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Their summer tour CONTACT SPECIALIST a stuck at home rut with things you can schedule includes Rock Fest 2020 in AUDREY FOCHS do right now like plant some tomatoes Cadott, this July. Out & About Wisconsin is published monthly by Foxx Interactive in your garden or order carry-out from Finally, we have the fruit of Services. All rights reserved. No duplication of any editorial or your favorite supper club. Before you Contributor Todd Haefer’s discussion photography is allowed without written permission from Foxx Interactive Services. Copyright 2020. know it, you will be back to planning with Vicki Medland, associate the ways you will go out and enjoy the director of the Cofrin Center for summer in Wisconsin and we have Biodiversity at the University Printable PDF version of this issue available at: https://outandaboutwisconsin.com/digital-magazine/ a couple of stories related to those of Wisconsin-Green Bay about entertaining thoughts as well. Heirloom Tomatoes. So read this issue, find all the IN THIS ISSUE… details to make your plans and then First up is Contributor Peter turn off your device and do what you For those of you who are part of a group that is planning an Lindblad’s interview with Jill like to do where you can, when you upcoming event, we want Maragos, a delightful comedian can. Stay safe and wash your hands. to hear from you. with an academic background in Make sure to send information about that event to editor@ engineering slated to appear at outandaboutwisconsin.com, and we’ll Skyline Comedy Club in Appleton at get it listed on our calendar. Not sure what to include? Check out this month’s the end of next month. Norma Jean Fochs calendar, where we explain exactly Next, Supper Club Guy David NORMA JEAN FOCHS what kind of information we need. Just PUBLISHER remember, if your event is in June Brierley provides a round-up of [email protected] we need to know about it in the beginning of May. 2 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com Where GOOD TIMES live Music • Food • Great atmosphere & GOOD FOOD come together! CHICKEN RANCH WRAP CHIPOTLE BURGER SALMON SANDWICH CHOICES OF FISH FRY Find us on Facebook! Call to place your Open at 11 am The Bridge Bar & Restaurant order for Carry-Out every day 101 W Main St. Fremont, Wisconsin 54940 (920) 446-3300 bridgebarfremont.com JILL MARAGOS Photo Credit: Dana Patrick Credit: Photo 4 www.DoWhatYouLikeToDo.com JILL MARAGOS Jill Maragos Doing the math BY PETER LINDBLAD clever, math-related one-liners full of confession to make in that regard. sexual innuendo in response that leaves “To make it cleaner/easier to write Always good at math, even though she audiences in stitches. They’re so good I just assigned the conversation to admits studying engineering in college that people actually come up to Maragos my friend Kevin,” said Maragos, who “was a bit of a nightmare,” comedian after shows and ask her to write them explained that little revelation was “just a Jill Maragos is even better at using it to down for them. That’s how a real math peek behind the stand-up curtain, folks.” get laughs. nerd does it. Although touring schedules remain Maragos is particularly skilled “I’ve met so many awesome math fluid, what with the COVID-19 at setting up jokes that blindside teachers after shows that way,” laughs pandemic and all, Maragos has a show audiences. She comes by it naturally, as Maragos. “I’d always write them down lined up for June 25 at the Skyline if she’s mapping out an equation. It’s like until I ended up putting them on the Comedy Club in Appleton. She is a strategic ambush. back of my business card. And, that itching to get back to performing and “I see comedy mathematically,” said made it easier.” is most looking forward to “hearing a Maragos. “It’s about setting up and then She also had a magnet made with room of people laugh again.” breaking a pattern. If you give away the them on it. Maragos added, “Ideally, I’d be the punchline on the set-up, it won’t be funny.” “The bit originated a few years one making that happen. But, I look just Without giving too much away, back,” said Maragos. “I heard this girl as forward to the other folks on shows there’s a part of her act that tells of a at a restaurant swooning about how the getting those laughs, too. There’s nothing supposedly nerdy girl trying to gain favor guy she met on Tinder was cute nerdy like a roomful of laughter. I feel like we with one of her male friends in a text that because of some super lame, nonsensical can all use that, now more than ever.” says, “I want to be the rhombus to your thing he sent her. And she loved it! And I In a sense, Maragos has been triangle,” or something to that effect. thought, ‘What the hell?’” preparing for the coronavirus outbreak Maragos doesn’t buy it. Onstage, The names have been changed to her whole life. she proceeds to roll out a series of protect the not-so-innocent. She has a “As someone who brings her Out and About WI MAY 2020 5 JILL MARAGOS own Clorox cleaning wipes to hotels, and has anti-bacterial wipes on her at all times, I can honestly say that it’s amped up my germaphobia to an 11,” said Maragos. “I may or may not have looked into buying a UV light for every room of the house.” Practicing social distancing and going into self-quarantine is fairly normal for Maragos. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been a rich vein of comedic gold to tap into. “When I’m not on the road, I write at home during the day anyway,” said Maragos. “Every day is kind of like a self-quarantine in that way! I have no real material based on the quarantining itself. And, sadly, my husband is super cool and easy to get along with. He’s truly a horrible source for ‘ERRRR!!! My husband is the worst!’ type comedy.” Growing up in Buffalo, New York, Maragos was part of a family that was a little off the wall, but in a good way. She figures that’s where her stand-up career really started. “My entire extended family has a great sense of humor,” said Maragos. “Just super weird and no topic is/was ever off limits. We used to have these all-night card games where we’d all drink and laugh our heads off. I look back now and realize I actually had stand-up bits I’d do for them even way back then. They’d say, ‘Do the spelling bee thing!’ And I’d do this silly bit I had about a spelling bee moderator who got embarrassing words they had to pass on to the kids. But, overall, humor is how we deal with life and loss as a family. And, how we console each other.