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SHOWS
IT’S TIME FOR SHOW AND TELL!
SHOW TIME!
All of our shows, whether performed by lil’ kids or big kids (adults) welcome audiences of all ages.
Each show is catered to our audience! We’re also available to incorporate your party into our show!
Sunday Funnies
Ages Range:
12-18 performing
(but great for all ages)
Description of Show:
From the LA Times to the Sunday stage, where your morning comics come to life! All improv, all the time. Teens and Tweens perform comedy at your command! Where else will you get kids that age to do anything AND be funny? Where “Whose Line is it Anyway” meets the stage and you get to sit back and laugh.
When:
11 am Sundays every month
Price of Show:
$5 cash at the door
$6 PayPal or Square
Giggle Gaggle
Ages Range:
4-11 performing
(but great for all ages)
Description of Show:
These kids ages 4 - 11 perform all things comedy: sketch, stand-up, characters, improv and music. A fun afternoon for kids of all levels, our cast gets up on stage and builds confidence for the future while entertaining and bringing laughter to others. There is a chance for you or your kid to help us out on stage too! 100% percent of the door goes back to all the performers. They are available for parties!
When:
2 pm every Sunday except holidays
Price of Show:
$5 cash at the door
$6 PayPal or Square
The Playground
Ages Range:
18 + up performing
Description of Show:
Improv comedy shows performed by “adults” with a smattering of sketch, stand-up, and maybe even singing. See Craigslist posts come to life, or a stuntman fly over the first row. This is a special cast mixed with improv veterans, actors, and stuntmen and women. Created by comedy veterans Janiece Jary, Doug Kayne, John Moio and the infamous Kaore Bonell, starring the cast of The Playground!
When:
Weekend and mid-week shows TBD every 12 weeks
Price of Show:
$10 cash at the door
$11 PayPal or Square
DIRECTORS.
Russell Towne
Russell is the proud father of Hope and Ella and a whole Gaggle of Giggle Gaggle kids on Sunday afternoons. He has been performing improv for over 45 years and has a regular show for grown ups on Friday nights. Actor, director, and teacher all over LAUSD and now the world on the www!
Matthew Godfrey
If you’re Canadian, you’ll recognize Matthew from the cult classic TV show “TV show You Can’t Do That On Television.” He’s since moved to LA, been directing and acting in many film and TV projects and is the proud father of Jade who is a member of Sunday Funnies. Studying at the National Theatre School of Canada and the Moscow Art Theatre, his focus expanded into dance, improvisation, mask work, street performing, television and film. Somewhere along the way he discovered Red Nose Clown as a performer and as a teacher. Since 1997 Matthew has traveled the world with the International Schools Theatre Association teaching, amongst other workshops, clown, ensemble devising, improv and Shakespeare.
Doug Kayne
Doug can often be found in High School still. That's because he's this super strict scary teacher by day at Van Nuys High School; however, on the weekends he performs a weekly comedy show and then directs High School Class Clowns where the kids have to be more strict and scary than he is! Bringing his acting, directing, and Writers Guild skills to the teen group, the teens are catapulted into a level of learning improv and sketch. Don't worry though, they can still perform the dorky silly stuff too, but it will surprise you!
Kaore Bonell
Kaore is awesome. He is the founding director for The Sunday Funnies, done countless shows throughout Los Angeles and is famed for his crying chicken commercial that still makes us pee our pants a little. Check out his weekly comedy podcast "Suck the JOY", which has nothing to do with JOY Theatre joy, just his own personal joy, which is well, quite personal but fun to eavesdrop on.
