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Comedy Walk: A Comedy Party!

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COMEDY WALK announces performers for huge downtown Los Angeles event.

Beverly Hills, CA, January 8, 2008 – COMEDY WALK kicks off on January 10th, 2008, from 8pm to 9:30pm, in downtown Los Angeles. Great comedy performers present sneak peaks of their shows in an evening of comedy downtown. Near Main & 5th Streets in Los Angeles. FREE!

COMEDY WALK presents 6 simultaneous 90-minute variety comedy shows with breaks at the half-hour so audience members can stretch their legs to walk to see a show at another venue. Performers also walk to different venues to perform a second act. Comedian Rick Overton says, "COMEDY WALK is the healthiest thing comics have done in years." Sneak peaks and excerpts of their club and stage shows. Each act is up to ten minutes long. Six COMEDY WALK emcees, who’ve appeared in such television shows as Carpoolers and Pushing Daisies, introduce the comedy acts and banter with the comedians.

COMEDY WALK adds a sixth venue! The Downtown Comedy Club. COMEDY WALK is the biggest, funniest comedy walk in the world: 30 comedy acts performing 6 simultaneous 90-minute variety shows at 6 venues in historic downtown Los Angeles all within two blocks of each other near Main and 5th streets. The free monthly COMEDY WALK event is the lead-up to the massive 300-act LOS ANGELES COMEDY FESTIVAL coming to downtown in November 2008.

Comedy Walk Performers for Jan. 10th, 2008

  1. Joe Bartnick, stand-up, Sirius The Playboy Morning Show and XM National Lampoon Radio
  2. Cocoa Brown, stand-up, Comedy Central Comic Groove, nine seasons on BET Comic View
  3. Competitive Awesome, sketch, The Newest New News
  4. Fakesweet, solo sketch, Comedy Central Stage, HBO US Comedy Arts Festival winner best sketch comedy
  5. Retha Jones, stand-up, Comic View, HBO Def Jam, Comedy Central Premium Blend, Comic's Unleashed
  6. Good Neighbor, sketch, recent USC grads, Pregnant Jamie Lynn Speaks Out with 2 million hits on YouTube
  7. K-Von, stand-up, hosts the Wednesday night show at Laugh Factory
  8. Erik Lundy, stand-up, XM National Lampoon Radio, January 15th Comedy Central Live at Gotham at Irvine Improv
  9. Jodi Miller, stand-up, The Improv, Comedy Store, The Ice House
  10. Garrett Morris, original Saturday Night Live cast member, The Jamie Foxx Show, Car Wash, Cooley High
  11. The Mutiny, short-form improv
  12. Alex Nussbaum, stand-up, nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award as Best Male Stand-up
  13. OPM, multicultural sketch comedy group, Best of the Fest at San Francisco Fringe Fest, Vancouver Sketchoff Competition Top Prize
  14. Rick Overton, Seinfeld appearances and won an Emmy writing for Dennis Miller Live
  15. Poetri, Tony Award-winning spoken word artist, hosts the Da' Poetry Lounge Tuesday nights
  16. Melanie Reno, stand-up, Comedy Central Premium Blend, comedy CD on sale at Amoeba Music
  17. Riegel & Blatt, socially awkward folk rock, Austin Film Festival Television Comedy Writing Award, JibJab Great Sketch Experiment finalist.
  18. Jay Jay Robb, stand-up, Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, see on Feb. 11th at The Improv Spiked Monday
  19. D'Sean Ross, stand-up, hosts every other Sunday at the Laugh Factory, next show January 13th, 8pm
  20. Nick Rutherford, stand-up, MTV, The CW, and E! Entertainment Network
  21. Mikey Scott, stand-up
  22. Skillz, stand-up, new to the L.A. comedy scene from Chicago
  23. Willis Turner, stand-up, Comic View, Comics Unleashed, HBO Def Jam, opens for Kat Williams
  24. Neeley Ward, stand-up, Comedy Store main stage
  25. Rich Williams, stand-up, Comedy Central Stage, head writer-producer for MyBlueCollar.com
  26. Joe Wilson, stand-up, co-host Dork Forest Radio, co-host Road Stories
  27. more...

Comedy Walk Emcees for Jan. 10th, 2008

  1. Garrett Morris, see Garrett at the Downtown Comedy Club
  2. Wendy Carrillo, hear Wendy on Power 106 FM
  3. Taji Coleman, see Taji on Pushing Daisies and Carpoolers
  4. Kimberly Douglas, Funny and Loud, bi-lingual Spanish
  5. Claudine Guerrero, Funny and Loud, bi-lingual Spanish
  6. Jim McCaffree, see Jim on Carpoolers and live in Pale Irish Bastards and in The Dinner Detective

Comedy Walk Downtown Los Angeles Venues January 10th, 2008

  1. Downtown Comedy Club
    500-seat nightclub inside the historic Alexandria Hotel
    501 Spring Street,
    Los Angeles, CA 90013
  2. The New LATC
    Theater #4, 80-seat lounge in a newly renovated theater complex
    Los Angeles Theater Center
    514 South Spring Street
    Los Angeles, CA 90013
  3. Canadian Building
    Industrial space, 2,200 sq'
  4. Industrial Space TBA
  5. Diner TBA
  6. Store TBA

COMEDY WALK is within a 2-block neighborhood of Main and 5th streets in downtown Los Angeles. Go to the Downtown Comedy Club or follow posted signs. Programs with the time and location of each act are available the day of the event.

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COMEDY WALK is a production of MovieEditor.com, founded by partners Robin Rowe and Gabrielle Pantera in 1999.

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