A confession before I begin: I have never seen the comedy stylings of Hoskins & Breen, but their local reputation as the funniest duo since Hi & Lois precedes them. My former colleague, Justin Sanders, who spent more time watching Portland stages than almost anyone I know, dropped me an email just to give me a heads up on how talented these guys are. And then our trusted theater critic Alison Hallett, who’s not in the office today, also sent an email saying we should give them a good plug on our blog. So here we are. “I fully vouch for their hilariousness,” she says. So while I can’t personally vouch for these guys, Mercury theater critics past and present can’t stop emailing me about them. Here they are at Portland’s Best of the Best Sketch Fest:

So why am I telling you all this? Because they’re doing a show tonight at the Mission Theater (1624 NW Glisan, 9 pm, $15) as part of Mercy Corp’s fantastic “Voices for Silent Disasters” concert series.