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Rooftop Comedy recently featured Nashville’s own Billy Wayne Davis as their “comic of the day” with clips from his recent week of shows headlining at Side Splitters in Tampa.
With B-Dub’s first child due later this month, watch his “Pregnant Lady Farts” bit while it’s still timely:
Also check out “Selling Knives At The Airport”, “A Bad Fishing Experience”, and our favorite, “Rednecks And Gay Dudes”.
Visit BW’s profile on Rooftop Comedy, MySpace, Facebook, and his own site, BillyWayneDavis.com.
Nashville transplants Ralphie May (Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, Celebrity Fit Club) and Lahna Turner (VH1, Comedy Central) have welcomed their second child. On June 24th, August James May weighed in at 8lbs 7oz and measured 20 inches. Their first child, April June May, is now 21 months old. Ralphie and Lahna will be celebrating their fourth wedding anniversary this month.
Congratulate Ralphie this week at Zanies! He’ll be headlining Thursday through Sunday. Tickets are on sale now.
The 3rd annual Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival has announced this years festival performers. Nashville will be well represented by Chad Riden, Kevin “Renegade” Green, Sean Parrot and Tim Northern.
The 2009 edition of “the largest Stand-up Comedy festival in the Southeast” consists of five shows featuring over 40 comics over the course of three days – July 16-18 – in the Diana Wortham Theater in Asheville, North Carolina. The final schedule with dates, times and details of all performances has not been announced yet. See www.laughyourashevilleoff.com for more info.
Monday, June 1
9th Annual Christian Comics Association Conference
8pm OPEN MIC (Lonnie’s on West End)
Tuesday, June 2
9th Annual Christian Comics Association Conference
8am – 9am Get Up, Stand Up (91.1 WRVU-FM)
6pm Hope Lodge Night of Laughs (American Cancer Center Hope House)
8pm OPEN MIC Contest (Spanky’s Sportsbar & Grill)
Wednesday, June 3
7:30pm Janet Williams, Lahna Turner, Dan Whitehurst (Zanies)
9pm “Dive Laughing” OPEN MIC (Springwater)
Thursday, June 4
7:30pm Janet Williams, Lahna Turner, Dan Whitehurst (Zanies)
Friday, June 5
7:30pm, 9:45pm Joe Rogan (Zanies)
Saturday, June 6
7pm, 9pm Joe Rogan (Zanies)
Sunday, June 7
7:30pm TC Cope’s Birthday Bash with Prescott & Chris Thomas (Zanies)
8pm OPEN MIC (Music Row Bar & Grill)
More details can be found in the NashvilleStandUp show calendar in the sidebar.
Nashville-native nationally touring comic Keith Alberstadt continues to amaze and astound us with the quantity and quality of projects he’s working on. He is featured in “Stand Up 360” – a movie about New York stand up comedy, has been invited to the Great American Comedy Festival, and has been filmed for Byron Allen’s “comedy.tv”.
Keith recently wrote a guest article for Rooftop Comedy about the comedy.tv project:
It was a big surprise to get the call, especially since in my emails to the producers, I kept calling him Brian Allen. I felt like my mom, who calls comics things like Kathy Mandarin (Kathleen Madigan), Jack Jergensen (Jake Johannsen), and Bill Saguine (possibly Conan O’Brien).
The only bad thing about this whole experience was the timing. I got the invite Thursday last week and had to be in LA Sunday. A trip cross country, connecting in Detroit, sitting in the middle seat between two middle-aged women who laugh out loud at the in-flight movie “Bridal Wars”. . . All of these things are tolerable. What’s not is finding a reasonably-priced plane ticket with only two days notice.
The best rate I could find was $410 which I paid for with 10,000 shares of GM stock. But it was well worth it.
Forty-two comics doing six minutes each. Of course not everyone stuck to six minutes, because there’s still a mentality of “hey, I’m killing so that red light in the back of the room can suck it”. But overall it was amazing. Events like this are fun because it’s like a comedy convention. Comics from all over can catch up on what they’re doing, where they’ve been, and which comedy condos have been de-loused lately.
The Great American Comedy Festival takes place June 14-20 at the Johnny Carson Theatre in Norfolk, Nebraska. Created as a tribute to the legacy of native son Johnny Carson, the festival’s competitors were booked by Late Show with David Letterman‘s Eddie Brill. This year’s line-up features Keith along with 24 other fast-rising comics including Nashville’s own Jesse Case and friend of N’Sup Pat Dixon.
“Stand Up 360” is a series of new big screen productions in theaters now. It’s hosted by Caroline Rhea and spotlights some of the best comics in New York City. Keith’s part of the series will be in theaters June 1-14. Visit www.Stand-Up360.com for more information and to purchase tickets while they last! Check your local listings for select theaters, dates & times of the limited engagement showings.
For more from Keith, visit KeithComedy.com.