Aurora Theatre Funny Fridays Welcomes Tom Simmons, 3/26

By: BWW News Desk Mar. 09, 2010

Aurora Theatre Funny Fridays continues a huge season of club comedy performances on the square in downtown Lawrenceville with Headliner Tom Simmons for 2 shows on March 26. He is the winner of the prestigious San Francisco Comedy Competition, a 35-year-old contest that has helped launch the careers of finalists that have gone on to legendary status. That list includes: Dane Cook, Rob Schneider, Ellen Degeneres, Sinbad, Kevin Pollak, Dana Carvey and Robin Williams, just to name a few.

Tom Simmons, who grew up in the Atlanta area and now calls Greensboro, NC home, provides the perfect blend of suburban family life with cutting edge comic genius. A true comedian in every sense of the word, Tom has toured practically non-stop for ten years developing his act and himself. His scintillating comedy will entertain with subjects from being a new father and relationships, to socially relevant issues like war, racism, and frustrations we all have with the world and one another. The show is easily relatable and seriously funny...like a Blue Collar Tour for people that read.

Tom Simmons has appeared on Comedy Central, Showtime, BET, NBC, and has written for numerous comedians. Tracks from all four of his comedy CD's can be heard daily on both XM and Sirius radio. He has appeared on Bob and Tom, at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, The Boston Comedy Festival, as well as performing with Comics on Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Locally he appears regularly at Uptown Comedy Corner and has performed at The Punchline, Funny Farm and Laughing Skull Lounge. His Aurora performances will be in the intimate Gwinnett Federal Credit Union Studio with cocktail tables and full bar service from comedy series sponsor McCray's Tavern.

Funny Fridays at Aurora Theatre


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