Just For Laughs
IF YOU EVER LEAVE ME…I’M GOING WITH YOU! WITH RENEE TAYLOR & JOE BOLOGNA Saturday 7/31/10 8pm • A: $45 B: $25
Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated husband and wife team Renee Taylor and Joe Bologna star in this hysterically funny comedy which celebrates their actingwriting partnership and three-decade love affair. Taylor is well known for portraying Fran Drescher’s Mother, Sylvia Fine on the CBS sitcom The Nanny. Bologna’s many film credits include My Favorite Year, Blame it on Rio and Big Daddy, where he played Adam Sandler’s father.
JOHN OLIVER
Saturday 8/14/10 8pm • All Tickets: $45 John Oliver is a writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His own stand-up special, Terrifying Times, premiered in April 2008 and was subsequently released on DVD. Oliver is currently appearing in a recurring role in the NBC series, Community and is hosting his own six-episode series for Comedy Central, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show.
KATE CLINTON: THE LADY HAHA TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST ROY ZIMMERMAN Saturday 11/13/10 8pm • All Tickets: $35
Kate Clinton is a faith-based, tax-paying, Americaloving political humorist and family entertainer. With a career spanning over 25 years, Kate Clinton has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Walmartization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and ten presidential inaugurals. She still believes that humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time. Roy Zimmerman is an intensely clever singer-songwriter often compared to Tom Lehrer.
FRANK FERRANTE IN AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO Saturday 4/9/11 8pm • A: $35 B: $25
This two-act comedy consists of the best Groucho Marx one-liners, anecdotes and songs including “Hooray for Captain Spalding” and “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady.” The audience becomes part of the show as actor, director and playwright, Frank Ferrante ad-libs his way throughout the performance. Accompanied by his onstage pianist, Jim Furmston, Ferrante portrays the young Groucho of stage and film and reacquaints us with the likes of brothers Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Gummo, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Margaret Dumont and Louis B. Mayer. A brilliant show; perfect for all ages!
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Photo credits (top to bottom): 4th, Conor Stratton