Friendlytown

A Visitor’s Guide to Friendlytown

Friendlytown is a weekly experimental comedy show that happened every Monday at 7:30 PM at the Pilot Light (106 E. Jackson Ave, Knoxville) between 2016 and 2020. Every week, the Friendlytown City Council gathered to address an issue of burning importance to the wonderful little community. Also, we gave local stand-up comedians some time up front to work on their latest hot takes.

You can follow Friendlytown on Facebook for the latest updates and show announcements, or to get in touch with the City Council leadership there.

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The shows were (mostly) podcasted as Friendlytown Radio on iTunes. Because it took us forever to get the podcast going, we are operating on a delay. Below are the list of Friendlytown shows, along with an indication of whether or not they were recorded or are/will be available as podcast episodes.

Check out our 2017 Holiday Mixtape, available for free on Bandcamp because we love you!

EPISODE/MEETING GUIDE

(Updated: 7/24/17)
* = Recorded
^= Podcast available

  1. Friendlytown: Hello, My Name Is…. 8/22/16
  2. Friendlytown Needs a Mascot! 8/29/16
  3. Friendlytown is Hiring! 9/5/16 *^
  4. Friendlytown Needs a Roadside Attraction! 9/12/16 *^
  5. Friendlytown Arts Society: A Night of Critique 9/19/16
  6. Friendlytown Needs a Religion 9/26/16
  7. Friendlytown Goes Green! 10/03/16 *^
  8. The Pop Culture Mixtape (Special Edition) 10/05/16 *^
  9. Friendlytown Explorers Society: A Night of Discovery! 10/10/16 *^
  10. The Friendlytown Harvest Festival! 10/17/16 *^
  11. Friendlytown Needs a Supervillian! 10/24/16 *^
  12. Friendlytown Decides! 11/07/16 *^
  13. The Friendlytown Lottery! 11/14/16 *^
  14. Friendlytown Presents: Drop-Up Video (Special Guest) 11/21/16
  15. Friendlytown Needs a Teen Hangout! 11/28/16
  16. Friendlytown Needs an Official Sport! 12/05/16 *^
  17. Friendlytown Needs a Sports Call-In Show! 12/12/16 *^
  18. Friendlytown Presents: Xmas Death Loop 12/19/16 *^ (Podcast Here)
  19. Friendlytown’s 2016 in Review 12/26/16 *^
  20. Friendlytown Needs a College! 01/02/17 *^
  21. Friendlytown Needs Resolutions! 01/09/17 *^
  22. Friendlytown Has a Dream! 01/16/17 *^
  23. Friendlytown Needs Show Ideas! 01/23/17 *^
  24. Friendlytown Needs Its Antiques Appraised! 01/30/17*^
  25. Friendlytown: 911! 02/06/17 *^
  26. Friendlytown Dating Game! 02/13/17 *
  27. Friendlytown is Saved by the Bell! 02/20/17 *
  28. Friendlytown Needs a Bedtime Story! 02/27/17 *
  29. Friendlytown Complaints Department! 03/06/17 *
  30. Friendlytown: Inside the Directors’ Studio! 03/13/17 *
  31. Friendlytown: Taboo Table Talk Special 3/20/17 *^ (Podcast Here)
  32. Friendlytown: Inside the Actors’ Studio! 03/27/17 *
  33. Funnygrrrlz Presents: Comedy! (Special Event) 04/03/17
  34. Wealth of Knowledge Man! Comes to Friendlytown 04/10/17
  35. Friendlytown Needs a Vacation! 04/17/17
  36. Friendlytown Needs to Eradicate a Species! 04/24/17 *
  37. Friendlytown Needs to Reintroduce a Species! 04/31/17 *
  38. Friendlytown Needs a Mad Scientist! 05/06/17 *
  39. Friendlytown Scientific Forum 05/13/17
  40. Friendlytown Goes to Court! 5/22/17 *
  41. Friendlytown War Stories 5/29/17
  42. Friendlytown Needs to Have a Talk with the Youth 6/12/17*^
  43. Friendlytown Really Needs the Insurance Money 6/19/17*^
  44. Friendlytown is SPELLBOUND (feat. Shane Rhyne) 6/26/17*^
  45. Friendlytown Presents: MY TV STORIES (LIVE) feat. Hunter Roberts 7/3/17*
  46. Friendlytown Needs a National Anthem (feat. Alex Linton) 7/10/17*^
  47. Friendlytown Needs to Shake this Hangover 7/17/17*^
  48. Friendlytown Needs to Win Diane Back 7/24/17 *^
  49. Friendlytown Needs an Obscure New System of Government 7/31/17 *
  50. Friendlytown Never Actually Saw that Movie 8/7/17 *
  51. Friendlytown Needs a Midlife Crisis 8/14/17 *
  52. FRIENDLYTOWN’S ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND ECLIPSE CELEBRATION YEAHHHHH 8/21/17 *
  53. Friendlytown Needs to Get Its Shit Together 8/28/17*
  54. Friendlytown Gets Fired! 9/4/17
  55. Friendlytown Needs Public Access Programming (with Special Guest-Host Jagermeister Templehoff) 9/11/17 *
  56. Friendlytown Needs a Dating Profile! 9/18/17*
  57. Friendlytown Gets Invaded! (w/ Donnie Marsh) 9/25/17*
  58. Friendlytown Needs a Brewery! 10/2/17*
  59. SPECIAL EVENT: An Evening with Yedoye Travis 10/9/17
  60. Friendlytown Needs to Clear Out Its Storage Unit* 10/16/17
  61. Friendlytown Needs to Check Out This Cool Dog! 10/23/17
  62. Friendlytown Has Too Many Hot Dogs! (HOT DOG! A Comedy Show w/ Dustin Meadows)*^ 10/30/17
  63. Friendlytown: NOIR 11/6/17
  64. Friendlytown Book Club! 11/13/17
  65. Friendlytown Gives Thanks! 11/20/17
  66. Friendlytown Cleans Out its Spam Filter 11/27/17
  67. The Friendlytown Pissgoblins Need a New Coach! 12/4/17
  68. Friendlytown Goes to College (Literally!) 12/11/17
  69. Friendlytown Holiday VHS Bonanza! 12/18/17
    [Break for Xmas and New Years 2018]
  70. Friendlytown Enters the Goblin Cave! 1/8/18
  71. Friendlytown Presents WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE MAN 1/15/18
  72. Friendlytown Has an App for That 1/22/18
  73. Friendlytown Banishes Mayor Aaron Chasteen 1/29/18
  74. Friendlytown Needs to Explain this Mess 2/5/18
  75. Friendlytown Winter Olympics! 2/12/18
  76. Friendlytown Throws a Shitty Music Festival! 2/19/18
  77. Friendlytown Goes to Comedy Boot Camp! 2/26/18
  78. FAPTV Premiere: “Hot Wheelz/Hot Takes!” 3/5/18
  79. Friendlytown Council Pizza Party! 3/12
  80. Friendlytown Used Car Emporium! 3/19/18
  81. Friendlytown Needs to Fix Everything (Post-Festival Edition!) 3/26/18
  82. Friendlytown Needs a Patron Saint! 4/2/18
  83. Friendlytown Hosts an Open Mic, Maaaan 4/9/18
  84. Friendlytown Gets Audited! 4/16/18
  85. Friendlytown Presents: An Evening with Dave Ross and Chris Charpintier! 4/23/18
  86. Friendlytown Presents: Laughing to Death with Boston McCown! 4/30/18
  87. Friendlytown Mobile Comedy Club! 5/7/18
  88. Now THAT’s What I Call Friendlytown 87! 5/14/18
  89. Friendlytown Presents: Home Groan Pun Battle! w/ Kelly Morgan (Asheville) 5/21/18
  90. Friendlytown Throws a Bachelorette Party w/ Ashton Binkley (Charlotte) 5/28/18
  91. Friendlytown Goes VIRTUAL (w/ John Hurst) 6/4/18
  92. Friendlytown Psychic Hotline! 6/11/18
  93. Friendlytown Presents: An Evening with Laura Sanders and Kate Mason (NOLA!) 6/18/18
  94. Friendlytown Couples Skate! (with DJ B. Real) 6/25/18
  95. Friendlytown Recounts its War of Independence! 7/2/18
  96. Friendlytown Tries to Remember Howie! (featuring “Henrietta”) 7/9/18
  97. Friendlytown’s Genealogy Test! 7/16/18
  98. Friendlytown Launders its Telethon Proceeds! 7/23/18
  99. Friendlytown Needs a New Flag! 7/30/18
  100. Friendlytown Goes for a Drive! (Show #100) 8/6/18
  101. Friendlytown: Legal! (with Andrew McNicholas) 8/13/18
  102. Friendlytown’s Second Annigoddamnversary! 8/20/18
  103. Friendlytown Found a Time Machine! 8/27/18
  104. Friendlytown Pitches a Movie! 9/3/18
  105. Friendlytown Gets It’s Nails Did! 9/10/18
  106. Friendlytown Will Release the Hostages Under the Following Conditions… 9/17/18
  107. Friendlytown Home Improvement Special! 9/24/18
  108. Friendlytown Symphony Orchestra Auditions! 10/1/18
  109. Friendlytown Can’t Make It Tonight; Sorry 😦 10/8/18
  110. Friendlytown High School 10/15/18
  111. Friendlytown Has Too Many Hot Dogs! (Again!) 10/22/18
  112. Friendlytown Dies 10/29/18
  113. Friendlytown Writes a Novella 11/5/18 (NaNoWriMo Special)
  114. Friendlytown Presents: Altercation Punk Comedy Tour 11/12/18
  115. Friendlytown:2066 11/19/18
  116. Friendlytown Goes to Comedy Island! 11/26/18
  117. Friendlytown Writes to Santa! 12/3/18
  118. Friendlytown Loves Reality TV! 12/10/18
  119. Friendlytown Goes to Shoney’s! 12/17/18
  120. NO SHOW FOR XMAS EVE GO BE JOLLY 12/24/18
  121. Friendlytown Best-Of 2018 NYE Special! 12/31/18
  122. Friendlytown Presents: TOD Talks 1/7/19
  123. Friendlytown Already Broke It’s New Year’s Resolution 1/14/19
  124. Friendlytown Deposes Mayor Tyler 1/21/19