Side Splitters Welcomes Al Romas

Appearing This Weekend AL ROMAS June 30 - July 3
Al began his career in comedy in the mid 1980s, cutting his teeth in the open-mic circuit of Tidewater Virginia. Al's performances in Norfolk bars and Virginia Beach clubs before audiences of rowdy college students, rowdier sailors, and sunburned tourists allowed him to hone his act, and he soon graduated to paid gigs throughout the region. Within a few short years of his start as an anonymous open-miker with a day job, Al found himself living in New York, working full-time as a standup comic and logging tens of thousands of miles while working clubs and colleges up and down the East Coast. Al's hilarious material and his natural rapport with his audiences also got him gigs opening for some of the biggest names in comedy during the late 80s/early 90s, names such as Jerry Seinfeld and Dennis Miller.

Al is a firmly established headliner who has delighted audiences in an impressive list of venues ranging from Radio City Music Hall for ESPN's Espy Awards to the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to Las Vegas, with countless gigs in between all over the country. Al also has numerous television appearances under his belt, including VH-1's "Standup Spotlight" A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and Comedy Central's "Short Attention Span Theater."

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Appearing Next Weekend
BEN ROY July 7 - July 10
Ben Roy is one of the fastest up-and-coming comics that the Denver scene has to offer. A native of Maine and now living in Colorado, he is poised to take the entertainment industry by storm with his unique blend of rant, sarcastic, observational, and high-energy humor.

Recently feature in the book "Mock Stars: Indie Comedy and the Dangerously Funny", alongside comedy greats Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, and Fred Armisen, author John Wenzel described him as, "gloriously erratic, mixing Louis Black's quivering indignation with Bill Hicks' vitriol and David Cross' unapologetic misanthropy." The Onion A.V. Club said "he's like a skinny, punk-rock Sam Kinison."

Ben is also a memeber of Wrist Deep Productions, hosts of the wildly popular and controversial show "Los Comicos Super Hilariosos". He has been a finalist in several local and national competitions and was selected to perform at the Boston Comedy Festival, The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, The Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, the MTV Comedy Showcase, and most recently, The Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival. After his performances on the New Faces show, he was invited to perform as part of the Best of the Fest. In 2011, the Denver Post picked him as one of seven people in the Denver area as a pathmaker for the following year. He is regular headliner at the Denver Comedy Works, husband, and father.

Ben will not speak in third person at the show.

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FUN FORECAST
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Appearing July 14 - 17, 2011 is ROY WOOD JR., featured on Last Comic Standing!

Appearing August 25 - 28, 2011 is SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO from HBO and Comedy Central!

Appearing September 8 - 11, 2011 is Last Comic Standing finalist TOMMY JOHNAGIN!

 

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