Vida's Ark Hilarity Benefitting Charity
(18 and over event)
Join us for a night of hilarity as you support one of Vancouver's most beloved charities - Vida's Ark!
You will be wittingly entertained by three of Portland's most hilarious comics - Amy Miller, Bri Pruett, and Virginia Jones. Hosted by Shannan Hunt.
Amy Miller gets on stage to tell jokes and you’re all like well she doesn’t look funny at ALL. I hope she doesn’t blow this! Maybe I should go for a smoke break? 2 minutes in, your pants have been charmed off by her rosy cheeks and the fact that she sounds like a 6 year old Asian boy. 5 minutes in, you start to feel sad for her and sometimes feel the need to go “AWWW” out loud in the middle of her set or, occasionally “YOU’RE ADORABLE.” 10 minutes in you’re not sure if you want to have wild sex with her or have her pretend to be your mom and tuck you into bed at night while lightly stroking your hair and singing You Are My Sunshine because she’s also an excellent singer. Any exposure above 15 minutes and your head is just a chaotic swirl of love feelings and a crippling fear of eventual heartbreak and rejection at the end of which you decide you should just be best friends. It’s fun!
- Contestant, Last Comic Standing Season 9
- Winner of Helium’s 2015 Funniest Person Contest
- Winner 2015 Willamette Week Reader’s Choice for Best Portland Comedian
- Voted Portland’s Funniest Comedian by the Willamette Week 2013
Amy Miller has been seen at the San Francisco Sketchfest, Bumbershoot, Noise Pop Festival, SF Punchline, Cobb’s Comedy Club, Harvey’s Comedy Club Portland, Helium Comedy Club, The All Jane No Dick Festival, The Siren Nation Festival, and in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. You may also have heard her on NPR.
Amy runs Portland’s beloved Midnight Ma$$ show, Helium’s stand-up/ variety/ talk show Stand Up For Yourself!, and wrote a column for the Willamette Week called Fresh Meat.
Bri Pruett is a stand-up comic and improviser from Portland, Oregon. She’s appeared at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the All Jane No Dick comedyy festival, the Seattle International Comedy Competition, San Francisco Sketch Fest and Bumbershoot. She makes regular appearances at Helium Comedy Club, Curious Comedy Theater, and other Portland Showcases.
She’s a fierce ally of Action/Adventure Theater, a non-profit independent theater and black box venue in Southeast Portland. She appeared in Action/Adventure’s celebrated, long-running, improvised serial: Fall of the House. A/A also produced an original Sketch Show: Making Sex, which local press said Bri showed “razor sharp comic timing.” Oh yeah. She’s the comedy sidekick, writer, and co-creator of Late Night Action with Alex Falcone, a live, talk/variety show. Along with comedy buddies Alex Falcone, Curtis Cook and Anthony Lopez she is the power quartet behind weekly comedy showcase Earthquake Hurricane.
She has a background in improv and teaches these skills at Curious Comedy Theater where she’s a regular player with improv singing-ensemble: Pipes.
She frequently lends her time as a comedian and MC to several non-profit organizations: NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon, Planned Parenthood advocates of Oregon, and JOIN. She’s also the regular host of the Museum Mash-up discussion series at The Portland Art Museum.
Bri is a monthly contributor to the ever popular Portland Mercury, Blogtown, USA, with her sex and dating column: Let’s Do It! with Bri Pruett.
Willamette Week named her one of the Funniest 5 Comedians in Portland. Aw, thanks guys!
Virginia Jones started doing comedy in Portland, OR, where she was working as a bike-riding vegan cliche. She’s gone on to work in Hong Kong, LA, New York, London and Billings, Montana. She appears in Portlandia and has been in six Bridgetown comedy festivals, as well as Boston’s Women In Comedy Festival and Austin’s Ladies Are Funny Fest. She was a semifinalist in the San Francisco comedy competition and just toured the SURPRISE! comedy show up the West Coast. Her monthly, GLENDALIA, was applauded in the LA weekly, she has appeared on the famous LA shows Set List, Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, and Big Money, and her mother is proud of her.
“To everyone who’s ever asked me to describe my comedy, I’ve settled on Nutritionally Dense.”- Virginia
“The one person on the bill that everyone always talks about is Virginia Jones.”- Dwight Slade
“Yay so good!” – Maria Bamford
“You’re really funny, and I like how you’re kind of a player with the guys too”- Arj Barker
“Virginia is the smart-ass with the heart of gold- she’s the best of the best and wickedly funny always”-Robert Buscemi
“I’ve known her for a clean decade, I’ve taken her on the road and she came to my wedding, but I couldn’t be bothered to take a second to write her a goddamned blurb”- Auggie Smith