This weekly performance showcase celebrates the gloriously ridiculous, where performers compete to present the weirdest, silliest, most absurd acts they can dream up - the more idiotic, the better. You might witness someone performing an interpretive dance about their failed Tinder dates, a comedian doing stand-up entirely in gibberish, or a musician playing a kazoo symphony about their cat. The performances range from hilariously bad on purpose to surprisingly brilliant in their stupidity, and the audience is encouraged to embrace the absurdity. The intimate venue and anything-goes format create permission to be weird, and performers and audience members bond over the shared joy of not taking yourself seriously.

This is why it made the JUICY list: the celebration of ridiculous performances creates an atmosphere where everyone's guard is down, where laughing at someone's intentionally terrible puppet show about existential dread makes you want to share your own weird ideas, and where the permission to be silly and imperfect dissolves social barriers faster than any icebreaker, turning strangers into co-conspirators in embracing the absurd.