Comedian Eddie Griffin Coming To The El Paso Comic Strip
The El Paso Comic Strip has been bringing some big names in comedy to the El Paso area and Bart Reed has another huge name coming to the Sun City.
In the past few months, we ve seen Rob Schneider, D.L. Hughley, Chris Kattan, and more all stop by to make us laugh. And the laughs are needed, especially in such a crazy time. Thankfully, the El Paso Comic Strip isn t stopping anytime soon, bringing Greg Wilson later this month to perform and now another big name, Eddie Griffin.
Eddie Griffin is a comedian known for his roles in movies like Undercover Brother, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalow, and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalow. He was also named one of Comedy Centrals Top 100 Greatest Stand-up Comedians of All Time. He also has comedy specials that have aired on Showtime.
Promising Young Woman deals with that situation. Written and directed by
The Crown s Emerald Fennell and starring Carey Mulligan, it deals with the situation with a provocative humour bordering on farce.
Since the #MeToo campaign many shows have been developed that deal with the topic. For example,
I May Destroy You, created by and starring Michaela Coel, deals with the topic of sexual exploitation in a graphic, gritty way with characters that are hard to like. The female lead in this series is raped after her drink is spiked, a story inspired by Coel s actual rape.
While the latter show makes you squirm uncomfortably,
Take Kendall native Brittany Brave. Like so many of her New York-based comic contemporaries are wishing they could, Brave is currently making a name for herself in the Miami comedy scene.
Since moving back to her parents’ house last fall, Brave has taken South Florida by storm, performing everywhere from Wynwood to Delray Beach. She has her own video web series called
Ladygunn Magazine, runs a virtual improvised tarot-reading event, and this Wednesday, March 10, at Showfields on Lincoln Road, Brave will host the first edition of her new monthly live comedy series, Laughs on Lincoln.
“I am definitely a performer first,” Brave says. “This is what happens when you have no love or sex life, and you’re just passionate about comedy. This is all I do.”
I Miss Being Part of an Audience
Crowds can be mindless, even dangerous. But that feeling of losing yourself as you experience art together hasn’t been replicated since live entertainment went online.
Credit.Antoine Cossé
Published March 9, 2021Updated March 10, 2021
Last month, I walked through the lobby of a comedy club and started to make small talk with a neon jellyfish. This may sound like a trippy, pandemic-induced dream, but it’s actually the latest experiment in live entertainment online.
Using the new platform Bramble, the Brooklyn Comedy Collective recently started presenting shows that give audience members freedom to move through rooms in a virtual theater and mingle with other ticket-buyers before and after the performance. After choosing an avatar (I was a blue swan), you enter the theater and can talk to up to five people at a time whose faces emerge on the screen when you approach them. Walk away and they disappear. It’s as if a comedy club merged with a v