Up Your Aunties with Cathy Caldwell & Julia Scotti

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Carrie has a lot of balls in the air.

Whether performing her hilarious yet touching solo show, “7,000 Sailors

Can’t Be Wrong,” doing stand-up comedy and voiceovers, or basking in the

glow of being featured in “The Aristocrats,” she’s a busy gal.

Carrie’s stand-up career was foreshadowed by her graduation from UC

Berkeley with a degree in Rhetoric. She was barely able to eke out a

living posing provocative questions that required no response.

Apparently, there’s not a lot of call for that. While working as a

receptionist a Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, Carrie began “professional

party guesting,” which led to being handily escorted out of many

fashionable homes in the Bay Area. A harrowing stint as the emcee of an

all-male strip show made Carrie dream of spending quality time with a

man who could read a book without illustrations.

The road memories: Carrie’s the only comic who can say that she opened

up for both Jack Jones AND the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the same decade.

But lest we forget, there are also sojourns to thirty-six U.S. states,

six provinces in Canada, cruise ships, English television, and even a

week in Guam. She’s headlined at CAROLINE’S, THE PUNCH LINES, THE

IMPROVISATIONS, THE COMEDY STORES, and CAESAR’S TAHOE, to name a few.

In addition to the road, Carrie was regularly on television doing every

stand-up ensemble show from PBS’ COMEDY TONIGHT (which she later hosted

for two award-winning seasons), AN EVENING AT THE IMPROV (later hosting a

BEST-OF episode), to guesting on every talker from THE SALLY JESSE

RAPHAEL SHOW, MARILU, VICKI1, THE LATE SHOW, ‘A’ LIST, LEEZA, to

CAROLINE’S, and COMEDY CENTRAL. Her original Comedy Tonight performance

was nominated for a local Emmy award, but was beaten out by a dog show.

Lots of prisoners wrote letters.

CRISTINA & FRIENDS was to be a precursor to The View, with Cristina

Ferrare filling Barbara Walters’ pumps. Carrie was there too, enjoying

the live talk format in addition to the clothes, hair, and makeup every

day.

Then Carrie was hired by Roseanne to write stand-up and special projects

like THE MTV MUSIC AWARDS, and the monologue and sketches when Roseanne

hosted SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. This segued into three seasons as a Story

Editor on ROSEANNE, where Carrie ran her own “joke room.” She

guest-starred on the sitcom as well. When Roseanne conceived her daily

talker, Carrie was an original hire. You’d have to buy her a big

strappin’ cocktail to hear any more about that.

A book, “My Mom’s Meaner Than Your Mom: True Stories of Mean Mothers,”

is in Development. It just never ends. Carrie practices anusara yoga and

is trying to make the world a better place, one laugh at a time.

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Bill Ervolino has been the humor columnist for The Record in Bergen

County from 1990 to the present. He also writes entertainment and

lifestyle features and his stories have appeared in newspapers across

the country as part of the USA Today network.

Bill is author of the book "Some Kind of Wiseguy: Stories About Parents,

Weddings, Modern Living and Growing Up Italian" and a co-author of "The

Backstage Performing Artists Handbook” (Billboard Books); and

"Italian American Authors on New Jersey" (Rutgers University Press),

which includes essays on the Italian-American experience by Gay Talese,

Tom Perrotta, "The Daily Show's" Frank DeCaro, and others.

Before joining the Record in 1990, Bill was the editor of two weekly

newspapers on Long Island, the Editor-In-Chief of Nightlife magazine,

and an entertainment writer, critic, and columnist for the New York Post

and Backstage. (He reviewed and interviewed many established and

up-and-coming comedians during this time.)

Bill is a four-time recipient of the Society of Silurians medal for his

Record column. (The Silurians is the oldest active journalism

organization in the country.) He has received numerous awards from the

New Jersey Press Association and the Society of Professional

Journalists. And, since being at The Record he was twice named a

finalist in the prestigious nationwide Penney-Missouri feature writing

competition.

In 2001, 2002, 2008, 2011 and 2022 his column was recognized by the

National Society of Newspaper Columnists for best humorous writing in

the U.S.

Bill's play "The Lights on Walden Court" won the first Jane Chambers

playwriting award in 1987. It ran for 12 weeks at the Arena Players

Theater on Long Island and was the first show mounted at The Producer’s

Club in 1988.

His most recent play will be produced at the Studio Theater on Long

Island in Spring 2023.

Bill has also written for the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly,

Vogue, the New York Daily News, and was a regular contributor to Parents

Choice.

Beginning in 1999, Bill was chairman of the annual Laugh-Off events at

Gilda's Club, Northern New Jersey, where he regularly hosted comedy

shows for cancer patients and their families. As a comic, Bill has

performed in New Jersey at Bananas and Bergen PAC (opening for Pat

Cooper); in Manhattan at Don't Tell Mama and the Boston Comedy Club (as

part of the Toyota Comedy Festival), and at colleges and nightclubs

throughout the metropolitan area.

He is a frequent speaker at high schools and colleges on the subject of

writing as a career, and is actively involved in New Jersey's Minority

Journalism Project, and the nationwide Newspapers in Education program.

He has done dozens of personal appearances both as author, promoting

his own books and as a journalist doing live "Actor's Studio" -type

interviews with Olympia Dukakis, Alan Alda, Jackie Collins, Christopher

Lee and "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson.

Among his hundreds of interview subjects: Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli,

Whoopi Goldberg, Kate Winslet, Ellen Burstyn, Nancy Sinatra, Patrick

Swazye, George Carlin and Jerry Seinfeld.

He has shared an elevator with Keith Hernandez, peed next to Mark Hamill

and fell on Sean Connery while trying on a pair of boots.

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CAROLE MONTGOMERY

“A comedy treasure who even more people

need to know about.”-The Interrobang

THE LAS VEGAS SUN calls Carole "one of Vegas’

premier comics"

THE SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS says Carole is "one of

the pioneering female comics of the modern era"

THE SEATTLE TIMES calls Carole "one of the

strongest women working today"

With over 2 dozen television credits to her name, CAROLE

MONTGOMERY is a respected veteran of the standup comedy

scene nationwide. In addition to her numerous television

appearances, Carole has headlined clubs & colleges across the

USA and starred in 2 different Las Vegas production shows. In her

ten years as a LAS VEGAS STAR, it is estimated that she has

been seen by over 5 million audience members.

Carole created the live stand up comedy show FUNNY WOMEN

OF A CERTAIN AGE featuring female headliners over the age of

50 in 2017. The show was such a success that it was filmed for

the Showtime network. It was the network’s highest rated comedy

special for 2019 and it made TV history as the first comedy

special to feature 6 women over the age of 50.

The following year MORE Funny Women Of A Certain Age

premiered with huge viewership. EVEN MORE Funny Women Of

A Certain Age premiered Thanksgiving Eve 2021.

Carole is also an accomplished director & producer. She directed

Jim Florentine’s solo show I’m Your Savior currently airing on

Amazon Prime. She is currently developing a new solo show with

activist and comedian Kaytlin Bailey called Whore’s Eye View.

Carole is proudest of her 11 comedy tours for Armed Forces

Entertainment. Her NY Underground Comedy Allstars have

performed in Iraq, Haiti, Kosovo, Holland, Kuwait, Diego Garcia,

Singapore, Honduras, El Salvador, South Korea and Germany to

rave reviews.

Carole was also a featured performer at the MONTREAL JUST

FOR LAUGHS, BOSTON & NY COMEDY FESTIVALS.

www.carolemontgomery.com

www.funnywomenofacertainage.com

www.funnynevergetsold.com

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Joey Novick has been a political comedian, camp counselor, editorial

director, attorney, busboy, radio show host, professional speaker, child

actor and an elected official in New Jersey - but not necessarily in

that order.

Joey’s unique background: He’s a professional stand-up comedian with

appearances on MTV, Comedy Central and Rascal’s Comedy Hour. Joey has

appeared at hundreds of comedy clubs across the US and Canada, and

opened in concert at comedy clubs for Jerry Seinfeld, Robert Klein,

David Brenner, Lewis Black, and Paul Reiser.

As an improv actor: He's had the privilege of appearing with Robin

Williams at the Comic Strip in NYC, and studied with Chicago's famed

'Second City' improvisational theater director and improv guru, Del

Close.

Joey is an accomplished humor educator: He’s provided humor programs for

major Fortune 500 corporations including AT&T, Johnson &

Johnson, MetLife and Merrill Lynch. Joey has been a keynote presenter on

humor for the National League of Cities, National Association of County

Organizations, and many state leagues of municipalities.

Joey’s humor programs have been prominently featured in the New York

Times, the AP Newswire, Washington Post, Newark Star-Ledger, on ABC

News, CNN, BBC and National Public Radio.

Joey has written and performed solo shows:

COMEDIAN ELECTED TO TOWN COUNCIL IN NEW JERSEY at the Capital Fringe

Festival (where it was nominated for Best Comedy Performance)

JEWISHISH AN OY STORY Performed at the Broadway Comedy Club.

Winner of the Cape Cod Story Slam and the New Jersey Story Slam

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Cristina Palumbo was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, but has put in her

time in the state of Pennsylvania as well. She is a graduate of East

Stroudsburg University with a BS in Hospitality Management.

After leaving her career as an event planner (and her first marriage) to

intern for free as a 28-year-old college graduate with a dream, she found herself with a new career in broadcasting, which brought her back

to her home of NYC.

A self proclaimed rag doll, Cristina has been a producer with SiriusXM

for 13 years, with experience to share from her time on several talk

shows across the platform, but most notably on the Jay Thomas Show.

During this time, she has also produced various talk shows and podcasts,

such as the Chip Chipperson Podacast, for which she produced comedian

and host Jim Norton for several years, and EW Live under the brand of

Entertainment Weekly.

Cristina begrudgingly resides in Nazareth, PA for the next 8 years until her youngest graduates high school and is survived by her loving husband, John, her 2 bonus daughters, Addison and Samantha, and their

dog, Marty.

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Susan Sandler’s work as a director and writer spans both

non-fiction and fiction, including the screenplay for the Golden Globe

nominated Crossing Delancey (based on her original play) and the award

winning Friends At Last starring Kathleen Turner and Sarah Paulson, as

well as projects for Sony, Twentieth Century Studios, Disney, TNT, and

Columbia. Most recently, she directed and produced the feature

documentary Julia Scotti: Funny That Way. Shot over five years, the film

follows the triumphant comeback of comedian Julia Scotti (seen

headlining decades ago as Rick Scotti) as she comes out on America’s Got

Talent, her children reconnect after a fifteen-year estrangement, and

she makes her return to stand up comedy. Passport Magazine calls the

film “an absolute celebration that challenges stereotypes, transphobia,

and agism, while making the viewer laugh and fall in love with Scotti.

It’s the perfect uplifting documentary that needs to be seen.”

Sandler’s work for the stage has been produced at major theatres across

the country, and around the world. Along with Crossing Delancey, her

plays include Under the Bed, The Renovation, The Moaner, If I Were A

Train, The Find, and The Burial Society (produced for NPR’s Playing on

Air.) She is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Writers

Guild of America. Sandler’s work is published by Smith and Kraus,

Vintage Press, and Samuel French Publishers. She is on the faculty of

NYU Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.

Along with her teaching, she has passionately guided NYU’s Fusion Film

Festival since its inception, celebrating the work of women behind the

camera, and mentoring the next generation of innovators in film and new

media.

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