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| 7/8/06
DENIS LEARY, LEWIS BLACK, MARIO CANTONE PART OF 7TH ANNUAL BOSTON COMEDY AND MOVIE FESTIVAL
Boston Comedy and Movie Festival organizer Jim McCue today announced that Denis Leary, Lewis Black and Mario Cantone, as well as the future of comedy, will be among the comics at the “historically funny” 7th annual Boston Comedy Festival, which takes place from September 10-16, 2006 in various locations in Boston.
Leary and Cantone, along with Eddie Brill, who helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop while students there, return to school on Thursday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. to celebrate 30 Years of Comedy at Emerson, which has produced some of America’s funniest comics, including Jay Leno, Henry Winkler, Anthony Clark, Steve Wright and Andrea Martin. Proceeds from this show will benefit a scholarship for Emerson students studying comedy.
Lewis Black and Friends will close the Festival on Friday, September 15 at 8:30 and Saturday, September 16 at 9:30 p.m. The Boston Comedy Festival asked Black to assemble a group of his favorite comics, and sharing the stage with him will be John Bowman, Nick DiPaolo, Kenny Rogerson, Jim McCue, and Ireland’s premiere comic, Des Bishop.
Shows take place at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street. Tickets for 30 Years of Comedy at Emerson and Lewis Black and Friends are $35 and $45, and are available at Telecharge at 1-800-233-3123 or Telecharge.com.
The Boston Comedy Festival Contest preliminaries and semi-finals take place at Nick’s Comedy Stop at and the Vault respectively, and the finals, in which eight (down from 96) comics compete for $10,000 in prize money, take place on Saturday, September 16 at 7:00 p.m. at the Cutler Majestic. Tickets for the finals are $25 and are available through Telecharge as well. Ticket and other information about the preliminaries and semi-finals available soon.
The Boston Comedy and Movie Festival is in its seventh year. Over 150 comics will perform in dozens of venues. The Festival showcases the best in stand-up talent from the region, as well as national headlining talent and new comedy films, and culminates in the $10,000 Stand Up Comedy Contest, in which close to a hundred comics compete for prize money and a chance to perform for national talent scouts. The complete schedule for the Boston Comedy and Movie Festival will be announced in the coming weeks. For more information, call 617-782-8100 or visit www.bostoncomedyfestival.com
| August 8, 2006
ANTHONY CLARK, BILL BURR, BILL DANA ADDED TO LINEUP OF 7TH ANNUAL BOSTON COMEDY FESTIVAL, JOINING PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED LEWIS BLACK, DENIS LEARY, EDDIE BRILL
Norm Crosby to receive Lifetime Achievement
BOSTON - Aug 08, 2006 Boston Comedy and Movie Festival organizer Jim McCue today announced that Anthony Clark, Bill Burr and Bill Dana have been added to the “historically funny” Boston Comedy Festival’s stellar lineup that already includes Denis Leary, Lewis Black as well as the very future of comedy. The Festival takes place from September 10-16, 2006 in various locations in Boston.
Emerson alum Leary, Clark, Dana, and Burr, along with Eddie Brill, who helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop while a student there, return to school on Thursday, September 14 at 7:30 p.m. to celebrate 30 Years of Comedy at Emerson, which has produced some of America’s funniest comics, including Jay Leno, Henry Winkler, Steven Wright and Andrea Martin. Proceeds from this show will benefit a scholarship for Emerson students studying comedy. (Please note that Mario Cantone, previously announced as appearing at this show, will not be performing.)
Lewis Black & Friends will close the Festival on Friday, September 15 at 8:30 and Saturday, September 16 at 9:30 p.m. The Boston Comedy Festival asked Black to assemble a group of his favorite comics, and sharing his stage will be John Bowman, Nick DiPaolo, Kenny Rogerson, Jim McCue, and Ireland’s premiere comic, Des Bishop.
Also on Saturday, September 16, at 7:00 p.m., the eight comics who, after competing with 98 of the nation’s funniest up-and-comers, make it past the preliminary and semi-final rounds, will vie for $10,000 in prize money in the Vin DiBona Productions sponsored Boston Comedy Festival Contest Finals. In addition, the Finals will feature the presentation of its first annual lifetime achievement awards to Dorchester native and king of the malaprop, Norm Crosby, a comedy veteran known for his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and The Dean Martin Show, and Jonathan Winters, mercurial improv genius, who has spent half a century making people laugh and paving the way for many of the great comics who came later. Crosby will be on hand to receive his award. Winters received his in a taped ceremony, which will be played at the Finals, earlier this year.
The above shows take place at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street. Tickets for 30 Years of Comedy at Emerson and Lewis Black and Friends are $35 and $45 and tickets for the Finals are $25 All are available at Telecharge at 1-800-233-3123 or Telecharge.com. Special discount packages are available to those who buy tickets for multiple shows. Visit the Cutler Majestic Theatre website at www.maj.org for information about the discount offer.
The Boston Comedy Festival Contest preliminaries and semi-finals take place at Nick’s Comedy Stop at and the Vault respectively. Schedule and ticket information can be found at www.bostoncomedyfestival.com.
Other shows and performers in the festival include “Emerson Stands Up,” featuring Emerson comedy students, “Dangerous Words: The Best of Improv Asylum,” hypnotist “Incredible Boris,” Doug Stanhope at the Abbey Lounge, college improv contest, Letterman tryouts with Eddie Brill, “The Naked Comedy Showcase,” a special Comedy Studio in Cambridge showcase, the Walsh Brothers, a sketch showcase, “ColorStruck: Women of Color in Comedy,” and much, much more.
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About The Boston Comedy Festival
Sponsored by Sierra Mist, Comcast and Southwest Airlines, the Boston Comedy Festival is in its seventh year. Over 150 comics will perform in dozens of venues. The Festival showcases the best in stand- up talent from the region, as well as national headlining talent and new comedy films, and culminates in the $10,000 Stand Up Comedy Contest, in which close to a hundred comics compete for prize money and a chance to perform for national talent scouts. The Festival is presented in association with WZLX, The Weekly Dig, and Vin DiBona. For more information or a complete schedule, call 617-782- 8100 or click below to visit the webiste.
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| 08/15/07
8TH ANNUAL BOSTON COMEDY FESTIVAL FEATURES LEWIS BLACK, 31 YEARS OF COMEDY AT EMERSON COLLEGE, THE $10,000 COMEDY CONTEST AND MUCH MORE, OCT. 7 - 13, 2007
CONTEST AND MUCH MORE, OCT. 7 - 13, 200
Lifetime Achievement Awards to be Presented to Mort Sahl and Shelley Berman, and Comedian of the Year Award to Lewis Black
(BOSTON – August 13, 2007) Boston Comedy and Movie Festival organizer Jim McCue today announced some of the line-up for the “historically funny” Boston Comedy Festival, taking place Oct.7-13, 2007 in various locations in and around Boston.
Boston Comedy Festival Contest Preliminaries and Semi-Finals
Sunday, Oct. 7 - Friday Oct. 12
Various times and locations TBA
Ninety-eight bright-eyed comics from all over the country compete with each other to advance to the finals, and when it's over, there will be one battered and broken guy or gal standing with a nice little bag of money. Two comics from each preliminary round advance to the Semi-Finals on Thursday and Friday Oct. 11 and 12, and eight comics proceed to the finals at the Cutler Majestic on Oct. 13. Preliminaries happen 7 and 9 p.m. from Oct. 7 - 10. Venues and Semi-final times TBA. For a complete list of contestants, visit http://www.bostoncomedyfestival.com/contest.php.
Off the Boat Comedy with Irish comics Ed Byrne, Keith Farnan and Brian Joyce
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday Oct. 10, 11 and 13, 8 p.m.
The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville (Davis Square)
Tickets TBA. 21+
Irish comic and Fringe Festival favorite Ed Byrne, said to be the biggest comic in Ireland, which means he should also be the biggest comic in Southie, Charlestown, Brighton and parts of Dorchester and Somerville, comes to Somerville to perform at the Burren. Byrne has appeared at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival six times, and at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen. He has made five appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and is a regular guest on The Panel on RTE Television Ireland. Also appearing will be fellow Irishman Keith Farnan, back by popular demand after his St. Patrick's Day appearance a the Burren, and Brian Joyce, who is Boston Irish, but might soon turn into Ireland Irish with recent gigs at Kilkenny and Galway, in addition to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
31 Years of Comedy at Emerson College
Produced by Eddie Brill and Grafton Nunes
Thursday, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $45 - $65 available at http://www.maj.org or (617) 824-8000
Emerson alum Eddie Brill, talent coordinator for The David Letterman Show, has assembled some of his old school chums to stage a reunion of sorts, of the infamous Emerson Comedy Workshop. Denis Leary, Bill Burr and Anthony Clark are scheduled to appear, and more comics will be announced. Emerson has produced some of America’s funniest comics, including Jay Leno, Henry Winkler, Steven Wright and Andrea Martin. Proceeds from this show will benefit a scholarship for Emerson students studying comedy.
The Comedy Studio's Comic-in-Residence Show
Thursday October 11, 8 - 10 p.m.
The Comedy Studio at the Hong Kong Restaurant, 1238 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Tickets TBA
See the future in Harvard Square. The Comedy Studio's "Comic-in-Residence" program has sent many young comics to HBO and Comedy Central, so come and see this batch before they're too big to talk to you. Lineup includes Shane Maus and last year's Boston Comedy Festival Contest winner Dan Boulger, plus at least six others.
Lewis Black and Friends at the Cutler Majestic Theatre
Friday, Oct. 12, 8:30 p.m.
Tickets: $45 - $65 available at http://www.maj.org or (617) 824-8000
Yes, even the biggest curmudgeons in the world have friends, and each year the country's favorite curmudgeon, The Daily Show's Lewis Black, brings several of his friends to The Boston Comedy Festival to put on a show that revels in absurdity, stupidity and of course, bitterness. So far this year, Black has identified only two friends - Boston Legend and one of the founders of the infamous Ding Ho Club DJ Hazard, and Irish comic Ed Byrne. Black promises three more friends in time to write another press release before the festival.
Boston Comedy Contest Finals (plus Lifetime Achievement and Comic of the Year Awards Presentation)
Saturday Oct. 13, 8:15 p.m.
Tickets: $45 - $65 available at http://www.maj.org or (617) 824-8000
The eight comics who, after competing with 98 of the nation’s funniest up-and-comers, make it past the preliminary and semi-final rounds, will vie for $10,000 in prize money in the Boston Comedy Festival Contest Finals.
At the finals, the Boston Comedy Festival and Emerson College will present Comedy Lifetime Achievement Awards to Mort Sahl, a comedy trailblazer who paved the way for the likes of Lenny Bruce and Dick Gregory, and also wrote speeches for President John F. Kennedy; and Shelley Berman, the legendary comic celebrating 50 years of comedy in 2007 who has a recurring role on the set-in-Boston show Boston Legal. In addition, the Comedian of the Year Award will be presented to Lewis Black. Berman and Black will all be on hand to receive their awards.
Other shows and performers in the festival to be announced soon include The Gay Show at Club Cabaret, Harvard SUCS (Stand Up Comedy Show), Emerson College student show, The Fun Room: Urban Comedy Showcase at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, Alternative Comedy Show, Comedy Revolution, Women's Show and much, much more.
Sponsored by Sierra Mist, Comcast and Southwest Airlines, the Boston Comedy Festival is in its eighth year. Over 150 comics will perform in dozens of venues. The Festival showcases the best in stand-up talent from the region, as well as national headlining talent, and culminates in the $10,000 Stand Up Comedy Contest, in which close to a hundred comics compete for prize money and a chance to perform for national talent scouts. The Festival is presented in association with WZLX, The Weekly Dig, and Vin DiBona. For more information or a complete schedule, call 617-782-8100 or visit www.bostoncomedyfestival.com.
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