Comedy Club presents Kevin Pollak

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June 2
at 8:00pm

The 2014 Comedy Club, sponsored in part by Saunders & Associates present

KEVIN POLLAK
Willow, Avalon, A Few Good Men, Grumpy Old Men,
Monday, June 2
8 pm

Kevin Pollak has captured the attention of audiences worldwide with his range of both dramatic and comedic roles. He has appeared in over sixty films, as well as countless television talk shows, and has established himself as one of the few stand-up comedians to have a successful dramatic film career. In addition to his acting talents, he has also proven himself as a writer, producer and recently director and award-winning talk show host.

Pollak first started performing stand-up comedy at age ten and became a touring professional stand-up at age twenty. In 1988, shortly after Kevin shot his first HBO stand-up special, he landed a role in "Willow," directed by Ron Howard and produced by George Lucas. In 1989, he got his first dramatic acting role in Barry Levinson’s "Avalon", but it was Pollak’s role in Rob Reiner’s "A Few Good Men," opposite Tom Cruise, JackNicholson and Demi Moore, that proved his ability to stand out while sharing the big screen with dramatic heavyweights. Not too soon after, Kevin was co-starring with icons Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in "Grumpy Old Men" and its’ sequel, "Grumpier Old Men." In 1994, Kevin was offered a plum role opposite Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacy and Bennicio Del Toro in a little indy film called "The Usual Suspects." The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and won two Academy Awards. The film was so well received, that The National Board of Review created a new award that year, which they’ve given every year since: The Best Ensemble Cast. That same year, the call came from Martin Scorsese for Kevin to join Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesce and Sharon Stone in his Vegas epic, "Casino." The film has become known as one Scorsese's classics.

As the 20th century came to a close, Variety named Kevin to it's top 10 hardest working film actors, the criteria of which was that said actors had to have done at least 3 films per year, each year of the 1990's. Shortly thereafter Kevin returned to his first love, stand-up comedy. He began touring the country in '01 while still costarred in 29 films since 2000.

In March of 2009, Kevin began hosting his own talk show, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show. It streams live every Sunday, 3pm, PDT at http://www.Kevinpollakschatshow.com.

Archivedepisodes are available there as well as on iTunes. The show has garnered over a million downloads in a single month and received the 2010 Streamy Award for Best Live Production of a Web Series. That’s of the entire internet…Pollak has also starred in three of his own cable tv stand-up comedy specials, the most recently of which is, "The Littlest Suspect". Kevin was also named by Comedy Central as one of the Top 100 Comedians of all Time. His two Live Stand-Up CDs, "A Little Off the Top" and "What Are the Chances," as well as a DVD of "The Littlest Suspect" are available at Kevinpollak.tv or on iTunes and Amazon.com.


The 2014 Comedy Club is sponsored in part by Saunders & Associates

 Sponsored in part by The Friars Foundation