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Savannah Now: Rip City Write Up

Charleston experimental comedy show Rip City CHS drops into Front Porch Improv

Comedy is notoriously hard, but it can be even more difficult when it’s experimental, unrehearsed and untested. Of course, that is what makes an off-the-rails comedy show like Rip City so exhilarating for a live audience.

Rip City is a comedy variety show featuring sketches, improv, characters, music and performance art, all curated by the hilarious married comedy duo of Henry Riggs and Maari Suorsa, aka Nameless Numberhead.

Rip City, which has been called the “SNL of the South,” was developed in Charleston, South Carolina, by Riggs and Suorsa, and was inspired by their time training in the comedy mecca of Chicago….

Post & Courier Review: Secret Clown Show

Holy cosmic alignment, friends.

We DM’d a clown online and what happened next was a wild journey. We ended up meeting a really cool performer named Alec Jones-Trujillo, a Las Vegas based circus performer and comedian. He tours a one man show named for the titular character “Old God”. He told us he was in Orlando doing the Fringe Festival heading up to Montreal and would love to stop over in Charleston.

He told us, even if it was a living room show for 10 people, he’d love to do something. We snapped to and put up a show at the Starlight Motor Inn in North Charleston and what ensued was pure madness.

We marketed a “Secret Clown Show” that everyone was talking about, the press took the bait, showed up and wrote this unreal recap of the whole thing. Truly a fever dream, but so damn fun. Alec is an incredible performer and we were lucky to get to catch his act in passing.

Read the Post & Courier coverage below:

City Paper Cover Story

Wow wow wow! We’re cover girls!! Check out this week’s issue of the Charleston City Paper to read all about the spicy goings on of the comedy scene. We’re stoked to be featured on the cover.

Rip City On A Boat

This past weekend we did a comedy show on a freaking boat! A dreamy little sunset cruise with a truly unhinged comedy show to boot. It was so damn fun and nice, a ridiculously talented line up of performers and luckily some perfect weather.

It’s such a goddamn joy to laugh and be silly with friends. And to have people show up month after month to enjoy watching it is mind blowing every time. We love doing this show! Check out the amazing pics from our bud Clif Rhodes photography.

And an additional batch of more behind the scenes shots from our pal Jeremy Croft.

Thanks to everyone who was a part of Rip City history. I think we’re definitely gonna try to make it happen again!