A latesummer’s night with the stand-up all-stars of Funny or Die’s Oddball Festival
Stand-up comedians generally frown upon shows that have them performing outside and in the daylight. But Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival, now in its third summer run of dates across North America, offers just that to lure aspiring comics to its second stage. Not that the mainstage, which starts up just shy of sunset, doesn’t present its own set of challenges for the funny men and women onstage. Just ask Dave Chappelle, who faced off with, then walked away from the faces of a hostile crowd in Hartford two summers ago. Then again, don’t ask him....
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