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April 1, 2014

Todd Barry: The Final Crowd Work Tour @ The High Watt – 4/6/2014

For far too many stand-up comedians, crowd work is a crutch to lean against when you don’t have material. For far too many audience members, crowd work means a fear that a stand-up comedian will make fun of you.

But it’s something special when Todd Barry does it.

You’ll find out just how special when Todd Barry: The Crowd Work Tour comes out in March. Barry revealed the release date a few days ago, noting that Lance Bangs directed it, and it’ll cost $5. We learned last night that Louis C.K. financed Barry’s special and will release it exclusively online via C.K.’s website at buy.louisck.net.

Barry also talked about his new special in an interview on “The Goddamn Dave Hill Show” on WFMU. “In September I did a Crowd Work tour where I just interacted with the crowd. No jokes. No material. Just kinda walked up there and started… talking to people. You’ve seen comics do crowd work,” Barry told Hill. “I filmed this tour. It was seven cities. Lance Bangs, who you may know, has directed a lot of cool stuff… we had a whole film crew, and we filmed seven shows, starting in San Diego, going up to Anchorage, Alaska.”

Todd Barry: Final Crowd Work Tour
The High Watt, 1 Cannery Row, Nashville, TN, 37203

8pm April 6, 2014

18+ / Standing Room Only
Tickets: $15 GA | $20 VIP
866-468-7630 or http://www.ticketweb.com/fb/4093654/mercylounge

February 21, 2014

Mary Mack at The High Watt 2/24/2014

The great and wonderful Mary Mack is coming to Nashville to do hilarious comedy with her husband Tim Harmston at The High Watt Monday, February 24th. She is one of the absolute funniest, most original comics to have ever called Nashville home and we are damn lucky she is coming back for one night to do a show here! Don’t miss it.

Mary Mack and her mandolin sing-alongs have been featured on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Radio Show, XM, Sirius, and Minnesota’s Polka Spotlight.

She has performed in 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.

Mack had her national TV debut on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham and NBC’s Last Comic Standing. She was interviewed on Episode 263 of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in March 2012. Mary currently provides the voice of “Dylan” on FOX / ADHD’s “Golan the Insatiable” cartoon. She now divides her time among Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and a camper in the woods. She has a couple albums out you can purchase on cdbaby.com or maybe itunes. The world is so complicated.

Here’s some of Mary’s standup:

Here’s the GOLAN THE INSATIABLE trailer:

http://youtu.be/R9Ov5UvE_Hc

Mary Mack will be headlining the Corporate Juggernaut show at The High Watt Monday, February 24, 2014 at 8:30pm along with her pregnant husband, Tim Harmston and more.

Mary Mack & friends
Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 – 8:30pm
Tickets $10 at the door or online

The High Watt
1 Cannery Row, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
https://www.facebook.com/events/526048644169681/

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:
Twitter.com/FOXADHD
Twitter.com/GolanInsatiable
Facebook.com/pages/Golan-the-Insatiable/111190185642482

January 10, 2014January 14, 2014

LINEUP: A Live Comedy Special Taping (1/13/2014 at The High Watt)

LINEUP is Corporate Juggernaut’s brand new, semi-annual comedy showcase, featuring thirteen of Nashville’s freshest and most talented joke-talkers! The entire show will be filmed for posterity to relive this magical evening over and over again…and then post terrible comments on YouTube about it. So bring your loud-ass laughs and sexy-ass butts down to The High Watt for a grand ole night of fun and fellowship! $5 admission guarantees you one (1) seat and at least three (3) laughs or your money back!

JAN 2014 LINEUP lineup features the following hi-larious Nashville comedians and comediennes:

Will Copeland
Brad Edwards
Sean Parrott
Brett Cantrell
Paulina Combow
Sean Staggs
Doug Morenic
Mary Berger
Chad Riden
Chuck Anderson
Bryce Damuth
Da Herm
Brandon Jazz
Gary Fletcher

8:30pm
January 13, 2014

Tickets: $5 at the door or online

The High Watt
1 Cannery Row, Nashville, Tennessee 37203

Facebook.com/events/653871797997678/

April 15, 2013

Joe Derosa 4/15 at The High Watt

CORPORATE JUGGERNAUT PRESENTS: JOE DEROSA
-Mon Apr 15, 2013 at 8:30pm
-The High Watt (1 Cannery Row)
-$10

http://mercylounge.com/calendar/venue/highwatt/2013/04/15/joe-derosa/

We’re thrilled to bring Joe DeRosa to town from NYC. He’s an Opie and Anthony regular, and has appeared on both “Louie” and “Bored to Death.” He’s also had his own Comedy Central special, and just recorded his second live album.

DeRosa’s jokes are those of an everyman struggling under an ever-present raincloud. He just wants to be happy; he just wants “to sell for a higher price at the people store.”

The opening comics: Jane Borden, Gary Fletcher, Heather LeRoy, and host Sean Parrott.

January 24, 2013

Ryan Singer & Jarrod Harris @ The High Watt 1/28

Organic is a comedy tour and documentary featuring comedians Jarrod Harris and Ryan Singer traveling around the country in Jarrod’s RV. Over the past few years, vibrant organic comedy scenes have sprung up all around the country and have been the life support system for comedians like Jarrod and Ryan that have one foot in the mainstream rooms and the other firmly planted in the alternative scene. These scenes are all uniquely driven by the love of stand up comedy by the comedians who live there. This tour will showcase the freedom of the art form these venues allow and the people who have unwittingly created a place for comedians to come into their own before breaking through to the next level like Jarrod and Ryan. This will be funny, weird, experimental, and most of all – organic.

Over 20 million people have seen Jarrod’s popular Action Figure Therapy characters and most recently the series was named LA Weekly’s “Top Comic To Watch in 2012.” His character Jungle was also featured on the front page of the Huffington Post Comedy section in 2011. Jarrod has also been seen on TBS’ Lopez Tonight and Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham.

“Jarrod Harris’ act is an oddly comfortable mix of trailer-park filth, comic angst, and hipster irony. While his style may fit into several categories along the comedy spectrum, his clever writing only fits into one: funny.” – Noah Gardenswartz – Creative Loafing

Ryan Singer is the rarest of breeds: a comic’s comic that electrifies mainstream audiences with material that is both uncompromising and unpretentious. His debut album HOW TO GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS was selected as a Top 10 Album of 2010 by Punchline Magazine (now Laughspin) and his sophomore release COMEDY WONDER TOWN debuted in the Top 20 on iTunes. Ryan was recently mentioned in Rolling Stone Magazine as a “Comic Who Should Be Big” and NY Magazine as a “Top 5 Comic to Watch.”

“Ryan Singer is one of my favorite comics to watch. He is bizarrely creative and hilarious. The real deal.” – Marc Maron

Corporate Juggernaut presents: Ryan Singer & Jarrod Harris
Monday, January 28, 2013
8:30pm

The High Watt
1 Cannery Row, Nashville, Tennessee 37203

www.corporatejuggernaut.com
www.thehighwatt.com

(Facebook event)