Conceived by Tricklock Artistic Director Joe Peracchio and filmmaker/comedian Paul Provenza (The Aristocrats), the first annual Free Speech Comedy Art Series kicks-off with two powerful, hysterical, and controversial (we promise!) evenings of performance. Doug Stanhope and drag-diva Jackie Beat!
The power of the single voice to inspire ideas & even provoke social change through entertainment has been a prime agenda for comedians and stage performers for generations. The tradition is kept alive in this new Revolutions Festival series that promises to explore comedy as art - thought provoking art - with the presentation of world renowned comedians who's work is challenging, outspoken, and riddled with guffaw after guffaw. Acclaimed filmmaker/comedian Paul Provenza has performed throughout the world with a career that has taken him from comedy clubs to the Tonight Show, to Broadway stages, and into film making. His stand-up performance at the 2006 Revolutions Festival brought sell-out crowds, as did his directorial project, Nigerian Spam Scam Scam, which has equally performed around the globe. Tricklock's Revolutions Festival has long aimed to present unique cultures, ideas, and provocative performance to its community - and we're proud to present The Free Speech Comedy Art Series as a perfect enhancement of that mission!
(Please be advised that both events in the Free Speech Comedy Art Series are recommended for mature audiences.)
Doug Stanhope
(Tickets: General $18, Students & Seniors $12, Available at NHCC Box Office 505-724-4771)
About Doug Stanhope:
Doug Stanhope is a stand-up comic. Has been since 1990.
His material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. Doug is vulgar, opinionated, brutally honest and shockingly uninhibited and is certainly not for everybody, and he is one of the smartest and most provocative comedians working in the world today. Doug has built a wide-ranging television resume of dubious achievement. He hosted The Man Show on Comedy Central as well as the ubiquitous psuedo-porn for the sexually crippled, "Girls Gone Wild", both solely and shamelessly for financial gain. He has appeared on "The Howard Stern Show", "Comedy Central Presents", "Premium Blend", NBC's "Late Friday", "Spy TV" BBC's "Floor Show Live" while on ecstasy and wrote, produced and starred in Fox's "Invasion of the Hidden Cameras" and has even popped up on "Fox News with Greta Van Sustern" and "The Jerry Springer Show". But none of it compares to seeing him live.
For mature audiences only.
Jackie Beat
in
Bitch Slapped!
Theatre X
(UNM Center for the Arts)
Friday - January 26 at 10pm
Saturday - January 27 at 8pm
(Tickets: General $18, Students & Seniors $12, Available at UNM Ticket Offices 505-925-5858 or at www.unmtickets.com)
About Jackie Beat & Bitch Slapped! :
Hot off her national tour with comic legend Rosanne Barr comes Jackie Beat for the second and third evenings of the The Free Speech Comedy Art Series with Bitch Slapped! (a Live Drag Show and Musical Revue). Jackie Beat has been entertaining audiences across the U.S. and in Europe for over ten years with her razor-sharp no-holds-barred comedy and hysterical song parodies. Jackie not only warps hits by Britney Spears, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Cher and many others, but she flawlessly sings her twisted new versions LIVE -- hitting every last note. Her one-woman show “Jackie Beat Is A Whole Lotta’ Love” ran a record 18 months at NYC’s premiere cabaret, Fez, and she returns every year with her award-winning, standing-room-only Christmas show.
Jackie’s stand-up has been featured in comedy clubs across the country and on Comedy Central, VH-1 and MTV. She was recently a staff writer for the WB comedy series Hype!; has written scripts for the Sci Fi Channel; is one of the “top cops” in US Magazine’s fashion police, and is currently the voice of Bertha on Nickelodeon’s animated series Kung-Fu Spy Troll. She has also performed in many off-Broadway productions and on cruise ships, and is lead singer of the popular electroclash band, Dirty Sanchez. Her one-woman show, Jackie Beat Is A Whole Lotta’ Love, ran for a record 18 months at New York City’s premier cabaret, Fez, and she returns every year with her award-winning, standing-room-only Christmas show.
Due to subject matter and strong language, parental guidance is suggested.
