Has it been five years already? I guess it has. The Bridgetown Comedy festival is hands-down my favorite annual event—every year it’s a ton of fun bouncing around from club to club at the east end of Hawthorne. Lotsa booze, lotsa laughing until booze comes out of various orifices, and the occasional sighting of pantless Andy Dick.
The fest just announced the initial lineup for their fifth annual festival, which is so far headlined-ish by Todd Glass, Kevin Allison, and Doug Benson and also includes returning festival favorites like James Adomian, Matt Braunger, and all-star improv troupe Assssscat. (They’ll be announcing more names in the weeks to come.) The fest is April 12-15; tickets go on sale March 5.
I’ll post the full lineup after the jump—there are plenty of names I don’t recognize, though we’ll be researching ’em all and posting more highlights as the fest approaches. Anyone jump out at you guys?
CONFIRMED PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Asssscat with Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Horatio Sanz and Tim Meadows
Dave Holmes
Doug Benson
Eric Andre
Erin Jackson
Freakdance screening with Matt Besser, Neil Mahoney and more
Graham Elwood
Horatio Sanz
Howard Kremer
James Adomian
Jamie Lee
Jason Nash
Jason Nash Is Married screening with stars Jason Nash, Busy Philipps, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Matt Walsh, June Diane Raphael and more
Jimmy Dore
John Roy
Kevin Allison’s RISK!
Lachlan Patterson
Mary Lynn Rasjkub
Mary Mack
Matt Besser
Matt Braunger
Matt Kirshen
Matt Walsh
Pete Holmes
Ron Funches
Sean O’Connor
Sean Patton
Steve Agee
The Friday Forty with Dave Holmes and Scott Gimple
The Humor Code with Professor Peter McGraw
Tim Meadows
Todd Glass
Who Charted? Live with Howard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack
Needs more Joe Rogan.
Eh, I don’t know that it’s not my dream line-up yet, but I seem to remember them adding some good acts after the initial announcement in the past, so I’ll reserve judgment.
That it IS my dream line-up, that is. Which it isn’t. But anyway. Excited for Asssscat, as ever.
Well, I recognize Ron Funches!
Still hoping for Iliza Shlesinger, though.
Yay lots of people but double yay for Kevin Allison and RISK! and Who Charted?!!
Needs more Jimmy Pardo. Otherwise, very excited!
More Matt Besser is always good – he’s been arguably the best force in improv for 20 years now. Matt Walsh is also great – both were originals from Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
I’m curious as to weather SNL alums Horatio Sanz and Tim Meadows are good at stand-up.
Steve Agee is also great. This looks to be a solid line-up, I at least recognized more than half the acts.
If you’re a comedy podcast fan, this show is hitting all the right buttons. It’s like someone exploded the iTunes top 50, and large chunks of podcast shrapnel embedded themselves in this press release.
James Adomian, Matt Walsh, Matt Besser, Jimmy Dore, Howard Kremer, Graham Elwood – all people I’m pretty excited to see, aside from the obvious (Funches, Glass, Agee)
Amen on Walsh and Besser. Improv genuises. The old comedy central UCB-all three seasons-is one of the great, underappreciated shows of all time.
Tim Meadows