- Sketch comedy troupe Oh Theodora
From sketch comedy to shorts, the Los Angeles Comedy Festival is gearing up for a laugh-inducing conclusion to its 10th annual fest with three full nights of comedic short films, and a feature film, as well as an awards ceremony to cap things off.
The festival got under way last weekend with a mix of feature films, improv acts and sketch comedy bits, all taking place at the cozy Acme Theater onLa Brea Ave.
And here’s an added bonus. It’s conveniently located right next to Amalfi, a restaurant and bar where, with your ticket, you get a dollar discount off drinks that you are allowed to bring into the theater.
Last weekend, highlights included sketch comedy from two four-person acts, Oh Theodora and We the People. Both featured three guys and a girl in multiple skits, some of which could have easily transitioned to Saturday Night Live.
Oh Theodora’s highlight was a funny cater-waiter bit in which it turned out that every seasoning on the banquet food for a ritzy event was a drug, from black tar heroin to cocaine to pot– and everyone dies at the end. Trust me, you had to be there.
For We the People, big laughs came during itsEllis Islandimmigration sketch where immigrants are given Americanized names and promptly sent to a pimp around the corner from whom the clerk gets a kickback. It’s all good fun until a German immigrant bearing a strange resemblance to Adolf Hitler arrives and is christened Melvin, um….Gibson.
10th LA Comedy Festival, November 10-20, 2011, Acme Theater, 135 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, www.lacomedyfest.com , $12-$15
