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2nd-5th, 2010 — Thursday - Sunday
Norm
MacDonald
From
"Saturday Night Live"
Perhaps best known for his offbeat delivery of "the
fake news" on "Saturday Night Live" for five
seasons, Norm MacDonald is a major comedic presence. Aside
from his notable characterizations of Bob Dole and Burt
Reynolds, MacDonald proved that his acerbic wit and writing
were not to be contained to just the small screen.
MacDonald starred in the film Dirty Work, which he also
co-wrote; and, as the voice of Lucky the Dog in the Eddie
Murphy hit, in Dr. Doolittle. Macdonald was also seen in
Billy Madison with Adam Sandler, and in Milos Foreman's
Academy Award-nominated The People Vs. Larry Flint.
Other feature film projects for MacDonald include Pittsburgh,
scripted and co-directed by Golden Globe-winning and Academy
Award-nominated screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry
Karaszewski, who wrote The People Vs. Larry Flint; and the
1999 Andy Kaufman biopic, Man On The Moon.
A native of Quebec City, Canada, MacDonald began his stand-up
career in comedy clubs throughout Canada. Upon moving to
Los Angeles, he became a writer on the ABC hit series, "Roseanne.
MacDonald currently resides in Los Angeles.
Whitney Cummings is a Los Angeles based comedian, actress,
and writer. As a comedian she appears regularly on Chelsea Lately
and the Comedy Central Roasts. She was most recently seen on
the Roast of David Hasselhoff, The Tonight Show, and in her
hour long Comedy Central Stand Up Special "Money Shot."
She wrote, co-executive produced, and performs stand up on the
comedy series Live! Nude! Comedy! for Showtime and was named
one of Variety's Top 10 Comics to watch and was named one of
Entertainment Weeklys "Comedy Stars of Tomorrow."
She has also performed on HBO's Down and Dirty with Jim Norton
at Denis Leary's "Rescue Me" comedy tour after getting
her start as a series regular on MTV's PUNK'D
Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter
and Erik Stolhanske, comprise the five-member filmmaking comedy
group Broken Lizard. Broken Lizard formed at Colgate University
as a student sketch comedy group. Following graduation, they
relocated to New York City, where they performed live shows
in exchange for sexual favors.
The group began its feature film career with their award-winning
debut Puddle Cruiser in 1996. They followed up with the independently-financed,
cult-hit Super Troopers (Fox Searchlight), which premiered at
the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was released worldwide in
February 2002. Besides earning $20 million at the box office,
Super Troopers also found a massive audience in the home video
market, selling over five million copies on DVD. They followed
Super Troopers with yet another cult favorite, the horror-comedy
Club Dread (Fox Searchlight) which was released in February
of 2004.
In 2005, the group co-wrote and acted in the film remake of
the popular 70’s television series The Dukes of Hazzard
(Warner Bros), which was directed by Chandrasekhar. They followed
their work on Dukes of Hazzard with Beerfest, released in August
2006, and most recently The Slammin’ Salmon.
Currently Broken Lizard is returning to their sketch comedy
roots. Join all five members as they present stand-up, live
sketches (including appearances by characters from Super Troopers
and Beerfest), Improv, original films, and Q & A about their
experiences creating and releasing all of their films.
Maz Jobrani is best known as a founding member of the Axis
of Evil Comedy Tour, which featured some of the top Middle Eastern-American
comics in the world. The Axis of Evil Comedy Central Special
premiered in 2007 as the first show on American TV with an all
Middle Eastern/American cast. The DVD was also released in 2007.
The tour started in the US and later went to the Middle East
in the fall of 2007, selling out 27 shows in Dubai, Beirut,
Cairo, Kuwait and Amman (where they performed in front of the
King and Queen of Jordan.) Maz is currently on his own solo
tour titled “Maz Jobrani; Brown and Friendly”, which
again is taking him all over the world including the US, Canada,
Europe, the Middle East and Australia. The “Brown and
Friendly” Comedy Special premiered on Showtime in the
Fall of 2009 and is now out on DVD at www.MazJobrani.com, I-tunes
and Amazon.com.
In movies Maz starred in the role of “Moly” in Ice
Cube’s “Friday After Next.” He also played
Secret Service Agent “Mo” in the Sydney Pollack
thriller “The Interpreter,” opposite Sean Penn and
Nicole Kidman as well as Jennifer Garner’s colleague,
Glenn, in “13 Going on 30.” In television he recently
shot a pilot for ABC titled “Funny in Farsi” and
is recurring on ABC’s “Better off Ted.” He
has been a regular on ABC’s “Knights of Prosperity”
as well as FOX’s “Life on a Stick.” He has
also Guest Starred on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “The
West Wing”, “24”, “NYPD Blue”,
“ER” and much more.
Most recently Maz filmed the groundbreaking ABC pilot “Funny
In Farsi” directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. If picked up for
the Fall schedule, “Farsi” will be the first show
on a major American network based around a Middle Eastern-American
family. Maz plays the patriarch of the family, Kaz. In 2008
Maz sold a TV show to CBS based on his life as an Iranian-American
in the United States. The show was best described as a Middle
Eastern “Everybody Loves Raymond.” He is also preparing
to shoot a film titled “Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero”
– a cross between a Middle Eastern “Pink Panther”
and “Bend it Like Beckham.” (Jimmy can be seen at
www.jimmyvestvood.com).
Maz has done standup on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,”
“The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “The
Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn,“ Comedy Central’s
“Premium Blend,” and England’s Paramount 2
Network. His sketch comedy performances at the ACME Theater
in Los Angeles were hailed as “devilishly funny”
and “extraordinary” by LA Weekly.
Maz was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he caught
the acting bug after portraying the lead in his eighth grade
production of “Li’l Abner.” He studied theater
throughout high school, and then went on to earn a BA in Political
Science and Italian at UC Berkeley. In the fall of 1994, while
beginning a Ph.D. program in Political Science at UCLA, he visited
the university’s prestigious theater program – and
was immediately hooked back on acting. This led to him dropping
out of the Ph.D. program to pursue his childhood passion.
Maz's work can be viewed on his website, www.mazjobrani.com.
A noted purveyor of fin-de-siècle shock comedy, Canadian
Tom Green aimed to transform his gross-out TV stardom into movie
fame (or infamy) with his 2001 directorial debut, Freddy Got
Fingered.
Raised in Ottawa, Green began to hone his comic skills as a
teenager, pulling gags for the amusement of his friends. Along
with doing stand-up while in college, Green released a rap album
and created a hit radio show at the University of Ottawa. After
graduation, Green managed to get the first incarnation of his
signature TV series, The_Tom_Green_Show, on local Ottawa television
in 1994. A hit, The Tom Green Show landed on Canada's Comedy
Network and officially hit the big time when MTV bought it and
began airing it in the U.S. in 1999. During its two years on
MTV, the show garnered high ratings due to Green's penchant
for pushing the limits of taste with such gags as shagging a
dead moose and delivering animal parts to his parents' house,
and for involving innocent bystanders in his "confrontational
comedy." Green even managed to top the episode featuring
his trip home with Presidential paramour Monica Lewinsky when
he transformed his spring 2000 battle with testicular cancer
into the infamous "Cancer Special" for MTV.
During Green's MTV tenure, he moved to films with a small role
in theSaturday Night Live-based comedy Superstar (1999). Green's
antics as a nerdy college student, particularly placing a live
mouse on his tongue, subsequently became one of the main draws
of the raunchy teen hit Road_Trip(2000). A cameo as Drew_Barrymore's
sad sack boyfriend Chad in the blockbuster Charlie's Angels
(2000) paid off personally when Green andBarrymore became an
offscreen item; after much hedging and a faux jilting at the
altar on Saturday Night Live in November 2000, the two married
quietly in 2001.
After The_Tom_Green_Show ended, Green turned his attention
to his first movie vehicle, co-writing, directing, and starring
in Freddy Got Fingered. Avowedly intended to be the most disgusting
film possible, Freddy featured such set pieces as Green swinging
a baby by its umbilical cord, doing unmentionable things with
horses, and many creative uses for meat. Although Green's cinematic
escapades earned a few comparisons to 1970s performance art,
Freddy Got Fingered was mostly blasted for its technical crudity
and general witlessness, and died a swift death at the box office.
From
"Flight of the Conchords"
and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
Kristen Schaal is one of the rising stars of the alternative
comedy scene, with glowing reviews and multiple awards marking
her ascent. In addition to having just performed to two weeks
of sold out shows at the Soho Theatre in London, Kristen also
had a sold out tour in Australia where she won the top prize
at the 2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival. Among her many other
recognitions, Kristen won "Best Alternative Comedian"
at the 2006 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, the 2nd Annual
Andy Kaufman Award at the New York Comedy Festival, was named
the Best Female Stand-up at the 2006 Nightlife Awards in New
York and was nominated for the Perrier Award for her two person
show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her stand-up special,
COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS . . . KRISTEN SCHAAL, which premiered
in March 2009, was also a huge hit, coming in as one of the
highest rated specials for the network that season.
Perhaps best known as stalker-fan Mel from HBO’s FLIGHT
OF THE CONCHORDS, Kristen can also regularly be seen as the
Senior Women's Issues Commentator on THE DAILY SHOW with Jon
Stewart. And her latest endeavor on the small screen, PENELOPE
PRINCESS OF PETS, which Kristen created and starred in, premiered
in March of this year on Channel 4 in the UK.
On the big screen, Kristen was recently seen in the feature
film WHEN IN ROME opposite Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel and
was featured in VALENTINES DAY directed by Garry Marshall. She
will next be seen in Judd Apatow’s GET HIM TO THE GREEK
opposite Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, DINNER FOR SHMUCKS opposite
Paul Rudd and Steve Carrell, and GOING THE DISTNACE opposite
Justin Long and Drew Barrymore. Kristen is also a favorite in
animated films and will soon be heard as the voice of Alice
in Wonderland in SHREK FOREVER AFTER and Trixie the Triceratops
in TOY STORY 3.
Currently, Kristen is in production on her new film BUTTER
where she is appearing opposite Jennifer Garner and Hugh Jackman.
And as if that weren’t enough, Kristen’s first book,
THE SEXY BOOK OF SEXY SEX, which she co-wrote with Richard Blomquist
(from THE DAILY SHOW) is slated for a fall release.
Coolidge is known for her supporting roles in many comedy
movies and guest spots on television. She is best known for
playing "Stifler's mom," the consummate "MILF,"
in the American Pie films, though she is also known for supporting
parts in other films, including Hilary Duff's stepmother in
A Cinderella Story, Paulette, the manicurist in Legally Blonde
and its sequel, and the voice of Aunt Fanny in the animated
feature Robots.
She has played comic parts in the improv mockumentaries Best
in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration directed
by Christopher Guest. She also appeared in the 2006 film Date
Movie as a spoof of Barbra Streisand's Meet the Fockers character.
Epic Movie, the first movie she had a starring role in, released
in 2007 and was made by the same people behind Date Movie; in
it, she played the "White Bitch" (the White Witch)
of Gnarnia (Narnia), a lampoon of the Disney and Walden Media
film The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Coolidge had a regular role in the NBC sitcom Joey as Joey's
agent, appearing in 37 out of 46 episodes in the series. She
originally starred in an episode of Friends in its final season
as Amanda, a tactless and uninhibited wannabe whom Phoebe and
Monica try to shake off. Prior to her Friends appearance she
was a regular on She TV, a very short-lived sketch comedy that
also featured Nick Bakay, Elon Gold, Simbi Khali, and Linda
Kash. She also has appeared on According to Jim, playing Jim's
sister and in an episode of Sex and the City, and on Frasier
as Frederica, Martin Crane's new physical therapist. Coolidge
also appeared in the kiddie comedy Slappy and the Stinkers and
as Adam Sandler's wife's friend, Janine, in the 2006 comedy
film Click.
Coolidge made one of her first appearances in the Seinfeld episode
"The Masseuse". She also had a recurring role on King
of the Hill as Luanne's beauty school teacher, Miss Kremzer.
In 2006, she guest starred on an episode of Top Chef. Most recently,
Coolidge appeared on Thank God You're Here and The Closer, on
TNT. In 2008, she guest starred on The Secret Life of the American
Teenager as a call girl. She also starred in Living Proof a
Lifetime movie.
The Wayans family is filled with talented members, so there
is no surprise that the two youngest brothers, Shawn and Marlon
Wayans, have followed in their family's footsteps as Hollywood
icons. These two comedic prodigies have accomplished a lot in
their relatively short careers so far.
Both Shawn and Marlon Wayans made their acting debut in 1989
in their brother Keenen Ivory Wayans’ feature film “I’m
Gonna Get You Sucka.” Immediately following their feature
film debut, they joined the cast of the Emmy Award winning comedy
series, “In Living Color.” “The Wayans Bros.”
sitcom, which Shawn and Marlon created and starred in, was the
first WB show to be sold into syndication after heading up the
WB network lineup for five years.
Shawn and Marlon’s past film credits include the hit comedy
“Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking
Your Juice in The Hood,” which they co-wrote, produced
and starred in together. The movie was a comic spoof of the
coming-of-age-in-the-hood movies and is a huge cult favorite.
More recently Shawn and Marlon starred in the box office hit,
“Little Man” and “White Chicks,” both
of which they also co-wrote and produced. The brothers began
co-writing this string of blockbusters with the smash “Scary
Movie” where they also starred along side each other,
and was directed by their brother Keenen Ivory Wayans. Co-written,
produced and starring Shawn and Marlon Wayans, “Scary
Movie 2” was the only sequel in the “Scary Movie”
franchise with direct Wayans involvement. Shawn and Marlon were
next seen on the big screen in “Dance Flick,” the
new comedy co-written with brother Keenen Ivory, which premiered
in May, 2009. Marlon also starred in the 2009 blockbuster “G.I.
Joe: The Rise of Cobra” where he played Ripcord, the G.I.
Joe team HALO’s jumper.
When not producing and starring in hit movies or on the road
performing standup, Shawn and Marlon can be found hard at work
in the “lab” where the Wayans siblings are busy
concocting their next project.
In the late 1970s, the late legendary comedian Andy Kaufman
met and befriended Las Vegas lounge act Tony Clifton–
or so the story goes. Shortly after that, however, we all learned
that Andy was Tony… maybe. Either way, Tony’s back
in the spotlight!
Tony Clifton is shrouded in mystery and rightfully so, as the
late great comedian Andy Kaufman wanted it that way.
According to Kaufman himself, he hitchhiked to Las Vegas in
1969 to see Elvis Presley. After the show, Andy stumbled into
a seedy lounge in the bad side of town and saw an act that would
change his life forever: Tony Clifton!
It wasn't long until Kaufman became popular (due to the TV series
"Taxi") and demanded that Clifton appear on the show.
The producers agreed, until Tony showed up drunk with two hookers.
He was fired and had to be bodily thrown off the Paramount lot.
Kaufman became obsessed with Clifton, instructing his manager
to "find Tony work.” Surprisingly, Clifton was able
to appear on a number of mainstream TV shows in the late 70's
and early 80's, performing duets with everyone from Dinah Shore
to Miss Piggy. He even appeared on the David Letterman Show
and Letterman thought it was Andy Kaufman in disguise. Meanwhile,
Kaufman was watching the show back home in L.A. and was rolling
on the floor with laughter, knowing he pulled one over on the
King of Late Nite. After Kaufman's untimely end in 1984, there
were those who believed that Andy had faked his death and was,
in fact, now performing as Clifton. The Milos Forman film, "MAN
ON THE MOON", that starred Jim Carrey further fueled these
rumors. Fans were further stunned when Tony made a rare appearance
alongside Michael Stipe and R.E.M.at the Hollywood Bowl.
After a brief appearance on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show"
in 2004, followed by a sold out performance at L.A.'s House
of Blues, Tony had been in communicado. Then in 2008, everything
changed when he was arrested in New Orleans for disorderly conduct.
The nationally recognized charitable organization, Comic Relief,
came to his rescue, persuading the judge to give him "community
service" instead of jail time. Thus "Tony Clifton
and his Katrina Kiss-My-Ass Orchestra" was born (this is
a continuation of Comic Relief’s commitment to support
artists affected by Hurricane Katrina). The Orchestra went on
tour and continues to take the country and critics by storm.
Though rumors still persist that Andy Kaufman himself will
show up, Clifton is quick to reply: "Andy's DEAD!!! lf
you want to see Kaufman, get yourself a flashlight and a shovel."
Michael Ian Black is a multi-talented actor, writer, comedian
and director. He's also a filmmaker, having written and directed
the MGM DVD release, "Wedding Daze,” starring Jason
Biggs and Isla Fisher. He also wrote the original screenplay
for “Run, Fatboy, Run” (2008), starring Simon Pegg
and Thandie Newton under the direction of David Schwimmer.
Black's most recent comedy series, "Michael and Michael
Have Issues," appeared on Comedy Central this past year.
He and former State colleague Michael Showalter created, starred
in, wrote, directed and produced this comedic look at the intertwining
lives of two contentious best friends. Along with Showalter
and David Wain, Black created, starred in and co-wrote the Comedy
Central series, "Stella." He's one of the lead commentators
on VH1's "I Love the..." series. His writings on contemporary
culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wired, Filter,
CMJ Magazine and McSweeney's online.
Black starred opposite Paul Rudd and Janeane Garofalo in the
USA Films cult hit, "Wet Hot American Summer." He
appeared in “Reno 911!: Miami,” “The Ten,"
"Partners" and “The Baxter.” He’ll
next be seen opposite Topher Grace and Anna Faris in “Kids
in America.” For four years, he starred on NBC's hit drama,
"Ed”. Most recently, he shot a lead role in the upcoming
Crackle series, “Backwash”.
His career began when Black graduated from NYU and co-created,
co-wrote and starred in the acclaimed MTV sketch comedy show,
"The State." From there, he co-created, co-wrote and
starred in the Comedy Central series "Viva Variety."
He was also the voice and forearm of the popular Pets.com sock
puppet. Black gives comedy lectures around the country under
the title, "The Awesome Life with Michael Ian Black."
He also performs stand-up comedy in clubs all over the U.S.
