Guess who's birthday we're celebrating this Saturday night, Sept. 26th?
That's right, none other than Serena "I'm-gonna-shove-this-ball-down-your-fucking-throat" Williams! We're going to toast to Serena on her day. Why? Because she is completely out of control, out of line, she makes a lot of racket, and we can totally identify with that. We're raising cups of tea (rather than cans of Coors) because she's a NAUGHTY lil' teabagger!
Without further ado, we have a tremendous line-up of extremely funny and interesting comedians (to say the least), show producers, radio personalities, and regulars/favorites on the show, so let's get to showcasing our fine friends.
Jay Hewlett has issues. He does everything right and yet stuff happens to him. He figures it must be a conspiracy. Like the time he didn’t pay his phone bill. He got letters like, “Perhaps you forgot." Or, “Maybe it slipped your mind.” He wrote back: "Nope, no freakin’ money. They cancelled my credit cards. How do you expect me to pay my phone bill?” See, stuff happens to him. “And I don’t get it,” says Jay. “I work hard to achieve so little.” Born to a postal worker father and a high school drama teacher mother, Jay has always dreamed of working in the postal / acting profession. Now he is one jacket closer to that dream. You may laugh, and many do, but he has learned to be satisfied with making people laugh. After all, he’s a comedian. And how they laugh. His comedy / acting career is on a rocket. He was the winner of the Hermosa Beach Comedy Shootout, a recent finalist in the Northern California Comedy Competition and chosen a Best Bet entertainer by the Orange County Register. Jay performs regularly in Los Angeles at the Comedy Store, The Improv, and the Ice House. He plays clubs and colleges across the country, and you’ve seen him on Comedy Central’s Make Me Laugh, The Showtime Comedy Club Network, Saved by the Bell, Hang Time, Krippendorf’s Tribe (Touchstone Pictures), the independent short “A Slice Of Life” and as the recurring character Phil the Photographer on California Dreams. Jay is also a series regular as Jay the Postman on the syndicated comedy Food Rules.
Sandra Risser went to charm school to learn to say fantastic instead of bullshit. All that follows is fantastic rhetoric. She's young at heart (senile) and no prude (single in the 60s and 70s). She brings to comedy the vibrancy of youth and the wisdom of the ages (she's older than God). She gives an unorthodox and irreverant look at growing up in the Midwest (fantastic), the free spirit of the 60s and 70s (she's lucky to remember them) and being over 50 in our youth-oriented culture (respect your elders). Age is just a state of mind and wrinkles are only skin deep.
Anthony "Sly" Ramirez is a radio personality and comedian. He hosts The Sly Show, which is a 5-hour talk show that airs daily on theslyshow.com. Sly grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, he's a high school dropout who was dropped on his head 12 times, and has often been described as a junkie and a genetic-prone alcoholic. Sly has been compared to Kanye West because of his egotistical personality, and according to Sly, the only reason he's been called egotistical is because he’s perfect and that’s the way it is! Sly is also a practicing Christian who plans on settling down with a nice Christian lady soon.
Awet Teame was born in Eritrea, East Africa. She left the country when she was three and moved to Italy with her mother, where she lived for about two years. Awet then moved to Boston, MA where she was raised. Upon graduating from Emerson College with a degree in Visual and Media Arts/TV, she completed four internships at Carsey Werner, The Bold and the Beautiful, Fine Line Features, and Humble Journey (Erik La Salle's Film Production Co.). Next she moved onto work at New Line Cinema but got fired over some interoffice BULLSHIT! Awet then decided to do stand-up at the Laugh Factory immediately after. Since then, she's worked as a casting assistant on Animal Kidding and Flavor of Love and landed a job as an Associate Producer in a film called RevoLOUtion. After working production for many years, she decided stand-up is what she does best. Awet has performed on many famous stages in LA, San Diego, San Francisco, Boston, DC, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, and recently Las Vegas.
A Canadian ex-pat who has called the U.S. “home” for the last seven years, Sheila Bryson has represented her motherland’s reputation for funny since before she could remember. Now, she’s trying to score free drinks for it.A finalist in San Francisco Comedy College’s Battle of the Bay 2009, Bryson brings a shamelessly personal, mostly intelligent, and frequently blush-worthy point of view to the stage. Drawing from her Canadian background and an uncanny ability to see the absurd in the every day, she invites audiences into her world with open (sometimes much too open) arms.
San Francisco performance artist Sia Amma has a great deal in common with many men on the planet. She’s circumcised. While the topic of female genital mutilation isn’t the kind of thing you’d normally find tossed into a comedy routine, the Liberian-born performer was struck with an epiphany on a local open-mike stage nearly 10 years ago: What if laughter could be the catalyst for universal healing? Onstage, she humorously remarked about the one thing that was taken away from her at the age of 9, which she “desperately” wanted to find: her clitoris. She got laughs. People were moved. Deciding that she would do whatever she could to put an end to female genital mutilation (FGM), she gave birth to a one-woman show, “In Search of My Clitoris,” and launched the nonprofit Global Women Intact. She sent the money she raised to African clinics and children in need of scholarships. “In the culture I came from, there are so many myths about women,” the performer says. “Sex is taboo and so is sexuality for women. To think that a woman can actually enjoy sex more than a man is hard for the culture to take.” Sia Amma perform locally in a funky, living room-size theater she founded on Ellis Street. The name of her room is Our Little Theater, and it's a comedy showcase featuring local comedians.
And finally, we are pleased to welcome back two regulars and favorites of the JMP, Tony Sparks and Kaseem Bentley! Kaseem is the Bay Area's number one insult comic and Tony Sparks, known to all in the SF area as the Father of SF Comedy, is one of the nicest and funniest comedians you can meet. He's also one of the best comedy hosts you could be entertained by. Wonderfully supportive to comics of all levels (newbies to veterans), he helps make stage time available to anyone who wants it. Tony Sparks is a class act when it comes to professionalism, supporting the comedy community, and bringing non-stop laughs and fun to us all. He hosts a hugely popular open mic in the SF bay area, the famed Brain Wash Café in San Francisco. This is where NO ONE gets turned down for stage time. Tony enlists the entire audience, every week, to welcome every new comedian with “A Lot of Love!!!” What? "A LOT OF LOVE!!!!!!" Tony Sparks can also be found performing comedy and hosting shows all over the place, and he produces, promotes, and/or hosts several shows including Speech Therapy Comedy at Il Pirata, All-Star Comedy and More at The SF Playhouse, Street Legal Comedy at Pissed Off Pete's, and Raw Comedy Night at Poleng Lounge.
Save your money this Saturday night. Stay home. Put your sweat pants on. Grab a cold beer or a hot or iced tea (in honor of Serena). Recline to a semi-horizontal or fully horizontal position. Then tune in!
Listen to the John Miller Program with Susan Maletta this Saturday night from 8 pm to midnight!
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I'm gonna shove these jokes down your fucking ear!
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