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  • All Jane Comedy

The festival formerly known as All Jane No Dick returns for a fourth year on October 14! It's been rebranded as the probably more socially acceptable, definitely less funny All Jane Comedy Festival, but the lineup looks solid. From All Jane's organizers:

Performers at this year’s festival include Janet Varney (You’re the Worst, SF Sketchfest founder, JV Club host), Page Hurwitz (stand-up comic and Executive Producer of Last Comic Standing), Karen Kilgariff (Mr. Show, CONAN), Nicole Byer (Girl Code, The Pursuit of Sexiness), Sarah Burns (Enlightened, Drunk History), and Alice Wetterlund (Silicon Valley, Girl Code).

These and many other acclaimed performers arrive from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and all points between to share the stage with Pacific Northwest powerhouses Amy Miller (Last Comic Standing), Kristine Levine, Bri Pruett, Whitney Streed, Barbara Holm, JoAnn Schinderle, Elicia Sanchez, Mona Concepcion, Caitlin Weierhauser, Katie Rose Leon, Katie Nguyen, and All Jane founder and Curious Comedy/All Jane Comedy Fest Artistic Director Stacey Hallal.

You can see a full list of performers here. Like last year, this is a nice mix of local and national stand-ups, and a reminder of Portland's strong showing when it comes to excellent comedians who happen to be ladies. There's some very welcome fresh blood in the mix too. I'm most excited to see Sonia Denis, a delightful Chicago comedian who I saw for the first time at this year's Bridgetown Comedy Fest. Here's one of her funniest jokes—the first one in this set—it's guaranteed to make your Monday better: