John Oliver at the Colonial
Standup Guy Appears August 14
By: Uriah Pennington - Jul 28, 2010
John Oliver will be at the Colonial on August 14 at 8PM. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.thecolonialtheatre.org.
John Oliver has been a writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since 2006. As a result of his popularity on The Daily Show, Comedy Central asked John to write and star in his own one hour stand-up special, Terrifying Times, which premiered in April 2008 and was subsequently released on DVD. In 2008 John starred in the Mike Myer’s movie, The Love Guru and is currently appearing in a recurring role in the NBC series, Community.
John is currently hosting his own six episode series for Comedy Central, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show, where John will perform stand-up along with some of his favorite comedians. John has had multiple Writers Guild and Emmy Nomination for his writing on The Daily Show and in 2009 won the Emmy Award for Best Comedy Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series. John Oliver will be playing Vanity Smurf in the upcoming Smurfs movie.
Alongside long term writing partner Andy Zaltzman, John co-writes and stars in The Bugle; an ongoing series of satirical news podcasts, in association with The Times newspaper. Along with Andy Zaltzman, John has co-written and hosted the BBC Radio 4 show Political Animal. Based on their satirical live stand up show, a third series was broadcast in 2009. John has additionally written and starred in three series’ of The Department (BBC Radio 4) alongside Chris Addison and Zaltzman.
Further credits include Mock the Week (BBC Radio 2), Bremner, Bird & Fortune (Channel 4), The Last Word (More 4); Green Wing (Channel 4), Chambers (BBC 1), People Like Us (BBC 1) and the Ardal O’Hanlon sitcom My Hero (BBC 1), Love Guru (Paramount Films), Important Things with Demetri Martins’ (Comedy Central). John also regularly performs his stand-up comedy act at colleges and comedy venues throughout the United States .
“Wildly funny.”– The Telegraph.
“A wonderfully intelligent comic.” –Evening Standard
“Comedy for smart people”–The Sunday Times
“John Oliver is a smart, irrepressibly fun comic who works well with a crowd, even when self-conscious because unknown somebodies hyped him full of worry... And there’s always the bonus of the lovely accent.”
–NashvilleStandUp.com
“Oliver is a master storyteller, stringing jokes together so tightly that not a syllable falls out of place.”
–The Onion
Tickets for the performance are $45 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.thecolonialtheatre.org.