Ninth annual event features comedians from Vince Valentine’s Comedy Collective
The 9th Annual Comedy Night Fundraiser, sponsored by the Williamstown Sunrise Rotary Foundation, will be held Friday, March 2. Doors open at 7 p.m. and comedians from Vince Valentine’s Comedy Collective begin at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are $45 by Feb. 21 and $50 at the door. Price includes beef and beer, pasta, salad bar and soda. There will be a cash bar. A portion of the ticket price is tax deductible.
The evening is hosted by Vince Valentine and features comedians Joey Callahan and headliner Julia Scotti.
Valentine has been touring nationally with Broadway’s longest one-man show, “Defending the Caveman,” since 2003. He has also appeared in many television commercials. He showed his range as an actor when playing the lead part as true life convicted killer Ken Otto in an episode of Forensic Files and the Comedy Central series Delco Proper. He is in production with his latest project, “As Youse Like it,” a South Philly fable, based loosely on Philly cheesesteak wars. Valentine is a native of Philadelphia, where he teaches a stand up comedy class for beginners at Camden County College.
From the first time Callahan saw Dick Van Dyke trip, he knew he wanted to work in comedy. As a comedy writer, Callahan has worked for Jay Leno, Jimmie “J.J.” Walker, Harry Anderson and the national bestseller “If Women Ran Things.” He won the Cable Ace Award for The Rik Turner Show. As a stand up comic, Callahan has been seen on Comedy Central, ESPN’s “Lighter Side of Sports” and Fox TV. He is a national headliner and opening act for such names as Richard Belzar, Steven Wright, Bobby Collins, Michael Winslow, Joe Piscopo, Jeff Marder, Bob Nelson and Weird Al Yankovic. The Philadelphia Inquirer called Joey “one of the most clever comics on the comedy club scene today.”
Scotti is a nationally headlining comedian, former teacher, author, speaker and woman of transgendered experience. She was a quarter-finalist and fan favorite on season 11 of America’s Got Talent on NBC in 2016. Originally from Fairview, for the first 48 years she was better known as comedian Rick Scotti. She toured the country, appearing at venues all over the United States and Canada, both as a headliner in comedy clubs and as an opening act for artists such as Lou Rawls, Chicago and Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Scotti has appeared on numerous television and radio shows as well as commercials. In 2012, Scotti was named one of the Top Five Transgender Comedians in the country by Advocate Magazine. Since then, she has gone on to become the first transgendered woman and finalist in the New York-based Ladies of Laughter Competition. She has performed at the Boston Comedy Festival, and in 2014 was one of the winners of the Laughlin Laugh Festival in Nevada.
For more information, call (856) 318–9811 or email info@williamstownsunriserotary.org.
