Sean Maloney’s “Looking for Comedy in Nashville” piece on SplitSider

SplitSider article about Nashville comedy

SplitSider article about Nashville comedy
Sean Maloney poked around Nashville comedy a little bit a while back and wrote a thing he calls his “epic, unflinching portrait of Nashville comedy” for SplitSider.

While I appreciate him for writing this and for including me, even one mention of random idiots like this Lynn person is probably too many in a piece that doesn’t mention Keith Alberstadt or Tim Northern. It’s like Last Comic Standing putting the guy in the chicken suit on screen and letting him speak while touring comics were only visible for a second as the camera panned across the room. Thanks to Mr. Maloney for plugging NashvilleStandUp.com though.

This line sums the piece up pretty well: “Nashville comics are great, but socially inept for the most part. They’re lovely people but – ” says [Kendra] Corrie. “They just can’t get it together to be supportive in the way that I think that they would if they just weren’t afraid of human touch.”

Read the entire thing here: Looking for Comedy in Nashville

Friend Sean Maloney on the Facebooks:
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The 4th Annual Longest Running New Famous #1 International Open Mic Comedy Festival

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The 4th Annual Longest Running New Famous #1 International Open Mic Comedy Festival

April 1-8, 2013
Nashville, TN

The Most Successful Open Mic Comedy Festival In The History of Man™©® is back!

Join us for a week of fantastic open mic comedy, in convenient & economically lucrative Festival form!

This amazing, super-duper mega-event kicks off MONDAY, April 1st!

“Be there! ..or SUCK IT!”

FESTIVAL REGISTRATION

Of course these shows are mostly show-up and go-up open mics, but there are so many benefits to be gained by registering for the Festival:

Standard Package:
– official festival t-shirt
– official festival laminate
– access to all the festival after-parties
– admission to the industry / booker meet and greet sessions

Gold Package:
– official festival t-shirt
– official festival laminate
– access to all the festival after-parties
– admission to the industry / booker meet and greet sessions

PLUS: One-on-one lunch with the founder of the fest (and “America’s Favorite Comedian Of All Time”), Chad Riden

NOTE: Early Registration is now closed! Please choose one of the other Festival Packages:


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A message from Doug Stanhope

A message from our friend / dead beat hero, Doug Stanhope:

ATTN: TENNESSEE

Doug Stanhope

Just wanted to let you know that there aren’t any more dates being added to the Big Stink Comedy Tour 2013 so get your tickets while you can.

March 16 – New Daisy Theatre – Memphis

March 17 – Zanies – Nashville

Find tickets to these dates and more HERE.

More infos:
DougStanhope.com
Twitter.com/DougStanhope
Facebook.com/officialstanhope
Youtube.com/user/stanhopetv

Corporate Juggernaut – Pictures of Fireworks 12/5 @ Fido

Announcing…another Corporate Juggernaut production…Pictures of Fireworks!

Pictures of Fireworks is a monthly night of storytelling that showcases a combination of Nashville’s best comedians and authors, its most interesting residents and characters, and you. Half of the tales are told by performers or locals who are curated in advance; the other half come from audience members, who can drop their names in a hat at the start of the show.

Pictures of Fireworks is dedicated to finding the funniest, most
compelling, touching, and outrageous tales in Nashville. All that’s required from each teller is honesty. Share your darkest secrets. Express the momentous or mundane. Your tales only need to be true, and to have a beginning, middle, and end. (Booked tellers get 8 minutes; audience members have 4. No scripts allowed, you fraidy cat.)

Each show will be hosted by Jane Borden: journalist, comedian, author of “I Totally Meant to Do That” (a humorous memoir praised by Amy Poehler, Ed Helms, Vanity Fair, and New York Magazine), and proud member of Corporate Juggernaut, just named “Best Comedy Collective” by the Nashville Scene.

The first Pictures of Fireworks happens Wednesday December 5th, at 8pm, at Fido (1812 21st Avenue South). Lineup to be announced (soon!).

Be candid. Be stupid. Everyone has a story. What’s yours?

Learn more about Jane Borden at janeborden.com, and about Corporate Juggernaut at corporatejuggernaut.com

Wednesday, December 5, 2012
8:00pm

Fido
1812 21st Ave S, Nashville, Tennessee 37212

https://www.facebook.com/ical/event.php?eid=454138834650472

Garfunkel and Oates at Zanies (10/12-13)

Garfunkel and Oates is an LA-based comedy/folk duo made up of actresses Riki Lindhome (“Last House on the Left,” “Changeling,” “My Best Friend’s Girl”) and Kate Micucci (“Scrubs,” “‘Til Death,” “When in Rome”). They’ve appeared on “The Tonight Show,” and Comedy Central and have a monthly show at the Upright Citizens Brigade in LA. Their newest album, “Slippery When Moist” made it’s debut at #1 on iTunes Comedy.

They are hilarious and naughty and brilliant and beautiful. Here’s a clip of them playing their song, “Go Kart Racing” on G4’s “Attack of The Show.”

Get tickets now by calling Zanies at 615-269-0221 or buy ’em online at ZaniesNash.com

More G&O:
GarfunkelAndOates.com/
Facebook.com/garfunkelandoates
Twitter.com/garfunkeloates
Twitter.com/RikiLindhome
Twitter.com/KateMicucci