Kickstand Comedy

👯 Introducing THE DO-OVER a brand new improv duo show inspired by YOUR bad decisions… watch our improvisers help you “re-do” those gaffs, oversights, and cringey moments you wish you could DO OVER!!

Hosted by Tim and Bradford!! And featuring .crowe93 +

📲 swipe thru for lineup and show deets. Sliding scale and PEYW tix always available

🌖🧀 After almost 5 years NIGHT CHEESE - PDX best (and maybe only) chaotic art, food, and comedy variety show is back for one night only! Summer has ended, spooky season is fast upon us, and it’s time to celebrate. Join your favorite Wisconsinites—Lauren, Aaron, and Ghost Host—as they welcome back some of their favorite NC alumni, show off their cheese spirit, and things definitely will not get weird. Fri, Sept 27th at 8:30pm. Join us for HOMECOMING 🥁

Featuring:
Lauren Sinner
Aaron Landtree
Namita Gupta Wiggers
Natalie Haddad
Roland Mechanik
David Oehler

📲 ticket links in bio… PWYW and Sliding Scale tix always available as part of our Comedy For All program

🥵You do NOT want to miss the H***Y OFF happening this weekend… 2 hilarious improv teams HONK + PAPA settle once and for all who the ho****st team in PDX is and YOU’RE invited to the splash zone!!

This unprecedented event may never happen again due to excessive hormones being contagious!!

😈PWYW + Sliding Scale tix available… no one turned away as long as there’s a seat!!

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😇ANDREW MICHAAN one-night only in PDX!! Tonight at Kickstand Comedy!! Feat. Sean Jordan, Imani, and Adam Pasi 🔥🔥🔥

📲 ticket link in bio… sliding scale and PWYW tix available…

🐈 REVERSE GARFIELD is back headlining and hosting THE VELODROME this Thursday!! Don’t miss Portlands longest-running indie improv showcase!! Plus performances by WTF PORTLAND and MÉNAGE A TROIS ( + special guest )

🥇Sliding scale and PWYW tix always available - always affordable, always hilarious, no one turned away!!

🔥SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION at Kickstand Comedy and our comedy classes are filling up fast!! There’s still time to sign up and get in on the FUN and CREATIVITY of improv, stand up, sketch, and more!!

🤡 New venue… same nationally-recognized comedy training center! From the folks who created COMEDY IN THE PARK!!

🌞 Whether it’s your 1st comedy class or your 1000th, Kickstand is the pulse of Portland’s growing Comedy Scene!

🫵 Learn Improv, Stand Up, Sketch Writing, Clown + more from (not to brag but…) the🏆 #1 most experienced teaching staff in the Pacific Northwest (just ask around!)

🤪 We’re an inclusive community of brilliant and passionate weirdos! So have FUN, learn 🔥 new skills, and make some new friends this Summer!!

🚨 We have a robust scholarship program as well as our BIPOC improv program that provide no-cost classes to students + we have payment plan options that work to eliminate some of the historic barriers that have kept folx from seeing + doing comedy (our mission as a nonprofit)

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🏆THE BROKE GRAVY SHOW is every first Friday and that means the best improv team in PDX is BACK on stage this weekend!! Don’t miss the magic!!

🔗 ticket link in bio… sliding scale and PWYW tickets always available as part of our Comedy For All program

🌲 Introducing the first ever KICKSTAND COMEDY IN THE PARK FEST!!

☀️ We’re wrapping up Summer with a blowout!! After our biggest year yet, Kickstand Comedy in the Park wants to have one last celebration of the amazing Portland comedy scene… spread the word and join us for a weekend of FREE comedy in Laurelhurst Park!!

🎤 30+ comedians over 2 days!! Plus DJ’s, giveaways, our biggest “Best Dog Contest” ever, and more surprises all weekend!!

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9/6 show will feat. OPEN ACCESS ASL interpreters

COMEDY IN THE PARK 2024

Friday + Saturday | Blankets drop at 6pm on Friday and 2:30pm on Saturday| Shows Friday at 6:30pm-8pm + Saturday 3pm-8pm | Sept 6th + 7th | Laurelhurst Park (Concert Pad)| Free to all

Brought to you by Kickstand Comedy, a 501c3 nonprofit comedy theater

Comedy in the park is an all ages show but may contain adult content and themes (parents please use your own discretion)

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Thanks to the Portland Mercury for the great write up!! See you at Laurelhurst Park!!

A Moment of Appreciation for Comedy in the Park and It's New All-Day Festival In 2021, in that weird netherspace between vaccination distribution and the widespread sense that being inside was cool again, Dylan Reiff, the Artistic Director of Kickstand Comedy was looking for a way to get Portland’s robust comedy scene back up and performing again. “We knew that there were...

🍎 STUDENT SHOWS all week!! Come see the rising stars of PDX comedy!! Always the MOST fun and a great way to check out what we teach at Kickstand Comedy if you’ve been thinking about taking a class!!

⛅️ Looks like we’re gonna be in the clear!! BUT rain or shine it’s going down tonight!! Bring a layer or an 🌂 if you’re worried BUT we all know real Portlanders just stay damp!!

Comedy in the Park is a series of FREE stand up shows all Summer long in one of Portland’s most beautiful places - Laurelhurst Park, a Summer tradition that’s perfect for friends, fam, and of course 🐶s!!

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COMEDY IN THE PARK 2024

Fridays | Blankets drop | Show 6:30pm | June 7th-Sept 6th | Laurelhurst Park (Concert Pad)| EVERY FRIDAY ALL SUMMER LONG!!

Brought to you by Kickstand Comedy, a 501c3 nonprofit comedy theater whose mission is to bring the community together through laughter + to help eliminate the historic barriers that have kept folx from seeing + doing comedy.

Comedy in the park is an all ages show but may contain some adult content and themes (parents please use your own discretion)

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🌭🥵🫵 Come early for the improv jam stay for the CHICAGO DOGS!! Two improv teams serving up some of the best improv in PDX with classic Chicago flavors…

🌭The weekend isn’t over!! Community-wide improv jam… you, yes YOU can jump on stage w/ an amazing group of performers of all experience levels!!

🍔 Followed by CHICAGO DOGS feat. 2 amazing teams showcasing Chicago style improv FRESH from the grill!!

😎Limited ticket left for RYAN CONNER this Friday feat. PDX fave VIRGINIA JONES

🎤 You might know Ryan from James Corden and Last Comic Standing, but all you need to know is this show is going to CRUSH!! So stoked to have Ryan coming through and get those tickets before they’re all gone!!

📲Ticket links in bio + stories. We always have sliding scale and PWYW available as part of our Comedy For All policy

🌲😜We’re back every FRIDAY for the rest of Summer!! Located in our shaded beautiful home in Laurelhurst Park!!

😎Come see the BIGEST live comedy show in Portland… Kickstand Comedy in the Park!! No blanket, no problem. We have LIMITED free use blankets for those in need thanks to

Hosted by Julia Corrall and Rachelle Cochran

Feat.
Ron Funches
Juno Men
Seth Allen
Virginia Jones
Adam Pasi
Eitan Levine
Brendan Creecy
Scott Luhr

COMEDY IN THE PARK 2024

Fridays | Blankets drop 6pm| Show 6:30pm | June 7th-Sept 6th | Laurelhurst Park (Concert Pad)| EVERY FRIDAY ALL SUMMER LONG!!

🗣️DONT’S: Go to the park this Friday (no show til next week)

🗣️DO’S: See a show at our brick and mortar tonight!! 2 hilarious local comedy shows feat. PDX fave comics and improvisers!!

7pm: MOSAIC IMPROV - all BIPOC monthly improv show!! STACKED cast making its debut!!

8:30pm: RICKY WINTERS SHOW - a wild Jerry Springer style talk show featuring characters, surprises, unhinged comedy, and more!!

🎉WE’RE #2!! WE’RE #2!! Ok chanting masses simmer down…

🥰But seriously… thank you for recognizing the amazing work the Kickstand Comedy community has been doing!! We really appreciate being in the cultural convo here in PDX and work hard for comedy to be recognized as part of the local arts scene in PDX!!

😍it’s very special that without a giant write in campaign or ad $$ we’ve been recognized AGAIN by Portland and the - we’re a small staffed 501c3 nonprofit so this really does go a long way to help grow our visibility and make new fans!!

😘We feel very honored you chose us again this year!! And a big shout out to ALL the GREAT places to see comedy in Portland

🔥Kickstand Comedy in the Park is back TONIGHT!Come join the over 3000+ ppl coming out to LAUGH every Friday in Laurelhurst Park!!

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COMEDY IN THE PARK 2024

Fridays | Blankets drop 6pm| Show 6:30pm | June 7th-Sept 6th | Laurelhurst Park (Concert Pad)| EVERY FRIDAY ALL SUMMER LONG!!

Brought to you by Kickstand Comedy, a 501c3 nonprofit comedy theater

Comedy in the park is an all ages show but may contain adult content and themes (parents please use your own discretion)

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⚓️ NEW VELODROME ANCHOR TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT!!

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📣 Get ready for 4 amazing indie improv teams headlining THE VELODROME each week for the next 6mo!!

😳PLUS get a sneak peak of all 4 new teams this THURSDAY at 7:30pm at THE VELODROME IMPROV SHOW!! The longest running indie show in PDX

🏠REMINDER: NO KICKSTAND COMEDY IN THE PARK THIS WEEK… But we got hella LAUGHZ at the brand new brick and mortar venue!!

Swipe thru for some 🔥 comedy shows at Kickstand!!

🫠🌲 It’s gonna be a SCORCHER this week! But we have some FACE-MELTING laughs that pair beautifully with an 🧊 cold bevy!!

Last week we had 4000+ ppl who know where to find the FUN!! Thank you for continuing to make Kickstand Comedy in the Park one of Portland’s favorite Summer events!!

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COMEDY IN THE PARK 2024

Fridays | Blankets drop 6pm| Show 6:30pm | June 7th-Sept 6th | Laurelhurst Park (Concert Pad)| EVERY FRIDAY ALL SUMMER LONG!!

Brought to you by Kickstand Comedy, a 501c3 nonprofit comedy theater

Comedy in the park is an all ages show but may contain adult content and themes (parents please use your own discretion)

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