Emmett Montgomery

Mr. Beast is a six piece puppet requiring 3 people to operate. Each piece is a separate paperbag puppet: two hands, two eyes, one mouth and one nose/mustache combo. I have been making puppets since the beginning of the century but this guy is something different. The plan is to make a lot of different face parts to increase the possibilities of strangeness.
I have brought Mr. Beast to the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in the hopes of taking advantage of all the creative people and see what bizarre friendshipping happens in the city of Portland. Ideally there will be a slew of ridiculous pictures, and I will discover some new uses for this paperbag monstrosity.

The multitalented Brett Hammil wrote a brilliant story about the strange journey that is the open mic experience that is published in the April issue of City Arts Magazine. He chronicles his time at my open mic Beard Practice at Cc Attle’s. Although the article takes a certain poetic license, it captures the spirit of what it is like to strive for perfect jokes in an imperfect world.

Tomorrow I get on a train and head to Portland to perform at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. I have been fortunate enough to have been there since the beginning and have seen it get bigger and better every year. A few years ago at this festival I proposed to a lady in a hotel shower and it worked out pretty well. The festival is very special to my heart.

I had a conversation with Tom Mohrmon from Culture Mob about my experience as a Bridgetown veteran. We talk about some important things.

I have some great shows including two late nights (which tend to get delightfully weird) and a return to one of my favorite venues, the Eagle’s Lodge. I will also be hosting an hour of the infamous festival open mic at the Tanker, where anything can happen and it usually does but the main thing I am excited for is the strange friendshipping and accidental adventures that tend to occur at an experience like this.

Emmett Montgomery

Shows with Emmett Montgomery:
Bog Late Show
$10.00 – Thursday, April 18, 2013, 11:00 pm @ Bar of the Gods
Hawthorne Lounge Late Night
$10.00 – Friday, April 19, 2013, 11:30 pm @ Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
Bridgetown Open Mic (hosting)
$?$ – Saturday, April 20, 11pm @ Tanker
Eagles Primetime
$15.00 – Sunday, April 21, 2013, 8:00 pm @ Eagles Lodge

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You may have noticed that my posts and movies have went away, but don’t worry, They aren’t dead only sleeping. I am in the middle of a long overdue and massive update and content will slowly be rereleased as problems get resolved. In the meantime please feel free to browse my puppet gallery (soon to be rebuilt with a lot more creatures) and feel free to find me on twitter or facebook or even seek me out and hug me in person.

*UPDATE I*

Links on the front page have been corrected to include some of my main ongoing projects: my open mic at Seattle’s most beloved bear bar, my heartfelt variety show and my membership in the greatest literary based performance collective I have ever been in. 

*UPDATE II*

Updated my quotes on the front page including a nice thing one of the most popular guys on the internet said about me.

*UPDATE III*

Video issues resolved started to populate the movie gallery