7DS’s The Absolute Worst Show: The Wild Card Show
An Interactive Open-Mic
Comedy/Storytelling Show
The Absolute Worst is an interactive, open-mic
comedy/storytelling show where audience members face off against three curated
comedians and storytellers to find out who can lay claim to having lived
through the absolutely worst thing based on that evening's theme, with both
absolutely fabulous and absolutely terrible prizes at stake.
And for our August show, we're going themeless with our first ever
Wild Card show - where our curated storytellers and audience members will be
allowed to tell us about their worst day ever, period.
And if you have a great story about an absolutely terrible
experience you've gone through, you might walk away with the evening's grand
prize!
Maybe your worst day ever was the time you and your family waited
at the wedding chapel for hours before it finally sank in your fiancé had
skipped town. Or maybe it's about that one time you lit so many candles for a
romantic evening that you somehow set off every fire alarm in your apartment
building. Or maybe it was when you got so drunk that one New Years Eve you woke
up to discover the toilet you'd used in the middle of the night wasn't a toilet
after all. Or maybe it was that time your boss took credit for your work and
got a big promotion, or night you were up all night because you misread the Eat
Before date on that yogurt, or the night you came home early from college and
walked in on your parents having sex on the living room couch. I mean, it's a
Wild Card night, so it could be literally anything!
Don't want to tell a story? No problem! You can still win a prize
by winning our It Could Be Worse Game, or giving the best answer to
our Absolute Worst Question Of The Night, or being crowned
the Absolute Best Audience Member, or some other prize that we'll
probably just make up as we go.
Also, we may ask everyone to howl at the moon. Or we may not.
(We'll see.)
Hosted by the spectacular duo of Meg Ferrill and Travis Abels!
Meg Ferrill is a Portland,
OR based storyteller, comedian, teacher, and writer.
Meg was selected
to perform/compete at The Chicago Women's Funny Festival, Ladies of Laughter,
The New Guns of Comedy Competition, She-Devil Comedy Festival, Upright
Citizen's Brigade Stand-Up Smackdown, Mortified and Amateur Night at the
Apollo. Meg is a Moth Mainstage performer and has been featured on The Moth
Radio Hour twice.
When she's not
running her mouth on stage, Meg teaches story as a storytelling instructor for
The Moth's corporate program. She also dabbles in the dark art of writing. Meg
has worked with the renowned San Francisco sketch comedy crew Killing My
Lobster and is a contributor to websites like Selfish Mother and Pick The
Brain.
Travis
Abels is a writer, actor, storyteller, filmmaker, and producer.
His touring
one-man show Things I Hide From My Dad drew praise from audiences and critics
alike. The Orlando Weekly called it a "masterclass in capturing an audience's
attention... An engrossing and entertaining journey that buzzes with cathartic
moments of self-discovery."
The Tiniest
Party, his monthly experimental storytelling show held in his basement or
backyard depending on weather, was recently praised by Willamette Week as being
"an exclusive highbrow performance space masquerading as a lowbrow house
party."