Early philosophers often engaged in debates concerning the nature of humor, posing each other enigmatic questions beginning with "What's the deal with" and ending with "Am I right?" Indulge in classic rhetoric with today's Groupon: for $24, you get two tickets, an appetizer of your choice, and four tickets to a future show at the Pittsburgh Improv, located in Homestead (up to a $111.75 value).
Audiences at The Pittsburgh Improv can giggle or guffaw at a rollicking roster of up-and-coming and established comedians as they devour finger-licking fare from the extensive menu. Harland Williams (July 8–10) nudges funny bones with his off-the-wall take on relationships and his spot-on impersonations of a rubber chicken doing a mambo. Alternatively, opt to watch Sebastian Maniscalco (July 15–17) poke fun at society with a cynical shtick, or let Tommy Johnagin (July 28–31) regale you and a friend with humorous anecdotes that earned him a feature on The Late Show with David Letterman. Throughout the show, guests can chomp on classic appetizers such as buffalo wings, tortilla-robed chicken flautas, or improv nachos that make up their flavor on the fly based on suggestions from diner's taste buds.
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The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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