Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2014 / Portland, Oregon

PORTLAND COMEDY HOLIDAY PICKS!

Ever since the advent of Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Portlandia has been steadily blossoming into a mini-Mecca of comedy. There’s always been a consistent trend of good food and drink in this town. What better cultural accoutrement than…a barrel of laughs? We have a couple picks of must-attend shows happening during this holiday month. PDX Peeps, first up is monthly comedy […]

Funny Over Everything: Ian Karmel’s Farewell Show at the Hollywood Theatre

I love this city so much (Portland). I was already planning on moving (to Los Angeles), it’s like getting into Harvard (getting into the renowned Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal)…is like getting drafted in the first round, to use a sports metaphor. There have been moments where I felt like I don’t want […]

I Black Out / Nathan Brannon INTERVIEW

We previously spoke with Portland-based comedian Nathan Brannon during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. Brannon is an ultra-talented comic who has opened for big-timers like Dave Chappelle and Dave Attell. He was crowned the winner of Helium Comedy Club’s “Portland’s Funniest Person Comedy Competition” in 2012 and seems to be on a trajectory and path of success similar […]

Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2013 / Matt Braunger x Nathan Brannon x Whitney Streed (INTERVIEWS)

In Louis C.K.‘s latest HBO special Oh My God, there’s a funny observational bit where he tells of attending his young daughter’s dance recital. He notices that every single doting parent, instead of just purely watching their children perform, watched through the filters of their camera phones. The moms and dads were obstructing their own […]