Dan Whitehurst @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show (The East Room) 12/29/2013

Dan Whitehurst @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL comedy show @ The East Room 12/8/2013

Born to laugh, Dan Whitehurst has been searching for the funny in some of the most unusual and challenging situations. Bitten by the performing bug in 1998, Dan spent his free hours writing jokes and performing at various venues, and by 2001 was a regular at the legendary Zanies night club in Nashville. The first six years of his comedy career were accomplished while moonlighting as an Armed Robbery Detective for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Apt at flying under the radar, most of his co-workers never knew about his “silly little skit”.In February 2001 Dan won the title “Worlds Funniest Cop” from the American Society For Law Enforcement Training, and in 2002 was named Metro’s Investigator of the year.

In May of 2005, a 19 year police career ended leaving nothing but the memories, and funny stories. Over the years the act has evolved from set-up/punch to relatable, true (mostly) stories. Thanks Statute of Limitations!

As a hand picked opener for Janet, “The Tennessee Tramp” Williams early in his career, Dan was fortunate to travel and work with a seasoned professional who always kept him in stitches, and led to headlining opportunities of his own. He also toured briefly with mega-star Ralphie May, and opened for such acts as Tim Wilson, Killer Beaz, Josh Blue, Jay Mohr and the Emo Phillips, as well as appearing on the Bob And Tom Show.

Recently Dan has worked as an extra on the hit series “Nashville” which was renewed for another season and is open to any acting roles in which he can play a middle aged southerner with a thick accent.

Dan Whitehurst can be found online at DanWhitehurst.net, Facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=578146597, Twitter.com/Leapingnomb.

Here’s video of Dan:

SPiFFY SQUiRREL is Nashville’s only truly independent, underground professional weekly alt comedy show. Featuring touring comedians from all corners of the earth, plus outstanding local regulars who are worth paying attention to. Sundays at 7:30pm at The East Room for just $5 cover. Produced and hosted by NashvilleStandUp.com’s Chad Riden.

12/29/2013 7:30pm: Dan Whitehurst, Meredith Whitsett, Jim Seward, Mary Jay Berger, Chad Riden & a MYSTERY GUEST COMIC (FB)

6:30pm doors open
7:30pm show begins
7:31pm you’re late, dummy

The East Room
2412 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37206
615-335-3137
Facebook.com/TheEastRoom
Twitter.com/TheEastRoom

TICKETS: $5 at the door or in advance online

MORE INFO:
Twitter.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/SpiffySquirrel
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For Booking Inquiries, contact N’Sup

(NEXT WEEK: Ron Ron Moseley!)

Mary Mack adds voice to FOX / ADHD’s “Golan the Insatiable”

Mary Mack
Mary Mack

Years ago a tiny girl walked into the Tuesday open mic at the Bar Car in Cummins Station carrying a large case and asked in a thick Minnesota accent, “um, is it okay if I play my trombone as part of my act?” Everything about her was hilarious, right off the bat. “Do whatever you want,” was the answer Mary Mack heard.

In the hey day of the Bar Car show, there were two or three working, traveling comics going up every week and about 8-10 local comics who would bring really experimental, hilarious new stuff almost every week in an attempt to out-do each other. Her first time up, Mary’s set was the highlight of the night. Over the next three to four months, she returned every week and had a new five minutes that floored everyone. She recorded those sets and self-released her first album, titled “funny.” Mary packed up a PA system and a tent and embarked upon a cross-country tour doing guest sets at every comedy club she could talk her way into, staying at KOA campgrounds to save money. She booked a lot of weeks of work on the spot and by the end of the run had become a full time, working comedian.

Mary has since recorded two more albums – “Either You Wake Up Or You Don’t” and “Pinch Finger Girl: a tragedomedy”, appeared on the Bob and Tom Radio Show, XM / Sirius, the Vancouver Comedy Fest (2007), HBO’s Andy Kaufman Awards (2007), Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival (2009), and in 2011 was selected for the San Francisco Sketch Fest’s “Dozen,” 12 up and coming headliners performing at the Punch Line throughout the fest.

While performing at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival in 2009, she was seen by Nick Weidenfeld who thought, “This woman’s voice is amazing, and it’s not a put-on. Her voice cut through everything else — so I wrote her name down six years ago and thought, ‘If there’s ever the right cartoon for her, she needs to be the voice of a cartoon.'” Mr. Weidenfeld is currently the head of FOX’s new Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) programming block and Executive Producer of the new animated series “Golan the Insatiable,” which starts Jan. 11th, 2014. Mary Mack has been cast as the voice of Dylan, a young girl whose best friend is a fearsome monster named Golan in the show.

Comedian Mary Mack voices the character Dylan in the new Fox animated series, Golan the Insatiable.  ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF: While supposedly babysitting Dylan, left, Golan becomes distracted by his new friends in the special preview episode of GOLAN THE INSATIABLE, "Ragin' Fun," airing Saturday, Nov. 23 (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT) on FOX.
Comedian Mary Mack voices the character Dylan in the new Fox animated series, Golan the Insatiable.

“Dylan’s in an angry phase,” says Mary, who now splits her time between Minneapolis and Los Angeles. “She’s probably always going to be angry. She doesn’t fit in in the town she’s from, which is a suburb of [Minneapolis] called Oak Grove. “Golan the Insatiable” is about a “mighty godlord from an alternate universe” who shows up in a small town and befriends Dylan, a young girl going through an angry phase.

“Her voice is so seemingly cute, but she was able to sell kind of a sinister sound without compromising the cuteness of the voice,” says “Golan the Insatiable” creator Josh Miller. “We knew we didn’t want her to be full on Wednesday Adams. We wanted her to have real energy and she was able to bring that.”

Mary has been trying to get more acting work and spend less time on the road. She’s been busying herself with acting and improv classes, writing and trying to get published. “I’m always trying to stay tuned to an opportunity that presents itself. Being ready for the opportunities is the time-consuming thing. Some people are all about you have to create your own opportunities and all these motivational sayings, but I don’t think I’m any good at creating my own opportunities. I’ve just been having good accidents happen.”

Here’s the GOLAN THE INSATIABLE trailer:

In a special preview episode of GOLAN THE INSATIABLE, “Ragin’ Fun,” Golan becomes distracted by his new friends while supposedly babysitting Dylan (Mary Mack). Check out the preview Saturday, Nov. 23 (11:00 PM-Midnight ET/PT) on FOX.

Read more about what Mary is up to at TwinCities.com‘s story “Minneapolis comedian nabs big gig in animated Fox series,” where several of these quotes originated.

Visit Mary Mack online at MaryMackComedy.com, Facebook.com/marymackcomedy1, Twitter.com/marymackcomedy & Youtube.com/marymackcomedy. Buy her stand-up comedy albums now at CDbaby.com

Follow FOX ADHD & Golan The Insatiable online:
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Twitter.com/GolanInsatiable
Facebook.com/pages/Golan-the-Insatiable/111190185642482

Dave Stone @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show (The East Room) 12/22/2013

Dave Stone @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL comedy show @ The East Room 12/8/2013

Based in Los Angeles by way of Atlanta, Dave Stone was named one of the “12 Comics to Watch” for 2013 by LA Weekly. Dave was a semi-finalist in CMT’s “Next Big Comic” in 2012 and in 2010 was named one of the top 8 up-and-coming comics in the country by Rooftopcomedy.com. Dave can be heard voicing several characters on Adult Swim’s hit animated series “Squidbillies” on the Cartoon Network and is a co-founding member of the nationally acclaimed “Beards of Comedy Tour”, who recently released their sophomore album “Cardio Mix” on Comedy Central Records and their web series “Beards Across America” has received over 1,000,000 views on MSN.com. Since 2008, Dave has spent 175+ days a year on the road, sharing stages with some of the industry’s brightest stars, such as Brian Regan, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Doug Benson, Marc Maron, Greg Proops and John Mulaney. Dave’s laid back and self-deprecating style make him a hit with a wide variety of audiences, transcending age, race, class, gender, height and weight.

Dave Stone can be found online at DaveStoneComedy.com, Facebook.com/davestonecomedy, Twitter.com/davestonecomedy.

Here’s video of Dave:

SPiFFY SQUiRREL is Nashville’s only truly independent, underground professional weekly alt comedy show. Featuring touring comedians from all corners of the earth, plus outstanding local regulars who are worth paying attention to. Sundays at 7:30pm at The East Room for just $5 cover. Produced and hosted by NashvilleStandUp.com’s Chad Riden.

12/22/2013 7:30pm: Dave Stone, Gilbert Lawand, Caleb Synan, Hunter Roberts, Jessica Watkins, Chad Riden & a MYSTERY GUEST COMIC (FB)

6:30pm doors open
7:30pm show begins
7:31pm you’re late, dummy

The East Room
2412 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37206
615-335-3137
Facebook.com/TheEastRoom
Twitter.com/TheEastRoom

TICKETS: $5 at the door or in advance online

MORE INFO:
Twitter.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/events/225838814249645/

For Booking Inquiries, contact N’Sup

(NEXT WEEK: Dan Whitehurst!)

Ryan Singer @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show (The East Room) 12/15/2013

Ryan Singer @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL comedy show @ The East Room 12/15/2013

Ryan Singer is the rarest of breeds: A comic’s comic who electrifies mainstream audiences with material that is both uncompromising and unpretentious. He recently released his 2nd album COMEDY WONDER TOWN, which was selected by Under The Gun as a Top 10 album of 2012. LaughSpin says, “With his high-energy delivery and unpretentious leanings, there’s not a lot to dislike about comedian Ryan Singer. And it’s not just us saying it: In the last few years, he’s won over audiences headlining the nation’s finer comedy clubs and was hailed by Marc Maron in Rolling Stone as a comedian “who should be big.”

His debut album, HOW TO GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS, is an intense exercise in wordplay, improvisation, and storytelling recorded at Go Bananas Comedy Club in Cincinnati, OH. Those who enter Singer’s world will be rewarded with knowledge of the connections between dimwitted hunters and Tyra Banks, cookies and racial tension, and even gay marriage and dragons, courtesy of a comedian who expertly connects insanity and brilliance.

Ryan was recently mentioned in Rolling Stone magazine by Marc Maron as a comedian “Who Should Be Big” and both his debut album and sophomore release were selected as Top 10 Comedy CD’s of the year. He was mentioned in NY Magazine as a “Comic to Watch,” he was one of 4 finalist in CMT’s Next Big Comic Contest, is a frequent guest on the WTF Podcast w/Marc Maron, been heard on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio, has appeared on the nationally syndicated radio show Bob & Tom, and was a regional finalist in Comedy Central’s Open Mic Fight. He was the winner of the Golden Shingle Award at the Rooftop Comedy Festival, an award given to the next rising star in comedy.

Ryan Singer can be found online at RyanSingerComedy.com, Facebook.com/ryansingercomedy, Twitter.com/rysing, YouTube.com/ryanjsinger and SoundCloud.com/ryansingercomedy.

Here’s video of Ryan:

SPiFFY SQUiRREL is Nashville’s only truly independent, underground professional weekly alt comedy show. Featuring touring comedians from all corners of the earth, plus outstanding local regulars who are worth paying attention to. Sundays at 7:30pm at The East Room for just $5 cover. Produced and hosted by NashvilleStandUp.com’s Chad Riden.

12/15/2013 7:30pm: Ryan Singer, Will Copeland, Chad Riden and a Mystery Guest Comic (FB)

6:30pm doors open
7:30pm show begins
7:31pm you’re late, dummy

The East Room
2412 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37206
615-335-3137
Facebook.com/TheEastRoom
Twitter.com/TheEastRoom

TICKETS: $5 at the door or in advance online

MORE INFO:
Twitter.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/events/539200452839805/

For Booking Inquiries, contact N’Sup

(NEXT WEEK: Dave Stone!)

Mo Alexander @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show (The East Room) 12/7/2013

Mo Alexander @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL comedy show @ The East Room 12/8/2013

Intelligence, debauchery, and all around entertainment, Mo Alexander is one of the most complete comics working in clubs and private events around today. Since 1995, his comedic skills have given way to bigger opportunities on television, such as appearances on ABC’s Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Comedy Central’s Laugh Riot, the BET staple Comic View and has even made an appearance in Poison’s Bret Michael’s film, Letters from Death Row.

Mo has no aspirations of resting on his laurels while there is funny to be spread upon this earth. While continuing headlining, Alexander pushes with radio shows, podcast and acting work in his spare time.

Mo Alexander is the product of Memphis, Tennessee, growing up mere yards from the World Famous Stax Records. Whether it was being raised by his grandmother, Memphis or his Catholic high school upbringing, Mo’s outlook on life is helping him to save the world in his jaded manner.

Watching Mo Alexander is a night of hilarity and mischief that one won’t soon forget. Though, he usually tries to leave you with the underlying message, “I’m trying to save the world, one comedy show at a time.” and if he has to kick a kid off a bike to do it, well, you have to start somewhere.

Mo Alexander can be found online at moalexander.net, facebook.com/comedianmoalexander, twitter.com/moalexander and youtube.com/moalexander.

Here’s video of Mo a couple years ago at the San Francisco Comedy Competition:

SPiFFY SQUiRREL is Nashville’s only truly independent, underground professional weekly alt comedy show. Featuring touring comedians from all corners of the earth, plus outstanding local regulars who are worth paying attention to. Sundays at 7:30pm at The East Room for just $5 cover. Produced and hosted by NashvilleStandUp.com’s Chad Riden.

12/8/2013 7:30pm: Mo Alexander, Brad Edwards, Grant Schinto, Chad Riden (FB)

7:00pm doors open
7:30pm show begins
7:31pm you’re late, dummy

The East Room
2412 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37206
615-335-3137

TICKETS: $5 at the door or in advance online

MORE INFO:
Twitter.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/events/683881041622618/

For Booking Inquiries, contact N’Sup

(NEXT WEEK: Ryan Singer!)