Bay Area Born
and Bred Comedian Returns Home
for Participation in Legendary, High-Profile Competition
(HOLLYWOOD, September 7, 2007) Robin Williams. Dana Carvey. Ellen DeGeneres. Sinbad. Roseanne Barr. Steven Wright. Dane Cook. All were competitors in one of the most respected and longest-running stand-up comedy competitions in the world
– the $25,000 32nd Annual San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition (SFCC). Now add one more name to that distinguished list: Pooch.
The rising, Italian-Irish, Northern California-born and -bred comedic entertainer known
worldwide as Pooch – born Michael Puccini – proudly announced today that he has received a coveted admission into the 2007 SFCC, now celebrating its 32nd year. Based in Hollywood
since leaving San Jose
in 1994, Pooch will be returning to
his beloved Bay Area to perform for the first time in more than a decade. He will be performing in at least five venues
scattered throughout Northern California from Wednesday,
September 19, through Sunday, September 23.
“I am
absolutely thrilled and very thankful to have earned a spot in this year’s
competition. There are hundreds of comics who audition and only thirty spots,” said Pooch. “The roster of past participants in the
competition is a venerable ‘Who’s Who’ of the comedy industry and it is an
honor to be included in that list. I
feel like I have already won simply by being selected for participation in such
a revered competition. It has always
been a great showcase of the hot comics of the future.”
Pooch will take part in the second of two preliminary rounds, competing
against 14 other comedians. After the preliminary
rounds, the semi-finals and finals competitions will take place the following
two weeks with the overall winner receiving $10,000 and a major boost to their
comedy career.
“It’s going to be great just to be back up in the Bay Area performing once again,” said
the San Jose
native. “A lot has changed in my show in
the past 15 years and it will be fun to bring my West Coast California Gangster
style of comedy to my original stomping grounds.”
For additional information on Pooch
go to www.poochcomedy.com. For additional information on the $25,000 32nd
Annual San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition, including
locations and venue admission pricing go to www.sanfranciscocomedycompetition.com.
ABOUT
POOCH
A smart and
cool comedy writer and performer, Pooch
is one of the hottest undiscovered and unrepresented talents working today’s Hollywood comedy scene.
He is already known to thousands of comedy fans worldwide after years of
performing at international youth hostels in Hollywood
and Las Vegas. Currently a mainstay on the Southern
California comedy scene, the eccentric entertainer is one of the industry’s
rising talents due largely to his high-energy show’s emphasis on unique and
original California culture-based material, audience participation,
song-and-dance, props, and the positive vibe he exudes in his show. In 2007, Pooch was one of only 30 performers selected – out of hundreds of comedians – to be a participant in the $25,000 32nd Annual San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition.
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