FRIDAY
Comedian Smoove brings enthusiasm to the isles
Curb your enthusiasm! J.B. Smoove, who broke out as Leon on the HBO series, is a writer, comedian and actor, currently a cast member in BET’s Kevin Hart vehicle “Real Husbands of Hollywood.” You’ve also seen him in comedy films “Pooty Tang,” “Barbershop the Next Cut” and “Almost Christmas.” Smoove brings his “comedic funk” here, alongside Comedy Central’s Donnell Rawlings, best known for his supporting role on “Chappelle’s Show.”
“Every comedian has the ability to turn drama into comedy,” he told Conan O’Brien in February. “If you see me laughing all the time, inside it’s pain, inside my body.” He then proceeded to impersonate a werewolf, boasting of his ability to emote, “I pull it out everywhere I go!”
SATURDAY
Delight in the sunny joy of Caillat and her songs
Colbie Caillat, the sunny, winsome pop singer-songwriter who won America’s heart with her debut album, “Coco,” a decade ago — and took it platinum twice — is on tour to support a brand-new album, dedicated to her Southern California hometown of Malibu. She’s set out to do it her own way, with her own label, and recorded “The Malibu Sessions” entirely on the beach, in a rented house.
She’s earned the right to set her own course, having sold 20 million singles worldwide. Caillat signaled her annoyance at the artificiality of the star-making machine with the widely shared video “Try” in 2014. In it, she and a cast of other diverse women evolve from made-up to bare-faced, from primped to natural.
See her on this acoustic tour as she shares the joy.
Hidden-camera pranksters of truTV hit Honolulu
Q, Murr, Joe and Sal, the “Impractical Jokers” of truTV’s hit show, descend on Hawaii today as part of the four friends’ “Santiago Sent Us” tour. In their off-the-wall, improbable reality-comedy series, the guys, friends since their high school days, goad each other on to commit public pranks, filmed by hidden cameras. The audience laughs at and with them.
As a comedy act, the four rude, crude but good-hearted guys from New York are known as the Tenderloins, pictured from left: Sal Vulcano, James Murray, Joe Gatto and Brian Quinn. They’re natives of Staten Island who formed a comedy troupe, specializing in live improv, sketches and the pranks that brought them a global audience.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY
German sampler on tap at museum film festival
Bring out the bratwurst for the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, which gives eight German-language films their Hawaii debut at the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Presented by the Goethe Institut-San Francisco, the festival includes features, documentaries and family-friendly films, including “Heidi” (pictured), a 2015 movie based on the classic tale of a charming mountain girl who is brought to the city. The film, a German-Swiss co-production, is the biggest box-office hit in Swiss history and won the 2016 German Film Award for Best Children’s Film. It screens at 11 a.m. Sunday.
The featured film for the event is “Scrappin’,” screening at 7:30 p.m. Saturday after a reception at BMW Hawaii. The comedy tells the story of a man struggling to keep the family business — running a scrapyard — afloat by stealing a train wagon full of copper.
Two festival films are documentaries: “Eva Hesse,” about the German-born artist who, although she died young at 34, was an influential figure in New York’s pop art scene of the ’60s and pioneered the use of fiberglass and plastics in sculpture, screening at 1 p.m. Saturday; and “Silicon Valley Revolution,” which explores the connection between the ’60s counterculture movement and the development of the personal computer, screening at 1 p.m. Sunday.
