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a.v. Comedy picks

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Nov 20
- Brent Weinbach and Moshe Kasher Capitol City Comedy Club, 10:30 p.m.
  San Francisco comedian Brent Weinbach has an odd, nerdy delivery that he prefers to his ...
  
  Brent Weinbach and Moshe Kasher Capitol City Comedy Club, 8 p.m.

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feature Weekend Agenda: Nov. 20-22

by Erik Adams

November 20, 2009 | 9:52am -
feature Topping off your Waffle Fest with Continental Breakfast

What kind of waffles go best with tales of Victorian woe and purposefully cheesy talk shows?

by Erik Adams

November 19, 2009 | 12:00am -
feature Telling a better story, the Mike Birbiglia way

"There are a lot of bad storytellers. A bad joke-teller can just abandon ship if a joke doesn’t go well. But as a storyteller, when you’re in the middle of a story, you’re in there."

by Steve Heisler

November 12, 2009 | 12:00am -
feature How to win fans and fill arenas like Dane Cook

All it takes are these four quick and easy steps. (Only one involves being funny.)

by Steven Hyden

November 11, 2009 | 10:00am -
feature Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s limitless potential

"The only thing it would not work as is an animated 11-minute show."

by David Wolinsky

November 6, 2009 | 12:00am -
feature Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview: Yellow Stage

The final edition of our stage-by-stage guide wraps up with a grab bag of psych-punks, sketch-performing pharaohs, sardonic comics, and other assorted weirdos.

by A.V. Club Staff

November 5, 2009 | 12:00pm -
feature Fun Fun Fun Fest: Fame Whores winner Chris Cubas

The victor in our "dubious talent" show gets his allotted 15 minutes of fame before playing Waterloo Park this Saturday.

by Sean O'Neal

November 5, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Found Footage Festival finds more footage you may find amusing

A founder of Found Footage talks about Alaskan exercise videos, Hulk Hogan, and a male pleasure device called the Venus II.

by Andy Battaglia

October 25, 2009 | 12:00am -
feature It's a dead man's party: The A.V. Club's Halloween events guide

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk fucking everywhere.

by Erik Adams and Sean O'Neal

October 22, 2009 | 12:00pm -
feature They'll sleep when they're dead: Midnight Society goes for broke, vampires

The supernatural-obsessed comedy troupe previews its Halloween show, just one of many things currently "tearing our home lives apart."

by Erik Adams

October 17, 2009 | 12:00am -

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a.v. Comedy picks

No picks today, but still plenty to do! View the full calendar.

Nov 20
- Electric Tickle Machine Beerland, 10 p.m.
  Combining Black Lips' appetite for garage-rock debauchery, Deerhoof’s flair for cross-dressing, and Scorpions’ lack ...
  
  Daniel Johnston St. David's Episcopal Church, 7 p.m.
  
  Free Energy, Loxsly, and Mobley Mohawk, 10 p.m.
Nov 21
- Fabrication 7 Mohawk Patio, 9 p.m.
  You’d be hard-pressed to find two more adored girls in Austin than Erin Mikulenka ...
  
  Harlem, Americans In France, ST 37, and The Golden Boys Emo's, 10 p.m.
  
  Generationals and The Mercers Stubb's Jr., 9 p.m.
Nov 22
- The Last Waltz Live Club de Ville, 7 p.m.
  With a sound as bright as its namesake (that would be the nostalgic nighttime illumination ...
  
  AFI and Gallows Stubb's, 7:30 p.m.
  
  Local H, Kinch, and Murdocks Emo's Jr., 10 p.m.
Nov 23
- Music Monday: Times Square Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 9:50 p.m.
  New York’s Times Square has been Giulianied and Eisnered out of existence, but during ...
  
  Emilie Autumn Emo's, 10 p.m.
  
  Other Worlds Film Series: Forbidden Planet The Harry Ransom Center, 7 p.m.
Nov 24
- Neko Case and Oh No Oh My Antone's, 9 p.m.
  Blessed with the kind of knockout voice a million mewling American Idol contestants would kill ...
  
  Austin Film Society: The Man Without A Past Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - South Lamar, 7 p.m.
  
  Hey Homo!: Grey Gardens Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7 p.m.
Nov 25
- Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses La Zona Rosa, 9 p.m.
  Ryan Bingham is a Texan singer-songwriter who wears cowboy hats, tours with Patty Griffin, and ...
  
  Pinetop Perkins, Carolyn Wonderland, and Dertybird Antone's, 8 p.m.
  
  Monte Montgomery, Slaid Cleaves, and Lincoln Durham Saxon Pub, 8 p.m.
Nov 26
- Planes, Trains And Automobiles Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7 p.m.
  A staple in any holiday movie collection, John Hughes’ Planes, Trains And Automobiles pairs comic ...
  
  Wayne Hancock's Dance Your Stuffin' Off Turkey Trot Continental Club, 10 p.m.
  
  Jesse Dayton Broken Spoke, 9 p.m.