Jeff Foxworthy set for Poughkeepsie because you might be a redneck

Popular blue-collar comedian Jeff Foxworthy will be performing live at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center on March 26 for two shows at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.


The hos of "Are Your Smarter Than A 5th Grader." starred in “Big Night Out,” “Blue Collar TV" and is smarter than a fifth grader.

Tickets go on sale on Oct, 1 at 10 a.m. and are available at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, charge-by-phone 1-800-745-3000 or go online to www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are $36.50, $44.50, and $59.50, reserved seating for both shows.

For more information, call (845) 454-5800, extension 201.

The center says Foxworthy has "a style that has been compared to Mark Twain’s.”

As in, "his style of humor is nothing like Mark Twain's."

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Obama the comedian

Highlights of President Barack Obama's speech from Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner:

* "Good evening. Pause for laughter."

* “I’m Barack Obama. Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me.”

* "Sasha and Malia aren't here tonight because they're grounded. You can't just take Air Force One on a joyride to Manhattan. I don't care whose kids you are."

* About White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel: "He's not used to saying the word 'day' after 'mother.'"

* About chairman of Republican National Committee: "Michael Steele is in the house tonight. Or as he would say, 'In the heezy.' What's up?"

* "Michael for the last time, the Republican Party does not qualify for a bailout. Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset, I'm sorry."

* About former vice president Dick Cheney, who's writing a memoir "tentatively titled, 'How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People.'"


* About former rival and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: "These days, we could not be closer. In fact the second she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug and gave me a big kiss, told me I better get down there myself."

There are plenty more:

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The Twitter hash tags are #WHCD, #WHCA and, more appropriately, #nerdprom.

Potty humor and UPAC, part II

George Carlin's March 16 performance at 7 p.m. at the Ulster Performing Arts Center has been confirmed.

For more information, visit UPAC's Web site, which will send you to George Carlin's Web site, which will send you to Ticketmaster's Web site, which won't have any information available until Friday at 11 p.m., when tickets go on sale.

Bardavon/UPAC members get to buy their tickets Thursday at 11 a.m.

Holy xxxx!

The man whose comedy routine somehow ended up in the Supreme Court (FCC v. Pacifica Foundation) because of "seven dirty words" -- sxxx, pxxx, fxxx, cxxx, cxxxxxxxxx, mxxxxxxxxxxx and txxx -- is coming to Kingston.

George Carlin will perform at the Ulster Performing Arts Center on Broadway in Kingston on March 16 at 7 p.m., according to his Web site.

I have no idea where you can get tickets at this point. UPAC has not announced it yet, though I received the tip from Chris Silva, executive director of the Bardavon, which runs the Broadway venue. So information will be surfacing soon.

Call UPAC, (845) 339-6088 and ask them what's up.

We certainly will do that, and will keep you posted.

Tater Salad!

Comedian Ron White is coming to Kingston's Ulster Performing Arts Center in early May.
Tickets go on sale Jan. 25.
The Freeman has the details.

More information is NOT available on White's Web site, http://www.tatersalad.com/, which is totally outdated.

For instance, in "What's New," White touts the time he spent with troops in Germany and Belgium.

On Thanksgiving.
In 2005.

But that's OK. He's probably drunk.

"In public."

Here's a clip of White talking abour hurricanes and the death penalty.

More funny stuff

Saturday Night Live's "Goat Boy" ("Remember the '80s?") comedian Jim Breuer, known in New Paltz as a character in Dave Chappelle's "Half Baked," is coming to (where else?) SUNY New Paltz on April 13 at 8 p.m.

He's asking college students to send him pictures, since he's documenting the whole tour.

Details are available at http://www.jimbreuer.com/SUNYNewPaltz/.

He's also on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jimbreuer

Funny stuff

Raunchy comedian Jim Norton is coming to Bananas Comedy Club in Poughkeepsie in early February for four shows.
He has appeared on his own Comedy Central special, HBO’s “Monster Rain”, and in radio's Opie & Anthony (you get the idea).

He's playing the venue at the Holiday Inn on Route 9 on Feb. 8 at 8 and 11 p.m. and Feb. 9 at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Tickets are hot and $25.

If you dare, here's a clip.



Norton also was a character on HBO's "Lucky Louie," the network's first traditional sitcom (with cursing, since it's HBO).
Useless trivia: The main character of the defunct sitcom is comedian and writer Louis C.K., who hides in Hudson.

Oh, yeah. Norton's Web site, appropriately, is http://www.eatabullet.com/
More goodies are available on his page on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jimnorton