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Bridgetown Comedy Festival
The Bridgetown Comedy Festival is a stand-up comedy festival located in the Hawthorne district of Portland, Oregon every spring, featuring standup comedy showcases, live podcasts, panel discussions and improv comedy. It was created in October 2007 by comedians Andy Wood and Matt Braunger and comedy fan Kim Brady.
== Reception ==
In 2010, Ben Bateman of Willamette Week newspaper called Bridgetown "the fastest-growing comedy extravaganza in America."〔Ben Bateman, "News and Culture: Bridgetown Comedy Diaries: Night 1," ''Willamette Week'' (Apr. 23, 2010)(a primary source reporting on the 2010 Festival)(last viewed 7/6/2010)(. )〕 Successively larger and better-planned comedy festivals prompted one reviewer to comment, ". . . as usual, organizer Andy Wood and his royal army of geniuses outdid themselves. How can you make something already great even better? I'm not sure, but it happened."〔Aparna Nancherla, "Bridgetown Comedy Festival 3: The Return of the Zing," ''The Apiary'' (last viewed 7/6/2010)(. )〕 In late 2009, the ''Portland Mercury'' reviewed the festival, stating that, "Bridgetown (or should we say, Andy Wood) is changing Portland comedy"〔Andrew R. Tonry, (The Year in Comedy: Examining Portland's Burgeoning Comedy Scene ), ''The Portland Mercury'' (Dec. 31, 2009)〕 and the following year, the ''Portland Monthly'' stated that Wood "deserves several rounds of applause for making the fest happen . . . ."〔John Chandler, "A Comic Invasion," ''Portland Monthly'' (Apr. 20, 2010)(last viewed 7/6/2010)(a primary source with respect to the comic performances, but as a review, a secondary source with respect to organization)(. )〕 In his work as a comedy promoter, Andy Wood created a venue where the comedy market was struggling, and has promoted the venue to as a regional and national event.〔Randy Gragg, Laughs on Hawthorne: Bridgetown Comedy Festival returns, Portland Monthly (Apr. 2009) (“Give it time. The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, which is in only its second year, has grown from a field of forty comedians to an invasion of 115 rib-ticklers from the Northwest and around the country. And while the festival might not yet have bred a one-off catch-phrase (“Take my compost pile—please!?”), it has already bred success.”)(. )〕 Part of Wood’s approach in creating ‘draw’ to a weak comedy market was to couple art with philanthropy.〔Kristi Turnquist, Laugh riot ! Big names, local favorites kick off the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The Oregonian (Apr. 16, 2009) (“The eclectic list of performers in this year's Bridgetown Comedy Festival may share some of those traits. One thing is for certain -- they're not showing up at the April 23–26 event looking for a big paycheck. If anything unites Bridgetown's roster of out-of-town stars like Janeane Garofalo and up-and-coming local hopefuls, it's comedy for comedy's sake . . . . Wood, the Bridgetown fest co-founder, has a theory about why some Portlanders aren't willing to take a chance on seeing nonfamous comics: ‘Maybe it's because it's so earnest here,’ he says.”) ( ; ) Douglas Perry, Coming Up: Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The Oregonian (Feb. 28, 2008) (“Time will tell if next week's first Bridgetown Comedy Festival will take its place in the pantheon of Portland performance buffets. But founders Andy Wood and Matt Braunger have something in common with Waterfront Blues Festival booker Peter Dammann: They're working performers . . . . The fest features comedians from the Northwest and nationwide, working to raise funds for the Oregon Red Cross.”)(. )〕
In 2014, Kristi Turnquist of The Oregonian wrote that "The annual event brings comedians from around the country together with some of the Northwest’s top acts, for four jam-packed days of hilarity."
== Short history of the Bridgetown Comedy Festival ==
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