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| - It's really awesome that Pittsburgh is spreading it's cultural wings, so to speak. Comedy is an oft ignored skill, relegated to open mic nights in some terrible place with a pun for a name (it's a factory, but for LAUGHS!). And that's cool sometimes. In fact, one of the people performing at the Arcade Comedy Theater's Actors Read Yelp Reviews was a dude I saw perform in the banquet room of a restaurant in the West End during Zombiefest, and it was amazing.
The Arcade Theater troupe, which I wrote in French if you're reading this aloud, is also amazing. In fact, the worst part of the performance for everyone is that when I am truly tickled, I have an uncontrollable laugh that sounds like an asthmatic seal at the height of sexual congress. It's been politely described as 'honest' but I know for certain that it's not only unsettling, but it probably gave everybody within a half mile radius bizarre seal-fetish nightmares that night. I'm used to it, but I'm still sorry.
Even with my seal orgasm laughing, the performers stayed focused and were terrifically funny. It was a terrible catch 22, because they WANT people to laugh, but just maybe not me.
So, this is an improv group with several performances during the week, and for some reason I feel like they mentioned BYOB, so add that into the mix, in a cool, intimate setting. It felt informal, friendly and really fostered audience interaction.
I had actually intended to give the performers a standing ovation, but my ass went kind of numb in the seat, so maybe that's a check against them as well.
I love that there are local comedy performers in Pittsburgh, and I will definitely be back in the near future.
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