Event: Tahoe Comedy North
Location: River Ranch Lodge / Corner Highway 89 and Alpine Meadows Road, Tahoe City, CA
Date: Wednesday, July 28th 2010
Time: Doors @ 7:30pm, Show @ 8:30pm
Cost: $15/adv or $20/dos
Ticket Information: (530) 583-4264 or (530) 546-5880
Additional Info: www.tahoecomedynorth.com

Press Release for Wednesday July 28th 2010 at River Ranch Lodge
For Immediate Release:

Tahoe Comedy North continues the summer comedy series on the patio at River Ranch on Wednesday, July 28th, at the River Ranch Lodge. Doors open at 7:30 and show starts at 8:30. Enjoy 10% off the River Ranch dinner menu on the night of the show with purchase of comedy ticket.

Headlining the event is Will Durst; the nation’s foremost political comic who is outraged and outrageous! Tahoe Comedy North will be featuring Mari as Sarah Palin, the only female to ever win the Rooster T. Feather’s comedy competition. Bay area native, Sammy Obeid, winner of the San Jose Improv Comedy
Competition will be your host for the evening.

Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 the day of the show, and available at the River Ranch Lodge, Incline Cleaners, Grog & Grist, Noah’s Video, and New Moon Natural Foods in Tahoe City and Truckee. For a complete Tahoe Comedy North schedule, go to www.tahoecomedynorth.com. The River Ranch Lodge is located at 2285 River Road which is on HWY 89 at the corner of Alpine Meadows road.

Headliner – Will Durst
As the sacred cows routinely paint targets on their foreheads practically begging for someone to puncture their pomposity, America cries out for a man with the aim, strength, and style to hit them where it hurts the funniest. Will Durst is that man. Sweeping both sides of the aisle with a quiver full of arrows dipped in common sense, Durst transcends party ties, having performed at events honoring former Presidents Bill Clinton and George HW Bush as well as acclaimed appearances at both a Mayors Convention and Governors Conference.
Outraged and outrageous, Durst is as current as today’s headlines, as accurate as a sniper, and universally acknowledged by even his peers as the nation’s foremost political comic.
A Midwestern baby boomer with a media-induced identity crisis, Durst, according to the New York Times is “quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country today.” This equal opportunity offender is exceptionally adept at swatting both partisan political piñatas upside their heads.
Although a prolific writer, he professes little need for material, having it regularly delivered at 7:00 a.m. every morning in the five papers he reads daily. Busier than a blind squirrel neck deep in an almond sorting warehouse, Durst is a regular commentator for audible.com, Air America, CNN and NPR, writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column, daily website jokes—yet still finds time to perform hundreds of comedy shows every year—at clubs, corporate events, theaters and benefits…not to mention the occasional acting and voice-over role.
Reigning as C-SPAN’s favorite comic (8 appearances,) Durst is a 5-time Emmy nominee and recipient of 7 consecutive nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand Up of the Year. He is the first comic invited to perform at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the first American to be nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the show “Myth America.” He has racked up more than 400 television appearances in 14 different countries while slinging jokes around the globe in his one man crusade to make people laugh out loud on purpose against their will. Hobbies include the never-ending quest for the perfect cheeseburger, while his heroes remain the same as when he was twelve—Thomas Jefferson and Bugs Bunny.
Will Durst’s performances are made possible by the First Amendment!
Featuring – Mari as Sarah Palin
Mari Magaloni is a member of Comedy Noir, a sketch comedy troupe which has been featured 2 years in a row at the San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival and was one of only 2 sketch comedy troupes to be featured at the recent Vancouver Comedy Festival. In addition to impersonating Sarah Palin in the troupe's Obama Roast, Mari plays Joan Rivers in their Hitler Roast and the Virgin Mary in the Jesus Roast.
Mari is also a stand up comic and is to date the only woman to have won the Rooster T. Feather's Comedy Competition in Sunnyvale, CA.  She can be seen at private events and in comedy clubs all over the country.

Host – Sammy Obeid
A native to the San Francisco Bay Area, Sammy Obeid prefers living nowhere else, so long as he only has a bike.    Within his first year in comedy he won first place in the 2008 Rooster T Feathers Comedy Competition, and within his first year and a half he won first place in the 2008 San Jose Improv Comedy Competition and placed 2nd in Wild 94.9's Best Comic Standing Competition.  He has appeared on the Food Network, and is a member of the nationwide CoExist Comedy Tour.