National Touring Comedians Looking for Laughs at ArtsQuest Comedy Shows
March 8, 2023, Bethlehem, PA – ArtsQuest announces a blend of national touring comedians with lots of homegrown talent coming right here to the Lehigh Valley. If you’re looking for an evening full of laughs, check out the full list of shows.
Comedic shows include:
- Jim Norton
- Norton is a stand-up comedian, radio personality, bestselling author and actor. He is co-host of The Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show, heard daily on SiriusXM Radio. His latest stand up special, “Mouthful of Shame” is streaming on Netflix.
- Date: Friday, May 19 at 9 p.m. (Doors and Dinner 7:30 p.m.) at Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling
- Brian Posehn
- Posehn is a writer/actor/stand-up comic and has recently recorded his fourth hour-long stand-up special. He’s also co-creating and starring in an upcoming cartoon for Nickelodeon with Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman.
- Date: Friday, April 28 at 8 p.m. at Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling
- Rachel Feinstein
- Feinstein is a nationally touring comedian and actor whose acute observations create silly, sympathetic characters that relates to her audience. She’s had three Comedy Central specials, including a one-hour special “Amy Schumer Presents Rachel Feinstein.”
- Friday, April 21 at 8 p.m. (Doors and Dinner 6:30 p.m.) at Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling
- Earl David Reed
- Reed’s genius is the way he interacts with the crowd and has been hailed by the Las Vegan Review-Journal as “an urban Don Rickles.” His TV credits include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, HBO, Showtime, FOX’s Comic Strip Live, A&E’s Comedy on the Road and NBC’s Friday Night Videos.
- Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Fowler Blast Furnace Room
- Tina Friml
- Friml is a New York-based standup comedian who uses animated optimism on her own physical disability, yet fearlessly honest about the social assumptions that come with living with cerebral palsy. She’s cultivated 127K followers on Instagram and over 92.5K on TikTok. She was a 2019 New Face in the acclaimed Just For Laughs Festival.
- Friday, April 14 at 8 p.m. at Visitor Center presented by St. Luke’s University Health Network
- Zach Zimmerman
- Zimmerman is a stand-up comedian and writer who was named a USA Today Comedian to Watch, TimeOut NY Comic to Watch and has appeared on The Late Late Show. Zimmerman performs regularly at the Comedy Cellar.
- Saturday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. at Visitor Center presented by St. Luke’s University Health Network
- Glen Tickle Against The World Crime League: A Standup Special Recording
- Tickle is a comedian from New Jersey who uses humor as a defense mechanism to avoid processing his feelings. His Dry Bar Comedy special “The Favorite” has racked up well over a million views and he has million of views and likes on TikTok.
- April 22 (two shows), 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Visitor Center presented by St. Luke’s University Health Network
(Note: all shows contain adult language and/or situations. Anyone between the ages of 13 and 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. No child 12 or under will be admitted)
