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Special Singles Match Making Event - Laugh Match
One Part Comedy Show, One Part Speed Dating, One Part Ice Breaking
The wildly fun dating show comes to the DC area from NY.
Find love while laughing at LAUGH MATCH, the new matchmaking comedy show! It's a comedy show and dating event combined into one terrific night of live entertainment! Open to both singles and couples, the show is a great time for everyone.
Professional comedians play Cupid in this one-of-a-kind event. After performing onstage, each comedian goes out into the crowd looking for 2 people to pair up on an impromptu date. Running commentary and matchmaking musical chairs make the show unpredictably hilarious!
The laughs and love-sparks fly as comedians try to do what pushy mothers attempt everyday...hook people up!
Created and hosted by comedian Helen Hong from E! Entertainment and TLC, the show features a diverse mix of top national comedians. The best way to meet new people is through laughter!
Exerts from article at the NYTimes...
"These days, there seem to be as many dating services as
there are lonely singles. There are uncounted species of
online advertising services and matchmaking services and
singles classes and singles nights, many conveniently
demarcated according to race or fetish. The nearly
decade-old phenomenon of speed dating, in which singles
chat each other up for a prescribed number of minutes —
or seconds — before switching partners, seemed tailormade
for New York: it’s highly efficient and makes a virtue of the volume that can make
the whole endeavor so dispiriting.
Helen Hong, a television producer and stand-up comedian of indeterminate age — “I
could tell you 27, but I’d be lying” — had given a fair share of those services a shot and
gotten pretty much nowhere. So she decided that the business, saturated though it might
be, could benefit from yet more innovation. Here’s what she came up with: speed
matchmaking.
Actually, it’s more refined than that: it’s speed matchmaking of singles in the audience of
a comedy show....
Ms. Hong often does the matchmaking, and she brooks no demurrals once she, or one of
the four other comedians with whom she performs, has made an instamatch. “Just drink
and have a good time,” she ordered a young woman who looked as if she might bolt after
Ms. Hong walked her over to the table of a young man Thursday night. “You’re not
going to die if you do a shot together.”
“You try to find people who look like they would be together,” Ms. Hong said.
The undertaking has been successful enough — at least one couple says she helped them
find love. Whether she found love was now out of
Ms. Hong’s hands; she had made them laugh, she had made a match, and she considered
her job well done.
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