A true
"comic’s comic,” Bobby Slayton, often referred to as “The Pitbull of
Comedy”, has been performing his own intense style of stand-up comedy for over
30 years, becoming one of the best known, respected, and energetic comics
working today.
Audiences
around the country may recognize Bobby from his scene-stealing roles in movies
such as “Get Shorty”, “Ed Wood”, “Bandits” and, most recently, “Dreamgirls”. He’s
been seen on dozens of television shows including “The Tonight Show” and
“Politically Incorrect”. Bobby’s many appearances on HBO have
included “Comic Relief” and his own stand-up special. He was a
series regular on the HBO series “Mind of a Married Man”, and played Joey
Bishop opposite Ray Liotta and Joe Mantegna in the critically acclaimed film
“The Rat Pack”.
Slayton’s
distinctive gravelly voice has often been heard on animated shows like “Dr.
Katz’” and “Family Guy”, as well as many popular radio shows across the country
including Howard Stern, Kevin & Bean, and Tom Leykis.
The NY
Daily News called Slayton “Armed and Dangerous” and the Las Vegas Review
Journal pointed out that “Slayton’s refusal to compromise his art has always
made him worth a special trip.”
Whether on stage or
screen, Daytime Emmy Award-winner Sherri Shepherd’s magnetic personality
and hilarious sense of humor never fails to delight audiences.
In August 2009, Sherri was a part of groundbreaking history
when the hosts of The View won the Daytime Emmy for
Outstanding Talk Show Host. That same year, Sherri and the co-hosts were chosen
as part of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time
magazine while Forbes ranked The View hosts #11 among the top “30
of the Most Influential Women in Media.”
In addition to daytime television, Sherri competed in the fourteenth season of
ABC’s wildly popular, “Dancing with the Stars.” She continues to be a memorable
player in prime time and frequently guest-starred on the Emmy award-winning
series 30 Rock as Tracy Morgan’s wife, Angie Jordan. Sherri executive
produced and starred in her own sitcom SHERRI on Lifetime and has made
laugh out loud appearances in Less than Perfect, Everybody Loves Raymond,
Joan of Arcadia, Suddenly Susan and The Jamie Foxx Show. She got
rave reviews in the lead dramatic role of Joy White in the Lifetime movie
"Abducted: the Carlina White Story" and most recently co-starred w
Katherine Heigl in "One for the Money". Additionally, she has
appeared in such feature films as the award-winning Precious based on
the novel Push by Sapphire, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Guess Who, Who’s
Your Caddy, Beauty Shop and Cellular. Sherri also had a
successful run in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit "Love,
Loss and What I Wore."
Going back to her roots in stand up, Sherri taped her first one hour comedy
special "Sherri Shepherd: It's My Time to Talk", which premiered on
the EPIX network June 21.
Sharing her passion for staying healthy, Sherri authored PLAN D: How to Lose
Weight and Beat Diabetes Even If You Don’t Have It (Harper Collins) which
debuted April 30 and hit #13 on the New York Times Best Seller List. She
is also the author of a humorous autobiography, Permission Slips:
Every Woman’s Guide to Giving Yourself a Break (Grand Central Publishing).
Knowing the heartache and joy of raising a child with special needs, Sherri has
partnered with the YAI National Institute to raise awareness for children and
adults with disabilities.
Taking her not so secret
passion for wearing wigs, Sherri recently created a high fashion wig
collection, “Luxhair Now by Sherri Shepherd™” which consists of 12 wigs in
various lengths, from short pixies to long and luscious waves, and come in 18
colors.
Sherri has an eight-year-old son, Jeffrey, and recently married Lamar Sally.
Their wedding was captured by The Style Network and “Wedding Fabulous: Sherri
Shepherd Gets Married” garnered the highest ratings for a wedding special on
the network.
With appearances on The Tonight Show, Showtime, Comedy Central, Lopez Tonight and Carson Daly, Quinn is a smart, clean and witty stand-up comic with impeccable timing. He has worked with such names as Robin Williams, Drew Carey, Tim Allen, Dane Cook, Dana Carvey, Norm McDonald, Jon Lovitz, Bill Maher, Frank Caliendo, David Alan Grier, John Witherspoon, Tommy Chong, John Pinette and Harland Williams.
Originally from Minnesota, Quinn has lived in Colorado and Arizona before settling in Los Angeles, California to pursue a career in comedy. He tours from coast to coast and has even entertained our troops as far away as Japan. Quinn’s comedy appeals to all age groups and ethnicities and he loves to talk about them all. Being married to a Mexican-American girl from east L.A., he is never short of material. However, audiences often come back just for his improvisational crowd work where he can be the most spontaneous.
Never afraid to jump in feet first, Quinn looks out for his fellow comics and actually saved another comic's life once while on the road. "I was opening for some fat guy at a casino in Nevada early in my career. He was about 30 minutes into his act when he started choking on some rock salt from a shot of tequila. The room was packed with about 500 people and they thought it was a joke at first. Then he came backstage pointing to his throat. No one else knew the Heimlich so I gave it a try. I could barely get my arms around him because he was so big but it finally came up. He told me I saved his life but I just did what any hero would do."
Quinn is currently developing a sit-com based on his life and looks forward to using the silver screen to further build his fan base.
Donnell
Rawlings is an overnight success a decade in the making. You’ve seen him on
Comedy Central’s
award winning and critically celebrated Chappelle’s Show as
‘Ashy Larry’, the 70’s jheri curled ‘Beautiful’, and numerous other characters
he’s played. Donnell is the franchise player Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan
wanted as a writer and prime time player on their team. Since Dave Chappelle
had business to take care of in Africa, Donnell was asked to step into the huge
shoes Dave left behind, and host the Lost Episodes. “Hilarious” is what Linda
Stasi of The New York Post calls Donnell’s performance as host.
His
unique brand of observational humor earned Donnell co-hosting duties On Power
105’s (NY’s #1 Hip Hop and R&B radio station) morning show “Egypt and Ashy
in the Morning”. He is now co-hosting “The Big Tigger Morning Show” on WPGC in
Washington DC. Currently, Donnell can be seen regularly on E!’s hit show
“Chelsea Lately,” MTV’s new show “Hatin.’”. His new 1 Hour Stand-Up “Ashy to
Classy” premiered on Comedy Central October 23, 2010 is also available in
stores on DVD. He also enjoyed reprising his character of Day-Day Price on
HBO’s Emmy-Award winning series “The Wire” during a 3-episode arc, during the
show’s final season (2007- 2008). In 2007, Donnell co-created and starred in
Heavy.com’s hit web series “From Ashy to Classy”, in which Donnell portrays the
loveable yet clueless culture critic, Ashford Lawrence. The series was picked
up for a second round of episodes and remains one of Heavy.com most popular
shows. Additionally, Donnell has starred in “Reality Bites Back” for Comedy
Central and tours heavily with his stand up dates.
Donnell has
performed his intelligently bold stand-up throughout the U.S., Europe, and the
Caribbean. He has appeared on award winning Law & Order series, Special
Victims Unit (SVU) and Criminal Intent (CI) and has also appeared on NBC’s
Third Watch and the Emmy award winning HBO Special: The Corner. Growing up,
this Washington, D.C. native used humor as a means of persuasion with the
ladies and whipped out his wicked wit as a weapon of mass destruction in verbal
battle. While in the Air Force, Donnell’s wordplay shotdown more military
personnel than the G.I. issued arms. When Donnell returned to the States and
settled into civilian life, he decided to check out the local comedy scene in
D.C. He quickly became the “official heckler” as he ate comedians alive from
the audience.
Tim Wilson, an American
stand-up comedian and country music artist, from Columbus, Georgia is coming to
perform at the Stardome Comedy Club Feb. 28 thru March 1. His act combines
stand-up comedy and original songs. He has released more than a dozen comedy
albums, including several for Capitol Records Nashville, and has made frequent
appearances on the John Boy and Billy, Big D and Bubba and Bob
and Tom Show. Wilson has also appeared on numerous television programs
including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and American Revolution Country Comedy
on CMT; in 1990, he
also teamed with the duo of Pinkard & Bowden to write the song "Arab,
Alabama," and its success convinced him to include music in his standup
act.
In addition to a series of LPs for the independent
Southern Tracks label, including Tough Crowd, Waking Up the Neighborhood,
Low-Class Love Affair, and Tuned Up, Wilson scored a hit single with his
"Garth Brooks Ruined My Life," also co-writing Jeff Foxworthy's smash
"The Redneck Twelve Days of Christmas." Upon signing to Capitol, he
released his major-label debut, It's a Sorry World, in early 1999; Gettin' My
Mind Right followed later that same year. In 2000 he issued Hillbilly Homeboy, which was helped by the success of its
first single, "The Ballad of John Rocker," and waited three years to
follow it up with his first funk concept album, Super Bad Sounds of the '70s. In 2011,
Wilson appeared on CMT's Ron White's Comedy Salute to the Troops along with
White, Lewis Black, Kathleen Madigan, Vic Henley, Alex Reymundo and Robert
Hawkins. In 2012, Wilson appears on the Showtime Comedy Special, Billy
Gardell's: Road Dogs with Billy Gardell hosting along with comedians Ben Creed
and Kenny Rogerson.Wilson
also produced the show's musical theme, "Back Home to You" by
guitarist Scotty Bratcher.
Wendy Liebman has a very unique brand of humor that sets her apart from all other comedians. Her distinctive style includes quick, clever follow-ups after her jokes. She has been a regular on late night television including Carson, Fallon, Letterman, Kimmel, Ferguson and Leno. She has done half hour specials for HBO and Comedy Central, and her first hour long special, Wendy Liebman Taller on TV premiered on Showtime in 2011.
Wendy has been in two documentaries, The Aristocrats and The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story, and has also been featured on Larry Sanders, Women of the Night, Comic Relief VII, The Roseanne Show, Pulp Comics, 100 Worst Fashion Mistakes, The New Hollywood Squares and many more. She has received the American Comedy Award for “Best Female Comedian.”
John Caparulo, known to many as "Cap," got his first big breaks appearing at the 2003 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal,where he was offered a sitcom, and on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.
He has since appeared on The Tonight Show,was featured on Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Next Generation hosted by Bill Engvall,and was one of the comedians documented on Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Tour. He hosted Mobile Home Disaster on CMT, and played the part of 'Brian' on the short-lived ABC sitcom "Work It." He also has a comedy special that aired on Comedy Central on December 21, 2008 called "John Caparulo: Meet Cap" which was directed by Dave Higby. The special was released on CD on February 10, 2009 and on DVD on April 14, 2009.
Cap intermittently hosts "The Mad Cap Hour" radio show with his wife Jamie Caparulo, and comedian Mark Ellis on Sirius XM, toadhopnetwork.com, and iTunes. Although he is currently touring nationally, he also regularly appears on the E! show Chelsea Lately, and voices the character of 'Headphone Joe' on Disney's "Fish Hooks." Cap released his second album titled "Come Inside Me' in August, 2013.
