{"id":216,"date":"2015-04-11T06:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattkemple.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2015-04-11T06:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T17:13:56","slug":"comedy-in-the-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/2015\/04\/comedy-in-the-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy in the Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a wonderful thing when your talents are recognized. \u00a0It&#8217;s especially fun when the media picks up on it! \u00a0There is <a href=\"http:\/\/expressmilwaukee.com\/article-permalink-25455.html\" target=\"_blank\">a great write up in this weeks Shepherd Express<\/a>\u00a0by Tea Krulos about the underground comedy scene. I was interviewed as an expert on the subject along with <a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukeecomedy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Comedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a little\u00a0from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The space is also home to Milwaukee Comedy, the production company run by Matt Kemple. A comedian and producer, Kemple is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his Milwaukee Comedy Festival this year, Aug. 6-9. He says the growing independent comedy shows are the sign of a strengthening scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the best things we have is the community itself. It\u2019s supportive; there are a lot of people that want the scene to survive and want to work with other comedians,\u201d Kemple explains. \u201cA number of years ago, people would drive to Chicago to see comedy. They wouldn\u2019t even pretend to think it was happening in town. That\u2019s not the case anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We did this interview a while ago, so it was a nice surprise when it came out this week. It&#8217;s worth\u00a0the read. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/expressmilwaukee.com\/article-permalink-25455.html\" target=\"_blank\">take a look at the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a wonderful thing when your talents are recognized. \u00a0It&#8217;s especially fun when the media picks up on it! \u00a0There is a great write up in this weeks Shepherd Express\u00a0by Tea Krulos about the underground comedy scene. I was interviewed as an expert on the subject along with Milwaukee Comedy. Here is a little\u00a0from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","category-interview","category-milwaukee-comedy","category-work-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattkemple.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}