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Virginia Jones Sketchfest Promo Photo 2024

Looking for a preview of the shows Virginia Jones is appearing at during 2024’s San Francisco Sketchfest?

Me and my kicky attitude are excited to return this year, to do comedy and see comedy and try to meet more famous people, and to avoid meeting less famous people!

I’m kicking off the weekend at Comedy Oakland, run by the amazing Samson Koletkar!

My first Sketchfest show is on Saturday, Feb 3rd at 9:45 at the small room at the Brava Theatre. I get to co-host glorious Dalia Malek‘s Interruption Show, where comics are asked prying questions about their little stories and make-em-ups. I love that I’m sharing the stage with the hilarious Becky Braunstein, who’s also one of the smarter people you’ve ever met. It’s a live show that is also a podcast that is also a happening. This thing sold out last year, and this year’s tickets can be had here!

I’m on one of the last shows closing the festival, a Taste Of Sketchfest collection of sketch groups. I’m looking forward to this one myself, I don’t always get to see a ton of sketch comedy. It’s a pleasure to host some of the best! Tickets can be had here!

Irresponsible Diagnoses

For your Halloween podcast, the sisters talk about the psychiatric diagnoses of their favorite fictional characters. Was the Crazy Ex Girlfriend really mentally ill? What’s going on with Trading Places’ Duke Brothers? Can we diagnose Derek from the Good Place? And most importantly, what the heck is Yoda? Virginia shares her theories and Laura reviews them, based on the DSM-V. There is some actual mental health information in this episode! It drops tomorrow, November 2, at one minute after midnight!

HA HA HARVEST COMEDY

This Turkey Day, I return to my comedy home of Portland, OR to perform at the Ha Ha Harvest comedy festival! It’s three days of shows, short films, and laughs! Here’s a sampling of the shows on which I am scheduled to appear! Passes for all three days are available here.

virginia jones on poster comedy cornucopia

Opening the festival in the Show Bar in Revolutionary Hall is this “OOPS, ALL HEADLINERS” lineup, with my hilarious friends Lizzy Cooperman, Ron Lynch, Mav Viola, Janae Burris, and Adam Cayton-Holland. This show is like a taste-test for what’s coming the rest of the weekend. Tickets for this show here!

This show features a band and audience sing-along and play-along, I’m bringing my guitar and I’m ready to rock! Grab an instrument and let’s make noise! This is an early show, and again, a nice warm-up to other shows over the weekend! Tickets here!

Chaos reigns supreme on Ron Lynch’s CRAPSHOOT, where random selection determines what happens all night! This show usually happens at midnight, so Portland is really lucking out with this show! Tickets here!

This is a loverly little closing show. The very funny and very lovely Riley McCarthy hosts hilarious friends Stephen Agyei, Mav Viola, and Geoff Tate! Tickets here!

I may be stuck onto another odd little show here or there, but rest assured I’ll be on these and I’d love to see you!

HA HA HARVEST COMEDY FESTIVAL

Portland, I’m beyond stoked to return and do shows over Thanksgiving weekend 2024 at the HaHa Harvest, now in its 5th year- I’ll be performing with some of my funniest friends and new comics from the PNW!

In addition to the main stage shows, the festival also has a number of other events, including a comedy competition, a brunch show, a late-night comedy show, a comedy singalong, and a free outdoor comedy show.

The Haha Harvest Comedy Festival is a great way to see some of the best comedians in the world. It’s also a great way to spend Thanksgiving weekend in Portland.

Weekend passes are available NOW for early birds at only $70 – all the comedy you can eat with headliners like Ron Lynch, Lizzy Cooperman, Mav Viola, Stephen Agyei, and more- check it out here!

Comics, if you want to be a part of it, submissions are still open until Sept 21- check it out here!

Comedy at Harlowe!

It’s a very good night with some REALLY funny comics. I’m headlining, because everyone else wants to leave early. That’s OK. My friends Valerie Tosi and Jeff May will be there, Canadian sweetheart Debra Digiovanni, the amazing Subhah Agarwahl, and the lovely and hilarious Fizaa Dosani. What would you pay for a show like this, with headliner Virginia Jones? A million Ape Coin? Well, would you believe this show is FREE at Harlowe? My God, what a beautiful world it is!

OPEN GRAVES with VESTA VAINGLORIA

FROM JOSEPH SMITH TO ROBERT SMITH: Virginia Jones Talks Comedy, Mormonism, and Feminism on Open Graves

On the latest episode of Heather Noel and Vesta Vaingloria’s podcast, Open Graves, known goth Virginia Jones opens up about her life as a comedian, Mormon, and feminist.

Jones discusses about how her Mormon upbringing influenced her comedy. “I grew up in France, so Mormonism made me feel like an outcast on top of being an outcast-I moved to the States from France as a cult member who also talked funny.”

“I’m a feminist because I believe in equality for all people,” Jones said. “Although, as Animal Farm points out, some people are more equal than others.”

Jones is a talented comedian and a role model for young Goth women everywhere. Her appearance on Open Graves was a fun, but extremely dark and gothic, visit.

If you haven’t listened to Open Graves yet, I highly recommend it. It’s a great podcast with engaging hosts. You can find it on most major podcast platforms!

Statement of Purpose

I applied to an opportunity that asked me for a statement of purpose. Here it is!

Being funny is job one, but if I’m not expressing myself and my worldview, there’s no reason to do comedy. I do think of comedy as performance art. If that’s pretentious, then I’m pretentious. It wouldn’t be the first time, and it won’t be the last.

If you just want people to laugh, I guess you can just make fart noises into a microphone? I don’t like walking out of a comedy show with no new ideas to chew on. It’s like seeing a movie and you have fun in the moment, but the details are fading into the ether by the time you get to your car.

I think of my comedy like it’s dark bread, it’s delicious but it has substance, too. And it makes you poop.

My comedy is also heavily colored by my experiences being a woman in comedy, so it’s also like a snake eating its own tail.