Event: Tahoe Comedy North
Location: Club Cal Neva - Downtown Reno - 38 East 2nd Street, Reno Nevada 89501
Date: Friday, July 30th 2010
Time: Doors @ 7:00pm, Show @ 8:00pm
Cost: $15/adv or $20/dos
Ticket Information: 877-777-7303 or (530) 546-5880
Additional Info: www.tahoecomedynorth.com
Press Release for Friday July 30th 2010 at Club Cal Neva in Reno
For Immediate Release:
Tahoe Comedy North and Cal Neva team up for Tahoe Comedy North's first show in Reno, NV. Join us on Friday, July 30th. Doors open at 7:00 and show starts at 8:00.
Will Durst will be headlining the event. Known as the nation’s foremost political comic, Will is simply outraged and outrageous! Tahoe Comedy North will be featuring comedian and impressionist Mari as Sarah Palin. Mari is the only female to ever win the Rooster T. Feather’s comedy competition. Your host for the evening is the witty Maggie Newcomb.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 the day of the show, and available at the Club Cal Neva or by calling 877-777-7303. For a complete Tahoe Comedy North schedule, go to www.tahoecomedynorth.com. Club Cal Neva is located in downtown Reno at 38 East Second Street.
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 – Maggie Newcomb
For most of her life, this tall female has been extremely awkward and insecure. However, in front of any crowd she becomes confident, witty and ....wait for it... hilarious.
Maggie Newcomb was born and raised in San Diego, but defected to Northern California to go to college at UC Davis. Maggie was a collegiate athlete for fours years as a rower on the women’s crew team. Although she lacked the competitive edge that her coach desired she found a way to contribute by making the team laugh.
Maggie graduated with a BA in International Relations and minors in Spanish, Business and beer drinking. Maggie continued her international career by teaching English in Argentina. Later she had a career in business that was short lived. This was due to her lack of business sense and inappropriate comments at meetings.
As a result Maggie became a substitute teacher for many years. Her inappropriate comments were valued by her students. Moreover substitute teaching gave Maggie plenty of material and serious anxiety that really improved her comedy.
After years of teaching Maggie went back to school and got her Masters in Adult Education at San Francisco State University. She is currently teaching ESL to adults with funny accents. She is looking forward to a long career in comedy. Even if people stop listening she will always have something to say.... it may even be.... wait for it.... inappropriate.
