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Comics Come Home is an annual charity stand-up comedy festival held in Boston, Massachusetts.The event, co-founded by comedian Denis Leary (who remains its curator and presenter) and hockey hall of famer Cam Neely, [1] was first held in 1995 and is now the longest-running comedy fundraiser in the United States.
A small team returned in 2021 to revive the theater and bring it back to the post-pandemic Boston Comedy scene. Though without its home theater, the theater continued to host classes in improv, stand up, and sketch writing, weekly, as well as perform on the road in local theaters and performance spaces around Boston.
The Wilbur Theatre is a historic performing arts theater at 244–250 Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The Wilbur Theatre originally opened in 1914, but underwent renovations in 2008. The Wilbur Theatre sits in the heart of Boston's historic theater district and is known for hosting live comedy and music.
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Fleming grew up in Stow, Massachusetts and attended Nashoba Regional High School. [9] During his junior year, he began stand-up comedy at The Comedy Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying under Rick Jenkins. [10] In 2007, Fleming performed stand-up during HBO's 13th annual Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado. [11]
Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Born in Massachusetts, Leary first came to prominence as a stand-up comedian, especially through appearances on MTV (including the comedic song "Asshole") and through the stand-up specials No Cure for Cancer (1993) and Lock 'n Load (1997).
In 2013, Chia then entered the stand-up comedy circuit, beginning her career as a comedian. [1] [2]She was the head of corporate events at The Magnet Theater in 2014. [4]In 2016, she won the Ladies of Laughter competition, and was also a finalist at the 2017 New York's Funniest.
When Stand Up Stood Out is a documentary film by former Boston comedian Fran Solomita which chronicles the explosive popularity of the Boston Stand-up comedy scene in the 80s and early 90s. It was released on DVD on June 20, 2006 by THINKFilm , the distributor behind the documentary The Aristocrats .