Results tagged “humor”

Animosity Pierre, whose video we featured earlier today, is one step closer to becoming universal (if not "everybody"), having been featured today on Time's Entertainment blog. Score one for the home team! Now seriously, how are they [spoiler alert: highlight blank space] ?

Lost has absolutely nothing to do with Philadelphia. But Animosity Pierre does, and so we're posting this video for your enjoyment. Leave your theories about the Oceanic Six in the comments section. We'd love to see them!

This is the green issue, so it's appropriate to read it online.

It’s only right to pick up a hard copy of this one: City Paper presents the Comics Issue! How subversive. Or not.

Yesterday, in a speech to the AFL-CIO, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton endeared herself to the citizens of Philadelphia by comparing herself to Philly’s Phavorite Phictional Phrized Phighter, Rocky Balboa:

Dear Mamaist:

Mary Poppins, or at least Disney's Mary Poppins, makes the British Suffrage movement look like fun. You paint signs and you go out and sing songs about equality.

Linda Griffiths' play, Age of Arousal, currently being produced at the Wilma Theater, takes a different approach, showing things in what is likely a far more realistic light.

— Johnny Brumsky [sic]

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia's December On Stage listings make note of four productions of A Christmas Carol (one of which, admittedly, I loved), plus productions of A Christmas Story, Christmas City Follies, Comet, the Fifth Reindeer, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, The Holiday Goose - A Musical, Holiday Show at the Swing Club, The Nutcracker, O'Henry Christmas, The Santaland Diaries, Tiny Tim's Christmas, and Winter Musicale 2007. In short, the season is saturated...

This week's quote comes from the movie A Christmas Story, and is likely repeated in the play, opening next week at The Players Club of Swarthmore. It's what pretty much everybody tells Ralphie whenever he mentions that he wants a BB gun for Christmas. Now, on with the listings! A Christmas Carol - Marley was dead, to begin with. November 30-December 30. Tickets online. A Christmas Story - Now, about that BB gun... November 23-December...

is not a perfect play. But the Arden's production of it is damned near perfect.

Have we mentioned lately that we hate the Electric Factory? We're pretty sure we have. And yet we find ourselves going back there for the third time in as many weeks. We must be gluttons for punishment. But, the bands we want to see are playing there. And we really want to see Pepper tomorrow night. So back to the Factory we will go.

What's new and/or interesting at Philly theaters this weekend.

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just in time for Halloween, the Chocolate Jesus is back.

If the first rule of film is “Show, don’t tell,” then I think it is about time that we invented a second one: “You can’t make a movie about a dude getting it on with a plastic doll, and expect people to take it seriously.” Lars and the Real Girl could have been a hilarious Andy Samberg digital video on SNL, but as a 105-minute movie, it is just horrible.

This is my first review of an 1812 Productions play, but I've long been interested in the company. They are, after all, Philadelphia's only all-comedy theatre company. And as much as I love high-brow, intellectual, Great Works of Theatre™, sometimes, I just want to laugh.

Performance: Fatboy (Brat Productions) (no future performances)

Tonight’s the night. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns to FX at 10 pm. You know that space between what’s funny and what’s socially inappropriate/totally taboo? Always Sunny locates that space and settles in for the long haul. It’s a guilty pleasure in the literal sense: the more we laugh, the guiltier we feel, because the heartiest laughs on this show come from subjects we’re supposed to take seriously, like homelessness, neglect, environmental concerns, etc. That’s why we like it.

(Inis Nua Theatre Company) (Future PLAF Showtimes; Additional Showtimes)

Performance: Litttle Girl Blue (Pheralyn Dove a.k.a. "Lady Dove") (No future performances)

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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Friday this Phillyist was sipping Strongbow in her new 'hood, enjoying the fact that everyone else had left for the shore and there was plenty of elbow room at the bar. Filed under Captain Obvious was how satisfying it must be to drop a deuce at Deuce. We laughed with our friend and made it the running joke of the night every time one of us got up to break the seal.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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Mecurio was hilarious. His sharp riffs on the audience members were like the comic version of freestyle. He pulled an old guy out of the audience who was wearing nuthuggers and tried to convince the guy to hold up his leg so everyone could see his balls. If you've read any of our posts, you'll know that this humor is right up our alley. We couldn't breathe by the end of his set. At times the racial humor made us a bit uncomfortable, but maybe we're just too PC these days.

Phillyist is pleased that San Francisco-based cartoonist and animator Levni Yilmaz has decided to go bi-coastal and share his weekly "Tales of Mere Existence" series with us. Already a hit at SFist, the comics find the "humor of self-destructive thinking, obsessiveness, and the way that we all create our own limitations and get in our own ways," which, we think, just about sums up the mindsets of most bloggers. Welcome to the fray, Lev!

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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