{"id":20534,"date":"2015-04-14T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/?p=20534"},"modified":"2015-04-14T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:14:42","slug":"pop-press-international-sponsors-austin-sketch-smash-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/2015\/04\/14\/pop-press-international-sponsors-austin-sketch-smash-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Press International Sponsors Austin Sketch Smash Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music may be our first love, but we&#8217;ve been proud to run several satire posts via our contributor Karen Early&#8217;s recurring column\u00a0<a title=\"Early to the Party: Austin Finally Becomes One Giant Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/2014\/10\/27\/early-to-the-party-austin-finally-becomes-one-giant-festival\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Early to the Party<\/em><\/span><\/a>, right here on Pop Press International. Dipping our toes further into the comedy world, we&#8217;re proud to co-present Austin Sketch Smash, a FREE night of sketch comedy this Thursday night at Spiderhouse Ballroom where <strong>bottles <em>will <\/em>smash<\/strong>. The event acts as a preview\u00a0to the week-long <a href=\"http:\/\/atxsketchfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Austin Sketch Fest<\/span><\/a>, which happens\u00a0May 19- 24 at both Spiderhouse Ballroom and ColdTowne Theater and\u00a0features acts from LA, NYC, Chicago, and more. <a href=\"http:\/\/atxsketchfest.com\/all-fest-passes\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tickets for that available right here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although it may be funny, the\u00a0<em>smash<\/em> in Austin Sketch Smash is no joke&#8211;the night of comedy will feature sketches in which people get bottles broken over their heads. Performing comedy troupes include\u00a0Bad Example, STAG Comedy, Your Terrific Neighbors,Wink Planet, Unrepresented, Tastemakers, Jonestroch, The Hustle Show, and 2girls1pup, and many more.\u00a0Doors open at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_132551622\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7 pm, and the s<\/span><\/span>how starts at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_132551623\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:30 pm<\/span><\/span>. Kath Barbadoro (Moontower Comedy Festival, Master Pancake Theater) will perform standup throughout the show as\u00a0the host for the evening. Again, the whole night is FREE! See you Thursday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Austin_Sketch_Smash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Austin_Sketch_Smash-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Austin_Sketch_Smash\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Austin_Sketch_Smash-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Austin_Sketch_Smash-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Austin_Sketch_Smash.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music may be our first love, but we&#8217;ve been proud to run several satire posts via our contributor Karen Early&#8217;s recurring column\u00a0Early to the Party, right here on Pop Press International. Dipping our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,109],"tags":[3611,3610,2818,2382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20539,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20534\/revisions\/20539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}