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Jimmy Tingle – Making Comic Sense of 2013: The Year in 90 Minutes!

JIMMY TINGLE: MAKING COMIC SENSE OF 2013

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December 23, 2013

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Jimmy Tingle’s “Making Comic Sense of 2013: The Year in 90 Minutes”

An Evening of Comedy, Commentary, and Conversation with Comedian Jimmy Tingle

 

New Year’s Day, 2014

4pm

THE REGENT THEATRE

ARLINGTON, MA

FREE PARKING ACROSS STREET FROM THEATRE

$25 in advance

$30 day of show

$35 includes a post-show Meet & Greet with Jimmy at the Tango Argentinian Restaurant, complimentary appetizers and a cash bar.

 

Tickets available online at www.jimmytingle.com

In person sales available at the Regent Theatre Box Office

7 Medford Street Arlington, MA

781-646-4849

 

From the new Pope to the Tea Party, from the NSA to the NRA, Tingle’s hilarious take on 2013 will make you laugh, make you think and make you grateful you made it through. Tingle’s year-end performances are a tradition for Bostonians who enjoy some “comic sense” with their news and politics.  “Making Comic Sense of 2013” will lift your spirits, raise your awareness and sharpen your sense of humor for 2014 and beyond.

 

About Jimmy Tingle

In 2010, Jimmy Tingle was chosen to give the Commencement address in front of thousands of people at Harvard. He’d just received his Masters Degree in Public Administration. Being that he was in the midst of many great academic minds, Tingle felt he should explain himself. “I’m a comedian by profession and have traveled all over the world performing stand-up comedy,” he said. “I don't want to brag, but two years ago I performed in Europe. I’d just like to say ‘excellent country!’” He punctuated it with an enthusiastic thumbs-up.

  

As the students, families and faculty erupted with laughter, Tingle went on to explain, “People asked me all year why would a comedian want to go to The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I told them: ‘The same reason all of you wanted to go to Harvard… We got in!’”

    

Yes, there was that. But also, as a political humorist, he wanted to dive deeper into those murky waters of politics.

    

The Cambridge, MA-born Tingle has a career spanning three decades, as a comedian, writer, actor, activist and entrepreneur. He rose up from the Boston comedy boom of the ‘80s, the scene that spawned Steven Wright, Denis Leary, Bobcat Goldthwait and Paula Poundstone.

    

He did two seasons of “60 Minutes II” on CBS in the “Andy Rooney” spot. Tingle was less curmudgeonly journalist and more exasperated, wry comic. “Some cities are using money from parking tickets to fund the schools,” Tingle told “60 Minutes II” viewers. “Why is the quality of a child’s education being influenced by their parent’s inability to park? ‘Dad, the school needs a computer! ‘Don’t worry, son, I’ll leave the car in front of the hydrant.’”

 

Tingle also worked as a contributor and satirist for MSNBC and has appeared on The Tonight Show, CNN, “Larry King's Weekend,” “Late Night with Conan O'Brien,” “The American Comedy Awards,” as well as his own HBO half-hour comedy special. He has also been a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” and appeared regularly on “Heat” with John Hockenberry. 

   

Tingle grew up working class. That perspective - coupled with his Catholic background, particularly the social justice side of the faith - continues to be a major influence in Tingle’s life, politics and worldview. Tingle’s father owned and drove a taxicab in his hometown. “As kids,” Tingle says, “the cab was our family car and we went everywhere in it. One time my father took us hunting in the cab. We looked pretty funny pulling up to the forest in a big yellow cab. Bears were looking out of the forest completely dumfounded: ‘Somebody call a cab?’”

    

Tingle has produced several comedic and theatrical productions including Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense at the storied Hasty Pudding Theater at Harvard, which became the longest running one person show in that theater’s history. He also wrote, produced and starred in his first documentary film “Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream” which aired on over 60 PBS affiliates.Other film credits include small roles in Larry David’s “Clear History,” Chris Rock’s “Head of State,” “Next Stop, Wonderland” and “Boondock Saints.” He played himself in the International Emmy Award-winning documentary on arts censorship “Dammed in the USA.”

     

Theatrical credits include writing and starring and producing four one-person shows, all of which were directed by Larry Arrick: Jimmy Tingle's Uncommon SenseThe Promised LandJimmy Tingle’s American Dream and Jimmy Tingle for President: The Funniest Campaign in History. (The latter two shows are available on DVD.)  

  

Tingle has the rare distinction of winning Boston magazine’s “Best of Boston” awards in two different categories. He won as a performer “stand-up comedy” category and then the venue he founded in 2002, Jimmy Tingle’s OFF BROADWAY was named “best alternative theater.” Tingle was producing artistic director at the Somerville, MA theater through 2007. Tingle continues to tour the country, performing in theaters and for colleges, non-profit organizations, private parties and corporate clients.   

 

For more information visit www.jimmytingle.com

Follow on Twitter: @jimmytingle

Like Jimmy: https://www.facebook.com/JimmyTingleFanPage

 

About 3 Graces Productions: Inspired by the love of all things local, partners Debra McLaughlin and Jennifer Lawrence created 3 Graces Productions in 2013. 3 Graces Productions is driven by their desire to build and celebrate community by creating inspiring events that spotlights the tremendous talents of local artists,musicians, craftspeople, artisan food and beverage producers and other small business owners in Greater Boston. 3 Graces Productions is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. For more information, visit: www.3gracesproductions.com.

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