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Hey Ladies – Girls Night Out features comics for a good cause

June 8, 2010June 1, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment

For Girls Night Out, a benefit comedy show, this will be an evening of firsts. It’s the opening of the 428 Club, formerly Sevilla, formerly Scotch Bonnet, formerly a whole lot of other venues (but always at the same classy location). And it will be the first comedy benefit the Autism Society has put on, since a karaoke benefit in April.

It will also be the first time these three comedians — organizer Carol Metcalf, along with Jann Karam and Karen Rontowski — will share a stage together, providing the laughs to earn money for a good cause.

Pure Tosh – Arlington-bound comedian Daniel Tosh pushes all the right (and wrong) buttons

April 23, 2010May 20, 2015 tedmills Leave a comment

For a just-out-of-beta release, “Tosh 2.0” is performing well, with no reported bugs or viruses. The Comedy Central show is hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh, who plays the best of the Web’s viral videos every week and riffs on them. Shot weekly in front of a live audience, it is currently in the middle of its second season, with a third to come. Like many Comedy Central hosts, Tosh has a busy stand-up life outside the tube, and he brings his audacious tour to the Arlington on Saturday.

Tosh has played Santa Barbara before, but typically at UCSB and in small venues. That he can now book the Arlington shows how fast his star is rising.

Bile is beautiful: COMEDIAN LEWIS BLACK BRINGS HIS ANGRY COMEDY TO THE ARLINGTON

November 7, 2003August 25, 2014 tedmills Leave a comment

Lewis Black has been working himself into a humorous lather for over a decade now, either in his wildly popular standup act or as part of the “news” crew at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” where he lets his anger rip every week in his segment “Back in Black.”

Whether talking politics or lambasting the idiocy of the general public, Black is right on target and very, very funny. He’s been with the show since the beginning, and has watched his profile rise in the comedy world. Now he joins his cablemate Dave Attel, the hard-drinkin’, hard smokin’ host of “Insomniac,” in a double-pronged assault on the Santa Barbara psyche at Thursday night’s show at the Arlington Theatre. Black was interviewed as he was waiting for a flight to Lebanon, N.H., for a gig. This cell phone conversation took place in the midst of crying children and a persistent tannoy speaker.

Dennis Miller Interview: Natural Born Miller

October 24, 2003August 24, 2014 tedmills Leave a comment

Over his decade-plus career, Dennis Miller has tried to make the rant his own. Full of vitriol for targets big and small, the stand-up comedian has played a news anchor in his early days on Saturday Night Live—he pretty much made Weekend Update his own—won an Emmy for his talk show, and made a puzzling diversion as a commentator for Monday Night Football, lacing his appreciation for the games with references so dense and obscure that several Web sites sprang up to gloss his jokes.

But for some, Miller’s most drastic career move was evolving his humor slowly towards the right, with jokes about turning Iraq into glass, and scabrous comments about the French (not the rarest of targets, of course). Just last week, Miller raised the ire of Elton John, who denounced him at a charity gig from behind his piano.