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Bill Skaggs INDYPROV is at the TOP!

INDYPROV is pleased to announce the addition of a new downtown venue. Our first show at Tip Top Tavern will be Thursday, November 19. There will be a show at 8:00 PM and a show at 9:00 PM. Admission is free to the event. Tip Top Tavern is located at the corner of 14th and Capitol and boasts a fu… Continue

Added by Bill Skaggs on November 9, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Greg Phelps Protesting a school

This week Carly’s high school is being picked by the members of a church because of a play they are staging. I’ll let you digest that one for a minute…a school of kids…will be picketed …by adults from a “faith” based organization. I’m all about faith. I should get that out in the open right now. I believe in the golden rule. I teach my kids to live with love and treat people they way they wish to be treated. Ask and ye shall receive – we live it, practice it, believe it. This group has a bee in… Continue

Added by Greg Phelps on September 23, 2009 at 8:36am — 8 Comments

Greg Phelps Sometimes Dads Cry

I was at an Indiana Pacer Game with a friend back in the nineties. They asked everyone to rise for the National Anthem. A young kid with leg braces and crutches shuffled out onto the court to sing. He had the confidence of a pro. He belted out that song with such emotion and power that it made me cry. Women are great with crying. If a Hallmark ad hit’s them the right way – BAM – tears. I can count on one hand the number of times tears came to my eyes in the last decade and still have fingers to… Continue

Added by Greg Phelps on September 20, 2009 at 6:45am — No Comments

Troy Hanna Are Your Parents Funny? (By the way this is my first attempt at a blog posting.)

"Laughter is the first form of communication between mothers and babies and is an important form of bonding," says psychologist Provine, who sees laughter as social glue." I Love My Life! I really do. I mean who wouldn't when you have the greatest job working for a Comedy Club, I Have the best wife, 2 lovely pug puppies, and 1 Loveable Funny Hilarious little boy, and a soon to be little girl on the way (due Date Jan. 4.) My son always has me thinking about myself and my parenting. I know that… Continue

Added by Troy Hanna on August 28, 2009 at 2:26pm — No Comments

Erin Greer IndyFringe Review: Phil the Void - SEE IT!

Do well by yourself and get an advanced ticket to see one of the final shows of Phil The Void: The Great Brain Robbery. Phil Van Hest’s standup comic/philosophic/political act will kickstart your brain, make you laugh, make you flush in embarrassed self-recognition, and make you share some of his palpable anger and disappointment with the unsatisfactory status quo of our common political and in… Continue

Added by Erin Greer on August 26, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Erik Deckers Review of The Cool Table at Indy Fringe 2009

I ate Lindsey Fisher's cookie. The cookie in question, before your mind starts wandering, was a prop for a sketch she performed as part of the sketch comedy troupe, The Cool Table, at their fourth appearance at the Indy Fringe Theatre Festival. More on that later. The Chicago-based troupe performs original sketches during each performance without repeating any during their entire Fringe appearance. What I saw tonight was not what they performed either of the last two nights. I had the chance… Continue

Added by Erik Deckers on August 25, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Bill Skaggs This is improvisation at its best.

SheliaB (a member of IndianaAuditions.com) posted a review of our current IndyFringe show Welcome to Blanksville: An Improvised Tribute to Choose Your Own Adventure. Here's what she had to say: This is improvisation at its best. At the Phoenix Theater you choose your own adventure. Each show is different. Get there early so you can put suggestions for things to use during the show on little slips o… Continue

Added by Bill Skaggs on August 24, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Bill Skaggs Welcome to Blanksville gets its first review

Our first review has come in from WIBC! Here's what they had to say! I must forewarn you, my review is going to be fairly useless when it comes to this show. INDYPROV’s Welcome to Blanksville: An Improvised Tribute to Choose Your Own Adventure is exactly that; a choose your own adventure improvisational comedy show. As such, every show is different; so different in fact that even the cast cha… Continue

Added by Bill Skaggs on August 23, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Bill Skaggs Get into the habit!

Hope Baugh of the blog "Indy Theatre Habit" just posted this entry about our 2009 IndyFringe offering. Here's what she had to say!

Bill Skaggs (the man with the map in the photo above) from IndyProv Sketch Comedy sent me the following press release about their 2009 Indy… Continue

Added by Bill Skaggs on August 15, 2009 at 12:30pm — 7 Comments

Cissi Sherlock 300 People can make a kids life a little easier

I need 300 people to help make a fundraiser that I am putting together for my local high school band students a great success! I am putting together a fundraiser at Morty's Comedy Joint on Thursday Night. I would like for you all to join Karen Wolfley, Margaret Medley, myself and others for a great comedy show starring Jamie Lissow. What a great opportunity to network, get a great comedy show and support this cause all at the same time. I am raising money for children at a local (Indian… Continue

Added by Cissi Sherlock on May 16, 2009 at 3:04pm — No Comments

Cissi Sherlock Especially for you, Smaller Indiana!

Recently I met Karen Wolfley and Margaret Medley here at Smaller Indiana. They are two great people! We put our heads together and have come up with some things. Here's how it went. Karen received an email from a networking group of hers inviting her to plan an event at Morty's Comedy Joint. She contacted me thinking that doing something at Morty's would be perfect for my group, Make me laugh - Show me… Continue

Added by Cissi Sherlock on May 1, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

NealTaflinger Neil Postman Always Rings Twice

I know this is, like, so last week, but Jon Stewart's face off with "Mad Money"'s Jim Cramer was of particular interest to me. For days Stewart took Cramer and CNBC to task over what he perceived to be media malfeasance, pumping up a market that was build on little more than pixie dust and gypsy tears. I recently finished reading "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman's polemic on the death of typographic culture and the silliness of television culture, and one of his final points resonated… Continue

Added by NealTaflinger on March 18, 2009 at 10:42pm — 4 Comments

Hope Baugh "Fiddle Shticks" by Three Dollar Bill Comedy Company at Comedy Sportz

I have now been to two "editions" of the Three Dollar Bill Comedy Company's "Fiddle Shticks" show at Comedy Sportz. The first was on Friday, January 9, 2009. The second was… Continue

Added by Hope Baugh on January 29, 2009 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Hope Baugh "Fiddle Shticks" and Lincoln Stories This Weekend

"Of the People: Stories and Images of Abraham Lincoln," by Hope Baugh (that's me!), premieres this Sunday, January 18, 2009 from 4:00-6:00 pm at the Indiana History Center (not to be confused with the Indiana State Museum.)… Continue

Added by Hope Baugh on January 16, 2009 at 12:00pm — 4 Comments

Eddie Curry Breaking News! PRODUCERS actor addicted to crack (sort of)

An audience that is primed and ready for the show. An audience that freely laughs, applauds and participates with the show is like crack to an actor, and I gladly admit to my addiction to it. Especially in musical theatre comedy, there is nothing that fixes and actors graving like a hot aud… Continue

Added by Eddie Curry on August 31, 2008 at 11:31am — 1 Comment

Hazel "The Queen" Walker Adventures in Mating - An Interactive Romatic Comedy

Sitting in the restaurant waiting for your date, he's late, do you leave or do you keep waiting. Suddenly he rushes to your table with a 100 excuses. Oh we have all experienced the "Adventures in Mating" some of us more recently than others. Miranda is looking for a mate, and she i… Continue

Added by Hazel "The Queen" Walker on August 26, 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Erik Deckers The Cool Table, show #2

Sunday night, day 3 of the Ind… Continue

Added by Erik Deckers on August 25, 2008 at 4:26pm — 1 Comment

Erik Deckers The Cool Table comedy troupe at Indy Fringe Fest 2008

At the Indy Fringe, we have plenty of solo performances, but only a couple of ensemble sketch performers. I had a chance to catch Chicago's The Cool Table, one of the funniest sketch comedy troupes in the country (and they can prove it!). … Continue

Added by Erik Deckers on August 24, 2008 at 1:02am — 4 Comments

Gus Pearcy Trans fat ban is silly

EDITORIAL from Jan 2007 Because of my obvious girth, it will be difficult to convince the reader that I have no bias in this upcoming editorial. I assure you, this is an editorial with a well-thought out conclusion. Ow! I think I bit my tongue! The “trans-fat” ban of 2008 is looming large on the consciousness of the American who enjoys food. Stop. I know it only affects New York, but really. Do you expect me to believe that we won’t soon follow the footsteps of the mother government in o… Continue

Added by Gus Pearcy on May 1, 2008 at 3:32pm — 2 Comments

Gus Pearcy How to handle the handshake

Ed. Note: This is an article I wrote in 2006 for the Hendricks County Business Leader. Handshakes are a common occurrence and we only think about it when we get an unusual one. No other custom is as damaging as an unusual handshake. It can be the difference between closing the deal or not. Your placement in the hierarchy of competency is all placed in that initial impression. I don’t mean to make you nervous, but your livelihood depends on pressing the flesh. Last week, I awkward… Continue

Added by Gus Pearcy on April 30, 2008 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

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