Aug
23
Fri
2024
Samantha Ruddy and Friends: A Night of NYC Comedy
Aug 23 @ 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Scranton Cultural Center presents

Samanta Ruddy and Friends: A Night of Comedy

Caitlin Peluffo:

Originally hailing from San Francisco, Caitlin Peluffo is a stand up comedian living in New York City. This lovable loose cannon made her network television debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, was featured on the Late Late Show with James Corden, and has been seen on NBC Seeso’s “New York’s Funniest” as well as Comedy Central’s ‘Featuring’ series.’ She was named a 2022 Just for Laughs New Face and appeared on JFL Network. She opens regularly for Matteo Lane and Fortune Feimster. Peluffo is a regular in the NYC comedy scene performing in clubs like The Comedy Cellar, New York Comedy Club, Gotham Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, and was recently featured in the Caroline’s on Broadway Breakout Artist Series. She has performed in festivals across the country like the Limestone Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, Laugh Your Asheville Off, Accidental Comedy Festival, All Jane Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival, Maine Comedy Festival, and was runner up in the Big Sky, Finger Lakes, San Diego, and the Stand Up NY Comedy Competitions. For the past 2 years she’s hosted her weekly podcast, Good Time Gal with Caitlin Peluffo, she performed in San Francisco’s Sketchiest in the Audible’s Fresh Voices Showcase and was featured on both Sirius XM’s “Raw Dog” and Audible’s “Punchlines.”

Samantha Ruddy:

THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON — Episode 1681 — Pictured: (l-r) on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 — (Photo by: Todd Owyoung/NBC)

Samantha Ruddy is a comedian and writer from Scranton, Pennsylvania. She has appeared on The Late Show, Tonight Show and NPR. She was previously a producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, where her contributions played a part in earning both Emmy and Webby nominations for the segment “Beeing at Home. ” Her writing has been featured in CollegeHumor, The Cut and Reductress, and her online presence has been featured in Vulture and BUST. She lives in New York City, where she regularly performs stand-up. Her debut comedy album, Logging Out, was named one of the best comedy albums of 2020 by NPR.

Due to the nature of live performance bookings, dates, times, artist, venue and prices are subject to change. NO REFUNDS / NO EXCHANGES

Nov
23
Sat
2024
Nick Swardson: Toilet Head
Nov 23 @ 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Nick Swardson: Toilet Head

Saturday, November 23rd, 2024 at 7:00pm

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Theatre | Doors at 6:30pm | Reserved Seating Only

The road to success has been a steady climb for Swardson. He first found success by writing Malibu’s Most Wanted for Warner Brothers and by featuring in the hit Comedy Central series RENO 911. After catching the attention of Happy Madison Productions, he quickly became a fixture in the company, writing or co-writing and producing such projects as Grandma’s Boy, Benchwarmers, and co-producing I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry with Adam Sandler and Kevin James. Nick has performed in movies such as That’s My Boy, Blades of Glory, 30 Minutes or Less, and Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, which he wrote, starred in, and produced. His first CD/DVD, Party, on Comedy Central Records (produced by Happy Madison) went platinum. He followed that up in 2010 with his first one-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central, Seriously who Farted.

In addition to his career in film and in the world of stand-up comedy, Nick continues to have a prolific career in television. His Comedy Central sketch show, Pretend Time with Nick Swardson ran from 2010 to 2012, and he voiced the role of ‘Troy’ on FXX’s animated show, Chozen. Most recently, Nick starred as ‘Gary’ in Typical Rick on Comedy Central streaming.

His Comedy Central Special, Taste It! premiered April 2015 on Comedy Central. Nick co-starred in the animated film Hell And Back with TJ Miller, Bob Odenkirk, and Mila Kunis. Nick also co-starred in the most-watched movie on Netflix to date, The Ridiculous 6 starring Adam Sandler and Will Forte. More recently he co-starred in Sandler’s second film for Netflix The Do-Over starring Adam Sandler and David Spade.

Visit Nick’s Website at http://nickswardson.net/


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The following items are PROHIBITED in the Center:
Purses, bags, coolers, backpacks, over-sized bags, bottles, cans and glass containers, outside food or beverages, horns, whistles, banners, noisemakers, laser pens, cameras, video cameras, or recording devices, illegal substances, weapons or any other threatening objects.

Please DO NOT bring into the building large bags, purses, backpacks, large umbrellas longer than 12″, outside food or drink.

Wristlets up to 4″ x 6″ x 1″ or Clear Bags up to 12″ x 12″ 6″ are permitted

Clear Bags may be checked for every event.

Other security measures vary per event.

The Center is a SMOKE FREE facility. NO smoking materials, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, lighters, matches or other flammable items may be brought into the Center.

There is no Re-Entry upon Exit for most concert events.

Cameras and recording devices are prohibited.