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On May 2, we’ll be hosting comedy legend Eddie Brill and his son Dan Madonia (who is also an awesome comedy in his own right). Dan and Eddie are well known to us from the Catskills Comedy Festival, and we have high expectations for this night of laughs.
Eddie is also teaching two comedy writing workshops on May 1 and 2. This one-day, 5-hour intensive is designed for existing stand-up comedians to perform their set, ask questions, collaborate, and receive feedback from Eddie. Reservations are available.
Eddie Brill is a legendary stand-up comedian and comedy booker, as well as a supporter of the Catskills Comedy Festival. In addition to performing in 46 of the 50 states in the US, Eddie Brill has also done stand-up in England, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, France, Holland, Dhaka and Hong Kong. For seventeen years, he worked on The Late Show with David Letterman. He served as the audience warm-up and for eleven of those years he was the Stand Up Comedy Talent Coordinator.
Eddie has taped more than 100 TV shows in six different countries, including ten appearances on The Late Show and on an Emmy nominated episode of the FX hit series, “Louie.” A 3-time MAC award winner for Outstanding Male Comic in NYC, he has hosted and performed for hundreds of corporate events, including ESPN, Glaxo Welcome, Hyatt Hotels and BMC Software. He performed on some of the greatest stages in the world including The Shrine Auditorium and Radio City Music Hall. He has been the audience warm-up for many shows including the “Dana Carvey Show,” “Madigan Men,” “This is Your Life” and for a short time, early episodes of “Saved By The Bell.”
He has appeared in films as an actor, including “30 Years To Life” with Tracy Morgan, and has used his voice talents in animated series including Comedy Central’s “Dr Katz” and ABC’s “Science Court.” Eddie produces and helps book stand-up talent all over the world. He was the architect and, for the first ten years, the creative director of the “Great American Comedy Festival,” which honors Johnny Carson in his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska. He assisted in booking US acts for the international TV show “The World Stands Up,” and ran the Paper Moon comedy club in NYC.
Along with Norman Lear in 1978, he helped create one of the first college comedy writing departments in the country at Emerson College in Boston and helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop (founded in 1976). He currently teaches a stand-up comedy workshop worldwide and is often called upon to help punch up film and comedy scripts. Eddie hosts, performs and helps raise money for many benefits including The Roberto Clemente Foundation, The David Ortiz Children’s Fund, Sisters in Survival, Juvenile Diabetes, The American Cancer Association, and Stand-Up for the Children with Reader’s Digest and St. Jude.
Dan Madonia is a Los Angeles-based standup comedian, actor and writer. Raised in upstate New York, Dan moved to Hollywood at a young age and has been performing to extremely diverse audiences at a wide array of venues and festivals around the country. Madonia has been featured on the SyFy Network and in High Times Magazine, and performs regularly for the Wounded Warriors Project.
Madonia’s background in music has led to him opening for bands like Los Lonely Boys, Lynard Skynard, and Twisted Sister. His comedy has gotten him invited to perform at the Woodstock Comedy Festival, The Catskills Comedy Festival, The Los Angeles Scripted Comedy Festival and the Republic of Texas Motorcycle Rally. Drawing from his own life experiences, he not only makes the masses laugh, he makes them think.