Central Eastside

An autumnal tournament of Portland's best improv teams! Who will fall? Who will be squashed? And who will rise above as the golden gourds of Portland improv! Step into the cornucopia of comedy!!!

4 teams will perform, and you, the audience, will vote to determine who will move on to the Championships on December 6th!***This show is free to current students who present a student ID card at the door***

Wu-Tang energy meets immigrant storytelling. Bernice Ye, "The Jackie Chan of Comedy" (The Stranger Seattle), collides stand-up, comedy rap, martial arts and cinematic multimedia into one high-octane solo hour.

Wu-Tang energy meets immigrant storytelling. In Wuhan Clan Ain't Nuthin' ta Duck Wit, Bernice Ye reclaims "Wuhan" as a symbol of resilience and reinvention through razor-sharp stand-up, original comedy rap, martial arts, audience interaction, and cinematic multimedia. It's a show about identity, ambition, and building your own clan when the world doesn't hand you one. Part comedy special, part concert, and unlike anything else on the comedy circuit.

Bernice Ye is an international touring comedian, comedy rapper, and taekwondo black belt known as "The Jackie Chan of Comedy" (The Stranger), with 400K+ followers and more than 100 million views online. Born in Wuhan, China, she came to the U.S. with $1,000 and a computer science degree from Peking University, built a career as a software engineer and technical program manager at Microsoft and Hulu, then walked away from tech for the comedy stage. It was the most unhinged sequence of decisions she's ever made. It's working.

Press: Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Stranger, and Seattle Gay News.

Festivals and awards: New York Comedy Festival · Bergamot Comedy Festival · Best of the Fest at the Burbank Comedy Festival, Laugh After Dark, and Nate Jackson's Super Funny Comedy Festival

"She hypnotizes you. You leave lighter, louder, and with her songs stuck in your head."

"High-energy and hilarious. Bernice keeps surprising you."

Portland, join the Wuhan Clan.

🎤 Clip: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLXkXTYu9ZL/
📱 Instagram: @bernicecomedy

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Comedy: "The Comedy Wonderland"-A Comedy Stand-up Showcase at Twilight Cafe & Bar.

21+ Ages. Doors 19:00

X-Prov is a fully improvised, never-before-seen episode of the X-Files where you choose the case and your favorite FBI agents solve a brand new mystery. Is the truth really out there?

Remember the X-Files? What if you got to see one more episode, never before seen and never to be seen again?

In X-Prov, the audience decides which X-File agents Mulder and Scully will investigate. This completely improvised homage to America’s favorite conspiracy-laden ‘90s procedural will feature shadowy government organizations, small-town secrets, and at least one unexplainable creature.

Featuring Tessa Waring as seen in Group Shower as Scully, Mo Merrill as seen waiting for the bus on Glisan as Mulder, and a supporting cast of Kickstand favorites.

So ask yourself: Do you want to believe?

We’re back! Cult favorites HOPES ‘N’ PRAYERS returns to Kickstand Comedy with an explosive late night comedy show that will blow you into a million pieces. Throw out your SSRIs and mainline the dopamine that is PARTY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD. Join us and one of our favorite indie teams for a night of improv comedy, party games, chaotic characters, end-days camaraderie, and whatever the hell else we feel like!

***content warning: guns, violence, sex, language, giant boobs, abstinence, drug use, war (what is it good for), suicide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, misandry, shit and piss, vomit, semen, sexy anthropomorphic animals, depression, addiction, alcohol use, hot carl, two girls one cup, slime, squirt, blood, menstruation, tooth decay, incontinence, impotence, desecration of national monuments, vehicular manslaughter, paranoia, diseases of despair, astrology, anti vaxxing, over vaxxing, neurodivergence, recycling, that thing of when a person on a lime scooter flies off and is mortally wounded, skateboard, huffing, puffing, poppers, whoppers, antiauthoritarianism, flashing lights, being way up on high, petty theft, acab, rippin beers, big tech, artificial insomnia, ménage á trois, peace, love, unity, respect, drunk driving, arson, being in a cemetery after it closes, cannibalism, disney adults, going no contact, uncles and nephews being in a band, bus of life, late stage capitalism, columbine, male loneliness epidemic, 23&me, polyamory, the 2008 financial crisis, microplastics, plastic surgery, running from the law, breaking stuff, little to no respect for furniture, splash zone, osteoporosis, scoliosis, paranormal encounters, blood, sweat, tears, hemorrhoids, neck, back, pussy and crack issues, bill paxton, bizarre allergies, mass extinctions, war on christmas, using the computer, organ theft, broken hearts, huge boats, bodily harm, necrophilia, sexually transmitted infections, buying in bulk, heliocentrism, conspiracies, witches who buy things on amazon.com, pussy hats, hillary clinton jail time, 9/11, buying airline tickets for a discount on 9/11, factory farming, evolution, long content warnings, toxic positivity, party rocking, not being sorry for party rocking, unappealing textures, atheism, misotheism, loving god with no proof, homosexuality, and homophobia.***

Hopes ‘n’ Prayers (@hopes_n_prayers) is Diana Kolsky (The Chris Gethard Show), Lauren Sinner (Night Cheese), and Blade Weedman (Fuckos).

A one-clown kaleidoscope of beauty, tradition, and tyranny — where a pansori diva, a K-beauty fanatic, and a self-proclaimed dictator collide in a hilarious search for identity and power.

In Take Me to Your Leader: The Seoul of a Clown, beauty, ritual, and absurdity collide in a one-clown fever dream. From the haunting rhythms of pansori to the fluorescent glow of a K-beauty altar, Monel Chang (aka Moldy Melon) shape shifts through characters both divine and deranged: a folk diva, a skincare-obsessed disciple, and a dictator throwing themself a birthday party.

Part satire, part spiritual exorcism, and entirely clown, this genre-defying solo performance unpacks the obsessions that bind us — from perfection and purity to power and control. With live sound, ritual gesture, and a face full of toner, The Seoul of a Clown invites audiences into a surreal search for identity, laughter, and liberation.

An improvised comedy news program where YOU are the news.

Join Breaking News as they create an entire broadcast news program based on your favorite current event: you. No algorithms. No competing corporate interests. Just the blazing-hot energy of a live studio audience. Producers, grab your clipboards. Anchors, big smiles. We’re back from break in 3… 2… 1…

Fresh from their year and a half run as one of the top improv teams at Kickstand Comedy, Breaking News brings you their brand new hour long show. Featuring Thea Crowley, John Taylor, Lauren Sigler, Justin Himes, Julie Basque, and Catherine Retica!

Every neighbor has a story. Come take a peak inside the Mosaic Complex, a comedy show that explores the many lives that enrich a completely improvised apartment building. Every show we visit a new apartment—all based on your stories! If you enjoy eavesdropping on characters from shows like Living Single, New Girl, and Insecure, then you should take a tour of the Mosaic Complex. Welcome to the building.

Every 1st Friday of the month! (subject to change, view full show calendar for more details). Follow @mosaicimprov on Instagram for more BIPOC comedy goodness.

Mosaic Complex is Afrita Davis, Jhordan Blumenberg, Jamiel Brown, Malika Rose Hall, Mylun Jackson, Nicholle Ortiz, Sumita Mukund, and Yoshina Okamoto

Directed by Mariah Muñoz (Small Fruits, No Sex and the City).

30 of Portland's best improvisers, 1 totally secret guest host! Every show rearranges the performers into brand new teams and features a special character host. You won't know who it is until they step out on stage! No two shows are the same, and it's always a surprise!

Past guest hosts have included David Lynch, High School Theater Students, a baby, Tinder Dracula, Waluigi, and many more...who will it be this week? Come and find out!

***This show is free to current Kickstand students who present a student ID card at the door***

Help single comedians find love in the hottest comedy dating show in America, Heart Throb! Hosted by Mack Lee and Aleah Liebenau.

Follow @heartthrob_theshow

Poster by @coldmoonimageanddesign

Press for Heart Throb:

• "Pushing monogamy is a very funny thing to do in Portland" - Willamette Week
• "Heart Throb plays by its own chaotic rules" - Portland Mercury

Watch our Valentine's Day show on youtube to get a taste of the Heart Throb experience!