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Posted in comedy | tour dates on July 2, 2008
comedian Brent Weinbach is playing NYC & other places
by Klaus Kinski
I would like to share with you some of the best news to reach my ears in months. San Francisco based comedian Brent Weinbach will be doing a rare, approximately 45-minute headlining set at the Slipper Room in NYC. Normally, comedy showcase Sweet graces the Slipper room on Tuesdays, but host Seth Herzog is out of town on July 15th, so he has bequeathed the stage to Brent.
San Francisco underground sensation Brent Weinbach does an extended headlining set in New York for one night only with his unique brand of unconventional and bizarre stand-up comedy. Brent was recently awarded the Andy Kaufman Award at the HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, tours with the Comedians of Comedy, and was featured at last year's Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle.The last time I saw him he did a short opening set for a lame, clueless, and unreceptive crowd at Comix over a year ago. Needless to say I have been desperately hoping and praying for him to come back and do a long assed set somewhere. Prayers=answered. Seeing Brent live is a one of a kind experience that I really cannot recommend enough. His website appropriately describes him as deadpan, silly, obscure, unconventional, smart, stupid, post-modern, grass roots, Berlin, 1980's, tennis, bike riding, Virgo, Rygar, etc. I absolutely would not chance waiting until the day of the show to get tickets.With John Mulaney and Jay Larson.
SHOWDATE: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
SHOWTIME: 8:30pm
SHOWPLACE: The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St., New York, NY
ADMISSION: $10.00
Our pals over at The Sound of Young America have a great Brent-centric blog post that is totally worth checking out. The Sketchfest pics link on there is busted, so if you're interested in seeing the pics they speak of click here. A video and a few more tour dates below...
BRENT WEINBACH TOUR DATES
Jul 12 - Camp Towanda Honesdale PA
Jul 15 - The Slipper Room New York NY
Jul 19 - Acme Comedy Co. (Jul.17-19) Minneapolis MN
Jul 29 - Largo Los Angeles CA
Jul 30 - Art/Works Theatre Los Angeles CA
Posted on July 2, 2008 1:59 PM
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Comments (5)
Brent's the best of our local Bay Area comedians. His sociopath shtick kills.
Posted by Brad | July 2, 2008 2:18 PM
Go back to listening to your hyphy Brad. This website is not for people from your coast.
Posted by Anonymous | July 2, 2008 2:37 PM
Camp Towanda was where they shot Wet Hot American Summer
Posted by Anonymous | July 3, 2008 3:08 AM
when i lived in sf this guy opened for every good comedy act...he had a couple of funny bits but mostly he just made me feel uncomfortable. that may have the point though...
Posted by jt | July 4, 2008 12:24 AM
All three comdeians were pretty funny! Slipper Room - good times yes!
Posted by Anonymous | July 16, 2008 8:34 AM