In today's world, people can no longer rely on court jesters to check meals for poison or retell Hamlet as a family comedy. Enjoy the versatility of more contemporary performers with today’s GrouponLive deal: for $15, you get two general-admission tickets to a comedy show at Joke Joint Comedy Club in Lilydale (up to a $30 value). Shows are usually held at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. This Groupon is only valid for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday shows and cannot be redeemed until January 1. Thursday shows are regularly $10 per ticket.
Joke Joint Comedy Club packs its schedule with touring comics and local stars, restocking spectators' mirth supplies during several shows every week. Audiences can browse a wide selection of humorists, whose collective resumé includes appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Housed in the historic Diamond Jim's Supper Club, the auditorium seats up to 200 chucklers at tables, where they can comfortably rest their elbows and laugh-track cassettes during performances. Servers drop by routinely to recommend specialty cocktails, beer, or wine and to administer snacks to those weakened by chronic giggling or sprained funny bones (food and drink not included).
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Types of Dance
Dance is the best way to physically express music and the worst way to express a coherent thesis. Here's a guide to the history behind popular dance styles and what they're up to today:
• Jazz: Origin: Jazz dance was invented to go along with jazz music, which was invented to go along with whiskey and sinful thoughts about close talking with a stranger. Today: It's still one of the most sultry types of dance around, inducing wails of desire from bugles and trumpets everywhere.
• Hip-Hop: Origin: Short for hippocampus hopscotch, hip-hop is a cerebral form of dance that involves absorbing beats, thinking about them, and regurgitating them into body movements a few hours later. Today: Hip-hop is popular in movies with confrontational names, in music videos, and in nightclubs that are just live versions of music videos.
• Ballet: Origin: Ballet originated in France as a way to train people to be more graceful so that they could more easily slide out of guillotines. Today: Now it's just a really nice dance.
• Tap: Origin: When a group of schoolchildren tromped home one day through puddles of molten metal and ruined their perfectly good buckled shoes, they discovered a new type of dance used to confound adults. Today: Tap dancers stomp louder than the notes of a song so that listeners won't be hypnotized by lyrical propaganda or brain-infecting melodies.
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