September 2015 – NashvilleStandUp.com

September 21, 2015September 26, 2015

Altercation Punk Comedy Tour @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show (The East Room) 9/27/2015

9/27/2015: JT Habersaat w/ Jay Whitecotton & Brian Zeolla at Spiffy Squirrel stand-up comedy show at The East Room.

Doug Stanhope’s Celebrity Death Pool presents.. The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour: JT Habersaat w/ Jay Whitecotton & Brian Zeolla plus Nashville’s Josh Wagner and Chad Riden at Spiffy Squirrel stand-up comedy show at The East Room 9/27/2015.

A native New Yorker currently calling Austin, Texas home, JT Habersaat has headlined and curated the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour since its inception in 2008. He is currently signed to Stand Up! Records. His Altercation Tour album ‘Hostile Corporate Takeover’ was released in 2013.

JT has performed alongside numerous comedic powerhouses such as Doug Stanhope, Brian Posehn, Andy Dick, Kyle Kinane, Joe Sib, Jeanine Garofalo and many more, and remains one of a handful of comics ever invited to share the stage with Black Flag’s Henry Rollins. Habersaat is also a consistent performer alongside many of Stanhope’s Unbookables crew, including Kristine Levine, Mishka Shubaly, Andy Andrist, Henry Phillips and Brett Erickson.

In addition, JT remains a requested support act for many bands, recently performing with such notable peers as Teenage Bottlerocket, Sloppy Seconds, The Murder Junkies, Krum Bums, The Adolescents, Lower Class Brats, Chuck Ragan, Tim Barry, M.O.D., Riverboat Gamblers, Dead To Me, Off With Their Heads and D.C. hardcore legends Scream.

Habersaat is a repeat headline performer at numerous festivals, including Punk Rock Bowling Las Vegas, Akumal Comedy Festival Mexico, Fun Fun Fun Fest Texas, The Fest Gainesville, Vans Warped Tour and Hell Yes Fest New Orleans. His television and film roles include appearances on Comedy Central’s ‘Upright Citizen’s Brigade’, Troma’s ‘Toxic Avenger 4’, the upcoming horror/comedy film ‘Fun With Hackley: Axe Murderer’ and many more.

JT is the author of ‘The Altercation Archives’, published in 2012, and is currently at work on a new novel. Habersaat started TheRoadPodcast.com in summer 2014, which currently boasts over 20K downloads, and has guest hosted on national broadcast radio station ‘Today’s Comedy’ as a featured comedian of the week.

When not on the road JT enjoys bourbon, his dog and silence.

JTcomedy.com
twitter.com/jtstandup
facebook.com/jt.habersaat
TheRoadPodcast.com

SPiFFY SQUiRREL is an independent, underground professional weekly alt comedy show featuring touring comedians from all corners of the earth, plus outstanding local regulars who are worth paying attention to. Sundays at 6:30pm at The East Room for just $5 cover. Produced and hosted by Nashville’s Chad Riden.

9/27/2015 6:30pm: Doug Stanhope’s Celebrity Death Pool presents.. The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour: JT Habersaat w/ Jay Whitecotton & Brian Zeolla plus Nashville’s Josh Wagner and Chad Riden:
facebook.com/events/1596459573938935/

6:00pm doors open
6:30pm show begins
6:31pm you’re late, dummy
8:00pm show is over

The East Room
2412 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37206
615-335-3137
Facebook.com/TheEastRoom
Twitter.com/TheEastRoom

TICKETS: $5 at the door or in advance online

MORE INFO:
Twitter.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/SpiffySquirrel

For Booking Inquiries, contact N’Sup

September 14, 2015

The Comedians of the Galaxy @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show (The East Room) 9/20/2015

9/20/2015: The Comedians of the Galaxy: Mat Alano Martin, David Britton, Jonas Schrodt at Spiffy Squirrel stand-up comedy show at The East Room.

The Comedians of the Galaxy: Mat Alano Martin, David Britton (Bob & Tom, Laughs), Jonas Schrodt (Limestone Comedy Festival). Three friends set out across the universe (starting in the midwestern United States and heading south) on a quest for laughs and adventure!

www.comediansofthegalaxy.com

Mat Alano-Martin comes to comedy from the world of rock and roll, where he spent 10 years touring North America as a member of several unknown bands and as a tour manager for much more successful, well known bands. With a comedic style that bridges the alternative sensibilities of his indie-rock background with the more mainstream views of his rural and blue collar youth, Alano-Martin has appeared at comedy clubs, theaters, punk rock dives, redneck roadhouses, casinos, colleges, living rooms and everywhere in between.

Alano-Martin is the co-founder of the Limestone Comedy Festival and has appeared on the nationally syndicated The Bob & Tom Show, Laughs on Fox TV and at several festivals across the country.

David Britton grew up watching Marx Brothers movies (which his mother loved) and Mystery Science Theater (which his mother hated). He was the winner of the 2014 Funniest Person in Blooomington contest and a finalist in the 2014 Funniest Person in Cincinnati contest. When he’s not writing or performing comedy he has very little idea what to do with himself.

Britton has appeared on the Bob and Tom Show, Laughs on Fox and can be heard as the co-host of History Bluffs – a podcast about famous dead people as potrayed by famous and not-so-famous comedians.

Jonas Schrodt is a two time semi-finalist in the Bloomington Comedy Festival. He has appeared twice at Cincinnati Brew Ha Ha. Jonas recently accomplished a personal milestone when he did something for the third time, performing at the Limestone Comedy Festival for the third year in a row.

9/20/2015 6:30pm: The Comedians of the Galaxy: Mat Alano Martin, David Britton, Jonas Schrodt plus Chad Riden:
facebook.com/events/843720482347735/

6:00pm doors open
6:30pm show begins
6:31pm you’re late, dummy
8:00pm show is over

The East Room
2412 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37206
615-335-3137
Facebook.com/TheEastRoom
Twitter.com/TheEastRoom

TICKETS: $5 at the door or in advance online

MORE INFO:
Twitter.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/SpiffySquirrel

For Booking Inquiries, contact N’Sup

September 9, 2015September 14, 2015

Sean Parrott profiled in Nashville Arts Magazine

Our friend Tony Youngblood wrote a lovely profile of Nashville comedian and musician Sean Parrott which was published in Nashville Arts Magazine. The full interview is available on their website, NashvilleArts.com. Here is an excerpt, where Sean explains how he started becoming interested in performing stand-up:

“I was writing plays in college and looking for a more self-centered way to make people laugh, without all the trouble of sets, costumes and, worst of all, actors. (Don’t trust anyone who wants to lie for a living.)”

Read the full interview over at NashvilleArts.com.

September 8, 2015

Owen Straw & Seth Cockfield: Endless Summer Tour @ SPiFFY SQUiRREL Comedy Show (The East Room) 9/13/2015

9/13/2015: Owen Straw & Seth Cockfield: Endless Summer tour at Spiffy Squirrel stand-up comedy show at The East Room.

Owen Straw & Seth Cockfield: Endless Summer Tour plus Danny Whitson and Chad Riden.

Owen Straw’s comedic style of absurdist literalism has been capturing the hearts of audiences for years. Bringing a unique energy and deceptive intelligence to his bizarre jokes, Straw’s act weaves from quick one liners to real life stories about failure and heartbreak and sometimes a sing-a-long.

From improvising brilliant and unpredictable rants for crowds of jaded comedy nerds to pounding out joke after joke for rowdy drunks in the roughest road rooms, Owen Straw gets big laughs in any environment.

Owen Straw has won championships in pizza eating and semi-professional wrestling, released a handful of punk rock records, created the World Extreme Pencil Fighting Championships, and appeared in movies and television, including the Daytime Emmy winning PBS series BizKid$. He lives in Brooklyn, where he produces Big Ups at Little Skips, a weekly after hours comedy show in a closed coffee shop.

owenstraw.com
twitter.com/owenstraw
facebook.com/owenstraw/
youtube.com/owenstraw

Seth Cockfield is a comedian living in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a regular headliner at the world famous Velveeta Room in Austin, TX. He’s appeared at the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Hell Yes Fest in New Orleans, and Fun Fun Fun Fest. Most recently, he was a featured comic in the Week at the Creek series at the Creek and the Cave, in Long Island City.

sethcockfield.com
htwitter.com/sethcockfield
facebook.com/694673382
youtube.com/channel/UCuBCxhYOkB_7yXQUYq56v8A

9/13/2015 6:30pm: Owen Straw & Seth Cockfield: Endless Summer Tour plus Danny Whitson and Chad Riden:
facebook.com/events/726260370811788/

6:00pm doors open
6:30pm show begins
6:31pm you’re late, dummy
8:00pm show is over

The East Room
2412 Gallatin Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37206
615-335-3137
Facebook.com/TheEastRoom
Twitter.com/TheEastRoom

TICKETS: $5 at the door or in advance online

MORE INFO:
Twitter.com/SpiffySquirrel
Facebook.com/SpiffySquirrel

For Booking Inquiries, contact N’Sup

September 3, 2015September 14, 2015

ONLINE ONLY OPEN MIC #3 – 9.14.2015

Submit a video of your stand-up & we’ll play it. Skype in to chat or tell jokes or whatever live.. or just sit on your fat butt and watch.

ONLINE ONLY OPEN MIC #3 – Wednesday, September 14, 2015
hosted by Chad Riden & Mary Jay Berger.
SHOW AT 9:30pm Central.
streaming LIVE on NashvilleStandUp.com

FACEBOOK EVENT:
facebook.com/events/1664437050470277/

TO WATCH: we will post the video link HERE & on Facebook & twitter before the show starts.

TO PARTICIPATE:
STEP 1: get Skype for your computer or phone or your watch or your toaster or however you use the chinternet
STEP 2: add chad.riden as a contact
STEP 3: ???
STEP 4: profit
STEP 5: sign-up by filling out the form below.
STEP 6: show starts at 9:30pm. please wait patiently for your turn.
STEP 7: when it’s your turn, DISCONNECT from the live stream if you have a crappy internet connection and make sure you are ACTIVE on Skype. WE WILL CALL YOU. You may want to wear headphones so you can hear us without creating feedback.

EDIT: Thanks to everybody who watched and participated! The show will be archived at https://www.stream.me/chadriden/