Events

MonsterBox Comedy, Portland's hit standup comedy show, returns to Portland’s Alberta Street Pub, Thursday, May 22nd at 8pm and Salem’s Infinity Room, Friday, May 23rd at 7pm with headliner Subhah Agarwal (Amazon, Comedy Central,TruTV)! 

TICKETS: Portland and Salem

About the headliner:

Subhah Agarwal is a standup comedian, writer and actor based in Los Angeles. Subhah has written for Netflix’s “Arsenio! Live,” “The Jim Jefferies Show"on Comedy Central, and "Comedy Knockout" on TruTv, amongst others. You can also catch her jokes live at stand up comedy clubs across the country. If you don't want to leave your couch, you can stream her debut Comedy Dynamics special “Airport Pigeon” on  Amazon Prime or her album “Dog Show” released with Blonde Medicine Records. You can see her late night debut on NBC’s "A Little Late With Lilly Singh." She also had a supporting lead role in the movie “Plan B,” appeared on Season Three of HBO's "Westworld", “General Hospital,” on TruTv's sketch comedy "Friends of the People", and as herself on MTV2, Comedy Central, and Gotham Comedy Live.

Joining Subhah is another monster lineup of hilarious comedians, including: 

Danny Meyerend!

Dylan Jenkins (PDX only)!

Dianna Potter (PDX only)!

Emma Jonas! (Salem only)

Katie Nguyen! (Salem only)!

Phil Schallberger (Salem only)!

Hosted by Adam Pasi and Imani!

With music by DJ Klyph and DJ Ambush, the dynamic, hip-hop DJing duo of No Requests!

About MonsterBox Comedy: MonsterBox Comedy is produced by Jason Lamb, formerly of the standup show Minority Retort, and continues to be inspired by its co-founder, the late Raishawn Wickwire, renowned for producing the popular comedy show No Pun Intendo. The show’s goal is to bring together the best of local and national comedic talent, offering a fresh, hilarious and diverse comedy experiences that push the boundaries of standup and delivers unforgettable performances.

Follow @monsterboxcomedy for updates about upcoming shows and more!

Let's find inspiration in the LGBTQ community of the 1980s who literally fought for their lives through radical and clever activism. We don't give up, we ACT UP!

It's my very first (and probably only) entirely 1980s music party! Woo! A Pride Month 19-GAYTEES dance party!

As part of my 30th anniversary of becoming a DJ, all year I've been making DJ-related things happen that I've always wanted to do. This is one of them - a night of 1980s records I loved and hated (but now enjoy as guilty pleasures) WAY back in the day.

In my mind, the era of "the 80s" is the years of the Ronald Reagan regime (1981-1988), a conservative backlash/rollback reaction to the progressivism of the 1960s/1970s (a little like what we're living through right now).

I grew up in the 80s, and for me they were all about rebellion, irreverence, and rolling our eyes at authority while being "grossed out" at everything that came along with the Reagan-era (greed, excess, superficiality, consumerism, conformity, the Establishment, whitewashing, misogyny, racism, homophobia, Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous, Spuds MacKenzie, etc) This is why I chose to put an anti-establishment (and GAY) character on my poster, PEE WEE HERMAN (a loner & a rebel)!

As much as I am repelled by much of what happened in mainstream culture during the 1980s, strangely a lot of the pop stars were extremely representative of fluidity in gender expression. This is a big reason I can still enjoy the music of that time (genuinely AND ironically). In fact, these days it's bringing me a lot of joy to revisit songs of my childhood.

So, JOIN ME in dancing, singing along, and "partying hardy" to songs you most likely know! Do it irreverently or sincerely - I don't care as long as you're there having fun and bonding with your community.