The NashvilleStandUp Showcase @ Zanies 6/17/2015: Chad Riden w/ DJ Buckley, Scott Eason, Josh Wagner, Hannah Hogan, Narado Moore and a couple BUCKET SPOTS available to comics who arrive BEFORE 7pm.
Chad Riden‘s comedy is about his chaotic reality. His last few years have featured bankruptcy, divorce, foreclosure and the best shows of his life. Riden tells self-incriminating stories of being a “recidivist vigilante instrument of karma” that embarrass his daughter and make everybody else shake their heads and laugh and/or contact the authorities.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
doors open at 6:30
showtime: 7:30
“Flying With Jaybird” is a new monthly standup comedy showcase at Mad Donna’s loft the 3rd Wednesday of every month. The 6/17/2015 show features Mary Jay Berger with Chad Riden, Chuck Anderson, Brett Cantrell, Jordan Jensen.
Wed., June 17, 2015
Doors open 7pm, showtime 7:30.
TICKETS: $5 at the door
Full bar and menu available.
McQueen Adams has proven himself a major talent to a wide range of audiences for his stand-up comedy, directing, and writing. He has performed at top comedy clubs in NYC and LA, including Caroline’s, Gotham, and The Improv. He can be heard voicing such shows on Nickelodeon as Kappa Mikey or doing perfect musical impressions on Sirius Satellite Radio.
A popular morning show fixture on Clear Channel, he has showcased all over the country and is a sought after college act because of his wide array of musical impressions.
Currently, Adams is taking his creative symmetry of impressions and performance of music and comedy, in a fresh and innovative direction. His new show “MCQUEEN” incorporates his improvisational voiceovers while recreating movie and television scenes as well as plenty of oddities live on stage, controlling everything with his hands and mouth.
With his four latest projects (Freezer Burn, The Fox Show, “Little Dick”, and The Green Machine) Adams is moving into animated and scripted comedy across multiple platforms
“This show is mad funny! Dudes doing something crazy original, it’s going to be huge man!” -DAVE CHAPPELLE
“An original show that showcases immense talent and wow factor!”-HUFFINGTON POST
“It was like watching Jimmy Fallon and Reggie Watt’s love child bringing down the house!”-BUZZED
“Nothing I have ever seen compares to the originality and hilarity that went down last night! So much going on with the one constant was FUNNY!!!!“-CNN NEWS
“It’s just brilliant!”-THOM YORKE, RADIOHEAD
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 6:30pm at The East Room for just $5 cover. Produced and hosted by Nashville’s Chad Riden.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Apr. 23, 2015 — Nashville StandUp’s “Broken Record Comedy Show” ended its 184 hour, 16 minute run at 4:20am April 20, 2015, setting the new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for: “LONGEST STAND-UP COMEDY SHOW – MULTIPLE COMEDIANS.”
Labeled as, “The Greatest Dumbest Thing We’ve Ever Done!” The show ran non-stop at The East Room in Nashville, Tennessee, beginning Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 12:04pm with DJ Buckley and ending Monday April 20 at 4:20am with Chad Riden.
The previous 80-hour record had been held by the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, CA, for a show which ran from 6 to 9 December 2010. That show included 170 different acts by 150 comedians.
Official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ adjudicator Michael Empric presents the framed certificate to Chad Riden (left) and DJ Buckley (center).The 80-hour mark was surpassed on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 8:04pm while DJ Buckley was performing. Official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ adjudicator Michael Empric was on site to announce the new record saying, “I’m so excited to announce that with 80 hours and two minutes, you guys have set a new Guinness World Record!” The standing room only crowd at The East Room erupted into cheers, carrying co-host D.J. Buckley on their shoulders with the framed certificate from GUINNESS raised high above his head.
As the crowd settled down, co-host Chad Riden performed a set, saying he did not want the show to ever end. “If we never stop, nobody can ever beat us unless they already started before we did or we die first.” The show continued through the entire duration of Nashville’s Wild West Comedy Festival, which was conducive to celebrity drop-in sets from Hannibal Buress, Rory Scovel, Al Jackson, Eric Andre, Nate Bargatze, Keith Alberstadt, Ahmed Ahmed, Killer Beaz and Jon Reep.
The show finally began wrapping up Sunday night April 19th as the regularly scheduled weekly SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show presented the “Bestival of the Festival” showcase featuring stand-out performances from crowd favorites Mary Jay Berger, Brad Edwards, Carter Glascock, Monty Mitchell, Jonathan Craig, Brett Cantrell, Narado Moore, Joe Kelley and Jim Seward.
After an amazing set where Narado Moore improvised unflattering impressions of lackluster out of town guest comics, the marathon show came to an end early Monday morning, April 20th with show producers DJ Buckley and Chad Riden doing their final sets. “I want to do this again next year,” said Riden. “I think we have to. I want to break our own record by five minutes just to show that we know how silly and pointless this all is.” As the official clock neared 4:20 a.m., Riden thanked show co-producers Mary Jay Berger, Ben Jones and DJ Buckley, along with Zanies Comedy Clubs’ Brian Dorfman, comedian Nate Bargatze, the Wild West Comedy Festival, Outback Concerts, the dozens of volunteers who staffed the event, the comics who performed and everybody who was in attendance to a standing ovation before hopping off stage.
Nashville StandUp is a 509(a)(2) Public Charity with a mission to cultivate and promote middle Tennessee’s growing stand up comedy scene by supporting the Nashville-based comedians that help make the Music City a great place to see live comedy.
#BrokenRecordShow at The East Room featured the best of Nashville’s comedians & even celebrity drop-in sets from Hannibal Buress, Rory Scovel, Al Jackson, Eric Andre, Nate Bargatze, Ahmed Ahmed, Keith Alberstadt, Killer Beaz & Jon Reep. Starting 4/12/2015 12:04pm with D.J. Buckley and ending 4/20 4:20am with Chad Riden, NASHVILLE STANDUP surpassed the previous GUINNESS WORLD RECORD™ title of 80 hours for “Longest Stand-up Comedy Show – Multiple Comedians” on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 8:04pm and finished at 184+ hours long at 4:20am on April 20th.
I’ll write more about this later but for now, THANK YOU to Mary Jay Berger, Ben Jones, DJ Buckley, Brian Dorfman, Zanies, Outback Concerts, the Wild West Comedy Festival, Nate Bargatze, the comics who performed and attended the show, the Nashville StandUp volunteers and fans who were there to witness The Greatest Dumbest Thing We’ve Ever Done. I love each and every one of you.
