LAUGH! IT’S JUST JOKES:
Cancel This Comedy Tour Comes to the Paramount Theatre
Featuring Alonzo Bodden, Tammy Pescatelli & Mitch Fatel
The Cancel This Comedy Tour will come to the Paramount Theatre in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Saturday, July 17th . Tickets are just $30 and are on-sale now through CREventsLive.com or the Paramount Theatre ticket office.
Cancel This Comedy Tour
This tour aims to bring back the number one and seemingly forgotten rule of comedy, be funny!
It isn’t about the left or the right. It’s not about politics or religion. These talented, veteran comedians aren’t saving the planet- they’re saving your sanity with good old fashion laughter!
Bringing audiences around the world back to a day when comedy was comedy and comedians didn’t have to worry about being absurdly politically correct. Laughter and common-sense reign, and the only thing canceled is your trip to the bathroom, because you won’t want to miss a single, hilarious moment of this show!
Starring nationally touring comedians, with TV & movie credits at every tour stop, these comics will leave you roaring with laughter and crying for more!
The tour is only part of the package with a book and a comedy special in the works supporting the comedy tour. Catch Cancel This Comedy Tour in a city near you.
ALONZO BODDEN
A regular panel member on NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me, Alonzo Bodden has been making audiences around the country laugh for more than 20 years.
In his stand-up special, Heavy Lightweight, which streams on Amazon Prime Video, he goes from heavy topics like slavery, politics, and the #MeToo movement, to lightweight topics such as millennials, yoga pants and Taco Bell. some topics you cant categorize like Kanye West. As he says, “he likes to mix it up and hopes that audiences will join him for a laugh and a think, or two.”
His first big comedy break came when he was on the “New Faces of Comedy” showcase at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, but it was as the season three winner of NBCʼs Last Comic Standing, where Alonzo was first introduced to America.
Since then, he has starred in two comedy specials for Showtime: Historically Incorrect and Who’s Paying Attention. He’s also made appearances on ABC’s Dr. Ken and Fresh Off the Boat, Dr. Phil, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central's The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and Californication.
He hosted the live touring version of Family Fued, the Just For Laughs comedy awards show, Just For Laughs Bermuda along with numerous charity fundraisers . He’s the resident comic for the LA Press Club Dinners
A car and motorcycle aficionado, Bodden hosted Speed Channel’s 101 Cars You Must Drive and America’s Worst Driver on the Travel Channel, and has joined Jay Leno for several trips on his CNBC series Leno’s Garage. He was also a field correspondent on Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson, and a contributor on the Science Channel’s How to Build Everything.
Alonzo ha released his fifth comedy CD titled Man Overboard, and currently hosts the podcast Who's Paying Attention? where he gives his unique take on what's going on in the world.
TAMMY PESCATELLI
Tammy Pescatelli brings brassy sexiness with a bold voice of witty sarcasm to her audiences, holding her own on topics of sports, television, dating, and family life using tongue in cheek humor.
“Tammy Pescatelli’s: Way After School Special”, her new special, is a highly anticipated follow up to Tammy’s award winning one hour Netflix special “Finding the Funny”.
Recently she had a guest star role on “Blue Bloods” 2021.
She won Comedy Central's Stand-Up Showdown (2010) and was a finalist on the second and third seasons of Last Comic Standing (2003). She has performed on talk shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Talk, and The View. She has also been a guest a number of times on the syndicated show Comics Unleashed (2006), and was chosen for their "Best of the Best" worldwide top selling DVD.
Tammy star in the reality television show on WEtv, called A Stand Up Mother (2011), she also co-created, executive produced and wrote it, which related to her life as a mother, wife and comedian.
In 2014, she was chosen by Jenny McCarthy to be part of her Jenny McCarthy's Dirty Sexy Funny (2014) comedy special on EPIX
Tammy has also been a regular co-host on Jenny McCarthy's SiriusXM radio show, "Dirty, Sexy, Funny," as well as appearing on the 'Howard Stern' and Artie Lange radio shows.
MITCH FATEL
Is that a sparkle in his eye or is he just confused? With his innocence and friendly demeanor, Mitch quickly engages the audience and then catches them off guard with a mixture of mischievous dialog and off color comments. While laughing at observations only Mitch can get away with, we are left wondering if he truly understands what he just said. We never really know.
Mitch has been showcasing his talent to rave reviews for 30 years now. His resume, too extensive to list in its entirety includes 2 Comedy Central specials (one of which was voted #6 all time by viewers) and 3 best-selling CD's. He has appeared on almost every Late Night Comedy Show and took home honors as the Best Comedian at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2021 his new 1 hour special Bad-Girls will be released and will change the comedy world as we know it.