You’re reading Variety Pack: The Newsletter! Each week we’ll pop into your inbox to let you in on what’s funny around Philly. If you’re not into that, feel free to unsubscribe. If you like what you’re reading, forward this to a friend and peer pressure them into subscribing so you can have all the same inside jokes.
WE ARE SO BACK BABY
Big news………………VARIETY PACK VOL. 3 IS COMING AT YOU JULY 9-12!
Which means that we’re open for [show] business. That’s right: we want you to pitch your show. We’re programming up to 10 shows in the next Variety Pack, and yours could (should??) be one of them!
Here are the submission requirements:
You have a show or an idea for a show that’s funny.
You can answer some basic questions about your show.
The show is 60 minutes or less.
You can meet the April 5 submission deadline.
The window to apply opens on March 1, and if you want more details you can check them out at our website HERE:
In the meantime, if you have any questions whatsoever, use the Contact Us form on the website and we’ll start making an FAQ page for interested parties!
Variety Pack in the World (bullying edition)
We are once again reminding you that there are two free comedy shows coming up on Tuesday, February 24th, right here in Philadelphia. When Tuesday, February 24th rolls around, we better not catch ANY of you clowns sitting on your couch doomscrolling when you could be out there laughing for NO MONEY.
South Street
Joe Bell and Tan Hoang of Cartoon Club with Joe Bell host a monthly standup night every last Tuesday of the month and GUESS WHAT NERD: Tuesday, February 24th is the last Tuesday of February! Tattooed Momedy is upstairs at Tattooed Mom and you’ll like it, GOD.
Callow Hill
Meanwhile, over at Next in Line in Callowhill, Grace Lazarz appears in something called Big Hell Ass Ride. Do we know what it is? OF COURSE WE DO! It’s “A Joyously Stupid Mid-Winter Variety Jawn, w/ comedy, song, and more. From the joyball minds of Sarah Knittel and Betty Smithsonian.”
Gayborhood
A mere two days later on Thursday, February 26th, Thank You, Places! does their last-Thursday-of-the-month show at Tavern on Camac. An entire 2-act musical made up ON THE SPOT for no ticket and no cover which means NO EXCUSES.
Comedy with Tickets
Free comedy didn’t do it for you, Scrooge McDuck? Alright richy rich, then try these on for size:
Mystery Show (literally)
After you gluttons have had your fill of free comedy next week, go PAY SOME ARTISTS on Friday, February 27th! DJ Gleason of Kidprov! and Loosies! goes full sepia-tone in Detective Improv at ComedySportz.
If you like Sunset Boulevard, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Asphalt Jungle or smoking indoors then you’re going to love Detective Improv! Tickets are $20!
Hockey, but…not gay?
Watch as Theatre Contra takes on the greatest foes known to man...ICELAND. Join us at Tattooed Mom on March 16th to see if the Mighty Ducks (and Kenan Thompson) can overcome their differences and fly together as they represent Team USA in some wildly unrealistic international hockey competition. $15 in advance guarantees a seat, then it's PWYC at the door NOTALOF.
And now for some art.
Continuing the slow drip of newsletter-only content is this photo by Jay Outhier from Cartoon Club with Joe Bell. Here’s the thing: when a great photographer gets to go to a dimly-lit cartoons-only show, he’s going to take some cool art shots. It belongs in a museum, and if it were in a museum we’d probably start going to museums.
Survey Says…
If you had the great good fortune of seeing She Was A Conquistawhore at Variety Pack Vol. 2, the creators of the show would LOVE your feedback! Enjoy this newsletter-exclusive photo, and then take the survey!
Rachel, Pete, and the whole FOP gang are just deelighted by their time at Variety Pack 2.0. In the hopes of preventing an existential crisis a'purpose, these here cowbois would love to hear from folks who saw that there show. Take this short little survey and help a cowboi out:
That’s all folks!
