Tuesday Night Live Comedy! is recognized as one of Bay Area’s best stand-up comedy showcases. Each week renowned comedians from all around the world as well as today’s hottest up-and-coming comedy stars hit the stage for a hilarious night of live stand-up. Come get your laugh on!
Tonight’s epic line-up features Allan Havey, Sampson McCormick, Cory Michaelis, Steph Sanders, Wendy Lewis and host Dave Nihill!
THE COMEDIANS
Allan Havey
Allan Havey is considered one of the best stand-ups working today and he is an accomplished actor, recently starring in eleven episodes of AMC’S highly acclaimed Mad Men as character Lou Avery. Allan recently guest-starred in Man in the High Castle on Amazon, and is featured in the 2016 Coen Brothers film, Hail Caesar! Allan’s other TV credits include 10 appearances on Late Night With David Letterman, as well as Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Up All Night, The Sarah Silverman Program, Men of a Certain Age and The Office. He also guest-starred on the Emmy Award winning show “Louie.” Allan’s standup has been represented at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, the Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland, the Aspen Comedy Festival, Comic Relief IV and V, and the New York Comedy Festival. He has toured Australia and Europe, and currently headlines in clubs and colleges across the U.S.
Sampson McCormick
Sampson McCormick is a popular award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, activist, and filmmaker. McCormick has worked alongside notable acts such as Patti LaBelle, Angela Bassett, Bruce Vilanch, Paul Mooney, Thea Vidale, Luenell, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, and Adele Givens. He connects with audiences through his amusing take on our maddening world, and he uses humor to speak out about the perils of growing up Black and gay in America. McCormick’s hit comedy shows, “Don’t Make Me Take Off My Earrings,” “No Tea, No Shade,” and “That B**** Better Be Funny!” (a finalist for a Grammy nomination) have riveted audiences, and brought him great acclaim for his refreshing, bold, intelligent, and honest humor. McCormick has been featured in several print publications, including “The Washington Examiner,” “MetroWeekly,” the “Washington Blade,” “SWERV,” “Frontiers,” “Truth Magazine,” the “Washington Post,” “Out” “Bay Area Reporter,” and “East Bay Express.” He’s appeared on MTV, BET, VH1 and the OWN network.
Dave Nihill (Host)
Leaving Dublin, Ireland where he was born and raised until the age of 22, Dave got drunk on travel and never quite hit sobriety of it. He has lived and worked in twelve countries and visited over seventy. His shows draw on his wide travels, cultural observations, attempts at language study, (occasional) international drinking session(s) and being a mildly confused immigrant in the US. Dave is the winner of the prestigious 43rd annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, and runner up in the Moth’s largest US Grandslam storytelling competition. A festival favourite Dave was part of the Irish Kings of Comedy Tour, San Francisco Sketchfest, SLO Comedy Festival, Desi Fest, the Kansas City Irish Festival, the Westside Standup Showdown Festival, the Ventura Comedy Festival, the Wine Country Comedy Festival, the Santa Cruz Comedy Festival, and the Dalkey, Listowel, Los Gatos, Hinterland and Belfast writers festivals.
Cory Michaelis
Cory Michaelis has opened for and been mentored by Louie Anderson who helped him record a 45-minute squeaky-clean comedy special “Bad Teacher”. Additionally, his first album “The Collage Dropout” (45 minutes of not-quite-as-clean material) was released June 19th, 2018 on 800 Pound Gorilla Records and reached #2 on the Billboard Chart and iTunes charts. Cory is a regular headliner in all of the clubs in the Pacific Northwest, opener at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, and has headlined many fine and not-so-fine comedy clubs, casinos, colleges, and weird bars all over the country. He was invited to the NOHO Comedy Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon, the Limestone Comedy Festival in Bloomington, Indiana, and headlined the Idaho Laugh Fest in Boise. Cory was also a finalist in the Seattle International Comedy Competition. Louie says Cory is “too mean to Roze” – come see what he’s talking aboust.
Steph Sanders
Steph Sanders was born in Dayton, Ohio. He got his start as a child, and was in his first theater troupe when he was four years old. Steph has been performing all of his life and has many talents. He is a accomplished dancer trained in jazz, contemporary, modern, and hip-hop dances. Steph is also musically talented, he can play thirteen brass instruments, his favorite being the trumpet. Steph is a professional comedian and actor and has been featured in film, television, and on the stage. He earned degrees in History and Math, yet his love has always been performing. Stand-up Comedy gave him his start in television/films, however he has been performing in professional plays since 1996.
Wendy Lewis
Just five years into her stand up career, Wendy Lewis may be a late-blooming comedian but her talent is undeniable. Wendy can entertain audiences like the best of them. The Sacramento News & Review says she “should be a household name around town and maybe soon will be.” Since 2016, Wendy has co-produced Sacramento’s monthly comedy series, Comedy Burger, alongside fellow comic and SN&R columnist Ngaio Bealum. Wendy also co-hosts the podcast Fat Chicks On Top and hosts a weekly open-mic every Friday at Vince’s Ristorante in West Sacramento. She used to be the featured comic for the Darling Clementines burlesque troupe.
