaine Reeder
Mike Smith
Nick McCord
Dan Carroll
Sarah Skillings
Ron Placcone

and the Seattle return of HARI KONDABOLU!

All this for five bucks! Plus $2 Pabst! What else could you want? Answer: nothing.

Lo-Ball
TONIGHT! @ 11pm sharp (doors open at 10:30, get there early for seats!)
Live Girls! Theater / 2220 NW Market Street Lower Level
$5 / All- Ages

(photo by Virginia Jones)

There have been a lot of George W. Bush impersonators over the past eight years. Some good, some bad. But none like the one James Adomian will unleash on the Laff Hole audience this Wednesday night.

Adomian, who makes frequent appearances on Craig Ferguson’s “Late Late Show” and was featured in the film “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay”, has made a name for himself with his unique take on the President.

Almost entirely improvised, Adomian takes questions from the audience and answers them in the marble-mouthed manner of the commander-in-chief. What makes this impersonation different, however, are the bizarre turns Adomian takes with the character.

The Nebraskan native made waves last spring at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland when, after someone from the crowd asked him about his membership in the “Skull and Crossbones” society at Yale, he began speaking in Latin, which somehow led to him biting the head off a baby (a toy one, luckily) on stage to the mock horror of the audience.

Adomian’s appearance at Laff Hole, the popular weekly comedy show at Seattle’s Re-Bar, will feature the comedian playing a number of different characters, including some equally strange takes on everyone from John McCain to Gary Busey.

The show, produced by the People’s Republic of Komedy, will also include local comedians Derek Sheen, Emmett Montgomery and Paul Merrill.

FRIDAY NIGHT Dart-Mondo returns to Lo-Ball @ Live Girls! Theater. Stand-up and Improv collide! Watch-out!

Doors open at 10:30pm–get there early for a seat!

Live Girls! Theater
2220 NW Market Street (lower level, next to Great Harvest Bakery)
$5 / all-ages / doors open at 10:30pm–show starts at 11pm sharp!