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CASPER, Wyo. — It’s Friday. You made it through another week, and your reward is a myriad of events and activities happening this weekend. From a planetarium show, to hip hop shows, standup comedy and more, there’s a ton to do on Friday and you’re invited to all of it. This is what’s happening on Friday, May 16.
Free Bier and Hot Wings Live in Casper, WY with Rock 96.7
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FINALLY! WE’RE COMING TO CASPER!
We’re finally heading west for a live show in Casper, WY with Rock 96.7! The show will take place on Friday, May 16th at 11AM at Frontier Brewing Company and Taproom in Casper, with doors at 10AM.
We’ll do the show live in front of an audience, with live versions of Dumber Than The Show Trivia, the $1,000 Minute of Mayhem, Paired With an Idiot and Segment 17 after the show!
Happening at 11 a.m.
Max (the dog) and a young girl named Tori take the first trip to the Moon since the Apollo era. Along the way, the story sets the stage for the more sophisticated science of the “Big Kid Box” sidebars, which cover topics including “Phases of the Moon,” “Wings in Space?,” and “Frisbees and Curve Balls on the Moon” – all thoughtfully explained so that grownups and children can learn together about science. Toward the end, Max and Tori’s trip proves so inspiring to people back on Earth that all the nations of the world come together to build a great Moon colony from which “the beautiful views of Earth from the Moon made everyone realize that we all share a small and precious planet.”
Run time: 30 minutes
Happening at 4 p.m.
Funky Junk Prefunk Kickoff featuring Dirt Reynolds @ Frontier!
Kick off your Funky Junk weekend with a cold beer and live tunes from the one and only Dirt Reynolds. He’s bringing the twang and good vibes to the Frontier stage from 6–8pm.
The Funky Junk crew will be hanging out, answering questions, and getting the community hyped for the weekend. PLUS, the Hangry Dog Food Truck will be on-site serving up dinner!
No cover—just good beer, good music, and a head start on the fun.
Happening at 6 p.m.
HIP HOP 4 HOPE
Free Show
Doors 7pm
This is a fentanyl awareness fundraiser, featuring a myriad of acts.
I’SCream 4 Wings will be serving their delicious Wings, Pizza, Ice Cream and More!
Happening at 7 p.m.
Patton Oswalt
Comedian Patton Oswalt translated his acerbic, defiantly absurdist sensibility into surprising mainstream success, enjoying a thriving television and film career without dulling his edge. Born January 27, 1969, in Portsmouth, Virginia, Oswalt initially pursued a career as a writer, and also worked as a paralegal before performing his first open-mike gig at the Washington, D.C., club Garvin’s in the summer of 1988. He began his professional standup career the following year and in 1992 relocated to San Francisco, continuing to hone his craft in nightclubs. After collaborating with fellow comedian Blaine Capatch on Food for Thought, a series of short films for the cable network Comedy Central, Oswalt settled in Los Angeles in 1995, working as a writer on Fox’s fledgling sketch program Mad TV and appearing on HBO Comedy Showcase. In 1996, he made his feature film debut with a brief role in the comedy flop Down Periscope. Cast as nerdy Spence Olchin in the long-running CBS sitcom The King of Queens in 1998, Oswalt worked alongside veteran standups Kevin James and the great Jerry Stiller, solidifying his rising profile via roles in the features Magnolia, Man on the Moon, and Zoolander. In 2003, he even expanded into the world of comic books, writing the DC one-shot JLA: Welcome to the Working Week.
Oswalt’s debut standup LP, Feelin’ Kinda Patton, appeared on Michael Penn and Aimee Mann‘s United Musicians imprint in 2004. The indie rock fanzine Chunklet also released an unedited and unexpurgated two-disc version of the same performance as 222. In the fall of 2004 Oswalt teamed with Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn, and Maria Bamford as the Comedians of Comedy, a collective that eschewed traditional standup clubs in favor of indie rock venues. A feature film documenting their tour followed in 2005, as did a six-episode Comedy Central series. In 2007, Oswalt appeared in a number of voice acting roles, including Jim in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants and Rémy, the star of the Pixar film Ratatouille. In 2007 he released Werewolves and Lollipops, with My Weakness Is Strong following in 2009. Finest Hour arrived in 2011, with Patton discovering “The Miracle of Sweatpants.” Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time followed in 2014 and focused on the highs and low of parenting with tracks like “I Am a Great Dad” and “I Am an Awful Dad,” respectively.
In April 2016, Oswalt debuted a new comedy special, Talking for Clapping, the title referencing an infamous recording of an intoxicated John Wayne delivering a speech at a ROTC function in the late ’60s. Tragically, the standup special debuted just days before Oswalt’s wife, writer Michelle McNamara, died unexpectedly at the age of 46. Talking for Clapping went on to win an Emmy Award for Best Writing for a Variety Special, and in September 2016, it was released as an album by A Special Thing Records. The following year, he released the comedy special, Patton Oswalt: Annihilation, to Neflix. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
Emo Philips
Described by Jay Leno as “the best joke writer in America” and by British comedian Gary Delaney as the best joke writer in the world, Emo Philips has performed over seven thousand stand-up shows in comedy clubs, colleges, and theaters, including a multi-week run at the Playhouse Theatre in London’s West End. In 2018 and from 2022-23, Emo toured with “Weird Al” Yankovic (over two hundred concerts across three continents); Emo will forever remember the standing ovation he received at Carnegie Hall.
Emo has released comedy albums on the renowned Epic label; has had numerous cable specials (including an hour-long one on HBO); has performed stand-up many, many times on network television in America, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and the UK; has appeared in films (most notably as the table-saw demonstrator in UHF and as Salvador Dali in Weird: The “Weird Al” Yankovic Story); has lent his distinctive voice to audiobooks (including a 2023 collection of poems by Bob Odenkirk) and to animated TV shows (such as Slacker Cats, Adventure Time, and Home Movies); and has even been published in Mad Magazine.
Happening Friday and Saturday.