This weekend and the next are your last chances for catching 3rd Act Theatre Company’s Drunk Classics: Much Ado About Drinkin’. A Shakespearean comedy with a drunken twist adapted by Kate Adams and directed by Dakota Lee Bryant, the cast of eight is ready to engage. The rules are simple: patrons vote on one cast […]
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Empathetic edge
Margaret Cho 7:30 and 10: 30 p.m. March 13-14 Bricktown Comedy Club 409 E. California Ave. bricktowncomedy.com 405-594-0505 $30-$40 You don’t have to agree with Margaret Cho to laugh at her. “I hope that I can be contrary and also bring up another way of thinking about something — or even be cruel or be […]
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Politically direct
Hari Kondabolu 8 p.m. March 12 The Paramount Room 701 W. Sheridan Ave. facebook.com/theparamountroom 405-532-6376 $20-$25 In a 2017 interview with Antigravity magazine, stand-up comic Hari Kondabolu said he wanted to get more personal with his material. In a 2020 interview with Oklahoma Gazette, Kondabolu said incorporating more jokes about his own life has helped […]
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Rim shot
Why Not? Comedy Show 7 p.m. Jan. 10 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com 405-708-6937 $40-$1000 Back for its fourth year, the Why Not? Comedy Show returns to Oklahoma City Jan. 10. The show’s co-founder, NBA point guard Russell Westbrook, also returns to OKC that week — in a Houston Rockets uniform. On Jan. […]
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A-list comedy
NYE w/John Heffron 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Tuesday Bricktown Comedy Club 401 E. California Ave. bricktowncomedy.com 405-594-0505 $20-$30 A new comedy club bringing national headliners to downtown OKC is now open. Bricktown Comedy Club had two shows last weekend and already has comedians booked through July. Bricktown Comedy Club, operated by family-owned BARK Entertainment, […]
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Discomfort zone
Chelsea Handler 8 p.m. Saturday The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. criterionokc.com 405-840-5500 $48-$113 When we spoke to Chelsea Handler on Oct. 28, her Chow-Chow Bert was in the process of “peeing all over” her cousin’s house after a wildfire forced Handler to evacuate from her California home. Just before she stopped mid-thought to briefly […]
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Shady lady
Bianca Del Rio 8 p.m. Nov. 6 Hudiburg Chevrolet Center Rose State College 6000 S. Prosper Blvd., Midwest City
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Bricktown laughs
A Washington-based entertainment company will open a comedy club and arcade bar downtown by the end of the year. BARK Entertainment, which opened its first comedy club almost a decade ago, expands its portfolio with Bricktown Comedy Club. Located at 409 E. California Ave., the club will have its first show Dec. 27 and continue […]
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Genuine moment
Every Brilliant Thing Sept. 6-22 CitySpace Theatre Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker Ave. 405-297-2264 $40 The director and lead actor have already been chosen, but the rest of the cast for Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s (CityRep) latest production will be selected from whoever happens to show up. Every Brilliant Thing runs Sept. 6-22 […]
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Smart jokes
Stand Up Science 8 p.m. Sunday Opolis 113 N. Crawford Ave., Norman opolis.org 405-230-0311 $15-$22 Your high school teacher, probably wearing a wacky bowtie, might have told you all the good chemistry jokes “argon,” but comic and podcast host Shane Mauss thinks science can be funny. Mauss tackles heady topics with a sense of humor […]