Philip Schallberger is one of Portland’s celebrated outliers, a Pacific Northwest comedy veteran who was voted one of Willamette Weekly’s Five Funniest this past year. He does wild, unexpected things in sketch and standup, tinkering with character work, audio and PowerPoint to create vignettes that are strikingly different and almost indescribably original. Emmett Montgomery says of him, “Not a lot of things scare me but Phil does, and it is usually a transcendent experience.”
This week he begins a Seattle mini-residency, staging his solo sketch show Phil Schallberger: Full Showberger at the Seattle Fringe Festival for four nights and appearing on the March edition of Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery.
I interviewed him via webcam:
And here’s Schallberger performing one of his characters on Late Night Action with <href=”https: twitter.com=”” alex_falcone”=””>Alex Falcone and Bri Pruett.