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Madison Comedy Week: Sketch comedy/stand-up by Edward Bell, Austin Black, Derek Walton, Mohammed Mohammed, Grant Moore, Allie Lindsay, David Lonstein. $10 ($7 adv.).

Madison Comedy Week: Comics combine complicated ideas and uncomplicated substances, with Ken Barns, Vanessa Tortolano, Maria Acosta, Nathan Clemons, Matthew Mandli, host Mike Jonjak. $15 ($10 adv.).

Madison Comedy Week: Stand-up by Robert Helfinstine, Noah Mailloux, Maria Acosta, Luise Noe, Brandon Wein, Andrew Katz, Joel Roberts, Natalie Wickman, Andrew Rynning, and Nathan Clemons, host Reier Cammerman. $10 ($7 adv.).

Isthmus Picks for April 4-7 also includes the return of the Madisons Funniest Comic competition at Comedy on State; a UW Center for the Humanities talk on author and activist James Baldwin; and more.

Ladylike July 23, 2021 To everything there is a season, and summer in Madison in recent (non-pandemic) years has included a season for your face to hurt from laughing. Madison Comedy Week returns in 2021 bigger and better than ever, with almost 30 events over eight evenings at The Bur Oak, The Rigby and several other venues (including headliners Kevin Bozeman and Mary Mack at the Pursuit of Happiness Session at McPike Park on Aug. 6-7). Highlights during the first half of the week (at The Bur O...