ImprovBoston is rapidly cementing its place as the Boston area's home for comedy. The space has recently welcomed Todd Barry and Rob Delaney and now they are pleased to present Ted Alexandro for two shows on November 8 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets to each show cost $15. ImprovBoston is located at 40 Prospect Street. Tickets are available online at www.improvboston.com/schedule or by phone at 617.576.1253.
Magnet Theater presents the third annual New York Musical Improv Festival from November 1 - 6, 2011 at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC.
Vulture reports that funny man Conan O'Brien is set to bring his late-night TBS talk show to New York City next week. The week long broadcast will celebrate the One-Year Anniversary of Conan's talk show. Among the planned events will be a gay wedding, officiated by O'Brien himself, of a longtime staff member and his partner.
ImprovBoston announces its November schedule. All shows take place at ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect Street in Cambridge. The schedule for the month is below. Ticket prices are with each show. More information on ImprovBoston is available online: www.improvboston.com.
This October, the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize salutes Will Ferrell. The program airs Monday, October 31 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide. Taped at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on October 23, the 90-minute special features a star-studded cast of Ferrell's friends and colleagues including top entertainers Billie Joe Armstrong of the band Green Day, Ed Asner, Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Gwen Ifill, Adam McKay, Tim Meadows, Conan O'Brien, John C. Reilly, Paul Rudd, Andy Samberg, Molly Shannon and Ben Stiller. The evening pays tribute to the humor and accomplishments of the television icon and motion picture star.
Comedian Will Ferrell was awarded the nation's top humor prize Sunday night at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. Ferrell is perhaps best known for his impersonation of President George W. Bush on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. He later took the role to Broadway in his successful run in YOU'RE WELCOME, AMERICA: A Final Night with George W. Bush.
In conjunction with Conan O'Brien's Monday, Oct. 31, return to the Big Apple for a week of shows, TBS is opening an exhibit of CONAN fan art in the Time Warner Center in New York. Open Oct. 24 - Nov. 3, this special exhibit of artwork by fans across the country follows on the heels of a successful fan art show at Comic-Con this summer.
Budd Friedman and Mark Lonow, co-owners of The Improv at Harrah's Las Vegas, are proud to introduce very special guest headliner Greg Behrendt to The Improv October 21st-23rd, with supporting act Mark Normand. Behrendt is a man of many talents: comedian, bestselling author, talk show host, producer and more.