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Gab Bonesso Comedy Party

Sat, 04/10/2010 - 8:00pm

 

Gab Bonesso’s Comedy Party - Saturday, April 10th at 8PM - Tickets $15 Cash at the door!

Come join Bricolage Theater’s resident comedian: Gab Bonesso (voted the Best Comedian in Pittsburgh by the City Paper Reader’s Poll) as she performs with three of New York City’s finest comedians: Baron Vaughn, Victor Varnado and Joshua Grosvent for a special event, one-night ONLY performance!!!! The show will be hosted by Comcast On Demand’s John McIntire.
Performer Bio’s:
Baron Vaughn - Baron Vaughn started doing stand-up in Boston and made the move to New York, where he can be seen at various comedy clubs and alternative comedy venues. He has performed at a number of comedy festivals including Aspen, South Beach and D.C. He also toured as part of the American Eagle Campus Comedy Challenge tour. He has appeared as a commentator on numerous shows on MTV and VH1 and was also featured as a comedian on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham."
As an actor, Baron has performed on stage in "Damn Yankees" at the NY City Center with Jane Krakowski and Sean Hayes and on screen in "Black Dynamite" and the upcoming film "The Other Guys." He recently shot two pilots, for ABC and USA and has been signed to an 11 episode contract with USA for the show “Chasing Kate”.
Baron will be making his late night debut on Jimmy Kimmel on Friday, April 9th before arriving in Pittsburgh!!!!
Victor Varnado - Victor Varnado grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, later moving to Minneapolis, where he worked with the local improvisation troupes ComedySportz MN, The Bad Mamma Jammas and several regional theater companies, before landing his first role in the Big River Productions film Full Moon Rising (1996), playing a copy clerk. Soon after, his role in Giraffe Films' "Kids Adventures in Oz" spurred him on move to New York and to pursue an acting career. His first "big break" came when he landed a role in Elton John's music video "Recovering Your Soul". Shortly after, he starred in Forensic Films' Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) with Ewen Bremner, Werner Herzog and Chloe Sevigny. He was subsequently cast in Universal's feature film End of Days (1999), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was released in November 1999.

He co-stars in Eddie Murphy's space-age comic thriller, The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), released nationally on August 16, 2003.

Winner of the Most Valuable Performer award in the 2001 Montreal Just For Laughs Improv Championship, and bronze medallist in the 2002 Comedy Central Laugh Riots National Stand-Up Competition, Varnado can currently be seen as Otis, an outrageous urban comic, in the independent film _Hacks (2001)_. Showing in the New York International Film Festival playing in Los Angeles, "Hacks" is now an official selection for The Milan Film Festival.

Varnado is a member of Chicago City Limits, New York¹s longest running comedy improv theater company for which he writes and direct as well as performing regularly as a stand up comedian.
Victor’s documentary “The Awkward Comedy Show” will be premiering on Comedy Central this Friday, April 9th the day before he arrives in Pittsburgh!!!!
Joshua Grosvent - Joshua Grosvent is a New York based comedian that has written for Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central, VH1 and been featured in The Onion. At the age of 28, he has been performing live comedy for over 10 years taking him to colleges and clubs all over North America. He can be heard every week on Ted & Amy in the morning on 93Q in Syracuse, NY where he currently resides.
Gab Bonesso - “She’s the real deal and fucking hilarious.” High praise for comedian Gab Bonesso from one of the greats, Richard Lewis. Gab Bonesso has carved out a quirky niche in a crazy business. She specializes in Alternative Comedy, and she is definitely an alternative to the traditional kind of club (frat boy) comedic style. Bonesso calls Pittsburgh home, because that’s where she’s from. She was named: Pittsburgh’s Best Comedian by the Pittsburgh City Paper Reader’s Poll. She’s performed in San Francisco, New York, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle, with such comedic luminaries as Richard Lewis, Will Durst, Christian Finnegan, Dan Levy, Sandra Bernhardt and Eddie Brill. Her cutting edge comedy was a regular fixture on the John McIntire show on WTZN-FM Pittsburgh where she wrote, produced and starred in topical edgy comedic radio plays, in her role as on-air sidekick and producer.  She also was a regular guest co-host on the Alan Cox “The X” morning drive show. Of Bonesso, says Cox, “Gab is one of the most frenetic and inventive comedians to emerge from Pittsburgh in many years. She comes across as a raw, exposed nerve and you just want to touch her.” Gab has performed in storied venues such as The Laugh Factory, The Punchline, The Purple onion, UCB, the PIT, and The New York City Comedy Club. She was a top ten finalist in The New York City Underground Comedy Festival. You can catch Gab on The John McIntire Show on COMCAST ON DEMAND.
Her considerable acting skills landed her the role of the psychotically hysterical Lois in The No Name Players Production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Wonder Of The World” in Pittsburgh.  Typecasting? Perhaps. Gab has written three full-length sketch comedy shows produced in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.  She’s written for print, television, radio and stage.
 
Pittsburgh’s number one radio morning team, Krenn and Bauman, call Gab “the hardest working woman in show business.”