LOL WITH IT: ManiParty! @ L'Etage, 9/1

Philly's "best-smelling" and "cute as shit" comedy group, ManiPedi, is hosting a fundraiser to help pay for their upcoming trip to perform in next week's Boston Comedy Arts Festival.

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LOL WITH IT: ManiParty! @ L'Etage, 9/1

POSTED: Friday, August 31, 2012, 12:42 PM

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Philadelphia's very original, very funny all-girl sketch-comedy troupe ManiPedi was founded in the summer of 2011 by Madonna Marie Refugia, who was asked to put something together for a show at Camp Tabu. She enlisted the help of funny ladies Shannon Brown, Briana Kelly, Kaitlin Thompson and Aubrie Williams, and named the group after a word she made up to describe the moment when she gets drunk and can't feel her hands and feet.

I asked member Aubrie Williams what about ManiPedi's comedic influences. "We're all Kids in the Hall fans, we love The State. We love Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Louis CK, of course. We've also been super inspired by Philly groups Camp Woods, The Feekos, Secret Pants and Meg and Rob. Separately, we're also influenced by different things, and we have different voices when we write sketches, which makes the collaborative process really awesome."

Tomorrow, Sat., Sept. 1, the ladies are hosting ManiParty: The Beantown Adventures Edition, a fundraiser to help pay for their upcoming trip north to perform in next week's Boston Comedy Arts Festival (BCAF). Performing alongside them — and at BCAF — are LOL WITH IT faves Camp Woods and The Feeko Brothers.

Tickets for the hour-and-a-half party are $10 at the door, and the show starts at 7 p.m. You can follow ManiPedi on Twitter @manipedisketch or Facebook ManiPediSketch. And for a taste of what you're in for, here's a video they made of themselves lampooning Sylvia Plath called "Taco Bell Jar."

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Taco Bell Jar from ManiPedi on Vimeo.

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