Jen Kirkman - comedian
Friday April 2nd, 2010
Irvine Improv in Irvine, CA
Special Event: Chuy’s Book Release Show!
With: Heather McDonald, Guy Branum, Brad Wollack & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/ykv6zsv
Saturday April 3rd, 2010
Hollywood Improv in Hollywood, CA
Special Event: Chuy’s Book Release Show!
With: Heather McDonald, Guy Branum, Brad Wollack & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/ykv6zsv
Friday April 9th, 2010
Murat Egyptian Room/Old National Centre in Indianapolis, IN
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/ybzxjf7
Saturday April 10th, 2010
Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, WI
With: Sarah Colonna, The Sklar Brothers, Jo Koy & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://pabsttheater.org/chelsea
Friday April 30th, 2010
The Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, CO
With: Jen Kirkman, The Sklar Brothers, Jo Koy & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/ylk4ag3
Saturday May 1st, 2010
The Wells Fargo Center for the Performing Arts in Santa Rosa, CA
With: Jen Kirkman, The Sklar Brothers, Jo Koy & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/ydwp4ow
Friday May 7th, 2010
The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA
With: Sarah Colonna, Loni Love, Josh Wolf & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/yhynz4r
Saturday May 8th, 2010
The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre in Miami, FL
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/yhxw7gu
Friday June 4th, 2010
Philadelphia, PA
More info coming soon!
Saturday June 5th, 2010
The Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.
With: Loni Love, Brad Wollack, Josh Wolf & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/y8hkfdt
Friday June 11th, 2010
The Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA
With: Jen Kirkman, Whitney Cummings, Jo Koy & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/ybvo2pd
Saturday June 12th, 2010
New York City, NY
More info coming soon!
Friday June 25th, 2010
The Venue in Hammond, IN
With: Jen Kirkman, Brad Wollack, John Caparulo & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/ye2dxx9
Saturday June 26th, 2010
The Hard Rock Live in Orlando, FL
With: Jen Kirkman, Brad Wollack, John Caparulo & Chuy!
Get tickets now!
http://tinyurl.com/yag9lsz
Thursday July 9th, 2010
Hampton Beach, NH
More info coming soon!
Friday July 9th, 2010
The Newport Yachting Center in Newport, RI
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http://tinyurl.com/yg5q8hu
March 2010
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http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=53375
03.23.2010 – LOS ANGELES, CA — Night of 140 Tweets is available for purchase and download starting today on the iTunes Store (iTunes.com/140tweets), distributed by New Video. A DVD with exclusive extra content is also available on Amazon.com/140tweets, and manufactured using CreateSpace DVD on Demand technology. History was recently made on March 12th when Red Hour and Funny or Die partnered with Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel (MTV’s Human Giant) to welcome 140 Twitterers from the worlds of comedy, acting, music, and entertainment to participate in the world’s first-ever live tweet stream. All sale proceeds will benefit Artists for Peace and Justice’s initiative to build schools in Haiti.
Performers were invited to each present one of their signature tweets in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. The line-up of performers included Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, The Hangover star Ed Helms; Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, Samantha Ronson, Diablo Cody, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Lake Bell, John Cho, Nia Vardalos, Dave Foley, Busy Phillips, Al Yankovic, Wilmer Valderrama, Jenny McCarthy; comedians Michael Ian Black, Dane Cook and Aziz Ansari; Lost creators Damon Lindelof and Cartlon Cuse and too many more performers and comedians to list. [Jen Kirkman here - I’m one of the “too many more comedians to list!”]
Tweets were comedy-heavy as performers shared their favorite tweets, twitpics and twitvids to a packed house.
Stiller read his all-time favorite tweet, “On a remote island vacationing, really enjoying dropping off the grid, totally disconnecting from the world.”
AMC’s Mad Men star, Rich Sommer, stood and delivered his tweet completely in the buff as his tweet recounted his ‘bad dream’ in which he was speaking before a crowd in his birthday suit.
“I changed a baby’s diaper today and she had a totally shaved vagina,” said Sarah Silverman. “What a country!”
Diablo Cody wore a fake baby bump and reluctantly admitted “@justinbieber, you’re the father.”
A Night of 140 Tweets will cost $2.99 on iTunes to download.
A DVD with exclusive content is available on Amazon.com for $14.95. The “A Night of 140 Tweets” DVD will be available through CreateSpace DVD on Demand, a solution which manufacturers DVDs only in response to customer demand, which can result in minimal risk and higher royalties for film studios.
Last Tumblr update was about my TV appearance tonight and my great hair (well, it wasn’t about my great hair but the picture proved it.)
Now I’m all serious. And I’m pissed! You should be too. Not just about this specific incident but people like him.
As a liberal who has given money, care packages, and time spent visiting and writing letters to my leaders about how vets need better treatment - I am grossed out by this when it’s people like me who are always accused of “hating America.”
Your lists:From Veteran’s Today: Hannity’s “Freedom Alliance” concert - money didn’t go to vets but instead…well you read. http://tinyurl.com/yhsc5ln
Hello all!
I just want to let you know that I have a Facebook fan page. I do let ‘the public’ friend me on Facebook as well.
Lately, I’ve had many comments from people who say they “don’t like to be fans.” I’m not sure if this is some Facebook Fanpage Layout complaint or that they don’t want to identify with being a fan of anyone - as if that idea is reserved for the Hardy Boys poster on your wall that you had in 1979.
I know I’m not Cher, Elvis or a Jonas Brother but “fan” is a word that performers like me think of as meaning, “I like your work and I know you take shits just like everyone else.” I’m not insinuating that I’m Davy Jones and you should go out of your way to get me to perform at your prom by pretending to be a bus boy at a hotel or sneaking into my recording studio.
It’s with the utmost humility that I refer to you as “a fan.”
On my Facebook Fan Page - you can see what shows I’m doing in L.A. and all over the country (hopefully the world too) - it’s the only place on the web that is updated in consistently and accurately and immediately. You can see videos from things you might have missed of me on TV. You can get free tickets to things should I have them. This is not always available on my Facebook ‘friend page’ - since I don’t normally just spend the day bombarding my friends with self-promotion.
But the fan page is all promotion and updates and you can check it when you want. I think it sounds great. But then again, I have no problem being a fan sometimes.
Why not give it a try?
JOIN MY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE HERE: http://tinyurl.com/yku9u4j
Thanks!
xoxo
Jen
Hey everyone! Here are the dates I’ll be touring with “The Comedians of Chelsea Lately”.
Friday, April 30th @8pm: “The Fillmore Auditorium” - Denver, Colorado Featured comedians are: Jen Kirkman, The Sklar Brothers & Jo Koy! *special appearance by Chuy!* Tickets available through Live Nation. On sale now! http://tinyurl.com/ylk4ag3
Saturday, May 1st @8pm: “Wells Fargo Center…” - Santa Rosa, CA Featured comedians are: Jen Kirkman, The Sklar Brothers & Jo Koy! *special appearance by Chuy!* Tickets on sale now! http://tinyurl.com/ydwp4ow
Friday, June 11th @8pm: “The Wilbur Theatre” - Boston, MA Featured comedians are: Jen Kirkman, Whitney Cummings & Jo Koy! *special appearance by Chuy!* Tickets on sale now! http://tinyurl.com/ybvo2pd
Friday, June 25th @8pm: “Horseshoe Casino” - Hammond, IN Featured comedians are: Jen Kirkman, Brad Wollack & John Caparulo! *special appearance by Chuy!* Ticket information coming soon
Saturday, June 26th @8pm: “Hard Rock” - Orlando, FL Featured comedians are: Jen Kirkman, Brad Wollack & John Caparulo! *special appearance by Chuy!* Tickets on sale now! http://bit.ly/cvk6TB
I wrote this over a year ago when I was the guest-blogger for a week on FunnyorDie.com. I figured it’s worth a re-print if you are a comedian or have one in your life.
How To Talk To The Comedian In Your Life - By Jen Kirkman
We are coming up on the most popular travel week of the year. That means many comedians from all over America are returning to their home-towns to break cranberry sauce with their families on Thanksgiving and get shitfaced with their high school friends the night before.
This is often a hard time for comedians - seeing extended family members and long-lost friends because it seems no one knows how to talk to comedians. I learned the hard way, not to do gigs in Boston when I go home for the holidays. There is no need to combine distant family members, alcohol and your dreams on a cold winter night.
Let me give you some examples. Don’t ask the comedian in your life why they are not on Saturday Night Live. This is like asking a man why he doesn’t have wings or asking a woman why she doesn’t fit the personality type of one of the four women from Sex&The City. Not every comedian wants to be on SNL, especially comedians who do stand-up only and not characters. Not every comedian wants to disrupt her happy life in L.A. and leave her fiancee to live in NYC or force her fiancee to end his career to go with her.
Assume that the comedian in your life, if she’s been doing it more than a decade and has worked in television for many years, probably knows people associated with SNL and doesn’t need your advice on how to contact the powers that be at SNL. It’s great that your next door neighbors nephew is an assitant to a producer of some kind in NYC. Don’t give me his email address.
Don’t ask the comedian in your life if they are influenced by Jerry Seinfeld or some other giant staple of the American comedy landscape. We will answer that we like Jerry. He’s like ice cream. Everyone likes ice cream. Even the lactose intolerant cheat now and then. But we probably know comedians that you’ve never heard of because we swim with those schools of fish every night doing thankless shows for free. When we tell you the comedians you’ve never heard of that we like, don’t tell us that they are not famous. Artists and famous are two different things. The comedians you don’t think are famous have huge houses from all the voiceover work they do even though they have to do morning radio to sell tickets when they come to your town.
Don’t tell the comedian in your life, that you daughter’s best friends babysitter lives in Los Angeles, and works in show business and then say, “She lives in Palo Alto.” That is not Los Angeles. That is 6 hours away and only a masochist would commute 12 hours a day for show business.
Don’t tell the comedian in your life that you don’t have cable TV therefore you can’t see the shows that she is on or writes for. Don’t then ask her, “So what else do you do for money?” If the comedian in your life writes and performs on cable TV that is a living. Just because you don’t have cable TV doesn’t mean an entire generation who is our demographic doesn’t.
Don’t tell the comedian in your life jokes that she can use in her act. Comedians don’t do street jokes. And for God’s sakes, even hacks aren’t doing Monica Lewinsky jokes anymore. Don’t assume that the comedian in your life is racist and homophobic like you. Most comedians working in the business live in either NYC or L.A. - the cities in America that have all the gays and blacks. Chances are we’ve slept with them.
Don’t attend the comedian in your life’s show and say things like, “You looked confident up there.” That is not a compliment. On the other hand, don’t not say anything at all. It’s awkward to not acknowledge that the comedian in your life didn’t just bare their soul on stage for 30 minutes while an audience laughed.
And finally, don’t ask the comedian in your life when they are getting famous. Not every terrorist is as high profile as Osama Bin Laden but some are making some damn fine homemade explosives. Not every comedian is as famous as Chris Rock. But some comedians, like the one in your life, makes a living at it, which last time we comedians checked, is not incredibly easy to do without a lot of guts, determination and (sometimes) talent.
If you’ve seen my act or just heard me blathering on you’ll know that it was never in my plan to have children. I do have a maternal instinct - my body is definitely saying, “Make a baby.” But my lifestyle and my mind say “No.” One thing I’ve always said is that if my husband and I change our minds - we’ll happily adopt.
The other day I let my mind wander and my ego took over. I thought of all the funny stories people tell me about their kids and I thought, “If I decided to have a baby - I think I would want to make my own with my husband just to see what we made.” I know that kids need homes and it’s even more environmentally friendly to adopt.
I didn’t like where my mind took me and I told Neil about it. He said, “Whatever we decide, let’s have an extra $180,000 a year ready.” That snapped me out of it. I don’t even want to have to have an extra $180 a year ready for someone else - not when I’ve never owned anything full price that I’ve seen in Vogue.
Then Neil started telling me about a sad podcast he heard that chronicled the life of a chimp that was raised as a human. I said, “Pretend we have all the money in the world and all the time - do you want to create a baby or have a chimp?” We both said at the same time, “Chimp.”
It’s settled. We’re not making a baby. But we’re going to fully commit to fantasizing about raising a chimp as a human.
