Stand Up / Sit Down
Comedian EDDIE BRILL
Tuesday, September 10th at 8 PM - Postponed - New Date TBD
$35 Public | $25 Members
Stand-Up Sit-Down returns to CAC for season two with a stand-up
show featuring NYC based comedian Eddie
Brill, followed by scintillating sit-down interview.
For seventeen years, Eddie Brill worked on The Late Show
with David Letterman. He served as the audience warm-up and 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 an
appearance on the FX hit series, "Louie." He has also produced
12 comedy specials for the top streaming services.
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. He’s performed on some of
the greatest stages in the world including The Shrine Auditorium and Radio City
Music Hall.
He has been the audience warm-up for many shows including
the "Dana Carvey Show," "Madigan Men," "This is Your
Life" and early episodes of "Saved By The Bell.” He also appeared in
numerous films as an actor, including "30 Years To Life" with Tracy
Morgan, and used his voice talents in many animated series including Comedy
Central's "Dr Katz" and ABC's "Science Court.” He was
recently tabbed by the American Comedy Archives to be their full-time host.
Eddie produces and helps book stand-up talent all over the
world. He was the creative director and architect of the wildly successful
"Great American Comedy Festival,” which honored Johnny Carson. Eddie also
was a producer on the Woodstock Comedy Festival and is a consultant for the
upcoming Catskill Comedy Fest. He has assisted in booking the US acts for
the International TV show, “The World Stands Up.”
Along with Norman Lear in 1978, he helped create one of the
first ever college comedy writing departments in the country at Emerson College
in Boston. He also helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop, founded in 1976
and continues to thrive today. He currently teaches a highly acclaimed stand-up
comedy workshop worldwide that helps comics young and old take their comedy
work to the next level.
Eddie performs and helps raise money for many benefits
including The Roberto Clemente Foundation (for underprivileged children),
Sisters in Survival (women with Breast cancer). Juvenile Diabetes, The Big Papi
Foundation, The American Cancer Association, and with Reader's Digest and St.
Jude on Stand-Up for the Children.
Our Host Steven
Taub is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker whose body
of work includes ‘Laugh a Day.’ In this film he interviewed comedy legends Robert Klein, David Brenner, Richard Belzer and Dom Irrera. Steven has produced and written comedy for numerous forms
of media. As a filmmaker he has interviewed dozens of people with various
backgrounds comfortably unearthing their stories, passions and intellect. Now,
Steven brings his vast interviewing experience to the Cinema Arts audience with
the live program “Stand-Up/Sit-Down” wherein he will book Comedy Club headliners for
performance and then interview them. Getting to know the comedian you just saw
will enhance your evening tremendously. Every comedian has fascinating and fun
stories. Steven will ask the pertinent questions that will bring their stories
to light.
