Up Your Aunties with Cathy Caldwell & Julia Scotti

For seventeen years, he served as the audience warm-up comic for The

Late Show with David Letterman.

For eleven of those years he was the Stand Up Comedy Talent Coordinator.

Eddie has taped more than 100 TV shows in six different countries,

including ten appearances on The Late Show and on an Emmy nominated

episode of the FX hit series, "Louie.”

A 3-time MAC award winner for Outstanding Male Comic in NYC, he has

hosted and performed for hundreds of corporate events including ESPN,

Glaxo Welcome. Hyatt Hotels and BMC Software.

Teddy Coluca is an American actor. He currently plays the role of Brimley on The Blacklist (TV series), Manny on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Uncle Joe on the show Younger (TV series) and the recurring role of the stage manager on the 2006-2013 NBC series 30 Rock.

Billy West was born in 1952 in Detroit, Michigan. Best known for his

work on Ren & Stimpy, West has a career in radio and television that

began in the 1980's when he did comedic impersonations for Charles

Laquidara's Big Mattress morning show on Boston's WBNC FM radio network.

By the mid-90s, he had moved to doing impersonations of Cincinnati Reds

owner Marge Schott on The Howard Stern Show, giving him greater

exposure. From there, West became involved with the Nickelodeon shows

Doug and Ren & Stimpy.

Portraying the title characters on both shows, Billy West saw his

voiceover work reach an even larger, yet younger audience. This led to

Warner Bros. hiring him for the film Space Jam in 1996. Featuring

Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and the cast of Looney Tunes, West

voiced Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, two characters whom he has

sporadically voiced throughout the next decade.

He is also known for his portrayal of Philip J. Fry on the cartoon

Futurama, which began in 1999 and has continued on through a number of

changes through 2012 and currently airs on Comedy Central. In addition

he is also the voice of the iconic Red M&M.

Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comedian, writer, and host. She is known

for hosting NPR’s national comedy trivia radio show and podcast Ask Me

Another where she interviewed and played games with Sir Patrick Harris,

Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Awkwafina, Roxanne Gay, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick

Kroll, Chelsea Handler and more. 

She is also a regular panelist on Hulu’s Up Early Tonight. She’s

appeared multiple times on CBS’s The Late Late Show, Comedy

Central, This Week At The Comedy Cellar, The New Yorker Festival, Kevin

Hart’s LOL Network, HBO’s Girls, Gotham Live, and The Today Show. 

She is regular host and teller on The Moth Radio Hour. Her stories have

also been included in three of The Moth’s best-selling

collections, including the most recent: How To Tell A Story: The

Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth.

Ophira’s own comedic memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to

Monogamy was optioned for a television series. Her comedy special Inside

Joke is available on Amazon, and her new comedy album and special

Plant- Based Jokes is available through 800Pound Gorilla Records on

iTunes and streaming on YouTube.

Her new weekly comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke is out now, produced

by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends.

Janette Barber is a six-time Emmy award winning writer/producer and

two-time bestselling author. She is best known for her work with Rosie

O’Donnell - as supervising producer and head writer on The Rosie

O’Donnell Show. Janette won her sixth Emmy as Hot Topics writer on ABC’s

The View. Janette was executive producer and sidekick on RosieRadio on

SiriusXM where she, later, hosted her own show, Janette’s Show.

She created, produced and co-hosted the series, Lighten Up on the TV

Food Network and is a standup comic. Janette has co-authored two

bestselling humor books, USA Today bestseller: Breaking the Rules, Last

Ditch Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams (Career Press) and

Publishers’ Weekly bestseller: Embracing Your Big Fat Ass (Atria). As an

international humanitarian volunteer, Janette has participated in

missions to Albania, Kosovo, Congo, Rwanda, Ukraine and the Philippines.

And recently joined Camp TLC (Together Living a Challenge) – a charity

committed to improving the lives of children living with challenges.

In his seven years as the lead singer of the legendary Tower of Power,

Tommy Bowes garnered nothing but rave reviews. Those in the know are

aware of the talent it takes to front a ten piece band with five

powerful horns, and reviewers have consistently praised Bowes’ “high

range, powerful voice, and unique versatility."

Touring almost non-stop with Tower, Tommy sang to audiences in Japan and

Europe, with sold-out shows in Tokyo, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy,

Paris and London. He crisscrossed the United States and Canada

performing in venues from small clubs to the giant Newport and

Playboy Jazz Festivals, Milwaukee's renowned Summerfest and an

appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.

During this time, Tower recorded two albums, Monster on a Leash and

T.O.P. with Tommy on lead vocals.

Influenced in his early years by artists from Stevie Wonder and Chaka

Khan to Aerosmith, Yes and James Taylor, Tommy played guitar and sang,

working the bar scene in Boston from 1976 to 1982. In 1982 he moved to

New York City, continuing along those same lines in small clubs. It was

there, that he was fortunate enough to meet and work with quite a few

phenomenal

musicians. He played bass, composed for and sang with the band G-Jam

(later becoming Bang the Drum), which was prominent in the Village

scene, from 1982 to 1986. Known for his ability to make many styles his

own, he became an in-demand session singer.

In 1987, Tommy joined Funk Filharmonik as lead vocalist. He worked with

them until 1989 before leaving for California and TOP. He returned in

1995, and continues to work with them today. In 2008, they released

their first CD, entitled Everybody Get Down, after 24 years in

existence. You can check out the band at www.funkfilharmonik.com.

In 2000, he met up with Dr. Dave Beyers, who co-founded the Steely Dan

tribute band known as Stealin Dan and was invited to sit in. Things

clicked and Tom was invited to join the band. Considering the fact that

he was a huge Steely Dan fan and had absolutely no fear of spreading

himself too thin... he jumped at the chance and began crisscrossing Long

Island on

two fronts. The members of Stealin Dan eventually parted ways and split

into two separate bands. FM - A Steely Dan Tribute, of which Tommy is

currently a member, performs regularly in the NYC area.

Along those same lines, Bowes also currently fronts another tribute band

called Sir Duke - A Stevie Wonder Tribute which can also been heard in

the NYC area.

Besides recording two albums with TOP and maintaining an almost constant

touring schedule, Bowes still found time for writing and studio

projects. His work has extended internationally with appearances on the

hit German television shows, Schmitenander and Ohne Filter. He has

worked in the commercial industry singing for the likes of Range Rover

in Japan,

Verizon, Oprah, Sesame Street and Nickelodeon, just to name a few. His

vocals were featured on the San Francisco Giants theme song. Tom has

also done extensive voice-over work on various projects.

Over the years, Tommy has had the pleasure of performing along side a

wide range of artists including Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, YES drummer

Alan White, Roger Daltrey, Dave Mason, Queen Latifah, The Doobie

Brothers, Michael McDonald, Spike Edney and Jamie Moses from Queen, Mark

Hudson, Greg Adams, Will Lee, Michelle Shocked and many others.

He can also be heard in some major motion pictures including,

White Palace (Universal – 1990), View

From the Top (Miramax-2003) and Shaolin Soccer(Miramax-2004).

In April of 1995, Bowes left Tower of Power, took some time off to

breathe a little and think about the next phase of his musical life. He

has since been living in New Jersey, working on various projects for

other artists.

In 2012, Tommy was honored to have been invited to perform

with the legendary band Blood, Sweat & Tears as lead vocalist on

their summer tour.

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Larry Amoros is a writer with a diverse and eclectic resume. An

acclaimed ghostwriter and collaborator, he has put three books on The

New York Times Best Seller List since 2013: “I Hate Everyone Starting

with Me,” with the late Joan Rivers; “The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth,

Mischief and Manipulation,” with Melissa Rivers; and, “Diary of a Mad

Diva,” which garnered Joan Rivers a posthumous 2015Grammy Award for Best

Spoken Word album. His current collaboration with Melissa Rivers, “Lies

My Mother Told Me”has just been released.

He recently collaborated with Joy Behar on her acclaimed humor book,

“The Great Gasbag: An A to Z Guide to Surviving Trump world,”

(Harper-Collins 2016) and with Bianca del Rio on her outrageous hit,

“Blame It on Bianca del Rio: An Opinion on Everything from an Expert on

Nothing,” (Dey Publishing 2018). Mr. Amoros had a ten year run writing

on ESPN’s “ESPY Awards,” as well as working on numerous other sports

broadcasts, including “The NASCAR Awards” and “The NHL Awards.” For a

number of years, he was part of the writing staff of “The Mark Twain

Prize for American Humor,” and in2016, he served as Creative

Producer/Head Writer of “A Tribute to Joan Rivers,” at The Kennedy

Center, in Washington, D.C.

You can check out Jackie's Podcast "Stand-Up Memories" on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/c/StandUpMemories

Jackie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackieMartling

Jackie's TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@jackiemartling

You can purchase his book "The Joke Man Bow To Stern"

https://www.amazon.com/Joke-Man-Bow-Stern/dp/1682613895

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JOHN POVEROMO is a nationally touring comedian, cartoonist, writer,

actor, and host of Dystopia Tonight with John Poveromo on TwitchTV,

ApplePodcasts, Spotify and YouTube. John’s been seen on FXX’s Gotham

Live, FoxTv’s “The Q”, VH1, MTV, written for Newsweek, and has a short

film on Amazon Prime that he both co-wrote and starred in titled,

“Duppet.” John’s been featured in the NY Times, as a “Young comic to

watch,” detailed in The Asbury Park Press as, “Not your

run-of-the-mill-standard-issue-garden-variety stand-up” and profiled in

NJ Monthly Magazine and US Weekly Magazine as well as numerous other

publications. John is a sought after guest for a variety of comedy,

pop-culture, and political podcasts as well as a favorite and frequent

guest on SiriusXM radio’s “Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang.”

The official website of Dystopia Tonight

https://www.dystopiatonight.com/

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https://johnpoveromo.net/

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160 Years of Jokes in 90 Minutes

By Ethlie Ann Vare

Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 12/18/21 – “I intend to make them laugh as hard

as they can for as long as I can,” said Cleveland newspaper columnist Artemus Ward,

who first took his “humorous lectures” on the road in the 1860s. The London press

dubbed his act “an American original art form,” later to be known as stand-up comedy.

“Stand up,” it seems, was slang for a boxer who could take a beating in the ring and not

keel over. The term worked well for a fellow (and it would only be a fellow, for a long

time) who could get in front of a crowd armed only with his wits and stay upright.

If you didn’t know any of that – well, neither did I, until I laughed my way through Ritch

Shydner’s History of Stand-Up Comedy at the intimate Yard Theater on Melrose Avenue.

You may know Shydner from appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny

Carson, Late Night with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or his own

HBO stand-up special. He’s written for Roseanne, The Jeff Foxworthy Show and Titus. But

at heart, it turns out, Ritch Shydner is a historian.

“It was Phyllis Diller who wanted me to write a book about stand-up comedy,” says

Shydner, checking in from his home in Asheville, North Carolina. “I started on it, but it

was reading like a textbook and I couldn’t think of anything worse than writing an

unfunny book about comedy.” So he and director J. Elvis Weinstein (Mystery Science

Theater 3000) put it on its feet.

Now Shydner presents his own

“humorous lecture” in clubs and on cruise ships, and is currently developing it for off-

Broadway and as a limited series. The hardest part of putting the show together, he

says, was figuring out how to contain it. “It’s 160 years in 90 minutes – I try to cover the

big changes and big moments, but there’s so much.”

Turns out, when you cherry-pick through a century and a half of jokes, the audience is in

for a lotta laughs.

The format is loosely structured around big changes like new technology and historical

moments, changes that shaped the way comedy looked and sounded. The introduction

of the microphone took us from Mark Twain lecturing at a women’s auxiliary, to Will

Rogers selling out Carnegie Hall. The lecture stage begat the vaudeville stage, but then

Prohibition drove comedy into the speakeasy. W.C. Fields was actually arrested in 1905,

just for talking about drinking.

The introduction of radio rendered slapstick gags and funny faces obsolete, and also

introduced the network censor, who literally blue-penciled things you can’t say on the

radio. This is why comics who used bad language were said to be “working blue.”

It was the LP that allowed people to listen to what they damn well wanted in the privacy

of their own home, which let stand-ups from Redd Foxx to Mort Sahl to George Carlin

encroach on the family friendly Jack Bennys and Bob Hopes. Television brought back

slapstick, but it also brought back censorship… until a disillusioned post-Vietnam public

and the advent of cable TV unleashed the likes of Sam Kinison.

Shydner runs through all this plus the influence of social media, YouTube and the

podcast at a gallop, and he says it kills him to think of all the great comics he still had to