“It was fun to do it anyway but to the fact that we won a couple of festival trips made it much more worthwhile,” said Corey Cohen a day after his group, Philadelphia’s THE SIXTH BOROUGH, won not just the Audience but the Judges award at Chicago’s Snubfest (presented by Chemically Inbalanced Comedy). With the awards came entrances to Milwaukee’s Comedy Festival in August and 2010’s Montreal Sketch Festival.

The other award from Snubfest went to Chicago’s The Cool Table, who in turn earned entrance into the Philly Sketchfest later this year (dates haven’t been announced yet, but best believe we’ll be on top of it).

Meanwhile, plans are in the works for a hero’s welcome home for The 6B similar to the Philadelphia Phillies victory parade last year (no, not really). They’ve just made us so proud, sniff.

Our bi-weekly comedy talk show returns tonight from 7-8PM EST with our friends at Gtownradio.com (The Sound From Germantown).

Your host Dave Walk will be talking to comedians, playing not-funny songs and other great stuff, so make sure to set your internet dial to Gtownradio.com.

This week Luke Giordano will be in the studio to preview his new monthly comedy show THE BULLY PULPIT. The first show is Wednesday, July 8th at the Shubin Theatre. Plus, we’ll talk to Southern stand-up comic Henderson Cole about living in Philadelphia.

That’s 7-8PM TONIGHT Eastern Standard Time U.S.A., streaming at Gtownradio.com.

By the way, you can listen to G-Town Radio on your iPhone or iPod Touch!

Our spies have been working overtime to obtain details and only now can they safely report that Doogie Horner’s THE MINISTRY OF SECRET JOKES, the most mysterious show in Philadelpha, returns tonight to the easy-to-find Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom). It’ll be a packed night with stand-up by Kent Haines, Carolyn Busa, Brendan Kennedy, Benny Michaels, and Jon Goff, an Omniana battle between longtime champion Brendan Kennedy and Benny Michaels, and the return of the game Hack!, in which comics have 60 seconds to write their own punchline to a hacky premise.

Here’s top secret footage from last month’s rap battle:

We join Philadelphia stand-up comic/writer/host of BEDTIME STORIES (July’s show is the Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? extravaganza, more on that later) once again as he recounts his idyllic summer as an employee of Chuck E. Cheese.

PART 1

Dawn had her blonde hair teased as only a girl from North Jersey can tease her hair. I fucking hated her. She was a complete and total bitch to anyone she didn’t like, which was everyone, except for the parade of older shithead guidos she dated, the types of guys whose idea of a good time was to throw Coors Light empties out of a speeding car at homeless people.

Dawn and I were co-workers at Chuck E. Cheese, America’s foremost chain of birthday emporiums for germ-infected kids. My job duties were plentiful — kidnap prevention, game repair, game maintenance, merchandise counter, waiter, bus boy, dishwasher, breadstick cook, bathroom custodian and, of course, costumed entertainment.

For one glorious, defining summer, my job was to pretty much get into a giant rat costume and dance around for immigrant children.

This is how I ended up, holding a mouse head in a filthy utility closet, getting yelled at by a girl whose only talent on earth was the ability to blindly flip the radio dial from KISS FM to HOT 97 while going down on a 28-year-old cement mixer/numbers runner in the front seat of his fire red Camaro.

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Ladies and Gentleman, it’s been a while and we missed you! Yes, it’s been almost two months since the last COMIC VS. AUDIENCE COMEDY SHOW in Philadelphia and baby it’s been too long. So in just a few weeks, Comicvsaudience.com and the Philly Improv Theater will proudly present a night of engaging and hilarious stand-up comedy at the lovely Shubin Theatre in downtown Philly.

Details:

The Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show!
Monday, July 6th, 2009
8PM
at the Shubin Theatre
407 Bainbridge St.
ONLY FIVE AMERICAN DOLLARS (tickets on-sale soon with no creepy service fees!)

Featuring stand-up comedy by:
Carolyn Busa
Chris Cotton
Stu Kamens
Luke Cunningham (from NYC)

And host Dave Walk will have some jokes too.

And did we mention it’s BYOB?!?!?

We finish up our week of stand-up comedy from the May Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show at the Shubin Theatre with the very funny Andy Nolan. Enjoy!

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Today, enjoy some more stand-up, this time by Austin, Texas comic Kerri Lendo from the May Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show at the Shubin Theatre.

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Whether it’s steroids, cooking the financial books, or test scores, cheating is prevalent in today’s America. In Get Rich Cheating, New York comedian Jeff Kreisler tackles this theme in satirical detail that will empower you to be all that you can be by doing what you shouldn’t.

Kreisler will be performing comedy and reading from his book at Milkboy Coffee in Ardmore tonight.

How do you define “cheating” in your book?
Cheating is defined by poor-people dictionaries as “Deception by trickery, fraud, and dishonesty.” Not in Get Rich Cheating, a safe place, without judgments or preconceived notions of “right” and “wrong.” Cheating is broadly defined by the Cheaters English Dictionary (C.E.D.) as “Awesome personal gain by means that are illegal, immoral, and fun.”

In our current economy, what’s the best way for a regular person without high-profile connections to cheat/scam?
Assuming steroids are out… stalk a celebrity, accuse him or her of doing something outrageous, get on TMZ, create your own publicity, write a book or get a TV show or charge appearance fees because now you’re “famous.” Or, if you don’t like pop culture, start a company, get investors, file fake financial figures, get a bonus, declare bankruptcy, get a bailout, get fired, get a $40 million severance.It’s so easy! Everyone’s doing it.

How did your background as a comedian help you in writing this book (if at all)?
It prevented me from crying. Seriously, as I researched the book, I found that cheating was so pervasive – from parents lying out their children’s health to get them more time to take the SATs to the President – that I had to laugh… and channel it into what the kids call “satire.”

Do comedians cheat?
Sure. Stealing jokes. That’s a pretty simple cheat. Not gonna get too rich off that, but start there, then steal an act, then a script, then the skies the limit.

Do you explore the themes of this book in your stand-up?
I’ve always explored hypocrisy and the abuse of power in my act, and that’s a big part of cheating. Now that I’ve written the book, I’m trying to incorporate cheating more into my act. I’m actually putting together a whole show “Get Rich Cheating” for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August (man, that’s soon).

Who is getting away with the most in the U.S. right now?
Investment banks. They just move money around, skimming off the top. Then, when they mess up, they get bailed out. Then they fudge their financials so it looks like they’re doing well enough to give back the bailout money, mostly because they don’t want to be told how much they can pay themselves. Banking used to be boring, now it’s the best way to Get Rich Cheating.

Of course, there’s also oil companies, and credit cards, and the pharmaceuticals… I’ve got about 336 pages chock full of who’s getting away with the most…

Our week of stand-up podcasts continues with this performance by Philly comic Jack Martin at the May Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show at the Shubin Theatre.

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Here’s some more stand-up from the May Comic Vs. Audience Comedy Show at the Shubin Theatre, this time by Philly comic Tommy Papa.

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