Fresh off their Emerging Comics of New York nomination for “Best Comedic Duo” and a monthly show at Caroline’s on Broadway, Stuckey & Murray and friends are headed south to make people laugh. Joining Stuckey & Murray on the road will be New York comics Jon Friedman, Matt Goldich and Andrew Goldstein. The Nashville show also features a special guest performance from Nashville’s own Chad Riden.
Stops for the upcoming tour are:
3rd & Lindsley
July 14th, Show: 9:30pm
$5 cover
818 3rd Ave S.
Nashville, TN 37210
(615) 259-9891
www.3rdandlindsley.com
WorkPlay
July 15th, Doors: 8pm, Show: 9pm
$10 advance, $12 day of
500 23rd Street S.
Birmingham, AL 35233
(205) 879-4773
www.workplay.com
The Brandyhouse
July 16th, Doors: 9pm, Show: 10pm
$8 cover
4365 Roswell Rd. N.E.
Atlanta, Ga 30342
(404) 252-7784
www.brandyhouse.com
About the comics…
STUCKEY & MURRAY
Jon Murray and Andy Stuckey met five years ago as NBC pages in New York City. Jon (6’4″, 170lbs) hails from northern Vermont while Stuckey (5’10”, 156lbs) is from southern Alabama. Although both of them are left-handed guitarists, they differ in that Stuckey has diabetes and Murray doesn’t. Stuckey & Murray have performed in New York City venues such as The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Carolines, The Knitting Factory, B.B. King’s, CBGB’s, and many others. They blend all styles of music with clever and sometimes improvised lyrics. New York comedy magazine, 2 Drink Minimum, says Stuckey & Murray shows are full of “classy guitar chords with perversely witty lyrics”. Stuckey & Murray recorded their debut album, Destination: Rock Bottom, with a full band in Austin, Texas. The CD was released in September 2004 and is available at www.stuckeyandmurray.com and www.cdbaby.com. Because of their goal to erect a comedy empire, Stuckey & Murray will occasionally quit their jobs as television producers to go on the road.
20% of all Stuckey and Murray profits will be donated to the American Diabetes Association.
JON FRIEDMAN
Jon Friedman is a writer, stand-up comedian, and comedy show producer living in New York City. Jon founded his own production company called Tremendous Rabbit Productions to bring his many collaborative and original projects to the stage and screen. One of his first productions was The Rejection Show. As creator, director, and host of The Rejection Show, Jon has been a central figure in its growing popularity and success. His idea for the show was to embrace the rejected material of comedians, writers, cartoonists, and artists (both professional and amateur) whose work had been turned down from famed comic institutions such as “Saturday Night Live,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” and The New Yorker. The opportunity to display their creative “failures” live on stage proved to be a hit and has been featured on “ABC Evening News,” in a cover feature story in Newsday, on “The Brian Lehrer Show,” on “CBS Sunday Morning,” and in the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Daily News, The New York Post, and many others. As a comic writer, he was awarded with the Emerging Comics of New York Award for “Best Writer” in 2004. His humor writings have appeared in McSweeney’s, Pindeldyboz, and EyeShot. Jon is also the creator of the cultishly popular t- shirt website ElamenoTees.com, which offers t-shirts with off-beat humor such as “I Like Bacon More Than You Think” and “My Father Has A Mustache.” Elameno Tees were featured in Penthouse Magazine in February 2005.
Jon is currently co-writing animated humor segments for America’s Test Kitchen on PBS.
MATT GOLDICH
Matt Goldich began performing stand-up comedy in 1999 when he was a sophomore at Brown University, where he founded the Brown Stand-up Comics. In 2001 he was selected as one of the “five funniest college students in America” by HBO.com and performed at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. He now resides in New York, where he has performed at clubs such as Carolines and Gotham Comedy Club and alternative venues such as Luna Lounge and PSNBC. In 2003 he was selected as a semi-finalist in Comedy Central’s Laugh Riots Competition. He has written for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and contributed a chapter to the upcoming book “Bar Mitzvah Disco”, a humorous collection of essays about the Bar Mitzvah culture of the 1980’s. He also writes regularly for his blog, Circle Gets the Square.
ANDREW GOLDSTEIN
Andrew Goldstein is a Philadelphia born, New York based writer, comedian. In 2003, he won Boston Comedy Club’s “Rising Stars of Comedy” competition and has performed all over the tri-state area since moving to The Big Apple in 2000. As a member of the sketch comedy troupe Next Monday, he’s written and performed all over the country (Mostly New York, but they went to Chicago once) since 2001 and has written jokes for the Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary. In 2004 he was named a staff writer on MTV’s hidden camera prank show Boiling Points. He’s currently writing on various other projects for MTV’s family of networks and trying diligently to grow a beard.
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