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Stand Up / Sit Down
Comedian RITCH SHYDNER
Tuesday, May 7th at 8 PM
$40 Public | $30 Members
Join us for a night with acclaimed comedian Ritch Shydner as he performs the outrageously funny and mesmerizing, America’s Reflection in the Funhouse Mirror, A History of Stand-up Comedy.
This hilarious show explores the original American art form of stand-up comedy! This side-splitting program will look into what jokes have said about the country and how the culture and technology changed stand-up comedy - from the first standup during the Civil War to today’s social critics with a license to kill with laughter.
A staple of the late-night comedy scene in the 80s, Ritch Shydner has
appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show
with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, and had his own HBO comedy special, One
Night Stand.
He also appeared in numerous TV series and films, playing Al
Bundy’s co-worker on Married with Children, he also appeared on Roseanne
& Designing Women. Ritch was
able to translate his modest success on TV into a film career, appearing in
Steve Martin’s Roxanne and Eddie Murphy's, Beverly Hills Cop II. He was also a writer on many other TV comedy
series including Roseanne, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, and HBO’s The
Mind of the Married Man.
In 2006 he was co-author of a book on stand-up, “I Killed”. In
2010 Ritch produced and performed in an award-winning documentary on the world
of stand-up comedy, “I Am Comic.” In 2016 he wrote a movie adaptation
for HBO of Bill Maher's book, "True Story". In 2017 his book, "Kicking
Through the Ashes - My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980's Comedy Boom” was
published.
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.
