Inside Jokes Stage at The Chinese 6 Theatres, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.
An indoor hit is the Flagpole Radio Café, a three-year-old musical variety show reminiscent of "Prairie Home Companion" but with local jokes, staged monthly in Edmond Town Hall over fall, winter and spring.
A message sent on Twitter threatening to blow up a snowbound airport unless it reopened was not "menacing" and was like a comic cracking a joke on stage, the lord chief justice was told at the high court.
For one thing, pointers on the art of joke writing, stage presence and timing — and tips on the way the comedy business works — from a teacher who is most likely a seasoned professional.
"I make this joke on stage now about how when a few people heard about Rough Trade, they were like: 'Guys, er, isn't that a punk label?'" Clarke laughs.
Last night Jack White made a joke on stage!
Coombs Marr is not just a female comedian (go with it, she would say) up there making funny jokes on stage; she's a female comedian making funny jokes on stage about being a female comedian, while not being a female comedian, and making more funny jokes about the place of women in society, structural discrimination, being queer, and white men who feel marginalised by feminists.
But, as this kind of joke is staged over and over, the media irony wears off.
Other comics knew I was trans and it led to some in-jokes off stage.
"If you steal people's jokes on stage you get tarred and feathered".
"The manager told us to play weakly at first so that they think we're useless," Schweinsteiger joked on stage, but the first half was as poor as any they have played this season.
