Wow Moms
Come join Barb and Tam for a dating show! They will share stories, wine spritzers and matchmaking. Who better to get love advice from than your mom? You don’t wanna miss this!
Follies
Welcome to season 4 of Follies, the Unofficially Best Ever Variety Show!
This season features: The Amazing Bubble Man , David Cantor and Amica Hunter from the award winning company “A Little Bit Off” , Summer Olson, Ari Lee Rapkin , Emily Newton, Jeff Desautels, Brandon Lawrence and Stefano Iaboni
Follies is Portland’s premiere physical comedy showcase, currently in its fourth season at the Funhouse Lounge. The show is curated and hosted by Italian-born, international performer Stefano Iaboni. Follies says “ciao” to traditional stand-up and improv, and highlights instead the richly diverse, artistic, and hilarious world of physical comedy.
Follies is created and hosted by international Italian performer Stefano Iaboni, whose influences include Andy Kaufman and Monty Python. Expect to see Stefano performing alongside a fresh line-up of talent each month as “Follies” brings together a wide range of local and imported artistic talent every first Sunday of the month at 8:00 pm.
$10 advance
$12 at the door
Next show: Sunday April 5th, tickets on sale now!
*Please direct all questions to Follies. The Funhouse Lounge does not produce this event or manage tickets for it.*
*All ages welcome–minors must be out of the building by 10:00 pm *
Gateway Show
Billy Anderson Presents The Gateway Show
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before – four comics hit our stage and do their best sets, then they go to an undisclosed location to get WAY too high, only to come back in and attempt to do another set completely baked.
21+ ONLY
Doors 9:30 / showtime 10:00
TICKETS – $15 Online | $20 At The Door
For more information, please visit the Facebook page at Facebook.Com/GatewayShow
Feel free to email the show at Contact@GatewayShow.Com message the show on Facebook at Facebook.Com/GatewayShow or just call at (323) 218-0420 anytime.
*Please do not contact the Funhouse Lounge about tickets. We do not manage tickets or produce this show, we only host as the venue. Please contact the Gateway Show directly with any ticketing/other questions.*
Next show: Saturday, January 11th, 10:00 pm
Under the Influence
(mature audiences)
In 2015 we created what was intended to be a workshop (9 performances over two weekends) of a new serial musical by Broadway lyricist Ernie Lijoi. However, we soon learned we had a successful show on our hands that would go on to win the 2015 Drammy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Actor in a Musical. So, we’ve “Trumped” it up, added some new faces, streamlined the designs, and we are proud to present Under the Influence: All Trumped Up.
An unapologetically feminist, irreverent musical that tackles the influences that surround all of us by examining our hero, Anita: Anita Drink, Anita Smoke, Anita Cup, whichever Anita she is that day. Whether it’s Juan Valdez pushing us caffeine, Barbie giving us body issues, some cartoon character pushing nicotine, or our local bartender sliding us another drink, we’re all under the influence of something… yes, even Jesus.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Written by Ernie Lijoi
with additional music by Kevin Laursen and Lawrence Rush
Directed, Choreogrpahed and Designed by Rusty Tennant and Sara Fay Goldman
Musical Direction by Matt Insley
Starring:
Ithica Tell as the Emcee
Sara Nightengale as Anita
Jessica Tidd as Woman
Ernie Lijoi as Man
Alec Lugo as Swing
Working Stiffs
Do you love shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and WKRP Cincinnati? Do you have a Nick at Nite tramp stamp? Or do you just love to laugh?
Then we’ve got your must-see TV right here! (But live on stage, not TV at all.)
Each night our talented Funhouse Improvisers create a brand new 70s-style sitcom episode based on your suggestions.
No reruns, all new episodes, now in living color.
Thursdays-Saturday August 24th through September 9th
Tickets are $10 in advance, $14 at the door.
This Means War
This Means War is an exciting new comedy show!
Four teams of comedians compete in tag-team roast battles for the glory of being the funniest, toughest joke writers in Portland. Surprises in between will make it impossible to look away from the hilarious carnage in front of you.
You’ll get fireside chats inbetween from your hosts Nathan Hart & Kat Buckley, along with special guests and more surprises
Tickets $10 at the door
Rusty Trombone Senior Center Bingo
One shows, Sunday Oct 16th, starting at 4pm.
Our own Funhouse Improvisers portray the balding, blue-haired, and bawdy residents of the Rusty Trombone Senior Center, calling 5 rounds of real Bingo, where you can win prizes and gift certificates!
TICKETS: $10 in advance
(extra Bingo cards available for $1 each)
Recommended ages of 18+
Midnight Mic – On Hiatus
Midnight Mic is on hiatus at Funhouse Lounge this month, April. Catch the show back in its normal slot at its normal spot in May!
Join us Fridays at midnight for Midnight Mic–PDX’s best late-night stand-up comedy open mic show!
Hosted by Matt Franco
*Sign up in person at 11:30pm*
Order of performance is randomized. If you are a new or out-of-town comic, introduce yourself to the host!
https://www.facebook.com/fridaymidnightmic/
Showtime: 12 Midnight
21+ Only
Free Admission
Becky with the Good Jokes
**NO SHOW IN MARCH**
Becky with the Good Jokes returns to the Funhouse Lounge stage! Spectacular comedians. Good news. Prizes. Late night show – style video bits. A confetti finale. Runner-Up for Best Comedy Event in the Willamette Week‘s ‘Best of Portland’, Becky with the Good Jokes is a one-in-a-million comedy show / lovefest which cannot be described in words, you just have to experience it.
Hosted by Portland favorite/Alaskan expat powerhouse comedian Becky Braunstein (EPIX, Teen Vogue, Audible), this Portland comedy essential features top comedians, a mix of nationally known and up & coming musical guests (past musical guests include Jenny Conlee from The Decemberists, The Unipiper, American Idol semifinalist Haley Johnsen, Hutch Harris from the Thermals & the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus), good news, video bits, prizes and surprises – including drop-in sets from visiting headliners (past guests include Matt Braunger, Ian Karmel, Marcella Arguello & Becky Robinson, as well as video appearances by Pete Holmes, Jamie Lee, Gina Yashere & the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska). The regular live show happens monthly at the Funhouse Lounge in Portland, OR.
Doors open at 9:30pm, show starts at 10pm.
21+ ONLY
Tickets are $8 advance, $12 at the door. Hugs from Becky are free.
Next show: NO SHOW IN MARCH
(The show may be filmed and broadcast – notice will be given at the venue.)
Twisted
We all know the story of Aladdin, the plucky little street rat who makes good, despite the scheming of the evil Ja’far and his palace guards. But, what if that wasn’t the REAL story? What if the true hero of the story was a man who, despite all odds, sacrifices his reputation, his position, even the love of his life, all to save his beloved Kingdom? And, what if that man was none other than Ja’far himself?
Facing a dim-witted sultan, a corrupt system, a maddeningly silly Genie, a heartless thief, and an invasion from a neighboring kingdom, can one good man stand up to all this, and not get Twisted? Come find out in this rousing, raucous and randy musical comedy.
Additional shows added by popular demand!!!
Dates: Thursdays thru Saturdays, April 27th thru May 27th, 6:45pm
Sunday matinees on May 7th and 21st, 2pm
Add’l dates: Saturday matinee May 27th, 2pm
Thursday thru Saturday, June 1st thru June 3rd, 6:45pm
Tickets start at $25
Starring: Aidan Nolan, Cassandra Pangelinan, Rhansen Mars, Kylie Rose, Landy Lamb, Jeremy Clubb, Kristin Barrett, Brandy Schnaars, Jaiden Wirth, Darrell McGee, Kenzie Chapman
Directed by Andy Barrett
Musical Direction by James Liptak
Music by AJ Holmes, Lyrics by Kaley McMahon, Book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Eric Kahn Gale
All ages welcome–this show is rated PG-13ish/R for adult language, themes, sexual situations, and general wickedness.
