Ever wanted to try stand-up comedy!?

Tags: Uncategorized — Author: Phil @ 1:20 pm

Ever wanted to try stand-up comedy!? Now’s your chance!! Manala will be hosting Finland’s first ever English Open Mic night on June 10th at 8pm, hosted by yours truly. Anybody (yes, anybody) can get five minutes of stage time at one of Helsinki’s top comedy venues.

While the concept of an “open mic” is kinda new to Finland, it’s been popular in the states and the UK for decades. This is where ALL stand-ups begin, every famous stand-up comedian you can think of all took this first step before launching their careers.

On June 10th you’ll see a nice mix of professional Finnish comics testing out English material (cause if you want to work outside of Finland, you can’t use Finnish!) as well as aspiring comics like myself, and hopefully a few of you first-timers as well! …and let’s all cross our fingers for the borderline-insane/borderline-genius guy that makes open mics so famous.

If you’re interested in performing, please e-mail: openmic@botta.fi

Tickets for the show are just 2€. They hope to make this a regular event, so let’s give them a good showing for their debut night!! Hope to see you all there!!

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Tervetuloa / Welcome

“…but mostly what you’ll find here is: Finnish and American stereotypes, Funny YouTube videos about Finland, rants about our high taxes and low salaries, and above all desperate pleas to ‘WATCH ME, WATCH ME’ by an aspiring (perspiring, uninspiring, expiring) stand up comic. It used to be enjoyable, now it’s just like chewing gravel.”
Hank W.

“Tickets for the show are just 2€.”

So dies that include the bouncer charge?
http://www.finlandforthought.net Phil

Haha, yeah, after five years of blogging, I’m running out of a shit to say unfortunately.

But this post is quite worthy, Finland’s first English open mic! Doesn’t matter if I’m appearing there or not, this is very blog-worthy!
http://www.finlandforthought.net Phil

So dies that include the bouncer charge?

Hehe, I think the coat check is even more than 2 euros! But if you don’t have a jacket, you don’t pay, they’re not assholes.
Hank W.

I’ll have to do a tribute to Sam Kinison and come in a black trench and beret and rant about Finnish women
http://knizzlefoshizzle.blogspot.com Larjmarj

Hank, I would pay big bucks to see that. RIP SK.
Fat Bastard

So, is Chris Rock also going to be there, since you have his mug on the article? Remember truth in advertising.
http://beaglesinthecity.blogspot.com jen

sara has promised me videos of your stand-up and we can’t find them! could you post a link? or stop doing maintenance on phil.com so we can see them there? shouldn’t you be getting ready for work?

the urimat schtick was fucking hilarious.

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Ever wanted to try stand-up comedy!?

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