Thursday, January 26, 2012
• VOL. LX NO. 4
Acknowledged by peers and press alike as one of the premier political satirists in the country, Will Durst has patched together a comedy quilt of a career, weaving together columns, books, radio and television commentaries, acting, voice overs and most especially, stand up comedy, into a hilarious patchwork of outraged and outrageous common sense. His abiding motto is “You can’t make stuff up like this." The New York Times calls him "possibly the best political comic in the country." Fox News agrees "he's a great political satirist," while the Oregonian hails him as a “hilarious stand-up journalist.” This former radio talk host, oyster shucker, and margarine smuggler currently writes a nationally syndicated humor column, and his scribblings have appeared in Esquire, George, the San Francisco Chronicle, National Lampoon, The New York Times and scads of other periodicals.
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The All-American Sport
of Bipartisan Bashing
of Bipartisan Bashing
“Side-splittingly funny! Durst is a brilliant racounteur and an astute political philosopher.
There is some Will Rogers there, Lewis Black’s uninhibited rage, Mort Sahl’s electric speed chatter and Lenny Bruce’s wisdom mixed with cynicism. But he is an original for today.
Treat yourself to Will Durst: The All American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing!”
Available at Amazon
Available at Amazon
January 25-29
The Improv at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Casino
18 Highway 50
Lake Tahoe, NV
800-HARVEYS
Lake Tahoe, NV
800-HARVEYS
February 2
*Will Travis Tribute
Ferry Building
San Francisco
San Francisco
February 2
Punch Line, Sacramento
2100 Arden Way
Suite 225
Sacramento, CA
916.925.5500
Suite 225
Sacramento, CA
916.925.5500
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 14
February 21
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
February 25-27
Rrazz Room
with Dick Gregory
with Dick Gregory
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA
415.394.1189
San Francisco, CA
415.394.1189
February 28
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
415.282.3055
What You Need to Play:• 4 taxpayers: 1 white Wall Street type in full suit and yellow power tie, (MBA Guy) 2 ordinary folks sporting jeans, 1 in blue work shirt, other in white shirt, (the Jeans) and 1 person wearing clothes that look like they were used for floor covering at a tire changing shop for a minimum of three months. Belt, shoelaces, socks and underwear confiscated. (Rags) Except for MBA Guy, game is non- gender or race specific.
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• 1 regulation shot glass per person. Everybody brings own, placing it on coffee table. MBA Guy gets first choice among assembled. White shirt picks next, then blue shirt. MBA Guy takes last shot glass as well, and Rags either rents it from him, finds a replacement or drinks out of own cupped hands.
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• Everybody antes up 20 bucks. Cash. Except MBA Guy, who tosses in hand made voucher. Preferably crayon.
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• 2 packages Lit'l Smokies in bowl with favorite BBQ sauce.
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• 1 package round toothpicks.
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• 1 bottle small batch Kentucky bourbon.
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• 2 six packs beer apiece. Rags gets whatever is on sale, ie; Heileman's Old Style Ice Dry Light.
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• MBA Guy gets choice of import. The Jeans get domestic, and must go to store to purchase and carry provisions.
Tuesdays in 2012 @ the Marsh
Elect to Laugh!
With Will Durst and Friends
A hysterical hybrid chasing down the presidential election cycle like white on rice with material as up to date as the latest tweet from DC. It blends monologues and commentary 
and perhaps the occasional rant. The show’s intent is to blur the traditional boundaries between stand-up comedy and theater. Through innovation, experimentation and a ravenous appetite for accessing the topical via the jugular, Durst and Company are out to prove that jokes are not the enemy. Elect to Laugh! will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable by hitting them where it hurts the funniest as it weaves its humorous way through the primaries, the debates, the ads, the mud, the spin, the tears, the flip-flopping, the flop-flipping, the pancake flipping, and the pancaked aspirations, once a week until election day, November 6, which co-incidentally happens to be a Tuesday.
