Comedy hasn't evolved much since the glory days of ventriloquist and puppet. Every so often, there's a Gallagher smashing watermelons or a musical funnyman like Jack Black, but for the most part, comedy is a dude on a stage with a microphone, plodding through a joke-punch line-new joke routine.



Boring!



Well, all that is about to change. Here in our very own city, Tacoma Actors Guild has put together an experimental comedy event known simply — and obviously — as Tunes and Improv. That’s right, music and improv comedy.



Saturday, Feb. 10, Uniquitous They, a sketch and improv comedy troupe known throughout the halls at the University of Puget Sound, will share TAG’s Rehearsal Studio with Tacoma indie rock band Ghosts And Liars, UPS folk rock trio Campfire Folklore Restoration Society and electronica group Handshakes.



The show begins at 9 p.m.  Admission is $5.  Tunes first followed by improv.  Tunes and Improv. 

Brilliant! — Suzy Stump



[Tacoma Actors Guild’s Rehearsal Hall, Saturday, Feb. 10, 9 p.m., $5, 915 Broadway, downtown Tacoma, 253.272.3107]