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Comedy Industries - Trade Show Presentations
Comedy Industries creates the funniest and
the strangest trade show, training session, and sales meeting presentations
you have ever seen. They're also one of the most popular acts around
for company parties and after dinner shows. If you've seen a guy trying to escape from
a straitjacket, while riding a seven foot unicycle, all while explaining
the features of a new line of workstations, that's Comedy Industries.
If you've seen a woman balanced on a teeterboard
five feet in the air, juggling knives over a salesman's body, telling
you how that company's sales force will do anything it takes to get your
business, that's Comedy Industries. If you've seen someone catch a fork in the
apple that he's holding in his mouth, while blindfolded, describing the
risks and benefits of a new type of eye surgery, in Spanish, that's Comedy
Industries. Comedy Industries specializes in writing and
performing customized presentations for trade shows, product rollouts,
and other corporate events. Whether they're working solo or as a duo,
Comedy Industries will incorporate a company's marketing and technology
messages with jokes, juggling tricks, and audience participation. This
combination gathers huge crowds on trade show floors and makes sure that
people stay, listen, and remember their client's messages. These presentations
have proven extremely effective at training sessions and sales meetings.
They make even the driest technical material fun. In
addition to informational presentations, Comedy Industries also performs
for after dinner shows and company parties.
They've been featured in comedy clubs and casinos all over the world.
You've seen them on comedy shows on HBC, Showtime, and MTV. Last year Comedy Industries performed over
400 presentations and stage shows. They have appeared juggling chainsaws,
riding unicycles, and eating fire in commercials for GTE Wireless, Levi's
Jeans, and Volvo. They have created custom presentations for some of
the most successful companies in the country. Their client list boasts
technology companies including Hp, Microsoft and IBM; medical companies
like P&G, Johnson & Johnson, and Pharrnacia & Upjohn;
auto makers Ford, Toyota, and Volkswagen; and consumer goods giants Anheuser-Busch,
Chevron, and Kraft Foods.
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Scott
Meltzer
Scott Meltzer is the head writer
for Comedy Industries. He has degrees in math and computer
science from U. C. Berkeley where he graduated with honors.
An ex-IBMer and a Watson Scholar, he chooses to spend his
time writing comedy and juggling knives on a six-foot unicycle.
He has escaped from more straitjackets than any other computer
programmer in the world.
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Rich
Ross
Rich Ross and Scott Meltzer formed
Monkey Wrench - The Comedy Explosion in 1991. Together they
toured the country for five years, performing over 200 dates
a year. Now when he's not on the road with Comedy Industries,
Rich teaches acting and improvisation. In his spare time
he blows glass and bubbles with his baby daughter.
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Katrine
Spang-Hanssen
Katrine Spang-Hanssen toured
North America, Europe and the Far East for over 13 years
with her own comedy juggling act, Grinn & Barrett. Now
Katrine is Comedy Industries' resident polyglot, fluent in
English, Danish, French, German, Norse, and Swedish!
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Tim
Kelly
Tim Kelly is a world champion
juggler and footbagger. He performs the most obscure tricks
in the Comedy Industries repertoire including box juggling,
top spinning, yo-yo tricks, tennis can manipulation, coin
snatching, butterfly knife and origami. Fortunately he doesn't
do mime. Yet.
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Paul
Nathan
Paul Nathan started performing
as a magician in LA, doing celebrity parties for stars like
Michael J. Fox, Prince, Eddie Murphy and Rob Lowe. He's now
starring in his own one man show, "Devil in the Deck" at
the Climate Theater. Evening Magazine has called him "The
world's most dangerous magician." The Hollywood Reporter
called him "The best magician in LA." We just call
him "Pudgy."
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Ken
Newman
Ken Newman has racked up over
20 years experience and 2 million frequent flier miles as
a performer, comedian, and trade show presenter. He has played
dozens of characters at hundreds of trade shows over the
years. Ken is an expert improviser, a brilliant actor and
an experienced writer.
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Mike
Goudeau
Mike Goudeau became a street
performer on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf at age 14
working with fellow Comedy Industries performer John Park.
Later he did three years hard time as clown for Ringling
Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. Now he's a regular instructor
at the Ringling Brothers Clown College, the featured act
in "The Lance Burton Show" in Las Vegas and a staff
writer for Penn & Teller.
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Jay
Alexander
Jay Alexander comes from a long
family tradition of vaudeville performers. He is the star
of the Brøderbund CD-ROM "Learn the Art of Magic
with Jay Alexander." He's made cars appear, CEOs disappear
appear, and recently assisted in the appearance of his second
daughter.
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Sara
Felder
Sara Felder is an accomplished
juggler and performer, as well as an award-winning playwright.
Her plays "Beyond Brooklyn", "The Lady Upstairs", "Shtik!" and "June
Bride" have toured the nation to rave reviews. When
she is not on tour, Sara plays with her son and teaches theater
at San Francisco State University.
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John Park
John
Park became a professional juggler
at 14 and his 25+ years of experience
are a proud asset of Comedy Industries.
John and Scott started working together
back in 1980 as The American Dream
Comedy Team. Together they performed
all over the world from London to
Hong Kong, from Saudi Arabia to Japan,
and from Australia to Bakersfield.
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What People Are
Saying:
"Sharp knives, sharper patter –The most accomplished act of their
kind in the country."
• People Magazine
"That was a great show. You are one funny guy."
• Robin Williams "The funniest duo since me and the guy
with the big ears."
• Bob Hope "First rate."
•San Francisco Chronicle "Funny & personable."
• Variety!
"The high point of the evening... Their approach is fresh; their sense of
timing amazing."
• Philadelphia Inquirer
"One of the greatest, funniest acts to grace our show."
• Patrick Van Horn, KRON-TV "They must eat silly putty for breakfast
because they're so funny!"
• Rich Little "Makes juggling look so easy, rates a
rave for excellence."
• Atlantic County Record "Fantastic, funny, original and bound
for glory."
• Robert Shields "The most brilliant performance... a
great evening's entertainment."
• China Morning Post "The best news I've seen in years."
• Huey Lewis
"The brightest act of all. Formidable feats of juggling, accompanied by
an appalling stream of wise guy patter that recalls the witty cynicism of Penn
and Teller."
• Camden Courier Post
"As accomplished as comedians as they are as jugglers."
• New Jersey Sunday Press "The world's best."
• Los Angeles Times
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