Month: April 2010

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IRON COMIC returns! (Music City Bar & Grill, 4/16)

7 Funny comics x 10 min. each plus comedy competition with jokes written on the spot based on audience suggestions. Hosted by America’s Favorite Comedian Of All Time, Chad Riden.

If you remember the old Sunday Stand-Up Showcase Showdown And Stuff shows we used to do at Improv Nashville.. or if you remember the old radio show we did on XRADIO.. or if you remember the old NashvilleStandUp Podcast we did on ComedyPodcast.com.. you MIGHT remember IRON COMIC – we get a suggestion from the audience and comics make up jokes on the spot about that thing. It’s fun.

Friday (tomorrow!) 4/16, we start an all new IRON COMIC show at Music City Bar & Grill (across from OPRYLAND HOTEL) where we’ll have 7 comics doing their bestest 10 minutes, then at the end of the last set, comics come up and do the jokes they wrote about that subject one at a time, round robin style until we run out of jokes or time. Audience chooses a winner.

If you’re a comic and you’re not booked to be in the line-up, come on out – you can still do the IRON COMIC part of the show AND we’ll draw one of your names out of a hat to do a 5 minute guest spot.

If you’re a comedy fan – there is NO COVER CHARGE! Food from the kitchen and the full bar will be rockin’ all night.. so don’t miss it.

IRON COMIC
9pm

Music City Bar & Grill
2416 Music Valley Drive
Nashville, TN 37214
615.883.2367

no cover! 21+

(facebook event)

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Beth Donahue: Stand Up 101 – Appearance

Nashville’s Beth Donahue-Weedman has been a successful comedian and former on-air radio personality for more than 20 years. You may recognize her from the CMT special “Southern Fried Chicks” where she performed alongside Etta May, Trish Suhr, and Sonya White. These days, she is a perfectly healthy, self-professing shut-in, proclaiming: “If Starbucks delivered, I’d never leave the house.

Thankfully, you can still hear from Beth online – she’s on Facebook and Twitter AND she has started writing a column for DreamRow about stand-up comedy:

I am a 22-year vet who had a great career till I ruined it with drugs and alcohol. But we’ll get to that later! You may be looking to get into stand up, or maybe you’re just here for an interesting read. Nevertheless, I’ll tell you all about what it takes to get there, and show you how easy it is to screw up.

Her first lesson? Appearance – check it out, it’s good information from someone who knows what they’re talking about.

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Courtney Kay Meyers’ soulful new music video

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NashvilleStandUp alumni Courtney Kay Meyers (now an Indianapolis resident and the evil genius behind IndyStandUp.com) checks in with a video of her new soulful love song.. titled “My Hand.”

For more infos on CKM, visit her website CKMcomedy.com, see her videos on RooftopComedy or YouTube, follow her on Twitter, friend her on FaceBook or MySpace, or just drop by her apartment unannounced early in the morning.

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(the last!?) El Comedy Show! @ The End (4/12)

EL COMEDY SHOW is a comedic spectacle, taking place in Nashville on April 12 at 9pm at The End (2219 Elliston Place). The show is going to get kicked off with this month’s amazing musical guest, Cheer Up Charlie Daniels. After that, comedy will befall you, with veracity. Tickets are just $5. That is a value for the ages, my friends. Prepare yourselves, for EL COMEDY SHOW is upon you.
Corey Reppond is going to host the crap out of this show. The rest of the lineup is an extravaganza of hilarity, including Emily Fleming, Brad Edwards, Brian Bates, Katrina Murrell, Sean Parrott, and Chad Riden.

For more info, visit elcomedyshow.com and twitter.com/elcomedyshow.

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Jeff Havens’ How To Get Fired!

Nashville-native comedian / author / lecturer / Vanderbilt graduate / funny person Jeff Havens is currently touring with his “How to Get Fired!” lecture / presentation / funny thing. The Kokomo Perspective recently wrote up his upcoming appearance at IUK:

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Comedian Jeff Havens will bring some unconventional advice to the Indiana University Kokomo campus with his presentation, “How to Get Fired!”, on Thursday, April 8, at 1 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.

Filled with the satire Havens has made famous in his stand-up performances and his corporate presentations around the country, “How to Get Fired!” is a hilarious discussion of exactly what not to do in the workplace.

Some questions Havens will ask his audience include, “Does the idea of working for a living depress you?”, “Would you rather play video games and update your Facebook profile than suffer through a lifetime of stable employment?”, and, “Does paying your rent seem like just too much of a hassle?”
[read the rest of the article here]

“How to Get Fired!” is also available in the quaint “book” format (an archaic form of communication involving something called “paper” that does not work at all on your iPad), available on his website, JeffHavens.com. NashvilleStandUp only wishes Jeff would have told us how not to get fired 10 years ago when we were still “employable” – now, we’re just damaged goods. Way to go, Jeff. Way. To. Go.

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