Modified On April 17, 2009
Way back in November, when The Male Half did a couple sets at the Comedy Factory Outlet Reunion Shows, up on The Boulevard, we had the pleasure of meeting Robyn McCloskey, columnist for the Northeast Times. (Actually, she columnizes for a gaggle of community papers that are now under the umbrella of the Inquirer. We still refer to her home rag as the Northeast Times!)
She vowed to interview us and make us the subject of a future column and, whaddya know– We’re immortalized in the most recent issue (dated April 16) which hit the streets of greater Philadelphia today!
Last November my friend Clay Heery, former owner of Philadelphia’s well-known but now-defunct Comedy Factory Outlet, invited me and my husband Chris to a CFO reunion that he was putting together for Thanksgiving weekend.
It featured performances by Chris Rush, Terry Gillespie, John DeBella and Clay Heery himself, whom you might remember as Captain Cranky, part of WMMR’s Morning Zoo program.
Chris and I are huge fans of standup comedy. We enjoyed the show as well as our night out on the town. But what we mostly enjoyed was meeting the comics who performed that night.
Among my favorites were Pennsauken, N.J., native and Temple grad Brian McKim, a taller and thinner version of Drew Carey, and his adorable wife, Philly’s own Traci Skene, who enjoys her own comedy career.
What follows is about as accurate and upbeat a profile as any we have enjoyed in any publication. We’re hoping it will drive folks to see us at the Comedy Works in Bristol, PA, when we do two shows there April 24-25!