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Get Inside: Nine Things to Do While Stuck Inside This Week Stream WW's Funniest Five Zoom Showcase, watch another Portland-based rom-com and vicariously visit Italy via the Tooch.
Katie Nguyen, Funniest Five Winner 2021 (Thomas Teal)
Stream: WW’s Funniest Five Showcase
Every year, Willamette Week surveys the local comedy community to find the city's best comics. Usually, that leads to a live standup showcase held in a packed theater somewhere in town. Of course, that can't happen this year. But in Portland, funny never stops. So we're going digital. Bri Pruett, herself a finalist in the poll's inaugural 2013 edition, hosts the Funniest Five Class of 2021, who'll be coming to you live from their living rooms and doing some show-and-tell with their variation quarantine projects. It's the live incarnation of the "Could a depressed person make