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The Loony Bin Comedy Club - Wichita

I will be telling jokes at the Loony Bin Comedy Club with the very funny Brandon Vestal, and Jonna Jarnagin. I hope to see some Wichita Hipsters this week!

Wednesday - 8:00
Thursday - 8:00
Friday - 8:00 & 10:30
Saturday - 8:00 & 10:30

LOONY BIN WICHITA
6140 East 21st Street
Wichita, KS 67208
316-618-HAHA (4242)

Brandon Vestal’s comedy has been referred to as “extremely powerful” and it’s been used by thousands to make the world a better place. Some examples include FEMA handing out Brandon’s comedy CD instead of water and shelter. Tom Brady leaned on Brandon’s comedy while rehabbing his knee through the 2008 football season. In the latest version of the senate health care bill Brandon’s comedy replaced the “public option” as a way to insure the uninsured. Brandon has appeared on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and was recently named “Best of the West” at the Detroit Comedy festival. Brandon has been described as a great storyteller with insightful material. His deeply personal and honest style has made him a fast favorite on the college and comedy club circuits. Brandon is quickly establishing himself as one of best young comic talents in the country. He puts on one hell of a show and is a definite must see. Show rated soft R.

Robert Rauschenberg - Erased De Kooning

GET POP ART!!!

A great place to fined Pop art works by Roy LICHTENSTEIN, Jasper JOHNS, Robert RAUSCHENBERG, Andy WARHOL, and many more! GET POP ART!


POP ART MOVEMENT

Pop Art was one of the United States' major artistic movements of the 20th century - aside from Abstract Expressionism, it was probably the biggest. It actually was first coined in Britain in 1955 but unsurprisingly the Americans took up the consumerist cause with much greater effect and conviction, and became the pioneers of the movement. Pop art and pop culture refers to the products of the mass media evolving in the late 1950s and 60s and also to the works of art that draw upon popular culture - packaging, television, advertisements, comic books, the cinema. Pop art was the medium that made real the breaking down of barriers that had existed for hundreds of hears between high (old-fashioned) art and mass culture.

In America, Pop Art is often considered as a counter-attack against Abstract Expressionism because it used more figurative aspects in its works. It was also related closely to Dada, an earlier movement (largely French) that poked fun at the highbrow and serious nature of the art world and also used everyday objects and mundane subjects. Warhol's rows of Campbell's tins of tomato soup are equivalent to Marcel Duchamp’s bicycles and urinals placed in galleries.

The Pop Artists favoured commercial methods of production, not dissimilar to the subjects they were using, as it meant that unlimited reproductions could be made. And this is typical of the perio because Pop Art happened out of a crucial time - it was inseparable from the prosperous and affluent era post-World War II. It was a time of enormous economic growth for the States and America was fast becoming a voracious consumer-orientated society. It was the beginning of the age of commercial manipulation, celebrities, exhibitionism and instant success. It was also the beginning of the age of homogenisation - of uniformity in commercial franchises, restaurants and languages or dialects.

Britain wasn't too far behind the glossy commercialism found in the States although the British artist's interpretation of the pop-culture was a bit more romantic than the Americans - a bit less brash perhaps. Our artists (like Peter Blake, David Hockney, Allen Jones and Richard Hamilton) didn't create giant hamburgers in the style of Claes Oldenburg, nor did they paint Diana Dors with quite the same consequences as Andy Warhol found with Marilyn Monroe. They found their inspiration from America, not from Britain particularly, and so to them Pop Art was 'an unhibited hymn to a civilisation half-real and half-imagined, a wonderland of pin-ups and pin-ball machines' (Edward Lucie-Smith). They were more detached from it compared to their American contemporaries.

Pop art is lots of things that high-art isn't - it's mass-produced, it is expendable, it is low-cost, glamorous, witty and encourages big bucks, bright lights and big celebrities - there's no sign of the impoverished artist slaving away in a tiny studio in this movement. However, it's light-hearted sensibilities have been negated by some critics; Harold Rosenberg described Pop art as being 'Like a joke without humour, told over and over again until it begins to sound like a threat... Advertising art which advertises itself as art that hates advertising.'

Is Pop art a serious comment on the contemporary condition – are the Pop artists cynical of the growing mass-media, material culture or is it simply just popular art – accessible, bright and glossy?

Rose Troughton - Artsworld

Sonic Youth - Incinerate

OKC Loony Bin Comedy Club!

I will be performing June 22nd-26th with John Evans at the Oklahoma City Loony Bin.

Wednesday 8:00
Thursday 8:00
Friday 8:00 & 10:30
Saturday 8:00 & 10:30
Sunday 9:00

OKC Loony Bin Comedy Club
8503 North Rockwell Road
Oklahoma City, OK 73132
405-239-HAHA (4242)




John Evans" comedy career did not begin until 1996, when he quickly earned emcee status at the Tulsa Comedy Club, alongside good friend Isaac Witty. Many road dates later, John has opened for such comedic legends as George Carlin, Dave Chappelle, Mitch Hedberge and Lewis Black. A role in a film at the Sundance Film Festival soon followed. In 2002, John was chosen to perform at the prestigious Montreal Comedy Festival. Now living in Los Angeles, John performs regularly at the Comedy and Mgic Club in Hermosa Beach, the Improv on Melrose, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.

Introduction to Pop Art

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Day Of Recognition For All The Great Fathers Of The World, And Happy Day Of Realization For all The Ones The Were Never Around!

Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea

The Loony Bin Comedy Club - Little Rock

I will be performing this week with Sean Kent at the Loony Bin Comedy Club in Little Rock!
Wednesday 8:00
Thursday 8:00
Friday 8:00 & 10:30
Saturday 7:00, 9:00 & 11:00

Loony Bin Comedy Club
10301 North Rodney Parham Rd
Little Rock, AR 72227
501-228-5555


SEAN KENT:
Critically acclaimed standup comedian Sean Kent is currently performing live to packed houses in the US, Canada and abroad. The Texas native’s incisive socio-political comedy can also be seen on NBC, CBS, E! Entertainment, Comedy Central, Fox Sports Net, VH1 and more. In a recent review of his live stage show, Cinamablend called his performance: “seamless… Kent manages the unthinkable without ever appearing out of place.” His full length CD “Sex, Drugs and Politics” is currently in heavy rotation on XM Radio and Sirius Satellite, where it was hailed as “An instant classic!” Sean was recently chosen as “One of the Top Ten Funniest People on Twitter” by LaughTrack.com, was the featured comic on MySpace, and is widely known for his appearance as a series regular on two seasons of NBC’s Last Comic Standing where his performances were labeled “Edgy and daring.” A cancer survivor, Sean also works to raise awareness by speaking and performing at a variety of annual charity events, including the Cancer for College Fundraiser with Will Farrell and the City of Hope Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion. SEAN KENT HAS RECENTLY WRITTEN FOR OR APPEARED ON: Comics Unleashed (Syndicated) | Last Comic Standing Seasons 1 and 3 (NBC) | 40 Smokin’ On-Set Hookups (E! Entertainment Television) | The Comedy Central Roast of Pam Anderson (Comedy Central) | The Bob and Tom Show (nationally syndicated in over 150 markets) | The Best Damn Sports Show Period (Fox Sports Net) | Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials (CBS) | The Free Speech Show (KMPC 1540) | Friday Night Videos (NBC) | Yes, Dear (CBS) | Filter (G4)

Ray Lamontagne - The Man in Me (Bob Dylan Cover)

Kyle Kinane June On Conan!

DONT MISS THIS!!!!

Kyle Kinane is going to be on Conan tonight on TBS,check your local listings!

The Flaming Lips Interview - If you're going to do drugs...

Promo - AJ Finney

Butthole Surfers - The Shame of Life (UNCUT)

Birthday!

Today is my 33rd Birthday!

Kyle Kinane June 12th 2011

Noise for the Needy is a great festival for a great cause and now they are even more greater… they have added their first ever comedy show! For more info on Kyle Kinane's show June 12th got to Seattle Comedy Blog

Kyle Kinane - Bunnies

Tulsa Loony Bin Comedy Club

I will be at the Loony Bin Comedy Club in Tulsa with Comedian Ben Creed 6/8/11 - 6/11/11. Wednesday 8:00, Thursday 8:00, Friday 8:00 & 10:30, and Saturday 8:00 and 10:30.

BEN CREED: Ben Creed is an old school comedian. His voice is gravelly, his material is hilarious and brutally honest. He is the kind of performer who you want to take out with you because you know that by the end of the night it will have taken on legendary status. Ben was featured on a video called comedy’s dirtiest dozen with the likes of Tim Allen and Bill Hicks. He is that good. You may have caught him on either of the premier pay channels - HBO or Showtime. A bona fide club favorite any where. If you haven’t already seen Ben then you need to know his angst is your chance at hilarity! His razor edged tongue will take you on a guided tour of life as seen through Ben’s eyes: A night in an urban emergency ward, broken romances, nicotine addiction and fear of flying. He makes the world we live in funnier!

The Tulsa Loony Bin is located at,
6808 south memorial Dr. ste. 234
Tulsa, OK 74133
Phone # 918-392-5653