Where:
City Winery Boston
80 Beverly St,
Boston, MA 02114
Admission:
$30.00
Categories:
Date Idea, Festivals & Fairs, Nightlife, Shows
City Winery Boston presents The King of Boston Comedy Steve Sweeney plus Jim McCue (Boston Comedy Festival) live on Thursday, May 18th at 8pm.
$30 Advanced / $35 Day of Show
Born in Charlestown, Steve Sweeney is a legendary Boston comedian known as a master of dialects and character voices. With his famous Boston accent and great insight into human nature, Steve is so thoroughly Bostonian that he merits his own stop on the MBTA Green Line. Steve learned his craft at the world famous Ding Ho Comedy Club, where he performed with Lenny Clarke, Denis Leary, Jay Leno, and more. He has been a featured on major television shows including David Letterman, Evening at the Improv, Comics Come Home, and Comedy Central, and starred in his own Boston-based sitcom, Park Street Under. And he has appeared in many Hollywood films such as There’s Something About Mary (1998), Me, Myself & Irene (2000), The Equalizer (2014), Sweeney Killing Sweeney (2018).
Jim McCue, the founder and director of the long-running Boston Comedy Festival, went viral with his DryBar special “Nothing Personal” which has had over four million viewers, Jim has been featured on Comedy Central, Comcast Comedy Spotlight, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, RedEye on Fox News, and Live at Gotham on AXS.
Jim has toured the globe entertaining our troops and wrote a book called Embedded Comedian describing some of his adventures. Jim started his comedy career in Boston performing with iconic comedians like Bill Burr, Joe Rogan, Patrice O'Neil, and many more.
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