Jackie Kashian

Jackie has been a national touring comic for over 10 years. She has appeared on NBC, VH1, and A&E (Comedy on the Road - back in the 1700's). She has just returned from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and toured Australia for 10 weeks with their Roadshow. Other prestigious festivals she’s been invited to include: the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle and the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Her second CD, “Circus People” has just been released in July of this year.

Jackie’s Half Hour Special was one of the top 25 most popular specials this year on Comedy Central. The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, "Jackie Kashian's comedy is that rare, wonderful combination: smart and funny." She enjoys video games, go-carts and other traditionally tiny-child activities in an ongoing attempt to block out reality. Her website, www.jackiekashian.com, reflects this.

Press stuff: 2005

The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, “Kashian’s comedy is that rare, wonderful combination: smart and funny.”

In June, 2005, ABC – Australia wrote, “The gem of the night was ...Jackie Kashian. Her droll, perceptive description of her family was hilarious.”

And Perth’s newspaper, “(with) whipsmart patter, the Wisconsin-raised Kashian struck paydirt when she likened US foreign policy to the boardgame, Risk: "You've got to leave an army in every country. Those are the rules." – The West Australian”

 

TELEVISION
COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS Star Comedy Central
THE GLASS HOUSE Panelist ABC - Australia
TOUGH CROWD Panelist Comedy Central
LOTO QUEBEC GALA Comic CBC
FUNNY MONEY Comic Game Show Network
LATE FRIDAY Comic NBC
THE LIST Guest Star VH-1
FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS Comic NBC
PREMIUM BLEND Comic Comedy Central
MURPHY BROWN Co-Star CBS
COMEDY ON THE ROAD Comic A & E
THE JENNY McCARTHY SHOW Featured MTV
ST. PAUL SAINTS – Fan in the Stands Announcer/Comic Mpls, MN

FILM
BAM BAM AND CELESTE Eileen Cho Taussig Productions Inc.

THEATRE
HOW DID I GET SO FEMININE? Herself Fake Gallery/dir. Joe Wilson
PS NBC, Bryant-Lake Theater
SALESMEN & THIEVES Herself dir. Joe Wilson/Hudson Theatre,
PS NBC, HBO/WB Workspace
BALLS PERFORMANCE ART Monologue/Storyteller Southern Theater, MN
PIECES FROM A ONE-WOMAN SHOW Herself Bryant-Lake Theater, MN

FESTIVAL
MELBOURNE INTER. COMEDY FESTIVAL Comic Melbourne, 2005
JUST FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL Comic Montreal, 2003
BUMBERSHOOT ARTS FESTIVAL Comic Seattle, 2001, 2005
MARSHALL’S WOMEN IN COMEDY Comic LA, NY, 1999
HBO’S U.S. COMEDY ARTS FESTIVAL Comic Aspen, 1996

STAND-UP (Complete list available upon request)
M BAR – Comedy Death Ray Los Angeles
LARGO Los Angeles
THE IMPROV Los Angeles
LUNA LOUNGE – EATING IT New York
GOTHEM COMEDY CLUB New York
CAROLINE’S New York
THE COMIC STRIP New York
STAND-UP NEW YORK New York
THE COMEDY STORE London
ACME COMEDY COMPANY Minneapolis
CATCH A RISING STAR Las Vegas
COBBS San Francisco

TRAINING
Acting: Teri Tunder (Cold Reading/Scene Study)

SPECIAL SKILLS
Turn on’s: Chicken, Reading, Horseback Riding and Buff Sci-Fi Geeks
Turn off’s: Algebra and Guys who drive Camaros.