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March 2008 COMEDY WALK Performers
*Chris Adams, *Rebecca Addelman, Mario Artiga, *Joe Bartnick,
*Peter Berman, *Pat Boccuzzi, Travis Clark, Competitive Awesome
(sketch), *Daniel Dominguez, *Ian Edwards, Michael Goldstrom,
Marly Halpern-Graser, Gerry Katzman, Andy Kern, Shaun Latham,
Laughs on Demand (improv), Erik Lundy, Vanda Mikoloski, *The
Mooney Twins, The Mutiny (improv), Mike Nielsen, Red Herring
(improv) , *Melanie Reno, Iliza Schlesinger, Mikey Scott, Todd
"J.T." Thomas, Scott Vinci (music), *Rich Williams,
*Joe Wilson, *Elisha Yaffe
* denotes EDGY, may not be suitable for children.
ACT DESCRIPTIONS
- Chris Adams (alternative) Uproarious and Entertaining
can be seen on the webseries www.theopenmikers.com was on Last
Comic Standing, but edited out so who cares, theopenmikers.com
- Rebecca Addelman is a comic and writer from Toronto
whose work has been featured on the Comedy Network, Much Music,
CTV, MTV, Bravo!, and at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival
in her native Canada. She's also appeared at the Los Angeles
Comedy Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. Rebecca has recently
relocated to LA. website: www.raddelman.com myspace: myspace.com/raddelman
youtube: youtube.com/user/raddelman
- Mario Artiga, raised in Los Angeles, has quickly become
one of the more exciting comics in the Southern California Comedy
scene. After getting on stage for the first time and taking 2nd
place in a local comedy club competition, Mario has not stopped
performing since. WEBSITES: www.marioartiga.com
www.myspace.com/marioartiga1 http://www.youtube.com/artigamario
- Joe Bartnick www.joebartnick.com Special Guest Dave
Attell Insomniac Tour, writer for Lisa Lampanelli (Queen of Mean),
writer/performer on the Ian Bagg Show, can be heard on The Playboy
Morning Show and National Lampoon Radio, original host of the
Regular Joes (sports talk show), Was a sportstalk host at KLAS,
has written for Comedy.com, Comedytime.com, Headwriters.com and
CompleteSheet.com Currently creating programming for various
outlets.
- Peter Berman appears regularly on The Late, Late Show
with Craig Kilborn, has been seen on MTV, VH1, Comedy Central
and Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival . Peter recently
taped his own half hour comedy special for Comedy Central Presents.
www.myspace.com/peterberman.
- Pat Boccuzzi entered the Boston comedy scene in 2002
at the age of eighteen. A headlining stand up and Improvisational
comedian, Pat's been schooled in Second City, and Upright Citizens
Brigade NYC for various comedy related classes. He has been well
received in the past, being featured in the Boston Globe, Boston
Herald, various local news affiliations and on the WZLX morning
show with "Karlson and MacKenzie". This past September,
Pat was honored as a finalist of Comedy Central's national stand
up competition "Open Mic Fight" representing the North
East region. Normally you could find Pat at the Boston Comedy
Connection or NYC's Upright Citizen Brigade and Jimmy Tingle's
Off Broadway Theater. He also was co-directing, co-producing
and co-writing his own show, "The Original Zings of Comedy",
which took the sketch group, Zebro's, old spot and continued
the great reputation of the popular show at ImprovBoston. He
now recently resides in Los Angeles. myspace "http://www.myspace.com/pat_boccuzzi".
The videos on that are also on youtube under Pat Boccuzzi Stand
Up.
- Travis Clark has performed all over LA in several
different capacities. As a comic he's performed at the Improv,
Ice House and The UnCabaret. He is a long time member of the
Troubadour Theater Company, was a cast member in 'Blake…
Da Musical', and has been in a bunch of crappy bands you've never
heard of. www.myspace.com/travisclarkcomedy
- Competitive Awesome www.competitiveawesome.com (sketch)
creators animated series Monster Office sold to Cookie Jar Entertainment,
live action travel log comedy series Treasure Quest with Rick/Mill
productions and Second City NBC Universal, and for comedy.com,
The Newest New News (NNN), a weekly comedy news program.
- Dan Dominguez is a Los Angeles area comedian and screenwriter
who has actually got paid to write a screenplay and do comedy,
DAD. He uses that money to suckle off the government tit, and
sit around all day renting the Wire but then forgetting to watch
it. He has been on the Verizon cell phone Network, on their Viva!
Vision program, where he attempted to seem as Latin as possible,
is soon to be regularly featured on Veoh.com, and can be found
regularly wandering aimlessly around downtown trying to get up
the nerve to buy a sweatshop labor made wedding dress. http://www.funconsuming.com
http://www.myspace.com/chokehammer http://www.veoh.com/channels/funconsuming
- Ian Edwards: Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, Live at
Gotham, Punkd, Def Comedy Jam, www.myspace.com/irecomic
- Michael Goldstrom: Comedy Store, The Improv, www.goldstrom.com
- Marly Halpern-Graser has recently moved to California.
Before that he'd performed all over upstate New York and Boston,
including in the Boston Comedy Festival. He was the winner of
the EVYYs college comedy award in 2007, and his short videos
and animations have screened at film festivals internationally..
www.youtube.com/marlyhalperngraser
- Shaun Latham tours nationally, The Improvs, The Ice
House www.myspace.com/shaunlatham
- Laughs On Demand, a sketch/improv comedy troupe, has
been entertaining crowds for over a year now throughout Los Angeles.
From a humbling beginning at the Two Roads Theatre in Studio
City, they now lead the chuckling in the marvelous McCadden Place
Theatre in Hollywood where they plan on aiding in the birth of
new comedy. How and when you ask? Visit www.laughsondemand.com
to find out.
- Erik Lundy www.workplaceofthedamned performs The Improvs,
The Ice House, The Downtown Comedy Club, can be heard on XM NATIONAL
LAMPOON COMEDY RADIO. Erik will be performing January 15th at
the Irvine Improv for Comedy Central's Live at Gotham Showcase.
- Gerry Katzman is a television actor (JAG, Angel,\
Lucky, A.U.S.A.) magician and uproarious comedian. www.gerrykatzman.com
- Andy Kern from Chicago, IL Clubs all across America.
Aspen Comedy Festival.
Youtube.com, search for Andy Kern.
- Vanda Mikoloski- Spiritually Incorrect Comedy- warm-up
act for "What The Bleep do we Know" premieres. Been
on tons of TV shows. www.vanda.us
- The Mooney Twins (Daryl and Dwayne) are the veteran
stand-up comedians who coined the phrase "Conscious Comedy."
They perform in comedy venues around the country as well as making
guest appearances on televised programs such as BET's Comic View
and The Montel Williams Show. "My sons are hilarious! The
apples don't fall far from the tree…." Comedian Paul
Mooney. www.myspace.com/mooneytwins www.mooneytwinsnetwork.com
- Greg Morris
- The Mutiny www.mutinyimprov.com for over 15 years
The Mutiny has been entertaining audiences with their hilarious
brand of short-form improv!
- Mike Nielsen starred in the feature film "Southland
Tales" (from Richard Kelly, writer/director of "Donnie
Darko"). Has appeared on Spike TV and has starred in pilots
for Showtime and NBC. He co-created and will be starring in the
internet sketch show "Pop Crack!" on comedycentral.com
premiering in April. Was a featured comedian at the 2007 Los
Angeles Comedy Festival and can be seen at clubs all over Los
Angeles such as The Comedy Store and The Hollywood Improv. Check
him out online at www.myspace.com/mikepnielsen and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO9XmrZRlZc.
- Red Herring (improv), born on the unforgiving Russian
steppe in July 07, has certainly made its mark on the Los Angeles
comedy scene. Before banding together to fight the evils of bland
and lachrymose improv, members of Red Herring accrued an impressive
body of perfromance credits. Ranging from small stage (West Side
Story, Pirates of Penzance, MacBeth, Trainspotting) to the small
screen (E!'s The Soup, MTV's Undressed) as well as commercial
and voice-over work and major national events (San Diego and
New York Comic-Cons;) these performers are known far and wide
for their guffaw-and-chortle-inducing antics. As a group, Red
Herring has been intimidating the LA improv community at such
vaunted venues as the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater, the
IO West, Sierra Stage and the Actor's Playpen. Gosh, we're just
pleased as punch to be here. Red Herring can be contacted, hired,
or asked out on dates at www.myspace.com/redherringimprov.
- Melanie Reno www.myspace.com/melaniereno as seen on
COMEDY CENTRAL's Premium Blend. her first comedy CD just came
out & it is on sale at AMOEBA MUSIC or through www.myspace.com/melaniereno.
- Mikey Scott used to think, "Stand-up comedy looks
like so much fun, but I could never!" No stranger to theatrics,
Mikey began acting in school and Pittsburgh community theatres
at a young age. After learning the behind-the-scenes business
at American University in Washington, DC he made the leap to
LA to once again get in front of the camera. After much dismay
with the business (and the boys) of Hollywood combined with the
lack of funds to afford a therapist, Mikey faced his fear and
tried stand-up comedy, and he has been doing it ever since. He
has been seen at The Improv, The Comedy Store, Room 5 and a whole
lot of hole-in-the-wall joints all over the country. Mikey is
one of the Queers of Comedy, a trio of gay stand-up comedians
doing doing their show in LA and all over the nation. myspace.com/comicmikey
www.queersofcomedy.com
- Iliza Shlesinger has been featured on The E! Network,
G4TV, TV Guide Channel, Comics Unleashed and performs all over
the country. She is the host of the hit internet show "The
Weakly News" on TheStream.tv and just returned from her
second tour overseas entertaining the troops and will be appearing
this coming year as the host for the new show "Gadget or
The Girl".
- Todd "J.T." Thomas tours nationally and
can locally be seen at The Comedy Store and The Ice House. myspace.com/jtthomascomedy
- Scott Vinci has been performing since the late 90's.
With his own special blend of Stand-up, guitar comedy,and sketch,
Scott is a virtual comedy "tsunami",waiting to hit
land! Check out his latest short on Will Ferrells funnyordie.com
website! Just type in Scott Vinci! INTRO: He was in last falls
2007 L.A. comedy festival,
you may have seen him watching Televisions "Last Comic
Standing," and he is huge in El Segundo, please
welcome SCOTT VINCI!
- Rich Williams www.mybluecollar.com www.myspace.com/richwilliamscomedy
worked as staff writer/performer on Fox Sports Net's The Best
Damn Sports Show Period which landed him two Sports Emmy nominations.
He is the head writer for Fox's Annual Super Bowl special. creative
consultant for MTV's, NEXT and Date My Mom and Exposed. He's
currently the head of comedy for MyBlueCollar.com
- Joe Wilson www.joewilsoncomedy.com co-host Dork Forest
Radio
(www.dorkforestradio.com), co-host Road Stories (www.RoadStories.tv),
a first hand look at life on and off the road for today's top
comedians.
- Elisha Yaffe hails from Boston where he was called
"One of Boston's rising comic stars" by the Boston
Globe and "Endearingly Silly" by the Boston Herald.
He was a co-founder of Zebro Sketch Comedy; their comedy videos
have been viewed by over 3 million people and have been featured
on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Salon.com, MTV News, The Huffington Post,
Youtube, and Myspace. He currently has a job writing comedic
web content for your computer!
http://www.elishayaffe.com
http://myspace.com/elishayaffe
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