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This Week(end) in Sketch and Improv: August 4th & 5th
Continuing our weekly series on sketch and improvisation happening within Austin (in the lead up to the 5th year of the annual Out of Bounds Festival), Austinist continues to profile some of the sketch comedy and improvisation groups around town.
This weekend's recommendation (and, coincidentally) our Out of Bounds Tip of the Week
Latino Comedy Project, a group of 10 actors (of which we are personally unfamiliar...that's krunk, right?) are holding court at Esther's Pool this weekend. Numerous people of sound opinion tell us these guys brought down the housewhen headlining OoB in 2004, and if you don't catch them here, you can share the love when they headline Out of Bounds on Saturday, September 2nd.
Latino Comedy Project (This Weekend)
Friday, August 4th & Saturday, August 5th
8pm @ Esther's Pool
Tickets $18-25
Reservations - 512.320.0553
Latino Comedy Project (Out of Bounds)
Saturday, September 2nd
10pm @ The Hideout
Tickets $10
Playing with Sketchcore (Chicago, IL)
For a complete listing of festival shows, go here.
Whether you prefer your comedy written (sketch), or "the crazy make-em-ups" (God Bless Christopher Walken), we present the listings for this weekend's shows in the expanded version.
Improv
Friday, August 4th - 8pm
The Friday Night Threefer
This week: 1 A.M., Improv for Evil, and Htown's Massive
$7-10
Friday, August 4th - 10pm
The Double Barrel
This week: Coldtowne and the Singing Graduation Class
$7-10
Friday, August 4th - 11:30PM
The Out of Bounds Cagematch - Week 4
Last week, the Leading Brands cleaned the clocks of the Dark Bloodlords in Week 3. This week the first round comes to a close with the match up of Fart Clown Glasses vs. Polite Society Residue. Competing for the final spot in the Out of Bounds Festival Cagematch semi-finals, these two teams present 22 minutes of their funniest junk to be voted on by the audience. Two teams enter! One team gets their a**es handed to them! Rowdy Roddy Piper approved! Yaaaaaaaar. (Grunt)
$7-10
Saturday, August 5th - 8pm
Coldtowne @ Velveeta
Long form improvisation.
Velveeta Room, 6th Street
Call for ticket information and prices
Saturday, August 5th - 8pm
Cops and Lawyers
An improvised parody of "Law and Order" from the Heroes of Comedy. Blong, Blong.
$7-10
Saturday, August 5th - 10pm
Maestro
The long-running, elimination-style, short-form show where players are eliminated until one is declared the winner.
$7-10
Saturday, August 5th - 10:30pm
Whirled News Tonight
Using articles chosen by the audience, the cast creates improvised social satire on the spot.
$10 students,$12 gen admission
*this show is produced by the contributing writer. Also krunk, yeah?
Sketch
See Latino Comedy Project listing above
All shows listed happen at the Hideout Theatre 617 Congress Ave, at the intersection of Congress and 7th street, except as noted.
