AZIZ ANSARI

Originally from South Carolina, Aziz Ansari is a standup comedian based in New York City. /Rolling Stone/ recently called him the "Hot Standup" for 2005.

Later this year, Aziz will be appearing on the new season of Comedy Central's Premium Blend. He is also featured on the Comedy Central records CD/DVD compilation "Invite Them Up," featuring many of New York's top comedians, including David Cross, Todd Barry, Demetri Martin, Eugene Mirman, and more. He also occasionally provides commentary on VH1's /Best Week Ever/ .

He also hosts the Upright Citizen Brigade Theatre's popular standup show, " Crash Test " every Monday.

Aziz also has a tough time finding a middle ground between modesty and arrogance when writing his bios.

Press/Quotes:
Rolling Stone "Hot Standup" Article

New York Magazine - 10 Funniest People You've Never Heard of...

"Nothing pisses off a professional comedian more than some little snot-nosed punk who's been doing it for like 5 years but is already 10 years ahead of the game in terms of skill, material and originality. Aziz Ansari makes me very angry." - Patton Oswalt

"If every magazine everywhere is to be believed... Aziz Ansari is NYC's fastest rising comic." - Fader Magazine

"Our favorite new standup" - Time Out New York

"Excellent..." - The Onion

2005 Emerging Comics of New York Award Winner - Best Standup

BIG DICKTIONARY

Big Dicktionary is a two-person, long-form improvisational comedy team composed of Timmy Finch and John Brennan. Timmy is a member of The Have Nots! and Charleston's Best Local Comic five years running. John is well known as the creepy Jones' Ford guy. Timmy is close to being washed up as a performer just as John's career is taking off. Other than that, the two have just enough in common to share the stage and break many of the "rules" to entertain. Neither one is safe from the other as they keep the show tight and fast even as they call out each others' foibles. Oh yeah, they use a very big dictionary in the show.

DAD'S GARAGE THEATRE

Founded in 1995, Dad's Garage Theatre has grown from a small volunteer led organization to a thriving mid-size theatre led by professional artistic and administrative staff. They now entertain more than 30,000 people a year at their two-theatre facility in Inman Park and at public events across the state. Dad's gives a new definition to the phrase "original work" with their world premiere production of Cannibal: The Musical (based on the movie by South Park creator Trey Parker), the debut of O Happy Day (the lost play by Monty Python great Graham Chapman), and the recent premiere of Carrie White the Musical (an unauthorized parody adapted by the Dad's Garage Ensemble).

In addition to their outrageous original productions, Dad’s Garage produces 52 weeks a year. They perform traditional and original formats including the Improvised Soap Opera Scandal!, TheatreSports® (the only officially sanctioned team in the Southeast), their very own Improv Psychology Seminar led by Dr. Bob Frapples, and the brand new Chicago-style long form show, Long Johns.

Their work has been recognized and supported by the Atlanta Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Trust, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund and The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. Now a fixture in the Atlanta arts scene, Dad's Garage has won Best Theatre and Best Improv Troupe in Creative Loafing for the past four years, as well as similar awards in almost every major publication in the city.

Visit www.dadsgarage.com

DIRTY SOUTH IMPROV

DSI THEATER entertains audiences with its energetic and extremely commited take on improvisational theater. With business operations in North Carolina and Chicago, two critically acclaimed touring shows, a growing college improv network with IMPLOSION, the college comedy resource, and a national improv festival, DSI continues to be more than just another comedy theater. We are recognized for the development, promotion and performance of the art of improvisation.

For more information, visit www.dirtysouthimprov.com

UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE THEATRE

...presents "Free to Be Friends"

Free to Be Friends
Free To Be Friends, a stage version of the fictional 1972 regional children’s show hosted by lesbians Betty and Joan, picks up where Free To Be You and Me and The Magic Garden left off, then makes everything a little weirder.

Set on Betty and Joan’s Enchanted Patio, Free To Be Friends features a magical tree that houses the poor, berated Shylock the Owl, a gorgeous owl puppet bedecked in retro-hued felt feathers. Sue Galloway plays Betty Maddox, a wide-eyed blonde who came to the Enchanted Patio after being rescued from a macrame cult called the Macramaniacs. Her life partner, bossy, Jewish Joan Stein, used to be a school teacher in Great Neck, Long Island, but left that profession when she found it was too dominated by men. Together, Betty and Joan guide children through an array of confusing topics with lessons from the Body Box, the Giggle Patch, and with Yoga Time and by baking Self Esteem Cookies; all of which just adds up to more confusion, and then, terrible violence.

Free To Be Friends is written and performed by Sue Galloway (Stickerbook, The Real Real World, Renegade 77) and Julie Klausner (VH1, Conan, Strangers With Candy, Cat News, HBO Aspen Comedy Fest), both of whom are regular performers at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Neil Casey (Instant Cinema, Death By Roo-Roo, Your Favorite Thing) lends his voice to Shylock, and Dyna Moe (NeoTokyo GirlCrush 2040, My Wife The Ghost, Conan) directs.

Free To Be Friends features 5 original folk songs, including “Pancakes, Pancakes, Vietnam,” “I Like Who I Am,” and “Men or Tails.” Its set and structure, not to mention the “a little too close” relationship between the two hostesses, will tickle fans of the regional WPIX favorite, The Magic Garden. But even those unfamiliar with The Magic Garden will delight in Free To Be Friends’s fast-paced absurdity, visual flair, dumb wordplay and smart satire.

“Sue Galloway and Julie Klausner are hilarious. This is a really fun show with surprisingly exceptional set design. It has a Strangers With Candy sort of penchant for twisted one-liners and for its dark humour wrapped in a cheery outer layer.” —The Apiary

IMPROV FREIGHT TRAIN JAM w/special guests

The Have Nots! present this improv jam show that has become a regular happening at Theatre 99.  With over 30 members in the Theatre 99 company, you never know who will be up on stage with the Have Nots! for this nonstop hilarious freight train of funny!  This freight train jam will include invited passengers from visiting improv companies.  Working together as a team, the performers will take suggestions from the audience and run with it, creating improv scenes off the top of their heads.  Always different and always a good time!

Visit www.thehavenots.com

ELEPHANT LARRY

Hello, Charleston! You may not know this, but Elephant Larry is a five-man sketch troupe based all the way in New York City.

Since 2002, Elephant Larry has written, produced, and performed over 500 million sketch comedy shows. And over the past three years, their swift, furiously smart humor has garnered quite a bit of critical acclaim. Just check out what The New York Times said about their most recent show:

"A hilarious multimedia mix of the deadpan and the maniacal. The sketches call to mind, variously, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall and
Second City, yet they don't feel like knockoffs." - The New York Times

Visit elephantlarry.com for what promises to be the most mind-blowing, soul-changing internet experience of your lifetime.

LATE NIGHT PLAYERS

The Late Night Players: entertaining America one fast-paced, brainy, interactive sketch comedy show at a time. Each and every performance features customized material tailor-made for your event.

For more information, visit www.latenightplayers.com

LOCAL SKETCH COMEDY

This year’s Local Sketch Show brings together the talented The Bottom Line sketch comedy team and the ego of Bill Davis. For the past three years, The Bottom Line has been performing comedy “every bit as capable as the current crop of Not Ready for Primetime Players” (Charleston City Paper) as part of the extended Have Nots! family. Davis, on the other hand, has been ruminating in his parents basement, waiting for the chance to spill his filth on coeds. This hour-long show will feature scenes written and performed by TBL and some of Davis’ “friends” in rapid-fire succession, sure to leave the audience in stitches ... and Davis in leg-irons.

STAND-UP-O-RAMA

Stand-Up-O-Rama brings together a maelstrom of local comic talent. (OK, “maelstrom” is a little over-the-top.) A quasi-hit in last year’s festival, this year’s show will once again feature the comedy of 96 WAVE’s Kenny Z, The Have Nots! Caleb Usry, and Bill Davis, who is nearly as tall as he is wide. New additions to this year’s show include Dave Ugly, and a “surprise” guest comic. Be sure to wear an extra pair of underwear ... on the outside of your pants!

UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE TOUR COMPANY

...presents "Buffoons" and "4 Dudes"

Buffoons
Abbott and Costello, R2 and Threepio, Biggie and Tupac. All genius's in their own right. But what do we have that they don't? That's right, TWO fat dudes! Bobby Moynihan and Charlie Sanders perform old school sketch comedy for you to laugh at. Chubby? Yes. Funny? You bet your sweet bippie. Buffoon's? Every day of our goddamn lives.

Directed by Brian Finkelstein Featuring Eugene Cordero as a waiter.

4 Dudes
UCB style improv comedy featuring UCBTourCo members Bobby Moynihan, Eugene Cordero, Charlie Sanders and Eli Newell. You know these guys from VH1, Comedy Central, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and many other fine television shows - now's your chance to see them on stage.

"When they aren't attacking scenes with exploding fits of impatience or impromptu bombastic raps, Moynihan and Sanders play with the kind of casual confidence every comedian covets." -TimeOut NY

Bobby Moynihan is a graduate of the B.F.A. Acting program at the University of Connecticut. He has been seen in such shows as Secret Slut, The Dogs of St. Christopher, Yellow Belts, Totally Fixed Live, 9 O'Clock Shadow, Tick. Tick. Tick., Wake up with Buff Trumuscle, Sketch Cram, Hey Man, it's 420!, The UCBTour Co. Road Show, and Buffoons in Ready to Lie at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Bobby is a proud member of the UCBT house team The Stepfathers. Bobby was also a member of the harold teams, The Shoves and Police Chief Rumble. PCR won the 2003 ECNY award for best sketch group, for their work on A Piece of Bullshit Pie. Bobby has also been seen on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Word.

Charlie Sanders was raised on the mean streets of St. Paul, Minnesota. He started doing comedy at Comedy Sportz in Minnesota. Later he moved to New York where he joined the Chicago City Limits Touring Company. He has been performing and writing at UCB since 2001. You may have seen him in such shows as “Charlene Figures it All Out", "Proceed With Honor"and "Buffoons." He was a proud member of the award winning sketch and improv group Police Chief Rumble. He is a member of the UCB Touring Company and a frequent actor on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

Eugene Cordero moved to NYC to pursue acting at Marymount Manhattan College, where he recieved his BFA in 2000. He then began improvising with Comedy Sportz, Chicago City Limits, and finally the UCB Theatre. Eugene was also lucky enough to perform his one-man show, Hardheaded, at the the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. HIs UCB credits include: Gun Love, Secret Slut, Van Gogh's Path, Hi-five, Dance with Bears, Ready to Lie. Big Love to the UCB for constant support!

Eli Newell has been studying and performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since 2000. Eli can be seen at the UCB Theatre performing with his seventh UCB Harold team, Nancy Reagan. He is can also be seen at UCB and around the east coast performing with the UCB Touring Company. Past sketch shows include Tick Tick Tick, Manson Roast, Dogs of St. Christopher, Blackout!!!, NeoTokyo GirlCrush 2040, Dances with Bears and many others. Eli is most proud of his 23.5 seconds of television fame from numerous appearances on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien (as the Hunky Newcomer and others), Comedy Central’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart, VH1’s Best Week Ever, ESPN's Cheap Seats and best of all, TLC’s Date Patrol where Eli was brought in to go on a date with a goth chick undergoing a makeover. In 1995, Eli was awarded first prize in the Oregon State Thespian Conference so you know he's quality.

WHOLE WORLD THEATRE

Whole World Improv evolved from workshops and classes taught by David Webster in late 1993 and early 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia. From the many students he taught, Webster hand-picked a dozen to form the core of what would become the hottest improv group in town.

The troupe made its mark by performing improv that put more emphasis on acting, character and atmosphere than on cheap laughs and thrills. The troupe was able to take on more difficult challenges and experiment with new concepts, many of which had never been done in the world of improv before. Out of this arose a troupe of talented actors that could make a situation not only humorous but human as well.