Comedians, beware! The search is on for the Funniest Person in Oklahoma City.
Spencer Hicks
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Cover: Bleeping awesome!
From athletes to artists, professional funnymen to wordsmiths, these days, it’s easy to be grateful for opportunity, creativity and maybe even the quirkiness we sometimes otherwise might complain about.
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Cover preview: Why are these people thankful?
Check out this week’s print issue of Oklahoma Gazette to learn why five of Oklahoma City’s favorite people are thankful this holiday season. Plus! Reader response!
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No laughing matter
Looking out at a room of 40 people, Dan Skaggs sighed and wondered if he was doing something wrong. His group, OKC Comedy, had brought Los Angeles comedian Brent Weinbach to town. When tickets to the March didn’t sell, they dropped the price to free. And they still drew only 40 people. “That was maybe […]
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Twitter me this
What can you do with 140 characters? The common knock on Twitter is that the microblogging site is a wasteland of people describing their lunches, shamelessly self-promoting their businesses or begging for more people to follow them on Twitter. But comedian Blaine Bacon saw something else: regular, everyday people dropping one-liners that deserved to be […]
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Insane in the Kinane
For the past 12 years, he’s worked his way up the ladder, moving from Chicago to Los Angeles and leaving behind an office job selling gourmet cake decorations over the phone (which he likened to being a “toothless cog” spinning freely) and opening for comedy juggernaut Patton Oswalt. His debut record, “Death of the Party,” […]