Comedy Works Celebration

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on September 27th, 2004


Above, left to right: SHECKYmagazine.com Editor BRIAN MCKIM, Mixed Nuts member REX MORGAN, PATTY WALL MORGAN (The person who, in 1981, persuaded McKim to try an open mike at the Comedy Works in Philadelphia)

We went to a party on Sunday, thrown by current Comedy Works (Bristol, PA) club owner Joy Little, in Bensalem, PA. It was to celebrate 25 years of comedy under the Comedy Works banner.


Left to right: JOE BUBLEWICZ, Donna Stankiewicz, PAUL LYONS, CHRIS RICH, MIKE STANKIEWICZ laugh uproariously because the pointy ass of the photographer (Brian McKim) obliterated the lid of the giant Styrofoam cooler upon which he sat to take picture

Among the nifty features of the party were a pig (a real pig, not just a woman with loose morals), a phone call from Todd Glass, and an emailed message to the assembled from Comedy Works founder Steve Young.


Philadelphia comedy Founding Father BARNEY WEISS (he ran Goin’ Bananas, the world’s only brown comedy club) and VINCE DANTONA (without his wooden buddy George)

The Comedy Works was one of the three major comedy clubs in Philadelphia in the early 1980s. On the third floor above the Middle East Restaurant, the club specialized in headliners, mainly from New York, with television credits, and gave Philadelphia comedy fans their first live look at such comedy giants as Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno. Their Wednesday night open mike show was the incubator for Todd Glass, Wayne Cotter, Ralph Harris and Brian McKim, among many others.


THE LEGENDARY WID (Left) with Mixed Nuts member SAM DOMSKY

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