I'm starting this thread so I can be the one who started this thread.
(Yay Bridgetown! My 3rd or 4th favorite time of the year!)
I'm starting this thread so I can be the one who started this thread.
(Yay Bridgetown! My 3rd or 4th favorite time of the year!)
woooooooooooooooooooooo
(my 1st)
Last edited by pollymaepry; January 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM. Reason: 1st...favorite time of the year. my 2nd edit trying to clarify.
"Jesus is the best person to sell your soul to, that's his whole set-up."
Im going to try and fly up this year for my first time ever.
(Bridgetown!)
I look forward to meeting more ASTers and not remembering them due to my drunken stupor. AST PARTY HOUSE. LET'S MAKE THIS A THING THIS YEAR. LAST YEAR WE PLAYED WATER BALLOONS WITH LANCE BANGS!
I'll be applying for the first time after 3+ years. Everyone I know who's been has had a great time so I'm pretty excited.
I'm looking forward to updating/adding your mugshots to my collection, Bridgetown.
Do try to check out my local friends, Ron Funches and Chris Castles. Also, pretty much every Portland female comic is really, really funny. And voodoo donuts are just regular donuts, with cereal and bacon on them.
And a line to wait in.Originally Posted by candupstomic
Not much of a line at the voodoo on the northeast.
(Sesame Donuts is better, but my Bridgetown roomies always want voodoo).
We're watching the Super Bowl...and when they advertised the upcoming halftime show from Madonna, my wife got very confused.
"Oh...BridgesTONE (one of the sponsors of the halftime show is Bridgestone tires)...I thought they said BridgeTOWN. I couldn't figure out why that Portland comedy festival you like would be presenting the Madonna halftime show of the Super Bowl."
pg--Hey, you know that Andy and Matt have their fingers in EVERYTHING now.--seattle
Last edited by pg13; February 6, 2012 at 2:20 PM. Reason: alzheimer's is a hell of a disease
We'll just take the fact that this was too long and that you didn't read it...as read.
I want a real Bridgetown portrait this time.
i'm so excited i can barely control my bladder.
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway
Just got this a few minutes ago from the PR firm. [Someone please alert one of the folks who can post in News, so they can post it there, too.]
2012 BRIDGETOWN COMEDY FESTIVAL: NOW IN ITS FIFTH YEAR! INITIAL LINEUP ANNOUNCED!
In five short years, Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, produced by fan and comic Andy Wood, has established itself as a first rate, world-class comedy event. This year’s festival, aside from marking the five-year anniversary of Bridgetown, features a stunning array of talent, including Doug Benson, Pete Holmes, Mary Lynn Rasjkub, Todd Glass and many others. The full lineup, schedule and list of venues will be announced soon, and tickets will go on sale March 5th, 2012.
CONFIRMED PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Asssscat with Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Horatio Sanz and Tim Meadows
Dave Holmes
Doug Benson
Eric Andre
Erin Jackson
Freakdance screening with Matt Besser, Neil Mahoney and more
Graham Elwood
Horatio Sanz
Howard Kremer
James Adomian
Jamie Lee
Jason Nash
Jason Nash Is Married screening with stars Jason Nash, Busy Philipps, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Matt Walsh, June Diane Raphael and more
Jimmy Dore
John Roy
Kevin Allison’s RISK!
Lachlan Patterson
Mary Lynn Rasjkub
Mary Mack
Matt Besser
Matt Braunger
Matt Kirshen
Matt Walsh
Pete Holmes
Ron Funches
Sean O'Connor
Sean Patton
Steve Agee
The Friday Forty with Dave Holmes and Scott Gimple
The Humor Code with Professor Peter McGraw
Tim Meadows
Todd Glass
Who Charted? Live with Howard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack
MORE EXCITING CONFIRMATIONS (TRUST US) TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
TICKETS GO ON SALE MARCH 5th, 2012.
WEB: http://bridgetowncomedy.com
TWITTER: @bridgetown
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/bridgetowncomedy
A LITTLE BRIDGETOWN HISTORY:
The Bridgetown Comedy Festival arose from a love of boundary-pushing comedy shared by a fan, a budding comedian and an emerging talent who met one night at a Portland comedy show. In October of 2007, after a performance at Portland’s now-defunct Towne Lounge, comedians Matt Braunger and Andy Wood were joined for a drink by comedy fan Kim Brady. Over the course of the conversation, the three realized how similar their taste in comedy was. They agreed that while the national standup scene was in the midst of a golden age, as was the Pacific Northwest’s, Portland’s exposure to it was somewhat limited.
When Kim suggested the idea of producing a festival in Portland, they all thought that an event of that kind was long overdue. As the three began to make a wish-list of names, they found that Matt knew many of their favorite comics from his time in Chicago and Los Angeles, and that a large number of them had expressed an interest in coming to Portland to perform. As the lineup for the first year of the festival began to coalesce, eventual 2008 headliner Patton Oswalt learned about the plans for Bridgetown. He liked the idea of a Portland festival so much that he contacted the founders about helping to get the fledgling event off the ground, and his performance at Bridgetown helped ensure that year one of the festival would be a success.
Barfly impresario Jen Lane suggested centering the festival in Southeast Portland’s Hawthorne district, home to a plethora of bars, theaters and music venues. It was a perfect location in its eclectic mix of traditional theaters and unconventional performance spaces. The variety of stages and the walkability of the neighborhood gave Bridgetown a true festival feel – audience members could see any of the dozens of shows over the course of the weekend with a single wristband, and they could quickly hop from seeing a sold-out performance in a 500-seat venue to seeing a Tonight Show veteran in a ridiculously intimate 20-seat performance space on a bar’s back patio.
Since the festival’s inception, it has featured over 300 performers including Patton Oswalt, Tig Notaro, Chris Hardwick, Janeane Garofalo, Reggie Watts, Fred Armisen, Margaret Cho, Danny Pudi, Maria Bamford, Tim Meadows, Oscar Nunez, Kurt Braunohler, Matt Braunger, Kyle Kinane, Hannibal Buress, Morgan Murphy, Brent Weinbach, the cast of Home Movies, Metalocalypse creators Brendan Small and Loren Bouchard, the writing staff of Conanand a slew of other comics from around the globe. Bridgetown has also hosted long-form improv groups, including Beer Shark Mice (featuring David Koechner and Neil Flynn), late night sketch and variety shows such as The Tomorrow Show, The Midnight Show, The Dave Hill Explosion andThe Famous Mysterious Actor Show, and live award-winning comedy podcasts including Marc Maron’s WTF,Jimmy Dore and Todd Glass’s Comedy and Everything Else, Jimmy Pardo’sNever Not Funny, Guys With Feelingsand PRI’s The Sound of Young America.
Really excited to see Howard Kremer again! I've always liked him, but Who Charted has made me absolutely love him.
Could we possibly see Bil Dwyer is The Game Master!?
It would probably be a great thing.
(Also... in a couple of weeks at the 50th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, my new film will be playing with James Herbert's "Porch Glider" (about which I drunkly rambled on about to Lance Bangs last year)... so, I guess I'll have something new to drunkenly ramble on about to Lance Bangs this year).
Last edited by J.B.; February 28, 2012 at 9:56 PM.
I just got an email last night. I got into bridgetown! Fuq all da haterzzz
SO DO I!!!
Sad I didn't get in but super stoke for those of my friends who are going - gonna have to make up for it by eating donuts for every meal for a few days.
This the first year I won't be going. Just know if you ever liked anything good in your life than you should get a plane ticket and go to this. It is really one of the best times you will ever have. It's like comedy Disneyland for a weekend.
It is also a cheap city to visit. Food and booze is practically free. Hotels are reasonable.
"Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."
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