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Now in its sixth year, 826 Valencia’s Comedy Night has established a reputation for impressive lineups and side-splitting laughs. Fans of comedy, children, philanthropy and literature alike are encouraged to attend and witness one of the year’s funniest charitable events. On this special evening, laughing at lowbrow (and highbrow) humor benefits the greater good, as the show’s proceeds directly fund student writing and tutoring programs at 826 Valencia. In past years, the event has sold out all 1,400 seats at Everett Middle School. This year’s lineup is guaranteed to be the funniest yet, and tickets are expected to sell out ...Read More
Now in its sixth year, 826 Valencia’s Comedy Night has established a reputation for impressive lineups and side-splitting laughs. Fans of comedy, children, philanthropy and literature alike are encouraged to attend and witness one of the year’s funniest charitable events. On this special evening, laughing at lowbrow (and highbrow) humor benefits the greater good, as the show’s proceeds directly fund student writing and tutoring programs at 826 Valencia. In past years, the event has sold out all 1,400 seats at Everett Middle School. This year’s lineup is guaranteed to be the funniest yet, and tickets are expected to sell out again.
Featuring:
Bobby Lee, Tig Notaro, Al Madrigal, Jonathan Coulton, Ian Edwards, and Davy Rothbart
All proceeds go toward 826 Valencia’s free student programming
and the 826 Writers’ Room at Everett Middle School.
Premium tickets, which cost $250, guarantee the best seats in the house and include a gift bag. VIP seats cost $75, offer the next best seats in the house, and include a Comedy Night poster. All other seats range from $30 to $40.
About the Performers:
Jonathan Coulton is a folk rock singer-songwriter. A graduate of Yale and former member of the Yale Spizzwinks(?), he is now the Contributing Troubadour at Popular Science magazine as well as the Musical Director for The Little Gray Book Lectures. His work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Daily Show. Coulton’s discography includes Smoking Monkey, Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow and Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms.
Ian Edwards is a stand up comedian who performs weekly at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. His television appearances include Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Live at Gotham, and HBO’s Bad Boys of Comedy, Def Comedy Jam, and Show Time at the Apollo. He’s written for Saturday Night Live, MTV’s Lyricist Lounge and the Cartoon Network’s The Boondocks. He is currently a cast member of the fifth season on Punk’d on MTV.
Bobby Lee officially joined the cast of MADtv in 2001. As a feature performer on the show, his memorable characters include Hideki the “Average Asian,” an Asian American who is constantly pestered by others who stereotype him based on his ethnicity, and the Blind Kung-Fu Master, a blind martial arts master who usually foils his missions. In addition to MADtv, Lee’s television appearances include The Tonight Show, Premium Blend, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lee has also appeared in films such as Killer Pad, The Slanted Screen and Kickin’ It Old Skool.
Al Madrigal has turned a flair for storytelling into a standing as one of the Bay Area’s favorite stand-up comedians. He has appeared on The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Premium Blend and was the Jury Award winner for Best Stand-Up Comedian at the 2004 HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. His ability to mix improv into his stand-up sets landed him a lead role on the series The Ortegas and Welcome to the Captain. He is the founder of 826 Valencia’s Comedy Night.
Tig Notaro is a stand-up comedian and star of the series Comedy Central Presents Tig. She has appeared on Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program, Premium Blend, Comedy Central Presents, Jimmy Kimmel Live and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in 2006. She is also a producer for ZeroDollarsandZeroSenseProductions, which she and producing partner Beth Schorr started in 1999. Tig has performed at numerous showcases and festivals internationally, including Comedy Central’s Laugh Riots national stand-up comedy competition, the Chicago Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland.
Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found magazine, a publication of discarded notes, letters, photos, lists, and drawings found and sent in by its readers. The magazine spawned a best-selling series of books, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World. Rothbart has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and is a regular contributor to This American Life. He is the author of The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of short-stories, and has written for The New York Times, GQ, The Believer, SLAM Magazine, and The Sun. Geffen Records recently released Rothbart’s documentary film How We Survive about the punk rock band Rise Against.
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