All shows will take place at the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis.  Tickets are $15 at the door or $12 if purchased in advance.  If you present a Fringe button at the door, you will also get the discounted $12 rate.  To reserve advanced tickets, go online to www.bryantlakebowl.com or call the box office at 612-825-8949.

In addition, we are offering a $99.00 season pass this year!  The passes will be available only at our our October shows and they are good for the entire season.  If you purchase your ticket to the October show online, you can still upgrade to a season ticket at the door for $87.

All shows begin at 10:00 P.M. All scheduled guests are subject to last minute change. Here are the upcoming show dates and themes:

The Vilification Tennis Drinking Game – Friday, October 22nd & Saturday, October 23rd

We blatantly acknowledge what has always been obvious – we are a lot funnier when you are drunk.  To ensure you enjoy our show as much as possible, we are going to help you out by playing all sorts of drinking games designed to make us extremely funny.  The Bryant Lake Bowl has even put together a drink special for us called the “Fat Mom,” a bacon infused vodka martini with a bleu cheese olive garnish and a bacon chocolate chip cookie!  Worried about how you are going to get home?  Don’t!  Soft drinks are free for designated drivers!  So hand your keys over to someone and enjoy a drink or ten with Vilification Tennis.

Buy our S**t! A Vilification Tennis Salute to Black Friday – Saturday, November 27th

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than to pimp our shit?  We’ll have a new T-shirt, new DVDs and other Vilification merchandise sure to convince you to part with your hard earned cash.  You know your mom would like a new shirt, although we aren’t sure they make shirts in her size…

Scheduled Guests: Joseph Scrimshaw, more TBA

Go with the Flow: Vilification Tennis Ladies’ Night – Friday, December 17th

Hot girl on girl action at the Bryant Lake Bowl!  Enjoy the best kind of catfight as the ladies of vilification tennis show why the competition doesn’t heat up until the boys stay home.

Scheduled Guests: Courtney McLean

Minnesota Sucks! A Vilification Tennis Celebration of Global Warming – Friday, January 28th & Saturday, January 29th

January is a month where we are all asking ourselves why the hell we continue to live in this god forsaken icicle of a state.  Let’s gather under the hot stage lights of the Bryant Lake Bowl and “celebrate” our home Vilification Style.

Scheduled Guests: Amy Salloway

Take a Walk on the Wild Side: The Vilification Tennis Beastiality Show – Friday, February 25th

Look, we aren’t judging you for taking that third shift job at the stockyards, but we are sure as heck going to make fun of you for it.  Sheep, cows, horses, chickens, gibbons – this is totally turning you on isn’t it?  Gross!

Scheduled Guests: The Mustache Rangers

You Bet Your Mom! – Friday, March 25th & Saturday, March 26th

The return of our wildly popular Vilification Tennis game show!  Bob Barker and Pat Sajak would be more than a little embarrassed to see what we are doing to classic game shows but we are pretty sure you will laugh yourself into a coma.  If comedy isn’t enough to bring you out, how about fabulous prizes????

Guests: Christopher Jones, Kelvin Hatle and tech dude extraordinaire, Chad Dutton!

My God can Beat up Your God: The Most Sacrilegious Vilification Tennis Ever! – Friday, April 29th & Saturday, April 30th

Come celebrate Easter weekend by making fun of any and all gods we can think of.  If putting our immortal souls in jeopardy isn’t enough for you, we will also have free chocolates and all attendees will receive communion wafers shaped like Mohammed!  We might be kidding about the wafers.

Scheduled Guests: Phillip Low

Beyond ThunderCageDome DeathMatch: Vilification Tennis Salutes Professional Wrestling - Friday, May 27th

Our show is all about talking smack and so is professional wrestling.  What better combination could there be, Gene???  Just what would a pile driver look like in Vilification Tennis?  You’ll have to come to the show to find out!

Scheduled Guests: Pizpor the Magician

The Biggest Loser: The Vilification Tennis Amateur Show – Saturday, June 25th

Come see a bunch of hopefuls grace our stage for the first and (quite probably) last time.  How many shows are cruel enough to force people to try out in front of a live audience?  Come cheer on your friends or just watch for the train wreck we know you all want to see.

This show will not feature any guest performers aside from the amateurs themselves.

The Vilification Tennis Fringe Show: A one man musical interpretive dance about growing up as a gay single mom in the Midwest – Friday, July 22nd & Saturday, July 23rd

With the Minnesota Fringe Festival just around the corner, it is time for us to make fun of everything that makes the fringe a favorite for all sorts of people who aren’t us.  We are hoping to have many well known fringers join us to make this a truly memorable show about a whole lot of truly forgettable theatre.  We imagine most of them will turn us down.  Pretentious dicks.

Scheduled Guests: TBA

Whew!  That is a whole lotta comedy coming your way at the Bryant Lake Bowl!  Stay tuned for more announcements about guest performers and other specials associated with each show.

We would particularly like to recognize the following companies for giving us crap:

Sex Is Fun

SexIsFun.net, a different kind of sex education, produces a complete line of resources for adults. Sex is Fun, a world known podcast of the same name, is dedicated to the rational discussion of human sexuality from the approach of fun enjoyment and pleasure. Hosts Kidder Kaper, Laura Rad, Gay Rick and Coochie push the boundaries of everyday thinking with irreverent conversation, and interviews with the most influential sex educators, authors, and activists. SexIsFun.net’s online magazine covers everything from sex toys to relationships to health. For those looking for a tangible product, SexIsFun.net also publishes a complete line of adult party games, and a fully illustrated, scenario-based guide for couples forthcoming in June.

Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games is a gaming company in Minnesota that makes all sorts of neat shit, including Twilight Imperium, Descent, and Laurie’s personal favorite, Battlestar Galactica.  Seriously, she cannot get enough of that shit, despite the fact that she is hardly ever a Cylon.  They were kind enough to donate several games which lucky audience members received as prizes.  We like FFG lots and lots, and appreciate their generosity.