Find true love at JERKUS CIRCUS this Saturday at AS220!

Comedy, burlesque, and freaks! Voted best neo-vaudeville by the Boston Phoenix in ‘09. Produced, Created, and Hosted by the world famous Steamy Bohemians.

Jerkus Circus is America’s most delinquent traveling circus, a campy cabaret show that will steal your heart. . .  and your identity. . . to download porn. Called “haute vaudeville” by the Boston Phoenix, Jerkus Circus brings back variety in style, including wildly diverse performance artists, uniquely hilarious comedic acts, pasties, drug references, and all your favorite swear words. Watch us channel the gods of chaos! Our struggle will seem effortless. What song will Lainey forget how to play? What will Niki pull out of her boobs? There’s only one way to find out. Come see hilarious comedians, scary weirdos, sexy dancing, and fabulous music. Created, produced, and hosted by The Steamy Bohemians.

9pm, Saturday, $8 or less, AS220, 115 Empire Street, all ages

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Comedy Central is running Strangers with Candy — The Movie tonight at 11pm. They have been running episodes of the original series this week. The movie was not well-received initially, the most common sentiment expressed being “I really wanted to love this movie, but…”. Well, I really wanted to love this movie and I did. Directed by Paul Dinello (why isn’t he huge?) and starring the awesome Amy Sedaris and a younger, gayer Stephen Colbert, this film exposes the dark underbelly of Science Fair Projects, finally! Another movie in need of a larger audience is Let’s Go To Prison featuring an Oscar-worthy performance by Will Arnett, and that will be on at 9pm. This one is totally perverse; I liked it a lot. With TV this good, why leave the house?

Saturday, 9pm, Let’s Go To Prison/11pm, Strangers With Candy — The Movie

Last year on a sweltering August day I was handed a small envelope containing two tickets to see David Sedaris. It was a birthday gift from my mother. I looked at her and said, “This is eight months away!”. In my mind eight months away meant a lifetime. I could ride a motorcycle across the country (I don’t know how to ride a motorcycle); I could be in Maine writing the great American novel surrounded only by an expansive pine tree forest. How dare she predict such a predictable future? I felt gypped.

So I have great seats for David Sedaris’ reading at PPAC on April 6th. It starts at 8pm and as far as I can tell from the website they still have tickets. It will be great. David Sedaris on Letterman

Monday, April 6, tickets $33 - $60.50

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Laugh out loud as you and your friends play improv comedy games with ‘Bring Your Own Improv’. BYOI’s unique audience-participation show gets you up on stage and makes you the star. No experience necessary.You must be at least 18 years old.

$5, Wednesdays at 9pm, Fridays at 11pm, The Spot, 286 Thayer Street.

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From Daniel Lee White:

Bring Your Own Improv (BYOI), a short-form improv troupe now in its second season, will be holding auditions on Wednesday January 14th and Friday January 23rd at 9:00pm at The Spot on Thayer, 286 Thayer St. Providence, RI.

Auditioners are encouraged to come to one or both of the auditions. Please bring water and wear comfortable clothing. Any auditioners who attend will get into the Friday the 23rd show at 11:00pm for free.

If you want to audition, please contact BYOI through our website with your name, email address and cell phone number, so we know you will be in attendance and we have an idea of how many people to expect. Thank you.

B.J. Novak, best known as Ryan the Temp, brings his stand-up act to Providence College tonight. He has written some of the best episodes of ‘The Office’ including my all-time favorite so far, ‘Diversity Day’.

Friday, 9pm, $15, Peterson Recreation Center, River Avenue, 865-2493

Are you one of those pointy-headed intellectuals who can name a newspaper?  Then who better to spend the evening with than Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert who will start broadcasting live at 10pm on Comedy Central with Indecision 2008.

In the grand tradition of clever people with far too much time on their hands…

Providence-based burlesque troupe BellaMinx Burly-Q presents Rock the Boat!, a full-scale variety show chock full of performers from all around Southern New England. BellaMinx is quickly making a name for themselves across Rhode Island with their high-quality displays of quick-witted satire and seduction – don’t miss out on the fun!

Join Providence’s Classiest Chassis on a burly-q cruise as they bid a fond farewell to summer with a full bill of burlesque, music, and comedy! Rock the Boat! will be held on Saturday, August 23rd at the Perishable Theatre (95 Empire Street) in Providence. There will be two shows: one at 7:30pm and a second at 10:00pm.

This eclectic live show, in the tradition of the variety shows of Vaudeville, will feature a myriad of performances: the Bob Fosse-inspired and titillating choreography of Briana ‘Miss B’ Masterson, burlesque performances by Providence’s own BellaMinx Burly-Q, comedic-musical duo the Steamy Bohemians, sideshow feats by the Human Floor, and world-fusion dance by Ximon. Rock the Boat! promises quality live entertainment unlike anything in the Providence area!

Tickets for this event are $20, and available at the door. Cash bar will be provided by Artini’s Café & Lounge. Partial proceeds from the show will benefit the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council. This is an 18+ event.

For more information:
www.myspace.com/bellaminx

  Canucklehead.ca reports:

“For the last company picnic, management decided that, due to liability issues, they could have alcohol, but only one (1) drink per person. I’m sure this guy was fired for ordering the cups.”

Can a local comedy group change the world?
Tuesday at 6pm at the Black Rep:

Greetings RI…We have had the privilege and the pleasure of meeting a good deal of you over our last four-years as a community-based, social-change comedic troupe. Some of you have been to our shows during this time. Some of you haven’t. Some of you might not have even heard of our group at all. Regardless, we are reaching out to you via email today, and probably via phone in the next few weeks to get you more familiar with the Powerful vision and mission of In House Freestyle, New England’s only all-black sketch comedy group. Please ponder this… more »