Greg Fitzsimmons and Caroline Rhea to Headline Comedy Works This Weekend
By: BWW News Desk May. 01, 2017
Greg Fitzsimmons and Caroline Rhea will headline Comedy Works this weekend. Scroll down for details!
Greg Fitzsimmons
Comedy Works Downtown in Larimer Square
May 4 - 6
Mixing an incisive wit with scathing sarcasm, Greg Fitzsimmons has achieved success as a stand-up, Emmy Award winning writer and host on both radio and TV. Greg is a regular guest on The Howard Stern Show, Chelsea Lately, The Adam Carolla Show, and The Joe Rogan Experience. His 2011 book, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons received critical praise from NPR and Vanity Fair.
Since 2006, Greg has hosted a radio show on Howard Stern's Sirius/XM channel and his own twice-weekly podcast, Fitzdog Radio. A regular on Letterman, Conan, and Kimmel, Greg also had two stand-up specials on Comedy Central and spent five years as a panelist on VH1's Best Week Ever.
As a writer, Greg won four Daytime Emmy Awards on The Ellen Degeneres Show. He also worked on HBO's Lucky Louie, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and many others. He has created and executive produced pilots for VH1 and FX and served as head writer on The Chelsea Handler Show, The Man Show, and Tiny Tonight.
Greg is the winner of "The Jury Award for Best Comedian" from The HBO Comedy Arts Festival and a Cable Ace Award for the MTV game show he hosted called Idiot Savants.
Comedy Works South at the Landmark
May 4 - 6
Caroline Rhea, stand-up comedian and actress, brings a fresh, smart and spontaneous approach to all of her work.
Caroline's career was boosted by numerous appearances on MTV's Half-Hour Comedy Hour, Comic Strip Live and Caroline's Comedy Hour. She continues to perform to sold-out audiences in top Comedy Clubs all over the country and in Canada.
Most recently, Caroline was seen as a celebrity panelist on ABC's hit game show Match Game. Her feature credits include, The Perfect Man, Man on the Moon, Christmas With the Kranks, and the wrestling film, Ready to Rumble. Caroline's television career has taken off since she first starred as 'Aunt Hilda' on the WB's sitcom Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Caroline starred in Lifetime's made for television movie Fat Like Me, and was the host of NBC's The Biggest Loser. She was in a one-hour stand-up special, part of Bravo's Funny Girls, entitled Rhea's Anatomy.
Other credits include host of The Caroline Rhea Show, regular guest on Whoopi Goldberg's Hollywood Squares, Drew's girlfriend on The Drew Carey Show, the made for television movie Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire, NBC's Pride and Joy, and Comedy Central's Pulp Comic. She also appeared in the pilot of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.
For more information, visit www.comedyworks.com.
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