About Live Comedy Club Taipei

由 Comedy 在 4 七月, 2007 - 01:24 發表

Saturday Night English Comedy Show Feb 4 @ 10pm
All English all star show.
Cover: 350NT includes 140NT drink coupon

Free Wednesday & Open Mic: Every Wed. 8:00pm
＊more than 2 Comedians will perform, free entrance, 100NT minimum order.
＊Open Mic after the show.
＊Try Stand-up! Tell a joke and win a beer.

So you think you are funny?
Then we are looking for you.
Professional? Good. Amateur? Will do.
Call:02-2764-5529 or social@comedy.com.tw

Comedy Club, like its name, is a nightclub that provides comedy shows. The performers are usually the so-called stand-up comedians. A single person with a simple microphone is good enough to shake loose the audience in laughter. The origin of stand-up comedy is said to be Mark Twain. Mark Twain was the best colloquial speaker and humorist in his time. Back in over 100 years ago, he loved to hang out in the bars by the Mississippi River and tell his interesting stories to the guests in the bars. This is the earliest form of a comedy club.
From masters like Bill Cosby, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Seinfeld to newer generation of Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, and Chris Rock, many famous comedians started their career in local comedy clubs. This kind of performance was also brought to TV shows like Saturday Night Live or Late Show with David Letterman.
Today, live Comedy Club Taipei would like to bring the guests a wide variety of comic shows including stand-up, live act, skit, improv, singing and talking, and all hilarious materials.

Open Hours: 6:00pm-1:00am (Tuesdays off)
Ticket: NT.250 or higher (1 drink included)
Tel: 02-2764-5529
Address: No.20, Ln. 553, Sec. 4, ZhongXiao E. Rd., Taipei City (MRT Taipei City Hall Station)Leave MRT by exit 1 and turn right. Pass the 7-11, cross KeeLong Road, Starbucks and the small park. Turn right (Lane 553) and we're 3 blocks down.

Waiter: social@comedy.com.tw
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live Comedy Clubは台北の唯一ライブお笑いクラブです。　台湾式も日本式も西洋式の漫才は毎日上演します。独演の、そして、歌、話、およびすべての面白いショーをあなたにもたらします。
営業時間：6:00pm-1:00am(月、火曜日閉店)
住所：台北市忠孝東路4段553巷20號(市政府駅の近く)[地図]
料金：250元から(一つの飲み物込み)
予約電話：02-2764-5529
連絡先：social@comedy.com.tw

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Taipei Times : Theater: You say, they do

由 Ginger 在 1 十月, 2011 - 09:13 發表。

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2011/09/30/2003514526

Theater: You say, they do
By Alita Rickards / Contributing reporter

Members of Taichung Improv get in the zone.
Photo Courtersy of Ryan HarringtonWhat happens at the Comedy Club tomorrow night is anyone’s guess, say members of Taichung Improv, who will perform a two-hour show there featuring more than a dozen games inspired by prompts from the audience.

“I’ll give you a secret about improv,” said Matt Bronsil, who temporarily took over the reins from Taichung Improv founder Josh Myers after Myers suffered a recent illness. “Our goal is not to be funny. Our goal is to make a story. When we focus on being funny, we look for a funny line or silly thing … It gets a quick laugh, but that is all … When we lose focus and do not build an entertaining story, the scene dies. When we do build a story, it’s full of laughter.”

To create the “stories,” the players build upon ideas elicited from audience members. An interpreter explains the rules in Mandarin before the game but doesn’t translate the dialog, which is all in English. Some acts focus on narration or storytelling; others are elimination or guessing games in which one person is sent out of the room while the others set a scene. The latter works very well, said Myers, as “the audience loves it when they’re in on the secret.”

The troupe uses a lot of physical comedy, said Myers, “because it is visual and with a bunch of different actors from all over the world, and an audience that has Taiwanese, but also people from all over the world — they all have different frames of reference, but we find common ground in slapstick.”

Katie Partlow, who has been with the troupe since its creation in 2009, encourages audience participants to “think out of the box — not everything has to be about sex and/or body fluids, much as some people may wish it was!”

Performance Notes
WHAT: Taichung Improv, A Night in Taipei

WHEN: Tomorrow from 10pm to midnight

WHERE: Comedy Club, 20, Ln 553, Zhongxiao E Rd. Sec 4, Taipei City (台北市忠孝東路四段553巷20號)

ADMISSION: NT$350, which includes a drink. Contact the Comedy Club to reserve seats send an e-mail to social@comedy.com.tw or call (02) 2764-5529

On the Net: for the Comedy Club visit www.comedy.com.tw or for more information about Taichung Improv go to www.taichungimprov.net

Partlow, currently finishing a master of fine arts degree in theater performance at Taipei National University of the Arts, is also involved with Taipei Players and numerous other local theater groups and the Taipei Fringe. Myers describes her as “larger than life. She’s a fearless woman who just jumps in and we all follow.”

Her large-eyed, awkward yet eager stage presence is reminiscent of a young, female version of Steve Buscemi.

The cast of seven includes actress, vocalist, and musician Sarah Zittrer (co-founder of Taipei Players), actor Thomas van Niekerk and guest performer Brandon Thompson (also in Taipei Players), and newcomer Quenntis Ashby, who trained originally in speech and drama, then in contemporary dance and classical ballet, dancing professionally, and winning several awards before he had to retire after a performance of Cats: The Musical because of an injury.

Cast member Quenntis Ashby, an experienced actor and dancer who is relatively new to this kind of theater, said, “When improv works, it’s magical, and that happens when everyone is in the zone of comfortable alertness, or being completely in the now, the present.”