Nashville comedy cats get Tennessean exposure

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on December 17th, 2004

A gang of enterprising comedians in Music City got in the face of Tennessean Senior Writer Tim Ghianni to the point where he coughed up a rather lengthy overview of the entire Nashville comedy scene.

Comedy in Nashville includes, but is not restricted to, classic stand-up stylings seen and heard most nights at Zanies on Eighth Avenue South in the city’s antiques district. The 21-year-old club has served as the Nashville home to hundreds of comedians on the comedy-club circuit. The more or less ”old reliables” such as Killer Beaz and James Gregory and the big stars such as Jackie Mason call the club their Nashville home.

There’s also mention of the NashvilleStandUp.com website, which acts as an online billboard/press kit for all the Nashville comics. We could’ve done without this crack:

If you’ve been to any big comedy club or even watched comedy on television, you pretty much know what to expect at Zanies: a guy or gal, perhaps sweating, clutching a microphone and pacing a stage that is backed by a brick wall.

“Perhaps sweating?” Yeesh. On the plus side, there is an exhaustive list of the comedy venues in town. Read the rest here.

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