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KQAK presents Ritch Shydner in Bend, OR

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THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH @ 9pm
Summit Saloon – Bend, OR
125 NW Oregon Ave.
$10 @ the Door

Ritch Shydner has been featured on HBO, Showtime, The Letterman Show, The Tonight Show w/ Johnny Carson, and more. Catch him for a night in Bend, Oregon w/ Fresno’s own Johnny Osburn and hosted by guest MC from the Black Market Comedy, Levi Anderson.

Fool’s Comedy Night in J’Ville

Fool’s Comedy Night
Friday, April 1st – 8pm
Black Market Comedy @ The LodeStar Bar
105 W. California St., Jacksonville, OR

Enjoy the best of Black Market Comedy with featured comics Levi Anderson and Scott May.  This 2-hour show, MC’d by the Almighty Bondo, will be a tag-team event. Scott, Levi, Scott, Levi, Scott, Levi… you get the idea.  NO COVER – but there will be Drink Specials, so come ready to throw a little cash around.

The Bleeder

Is there a bit of slang in performance art called the “nosebleed?”   If not, there should be. I’m not sure what it would pertain to, but something to do with blasting through obstacles in a performance.  The urban dictionary has a few interesting definitions of nosebleed, and as is common with the urban dictionary, every word has to have at least two sexual definitions, whether they make sense or not.  One seemingly normal definition, however, was:

  1. Metaphorically used to describe incredible heights
  2. Metaphorically used to describe incredible speeds

I can get behind this definition as a starting point for deriving a whole new definition of the “nosebleed” in the context of performance art (such as Stand-up Comedy, for example).

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Why the keen interest in the nosebleed? It comes from my latest travels during the holiday season.  While on the road, I spent some days in Portland, OR and there just happened to be a few Comedy Open Mics during the nights I was in town.  Well, hell yeah, I’ll sign up and do a few minutes of my shit for P-town. It was cool how many performers there actually were at the different clubs in town. Portland has a nice little comedy scene going, and it seems like the crowds are quite supportive.

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Levi gets his Medical Marijuana Card

[youtube width=”600″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-qbXpxEeQw[/youtube]

Levi “the Wrangler” Anderson tells us how easy it is to get your medical marijuana card in Oregon, then talks about being approached to sell cocaine. This was from the Aug 23, 2009 Black Market Comedy show at the Hong Kong Bar in Ashland, OR.