Stand Up and Sit Down Comedian Ritch Shydner
Stand Up / Sit Down
Comedian RITCH SHYDNER
$40 Public | $30 Members
A staple of the late-night comedy scene in the 80s, Ritch Shydner has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, and had his own HBO comedy special, One Night Stand.
He also appeared in numerous TV series and films, playing Al Bundy’s co-worker on Married with Children, he also appeared on Roseanne & Designing Women. Ritch was able to translate his modest success on TV into a film career, appearing in Steve Martin’s Roxanne and Eddie Murphy's, Beverly Hills Cop II. He was also a writer on many other TV comedy series including Roseanne, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, and HBO’s The Mind of the Married Man.
In 2006 he was co-author of a book on stand-up, “I Killed”. In 2010 Ritch produced and performed in an award-winning documentary on the world of stand-up comedy, “I Am Comic.” In 2016 he wrote a movie adaptation for HBO of Bill Maher's book, "True Story". In 2017 his book, "Kicking Through the Ashes - My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980's Comedy Boom” was published.
Ritch is currently performing the outrageously funny and mesmerizing, America’s Reflection in the Funhouse Mirror, A History of Stand-up Comedy.
Our Host Steven Taub is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker whose body of work includes ‘Laugh a Day.’ In this film he interviewed comedy legends Robert Klein, David Brenner, Richard Belzer and Dom Irrera. Steven has produced and written comedy for numerous forms of media. As a filmmaker he has interviewed dozens of people with various backgrounds comfortably unearthing their stories, passions and intellect. Now, Steven brings his vast interviewing experience to the Cinema Arts audience with the live program “Stand-Up/Sit-Down” wherein he will book Comedy Club headliners for performance and then interview them. Getting to know the comedian you just saw will enhance your evening tremendously. Every comedian has fascinating and fun stories. Steven will ask the pertinent questions that will bring their stories to light.
