| Upcoming at the Gotham Comedy Club |
 Upcoming at the Gotham Comedy Club208 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 212-367-9000 gothamcomedyclub.com Gotham Comedy Club, recently named by USA Today as one of the top places in the country to "sit down and watch stand-up," has attained such accolades by providing superior talent and customer service in a setting unlike typical comedy clubs. Upcoming shows:  Tony Woods  Ted Alexandro March 30, 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. March 31, 8 p.m., 10 p.m., and 11:45 p.m. Cost: $20 cover and two beverage minimum Tony Woods is a one-of-a-kind comic who's always in control of his audience. His playful and cool demeanor, combined with sharp and mischievous subject matter, create a show that is unmistakably entertaining at every level. Tony is an entertainer that understands an audience and encourages them to become part of his strange world. His recent appearances on Comedy Central Presents Tony Woods, Comedy Central USO Tour, and Comedy Central World Comedy Tour have made him a comic favorite of international renown. Ted Alexandro is one of the rising young comedians in the country. A New York native, Ted is a fixture on the NY comedy scene and headlines clubs around the country. Time Out NY named Ted one of the top comedians on the circuit. For the past two years, Marion Grodin has ran the "The Grodin Show," which plays eery weekend at 10 p.m. with hilarious comic and packed houses. Richard Francese is an American Italian comedian who has made several TV and film appearances including a part as himself in "Whiteboyz in the Hood." --The Montreal Comedy Festival Showcase Tim Young, William Stephenson and More Thursday, March 29th at 7:30 p.m. Cost: $12 Cover and two beverage minimum Twenty-three years ago, Gilbert Rozon had a simple idea. He wanted to put together, under one roof, the people who liked to laugh with the people who made them laugh. On July 14, 1983, he unleashed that idea onto the Montreal cultural scene in the form of a festival. A festival that was just for fun, just for entertainment and most important, Just For Laughs (or as it is known in French, "Juste pour rire"). For four days, 16 francophone artists gave 35 shows in four venues across Montreal, before a total crowd of about 5000 people. Twenty-three years later, over 700 artists from around the world perform before over 2 million spectators every summer, in more than 20 venues and along St. Denis Street. Television shows are broadcast internationally to millions of viewers. But the real success of the Juste pour rire/Just For Laughs Festival is not reflected in the numbers, but in its philosophy. The Festival's mandate is to spread the idea amongst the collective conscience of its audience that humor, although presented in a similar fashion in content and form year after year, can be reinvented. It can stimulate its artists to provoke laughter in a daring manner that can and does go beyond the limits of the imagination. -- Jim David Jim David, Greg Walloch, Veronica Mosey, Jeffrey Essman, Bob Montgomery, Marion Grodin Thursday, April 5th at 8:30 p.m. $15 Cover and two Beverage Minimum Jim David can be seen in his first 1/2 hour special, Comedy Central Presents Jim David, as well as Comedy Central's USO Tour. His first comedy CD, "Eat Here and Get Gas", has just been released. He is frequently featured in US Magazine's "Fashion Police." He also performed on Comedy Central's Friars Club Roast of Rob Reiner, ABC's The View, New Joke City with Robert Klein, Comedy Central's Comic Cabana, NBC Comedy Showcase, A&E's Caroline's. A headliner at clubs and corporate events across the country, this Southern boy with a Northern attitude is winner of the MAC (Manhattan Assn. of Clubs & Cabarets) Award for Outstanding Comedian and the Backstage Magazine BISTRO Award for Outstanding Comedian. He has appeared on and off Broadway, in films and commercials, and at the Aspen HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and the Chicago Comedy Festival. His one-man comedy SOUTH PATHETIC was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. -- Jessica Kirson Friday, April 6th at 8:30 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 7th at 8 p.m., 10 p.m., 11:45 p.m. Cost: $20 Cover and two beverage minimum Jessica Kirson's unique style and captivating stage presence captures the attention of audiences and club bookers everywhere she performs. Her wide variety of characters brings a diverse energy to her routine. Once you have seen her amazing talent, it is easy to understand why she was selected to perform at the Hamptons, Toyota, Marshall's Women in Comedy, Comedy Central's South Beach and HBO's Las Vegas comedy festivals. She has been featured on various television shows, including, Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and "Fresh Faces," Nickelodeon's "Sixth in the Suburbs," Noggin's "LOL," VH1's "Awesomely Bad" Shows, Oxygen's premier game show "Can You Tell?," Bravo's "The Great Things About Being," The Women's Television Network's, "She's So Funny," NBC's "Last Comic Standing" Seasons 2 and 3, NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly", and, "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". This fall she can be seen on Showtime's, "White Boyz in the Hood". Between her hilarious characters and amazing crowd work, she will be wowing audiences across the country for years to come. -- Laurie Kilmartin Thursday, April 12th at 8:30 p.m. Cost: $15 Cover and two beverage minimum A seasoned comic who has performed in the Persian Gulf, the United Kingdom, forty of the fifty U.S. states, the Montreal Comedy Festival and a laudromat, Laurie Kilmartin's combination of quick crowd work, an engaging personality and finely crafted jokes make her one of comedy's funniest women. Laurie looks like the girl next door--until she opens her mouth. With the skill of an ice cube salesman in Anchorage, Laurie sells pro-choice jokes to a conservative crowd and domestic violence jokes to a liberal crowd. She aims gentle barbs at her alcoholic Christian mother and her redneck Russian boyfriend, and rails mercilessly against co-workers from her former day job at a now defunct dot.com. One of the first comedians on the web, Laurie's site, at kilmartin.com , has been updated weekly since 1996 and This Week's Hoax, her journal about life as a comic, averages hundreds of readers per week across the world. A geek athlete, Laurie spends her free time either coding her site or swimming. She met her boyfriend when he swam into her fast lane at the YMCA. An accomplished writer, Laurie is a regular contributor to GirlComic.Net and has been published in several swim magazines. She has been seen on NBC, Comedy Central, A&E, Lifetime and currently lives in New York City. -- Gregg Rogell Friday, April 13th at 8:30p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14th at 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Born in Long Island, New York, Gregg Rogell quickly rose through the club ranks, and established himself as one of the top working stand-ups in the country. Within a year of his debut, Rogell won The Funniest Person In Long Island contest, as well as the WKGR South Florida Laugh off. Within three years, his list of television credits included Evening at the Improv, Caroline's Comedy Hour, The MTV Half-Hour Comedy Hour, VH1 Stand-Up Spot Light and many more. He has since gone on to make several appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the CBS Sitcom The Nanny and and has appeared with Bob Hope and Bill Cosby on several NBC specials. Gregg can now be seen in the award-winning film, The Aristocrats.
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