{"id":504135,"date":"2026-10-22T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504135\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:30:09","slug":"national-comics-will-fill-local-stages-this-weekend-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504135\/","title":{"rendered":"National comics will fill local stages this weekend \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week ahead of trick-or-treating, some laughs might be in order \u2014 and there will be no shortage of them this weekend, thanks to touring comedians hitting stages around the metro area \u2026<\/p>\n

\u2022 Canadian-born Phil Hanley has mined his struggles with dyslexia into a memoir as well as into his comedy routines, with shows through Saturday, Oct. 24, at Mark Ridley\u2019s Comedy Castle, 310 S. Troy St., Royal Oak. 248-542-9900 or comedycastle.com.<\/p>\n

\"PhilPhil Hanley (Photo courtesy of Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle)<\/p>\n

\u2022 The edgy Shang Forbes holds the stage through Saturday, Oct. 24, at One Night Stan\u2019s Comedy Club, 4761 Highland Road, Waterford. 248-875-6524 or onenightstans.club.<\/p>\n

\"ShangShang Forbes (Photo courtesy of One Night Stan’s Comedy Club)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ryan Brown headlines this week\u2019s Comedy Night at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, in the Roxy Lounge at The Roxy, 401 Walnut Blvd., Rochester. 248-453-5285 or theroxyrochester.com.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Egyptian stand-up Bassem Youssef \u2014 who was also once a cardiothoracic surgeon \u2014 brings his pointed worldview to town Friday, Oct. 23, at the Fillmore Detroit, 2115 Woodward Ave. Doors at 7:30 p.m. 313-961-5451 or thefillmoredetroit.com.<\/p>\n

\u2022 His beloved Los Angeles Dodgers may be out of the Major League Baseball playoffs, but Jo Koy will still be funny when he brings his Jo Koy Meets World Tour to the Fox Theatre at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Laughs are part of the heartfelt family stage play \u201cThat\u2019s My Cousin,\u201d hitting the boards at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center, 15801 Michigan Ave., Dearborn. 313-943-2354 or dearborntheater.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week ahead of trick-or-treating, some laughs might be in order \u2014 and there will be no shortage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[967,143,145,144,420],"class_list":["post-504135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-entertainment","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}