THE
BEST OF THE BEST SKETCH FEST 2003
NOT
SKETCHY COMEDY
Thursday, July 24th, 2003
Justin Wescoat Sanders
With acts like Hoskins &
Breen and the madcap 3rd Floor, Portland has been nurturing
a steadily improving sketch comedy movement. Now Blue Door
Productions, the business end of the 3rd Floor, is trying
to take the scene to a new level of quality and recognition
with The Best of the Best Sketch Fest, Portland's first
national sketch comedy festival.
Over just two days, EIGHT different sketch troupes from
around the country are set to rattle your giggle box.
Nationally renowned acts from such comedic hotbeds as
Chicago (The Cupid Players), San Francisco (Kasper Hauser),
and Seattle (Flaming Box of Stuff), will perform alongside
your favorite hometown heroes. A $40 festival pass gets you
into every show (a mere five bucks per act), and includes a
Friday midnight screening of local comedic shorts, and the
culminating "Scramble Bamble!" which features experimental
sketchery. Hosting it all will be NRK's excessively lovely
Daria O'Neil.