Tonight through Saturday, August, 1: If you’ve ever wanted to pretend you were Christopher Walken, or contemplate good versus evil using only pantomime, or if you just like watching people attempt to be funny on the spot (and then laugh at them when they don’t succeed), go to the Improvapalooza at the Source theater this weekend — 85 shows and 16 hours of comedic genius (hopefully) for just $10 a day. [The Washington Improv Theater] MORE »

The Washington DC Improv comedy club held its 12th annual “Funniest Celebrity in Washington” fundraiser last night, where politicians, TV personalities, local cultural aesthetes and ex-Wonkette editors (Mary Cox or whatever, as well as Pareene this year) give stand-up comedy an awkward try. Unsurprisingly, the winner was Onion assistant editor Joseph Randazzo, followed by Sen. Arlen Specter (video above, via PennLive) in second and Cox lady in third. Randazzo had all sorts of jo–

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Friday

• Baltimore native DMX at Love, 1350 Okie St. NE. $20. [Ticketmaster]

• 1958’s The Kraft Theatre. All the King’s Men [Parts I & II]. Sidney Lumet directed this adaptation of the novel by Robert Penn Warren. Free at 7PM. LOC’s Mary Pickford Theater. [LOC]

Saturday

• Comedians Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader and Maz Jobrani present their “Axis of Evil Comedy Show.” 7&10PM at the Warner Theatre. $27-$37. [Warner Theatre]

• Black Heart Procession at the Black Cat. 9:30PM. $12. [Black Cat]
• Free Grey Goose until 11PM at Century Club, hosted by former WPGC DJ Big Tigger. Carnegie Library. $25 in advance; Free before 10:30PM for men and before 11PM for women. [WP]
• Of Montreal at The State Theater. $12 at 7PM. [State Theatre]

Sunday

• Yes, yes you hate improv, but you also kind of love it. The Escapists at the Warehouse. $15 at 8PM. [Theater Mania]

• The Good Fight author Peter Beinart at Politics and Prose. “Liberals, he says, can oppose the totalitarianism which stalks the Islamic world today and at the same time fight for freedom from the inside out by becoming more democratic at home.” [P&P]
• Screening of Underground with new musical score for cello and piano. “Subterranean spaces of the London Tube are the setting for a thrilling rush-hour romance…with a chill a minute.” Free at 4:30 p.m. National Gallery. [National Gallery]