Comedy On Tour, presented by 800 Pound Gorilla News, is THE weekly editorial piece to find all the latest and greatest comedy tours you need to know about and get tickets to. This week's lineup features Brooks Wheelan, Katherine Blanford, Gary Gulman, Scott Thompson & Ms. Pat - check out these dates & get tickets below!
Brooks Wheelan: The brooks scrambles to write a new hour tour!
Brooks Wheelan originally hails from Iowa where he attended the University of Iowa. In 2015, he released his debut album This Is Cool, Right?, which hit #1 on the iTunes charts and was included on PASTE Magazine’s 10 Best Comedy Albums of 2015 list. His television credits include HBO’s Girls, Comedy Central’s The Half Hour, @Midnight, Adam Devine’s House Party, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Myers, MTV’s Ridiculousness and TBS’ CONAN. He was a writer and cast member on Season 39 of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Rolling Stone named Brooks as one the Top 45 Acts of Bonnaroo 2014.
In 2012 he hit the comedy scene in stride when he was invited to perform at the New York Comedy Festival as a part of Comedy Central’s Top 10 Comics to Watch, and was a breakout performer as a new face at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Other festival appearances include SXSW, Sasquatch, Austin’s Moontower Comedy Festival, Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Comedy Central South Beach Comedy Festival. Brooks currently lives in Los Angeles and can be seen headlining colleges and clubs throughout the US.
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Katherine Blanford
Katherine Blanford has brought her human Golden Retriever presence to stages across the country where she has shared the stage with the likes of Jeff Foxworthy, David Spade, and Ron White.
She shares true confessions of a washed up Pediatric Waste Management Specialist (a nanny) and war stories from the front lines of brunch. Her humor has taken her to festivals across the nation including Limestone Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, Burning Bridges Festival and Red Clay Festival.
Katherine made her Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon debut in 2022, and her first album, Salt Daddy, was released in June of that year, debuting at #1 on iTunes.
You can catch her weekly co-hosting her podcast, Cheaties, with fellow ATL comedian, Lace Larrabee. The juicy series follows two comedians interviewing guests about their personal stories of cheating and being cheated on and helping each other heal through laughter. Cheaties has been consecutively ranked in Podcast Magazine’s Hot 50 and continues to climb the charts.
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Gary Gulman
Over 25 years in comedy, Gary Gulman has established himself as an eminent performer and peerless writer.
A product of Boston, Gulman has been a scholarship college football player, an accountant, and a high school teacher. He has made countless television appearances as both a comedian and an actor.
Gulman has made four masterful TV specials including his most recent universally acclaimed stand-up special for HBO, “The Great Depresh”, a tour de force look at mental illness, which is equal parts hilarious and inspiring. In 2019, he appeared in the international blockbuster “Joker”. He can most recently be seen co-starring with Amy Schumer in the hit Hulu comedy series, “Life & Beth”.
Gary's first book published by Flatiron Books is titled “Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s”, a memoir based on his life from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. It was released in September of 2023. Amy Schumer called the book “laugh out loud funny and heartfelt” and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Adrian Nicole LeBlanc found it “exquisite, love-affirming and generous”.
Today, Gulman is one of the most popular touring comics, selling out theaters around the country including the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City Gary's upcoming tour "Misfit: A Gary Gulman Stand Up & Book Tour" will feature material based on his book, but not a repeat of the book. Gary lives in Harlem with his wife.
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Scott Tompson (Buddy Cole in King)
Scott Thompson from the ‘Kids in the Hall’ brings his most famous character, lounge lizard ‘Buddy Cole’, to City Winery Nashville for his new show ‘KING’.
An evening of hilarious and sometimes incendiary monologues never before seen on television to a series of brand new monologues written for the recent revival that were deemed ‘ TOO HOT FOR AMAZON’, this is a show you can’t miss.
Buddy is back, funnier, sillier and yet somehow more dangerous than ever. Join him in an intimate setting as he mixes up martini’s and dishes out the dirt on his fabulous globe trotting life all while relecting on everything from the fractured state of the LGBTQT+ community to controversial ways to cure cancer to the proper way to woo a despot.
Warning: If you like riotous boundary pushing comedy this is definitely the most fun you will have in February.
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Ms. Pat: Ya Girl Done Made It Tour
Ms. Pat has long been a long time favorite with standup critics and fans. In 2019 she was hailed by Variety as a "Top 10 Comic to Watch." She has appeared on Netflix's The Degenerates and Larry Charles' Dangerous World of Comedy, Comedy Central's This Is Not Happening, NBC's Last Comic Standing, and Nickelodeon's Mom's Night Out. In addition to her standup and TV projects, Pat currently serves as co-host of the long-running beloved morning radio show The Morning Culture with Big Tigger on V103.5 in Atlanta, GA. She also hosts her own popular podcast The Patdown. Pat is a regular on iHeart Radio's wildly popular national morning show The Breakfast Club, and she has become a podcast celebrity with multiple appearances on WTF with Marc Maron, The Joe Rogan Experience, and The Bertcast with Bert Kreischer.
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