Actor/Comedian D.L. Hughley performs during a visit to Syracuse a few years ago.
In a recent NPR story, comedian D.L. Hughley, who also a contestant on tonight’s ‘Dancing with the Stars, talks about his diverse musical selections.
Hughley is coming to Syracuse next month to perform at Funny Bones.
Jump Around: Wacky Chad performs at the Palace Theater
Wacky Chad and Wade Live played tag team partners and performed a family show (hosted by Dan Frigolette) last night at the Palace Theater. The night was full of energetic stunts, tricks and plenty of laughs.
Wacky Chad recently returned to the States after shows in India.
Wade Live, the magician with comic timing
Comedian Dan Frigolette, who graduated from Baldwinsville High School, discusses his career in comedy, his influences, upcoming Holiday shows and the Hoboken Comedy Festival.
T. Blunt
Anna Phillips
Dan Frigolette
Hoboken’s Dan Frigolette (graduate of Baldwinsville High) put together another joke fest this year, featuring Anna Phillips, and Syracuse natives Jessimae Peluso and newcomer T. Blunt (who served as the MC). There were two sets for the Friday show.
Jessimae Peluso
Toronto’s Chrissie Cunningham: Was it something I said?
Anna Phillips (pictured below) produced a comedy show at Jazz Central last night that featured homegirl Jessimae Peluso, Amy Carlson (New Rochelle) and Chrissie Cunningham (Toronto).
Anna Phillips said she thinks she is smarter than Lil’ Wayne, but she’s not sure.
Jessimae Peluso, who now lives in NYC, danced on stage, then reminisced about CNY and summers at Green Lakes making the human chain.
The laughs were punctated by stories about Hip Hop, relationships, parties and pet dogs.
Amy Carlson, who lives in New Rochelle, wrote a poem about Syracuse. Want to hear it, here it goes…
Cunningham, who happens to be hearing-impaired, was making her U.S. and Syracuse premiere.
Chrissie Cunningham from Syracuse in Focus on Vimeo.
Last lady standing: Jessiemae Peluso performs at Justin’s Grill
Along with homeboys Dan Frigolette (Baldwinsville High grad) and Moody McCarthy (Corcoran High grad), Jessimae Peluso (Henniger High grad) turned the Friday before Christmas at Justin’s Grill into a laugh factory.
I saw Frigolette and McCarthy when the visited for a show last year and again they delivered laughs from the moment they hit the stages. This was the first time I’d seen Peluso, as well as the MC Yannis Pappas however, and they were comical. I particularly enjoyed when they each hurled hilarious verbal assaults at a lone (female) heckler to the delight of the packed crowd.
Some of humorous anecdotes also included Peluso calling Match.com her new meal plan and McCarthy’s revelation on the availability of real fruit cobbler(s).
D.L. Hughley
D.L. Hughley, Dean Edwards and SU Alum Tyler Gilden brought a humorous spin on current events, campus life and politics last week at Goldstein Auditorium during the Phi Beta Sigma and Omega Phi Beta show last week. Opening the show was SU student Demarcus Woods.
Dean Edwards as Jay-Z
Crowd favorites included a Denzel, Tracy Morgan and Jay Z impression by Dean Edwards, D.L. Hughley’s mistaking SU alum Floyd Little for Herman Cain, and Gildin’s take on frat parties.
Tyler Gildin
Demarcus Woods, the Country Comic
D.L. Hughley tries to make a love connection between students at Syracuse Unviersity
Moody McCarthy
Central New Yorker’s turned New York City comics Moody McCarthy and Dan Frigolette came home to the Jazz Central stage last night for two shows.
McCarthy took a satirical view of his alma mater’s mascot (Moody’s a Corcoran alum) and family gift giving, while Frigolette (an SU grad) engaged the crowd about the chances of a Jersey guy picking up women from Manhattan and a comedian’s limitations in hierarchy of show business.
MC for the show was ESM grad Justin Taylor.
Dan Frigolette
Justin Taylor