Get Loweded  Get Loweded is a variety show, sketch comedy, cabaret, life experience, multi-media art presentation and, according to Seattle's alternative press, "alcohol soaked freakshow." The show takes place at a Seattle, Washington venue called Re-bar. Through random hookups with strangers, culinary challenges, burlesque, live music, surreal story arcs(they spent 9 months set in the post-apocalyptic future), free drinks and interactive humor, they focus on presenting a unique take on the standard variety show format. Get Loweded focuses on celebrating nightlife and lifestyle  Get Loweded was created by Seattle media producer Chas Roberts  after a conversation about a Minneapolis-based lifestyle talk show called Drinking with Ian. Following the lead of that show he set out to create a more rowdy version with other influences ranging from the Upright Citizen's Brigade, the State, 3rd wall deconstructing series the Larry Sanders Show with a nod to surreal professional wrestling story arcs and game shows. Get Loweded has a cast of somewhat notable Seattle based performers with a variety of skills including: Jackson Lowe (Chas Roberts' alter ego, emcee), Emmett Montgomery (comedian, writer, co-host), Danielle Radford (comedian, writer, host of the Are you Smarterer ... segment), Evilyn Sin Claire (burlesque performer, writer), Brandi Bratrude (journalist, acts as prize girl), Jack Portwood (video/production specialist, musician), Josh Black/Ronald McFondle (performance artist, writer). For each run (September–June), the performers don various personas as fitting. Get Loweded's opening season began on August 18, 2007. The basic format included what became the Get Loweded staples: interactive games "Are you Smarterer than ... :"featuring notable local performers versus random audience members in a slightly rigged intellectual challenge and "Would you Eat That:" a culinary challenge based on foods people had told Chas Roberts they had actually eaten after a late night. Also, it featured the Hook Up Challenge where random audience members were selected to sit in a cushy area, given free drinks and provided private entertainment over the course of the show. At the show's end, they would decide to hookup(kiss in front of the audience) or split up. Generally the shows were paced to get progressively louder and rowdier to emulate a "stations of the cross for drunks."