DIRECT FROM CHICAGO – It’s PIMPROV! The Speakeasy in downtown Rock Island welcomes back PIMPROV… one of the most popular adult improv shows in Chicago on March 11! You’ve seen the flashy suits and jewelry so bright that a blind man can see it shining. So ask yourself who is more entertaining than a Pimp?? PIMPROV has been a hugely successful improv show in Chicago for years! The show revolves around four pimps who took comedy classes at Second City on accident. The group lacks political correctness and outrageous costumes are only part of the reason they are so popular! You... Read More

The Speakeasy in downtown Rock Island hosts a stand up comedy show with headliner Marz Timms from Chicago TONIGHT.  It will also feature fellow Chicago comedian Matty Robinson and two local comics, Luke Swanson and Austin Ingels.  Doors open at 6 and the show begins at 7 pm.  Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 the day of the show.  Marz Timms is an internationally known actor/comedian who plays the character Van Howard on the NETFLIX original series “EASY” seasons 1 & 2. You also can see him in Season 3 of the HBOMax comedy “SOUTH SIDE”. Marz voices the character Jax in... Read More

Joe Gatto will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, March 10 at Davenport’s Adler Theatre. Tickets are on sale at the Adler box office and all Ticketmaster outlets. Joe Gatto, a well-known comedian, actor, and producer, is best known for the hit TV shows “Impractical Jokers” and “The Misery Index.” He is one of the founding members of The Tenderloins Comedy Troupe who has toured with a live comedy show to sold-out crowds across the world, including legendary arenas, such as Madison Square Garden in New York and the O2 Arena in London. Joe also is a co-host of the “Two Cool Moms” Podcast and... Read More

Of course, everybody knows the important facts about entertainment today — we’ve got so many terrific magazines to tell us about them — but little is known about the pop culture tales of yesteryear. However, recently I sought to rectify that. I put on my Indiana Jones hat, searched for aged scrolls, dug into dusty tomes and haunted musty libraries looking to bring you the stories you just won’t get anywhere else.  And here they are. Here are the last millenium’s great untold moments in entertainment, in no particular order:   * 1450: Johann Gutenberg invents the... Read More

The Speakeasy in downtown Rock Island is set to present two comedy shows this Saturday.  The first will be a stand up comedy show with headliner Marz Timms from Chicago.  It will also feature fellow Chicago comedian Matty Robinson and two local comics, Luke Swanson and Austin Ingels.  Doors open at 6 and the show begins at 7 pm.  Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 the day of the show.  Marz Timms is an internationally known actor/comedian who plays the character Van Howard on the NETFLIX original series “EASY” seasons 1 & 2. You also can see him in Season 3 of the HBOMax comedy “SOUTH... Read More

Whether you’re a fan of Gene Tenace at the plate, Ron Burgundy’s musk, or chicken of the cave, you’ll want to check out David Koechner, the comedian who played Champ Kind in the “Anchorman” movies, and “The Office’s” Todd Packer, for shows at 5 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 5 at Rhythm City Casino Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore Ave., Davenport. The shows include a 7:30 p.m. evening of standup, and a 5 p.m. trivia show themed around the nine-season run of The Office. For more info, WHAMMY, click here! Tickets are available at https://fal.cn/3w8l1    Read More

Words really can’t express how disappointed I am in lawmakers — on both sides of the aisle — in BOTH Illinois and Iowa. I’m just tired of the empty promises, the delaying, the obfuscation, the laziness in putting off one of the biggest and most profound issues of the day that, again, BOTH parties from BOTH states should be addressing. And that is that neither state has officially adopted Def Leppard’s “Armageddon It” as the official state song. I mean, c’mon people. Or, ya know, in words of Joe Biden, “C’mon maaaan!” Listen, I mean,... Read More

Joe Gatto will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, March 10 at Davenport’s Adler Theatre. Tickets are on sale at the Adler box office and all Ticketmaster outlets. Joe Gatto, a well-known comedian, actor, and producer, is best known for the hit TV shows “Impractical Jokers” and “The Misery Index.” He is one of the founding members of The Tenderloins Comedy Troupe who has toured with a live comedy show to sold-out crowds across the world, including legendary arenas, such as Madison Square Garden in New York and the O2 Arena in London. Joe also is a co-host of the “Two Cool Moms” Podcast... Read More

Whammy! Whether you’re a fan of Gene Tenace at the plate, Ron Burgundy’s musk, or chicken of the cave, you’ll want to check out David Koechner, the comedian who played Champ Kind in the “Anchorman” movies, and “The Office’s” Todd Packer, for shows at 5 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 5 at Rhythm City Casino Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore Ave., Davenport. The shows include a 7:30 p.m. evening of standup, and a 5 p.m. trivia show themed around the nine-season run of The Office. For more info, WHAMMY, click here! Tickets are available at https://fal.cn/3w8l1    Read More

Welcome to the column for all carbon-based life-forms. If you breathe oxygen, this is for you. And if you live on a planet, especially Earth, well, then, you’ve come to the right place. Sorry, but I’m just following the new trend in advertising: casting as absurdly wide a net as possible. Products used to be advertised to a fairly specialized base. Each ad could be counted on to pander in its own unique way. You’d have your commercials aimed at seniors, in which someone sincere who was on TV when it was still seen only in black-and-white would give a testimonial about the product. Said commercial... Read More