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Seattle VC Roast & Comedy Night

Professional comedians take aim at Seattle’s venture capital community, roasting partners from Madrona, Pioneer Square Labs, Foundations and Tola Capital,… Read More

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Tech Roast Seattle: Comedians Roast Techies

Comedy collective Socially Inept brings its tech-roast format to the Seattle Rep, putting local tech workers on stage to be… Read More

Live dating show reveals Seattle’s relationship with tech is still complicated

Allison Goldberg, comedian and host of “Love Isn’t Blind,” says that when she introduces a contestant who is a software engineer, the audience boos. Read More

‘SNL’ has a go at Amazon Go in spoof on how white and black shoppers may view ‘Just Walk Out’ tech

Are people really convinced that it’s safe to just grab and go from a cashierless Amazon Go store? Depends on… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ mom did not email me: How I got a troll to apologize, and why we might be friends now

In my five-plus years at GeekWire, I’ve often wondered what it would take to get Jeff Bezos’ attention and how… Read More

‘Beezos!’ Watch Elizabeth Warren call out tech CEOs in name-the-billionaire game on ‘Late Show’

Three days after calling out Amazon’s tax practices during a rally in Seattle, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren was… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Nintendo president speaks; D&D for a good cause; and more

— Nintendo is on a roll. Though its current console, the Nintendo Switch, doesn’t boast the same type of processing… Read More

Looking for love online? ‘Amazon Dating’ promises to deliver hot singles, and laughs, with fake website

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a website called “Amazon Dating” has emerged with a marketplace of shoppable single men… Read More

Watch: Before winners could take the stage at GeekWire Awards, comic pokes fun at tech

A tech-geek-turned-comedian walks into a room full of 1,000 current tech geeks … or so the joke goes. At Thursday… Read More

Very little tech support: The best zingers from a roast of techies at ‘Socially Inept’ comedy event

Tech worker Jash Bangdiwala took a seat on a stool in front of a room full of people and proceeded… Read More

‘Socially Inept’ comedy show returns to Seattle to take on tech and roast techies for laughs

You may have your own internal, running dialogue that relies on tech and techies for comedic fodder, but an event… Read More

Bill Gates engages in potty talk with ‘The Daily Show’ as he explains need to reinvent the toilet

WTF is wrong with Bill Gates? That was the question, literally, from “The Daily Show” and correspondent Ronny Chieng as… Read More