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COMEDY WALK
January 10th, 2008 Program
www.ComedyWalk.com

8pm to 9:30pm FREE! Downtown Los Angeles Main & 5th streets All in a 2-block area

Walk between shows during breaks 6 Simultaneous Venues 30 Acts

Venue #1 Downtown Comedy Club 501 S. Spring 500-seat club Host: Garrett Morris Camera: Robin Rowe Wrangler: Kevin Garnier	Venue #2 Palace Theatre 630 S. Broadway 1,100-seat theater Host: Jim McCaffree Camera: Gabrielle Pantera/Robin Rowe Wrangler: Pam Van Zandt	Venue #3 Palace Lounge 630 S. Broadway, downstairs SRO 2,000 sq. ft. lounge Host: Mary Ann Biewener Camera: Elaine Kaspar Wrangler: Kieran Woo
8:00 Garrett Morris 8:10 Skillz 8:20 Retha Jones 8:30 – break – 8:35 Willis Turner 8:45 Rick Overton 8:55 – break – 9:00 Alex Nussbaum 9:10 Poetri	8:00 Great Adventure 8:10 Poetri 8:20 Joe Bartnick 8:30 – break – 8:35 Chris Fairbanks 8:40 Competitive Awesome 8:55 – break – 9:00 Cocoa Brown 9:10 Riegel & Blatt 9:20 Rick Overton	8:00 Melanie Reno 8:10 OPM 8:20 Erik Lundy 8:30 – break – 8:35 The Mutiny 8:45 Jay Jay Robb 8:55 – break – 9:00 FAKESWEET 9:10 Jodi Miller 9:20 D'Sean Ross
Venue #4 The New LATC Los Angeles Theater Center 514 S. Spring Theater #4, 80-seat cabaret Host: Claudine Guerrero Camera: Christine Anske Wrangler: Kady Douglas	Venue #5 Long Space Front of Los Angeles Garage 530 S. Main ** PARKING ** SRO 3,600 sq. ft. storefront Host: Wendy Carrillo Camera: Darren Jones Wrangler: Renee Miller	Venue #6 Canadian Room Canadian Building 436 S. Main SRO 2,200 sq. ft. storefront Host: Kimberly Douglas Camera: Jayson Wickenkamp Wrangler: Stephanie Northcutt
8:00 Jodi Miller 8:10 Riegel & Blatt 8:20 Alex Nussbaum 8:30 – break – 8:35 OPM 8:45 Neeley Ward 8:55 – break – 9:00 Good Neighbor 9:10 The Mutiny 9:20 Nick Rutherford	8:00 K-von 8:10 Point Break Live 8:20 Joe Wilson 8:30 – break – 8:35 Melanie Reno 8:45 D'Sean Ross 8:55 – break – 9:00 Erik Lundy 9:10 Great Adventure 9:20 Joe Bartnick	8:00 FAKESWEET 8:05 Good Neighbor 8:15 Competitive Awesome 8:20 Cocoa Brown 8:30 – break – 8:35 K-von 8:45 Point Break Live 8:55 – break – 9:00 Joe Wilson 9:10 Neeley Ward 9:20 Jay Jay Robb

See performers who've appeared on ABC, BET, Carpoolers, Comedy Central Live at Gotham, Comedy Central Premium Blend, Comedy Central Stage, Comic Groove, Comedy Store, Comic View, Comic's Unleashed, E! Entertainment Network, HBO Def Jam, The Ice House, The Improv, Laugh Factory, National Lampoon Radio, The Playboy Morning Show, MTV, Pushing Daisies, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Sirius, XM Radio, and more.

Comedy Walk Hosts for Jan. 10th, 2008

	Garrett Morris, from the original cast of Saturday Night Live See Garrett at the Downtown Comedy Club		Wendy Carrillo Hear Wendy on Power 106 FM
	Mary Ann Biewener, RisingCast Funny and Loud		Kimberly Douglas, RisingCast Funny and Loud, bi-lingual Spanish
	Claudine Guerrero, RisingCast Funny and Loud, bi-lingual Spanish		Jim McCaffree, RisingCast See Jim on Carpoolers and live in Pale Irish Bastards and in The Dinner Detective

Comedy Walk Performers for Jan. 10th, 2008

1. Joe Bartnick, stand-up, Dave Atell Insomniac Tour, Sirius The Playboy Morning Show, 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
5. Chris Fairbanks, stand-up, Fuel TV, toured with Patton Oswalt
6. Retha Jones, stand-up, Comic View, HBO Def Jam, Comedy Central Premium Blend, Comic's Unleashed
7. Good Neighbor, sketch, recent USC grads, Pregnant Jamie Lynn Speaks Out with 2 million hits on YouTube
8. K-Von, stand-up, hosts the Wednesday night show at Laugh Factory
9. Erik Lundy, stand-up, XM National Lampoon Radio, January 15th Comedy Central Live at Gotham at Irvine Improv
10. Jodi Miller, stand-up, performing every Monday night at Comedy Store
11. Garrett Morris, original Saturday Night Live cast member, The Jamie Foxx Show, Car Wash, Cooley High
12. Great Adventure, weekly comedy show on Saturdays 10:30pm at Gardner Stages in Hollywood.
13. The Mutiny, short-form improv
14. Alex Nussbaum, stand-up, nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award as Best Male Stand-up
15. OPM, multicultural sketch comedy group, Best of the Fest at San Francisco Fringe Fest, Vancouver Sketchoff Competition Top Prize
16. Rick Overton, Seinfeld appearances and won an Emmy writing for Dennis Miller Live, Wikipedia
17. Point Break Live, interactive reenactment of movie Point Break every Friday and Saturday night at Charley O's Downtown
18. Poetri, Tony Award-winning spoken word artist, hosts the Da' Poetry Lounge Tuesday nights
19. Melanie Reno, stand-up, Comedy Central Premium Blend, comedy CD on sale at Amoeba Music
20. Riegel & Blatt, socially awkward folk rock, Austin Film Festival Television Comedy Writing Award, JibJab Great Sketch Experiment finalist.
21. Jay Jay Robb, stand-up, Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, see on Feb. 11th at The Improv Spiked Monday
22. D'Sean Ross, stand-up, hosts every other Sunday at the Laugh Factory, next show January 13th, 8pm
23. Nick Rutherford, stand-up, MTV, The CW, and E! Entertainment Network
24. Skillz, stand-up, new to the L.A. comedy scene from Chicago
25. Willis Turner, stand-up, Comic View, Comics Unleashed, HBO Def Jam, opens for Kat Williams
26. Neeley Ward, stand-up, Comedy Store main stage
27. Joe Wilson, stand-up, co-host Dork Forest Radio, co-host Road Stories

For the City of Los Angeles ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA…Mayor JAN PERRY…Councilwoman, District 9	For the Cultural Affairs Department OLGA GARAY …EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SAUL ROMO…Assistant General Manager

COMEDY WALK kicks off on January 10th, 2008, from 8pm to 9:30pm, in downtown Los Angeles. This FREE event presents 30 comedy acts performing at six simultaneous venues in the historic downtown’s Gallery Row and Old Bank District in the neighborhood of Main and 5th streets. The monthly 30-act COMEDY WALK event is the lead-up to the summer 80-act LOS ANGELES COMEDY FESTIVAL in Hollywood and the winter 300-act LOS ANGELES COMEDY FESTIVAL coming to downtown in November 2008. 

Comedian Rick Overton, who’s appeared in episodes of Seinfeld and won an Emmy writing for Dennis Miller Live, is one of the COMEDY WALK performers. "I like the whole COMEDY WALK idea", says Overton. "In virtually any other city, walking means that you are healthy and have somewhere important to go. In Los Angeles, it means that something has gone horribly wrong with your career. I like to walk to my favorite diner. When I get home, there'll be messages on my service: ‘Hey man, I was driving by and saw you walking down Ventura today. I just hate to see you out there all on foot like that. Is everything okay? Do you need one of my cars? Call me…I'll be on the treadmill watching Dr. Phil on the flat screen, but I'll leave my cell phone on.’ Sheesh… COMEDY WALK is the healthiest thing comics have done in years."

COMEDY WALK is being held in cooperation with the Los Angeles Downtown Art Walk, a monthly event that draws a crowd of 3,000 people to 30 participating neighborhood art galleries. Art Walk is held from noon to 9pm. COMEDY WALK is held from 8pm to 9:30pm. Art Walk and COMEDY WALK are on the second Thursday of each month. Both events are FREE. Come early and hang out at 30 participating art galleries. [Art Walk Map]

Don't miss the monthly BEST OF COMEDY COMEDY WALK show at the McCadden Theatre (next on January 21st, 2008) and the LOS ANGELES COMEDY FESTIVAL twice a year (Hollywood May 1st-18th, downtown November 2008).