Boston Phoenix readers choose Mottley's

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 16th, 2009

We’re headed to Boston Friday, where we’ll make our triumphant return for one show that night and another show Saturday night at Mottley’s. It will be the first time performing inside Boston City Limits in quite some time. (Does Dorchester count? We had a blast at Ed Regal’s Emerald Isle about four years ago… the judges say Dorchester is not within city limits.)

The town’s been going through a transition, a re-shuffling of its venues. Bill Blumenreich pulled his Comedy Connection club out of Faneuil Hall back in August and opened up a gargantuan venue at the Wilbur Theater. At about the same time, it was announced that Mottley’s would open (which it did, in September) in that very same Faneuil Hall, but in a much smaller venue.

Now, the Boston Phoenix has determined that Mottley’s is Boston’s Best Comedy Club in a Readers Poll.

Owned by two comedians and one business guy (so it’s only two-thirds rooted in fucked-up childhoods and self-hatred), Mottley’s attracts both major players on the national comedy scene and local chuckleheads who are on the verge of breaking into the big time.

That is soooo funny!

Congratulations to proprietors Jeff Fairbanks (the business guy) and Jon Lincoln and Tim McIntire (the ones with the fucked-up childhoods who hate themselves).

We look forward to two packed houses. (We have reason to hope because– 1. The venue is… “intimate!” and 2. We’re getting a hit in the Phoenix and, as is obvious, that publication is influential and its readers are standup fans.) Also appearing on the bill will be local chucklehead Chris Pennie.

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