Stand-Up Comedy Night
November 22, 2008
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Overview
Foothills Theatre is bring back Comedy Night!
November 22, 2008 @ 8:00 PM
$15 in advance; $20 at the door
Beer and Wine will be available
Comics include:
Jimmy Dunn is best known for his sports humor, but his range of topics is a whole lot broader. The former host of NESN's Fan Attic did comedic features from a fan's perspective for the Boston Red Sox pre-game show during the historic 2004 season, and authored a popular book on his experiences called Funnyball. Since then, he's been the wiseguy "voice" of the NESN dating show Sox Appeal, and a featured performer in the NESN Comedy All-Stars series. He's also the writer/creator/star of a series of commercials for Olympia Sports. In addition to working clubs, corporate shows, and theater shows around the country, Dunn has appeared on Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live, CMT's Hit Parade, Inside This Old House, and the movie Stuck on You, where he shared a jail cell with Matt Damon.
Billed as "quite simply one of the country's sharpest comedy minds," Brian Kiley won his first Emmy Award in 2007 as a staff writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In addition to his long-term writing stint for Conan, Kiley is one of the best and most prolific comedians on TV, with more than 25 standup appearances on national programs, including Letterman, Conan, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and his own Comedy Central Special. He has written for the ESPN Espy Awards, and two of his jokes were included in GQ Magazine's "75 Greatest Jokes of All Time." He's a six-time Writer's Guild Award winner (writing in a comedy/variety series) and his jokes were included in the Sept. 2007 Reader's Digest "Laugh Riot Funniest Issue Ever."
According to his web site, Myq Kaplan started as a baby, then grew up. "In between, a lot of stuff happened," it reads, including his development as one of Boston's hottest young comedians, appearing at colleges around the country, nightclubs, and (for the first time in 2008) on Comedy Central. In 2007, he finished second in both the Boston Comedy Festival and Comedy Central's Open Mic Fight. In 2006, he was a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival and the Seattle Comedy Competition (Peter Greyy from the website SeattleComedy.net opined, "He's got the right combination of edge, confidence and vulnerability–and he uses that to get across some excellent material"). He's also won Boston University's Funniest Student Contest (impressive, his web site notes, because "it's a big school"), and done other impressive things. The Boston Globe's Nick Zaino noted that Kaplan, "writes some of the best one-liner, quick-hit comedy in town."