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FUNNY... SHEESH Serious Sketch Comedy and Improvisation
The FUNNY SHEESH Sketch Comedy/Improvisation Troupe was founded by Karen Christie Ward, Penny Di Marco, Sharon Fogarty, Jason
Grossman, John Hartmann, Timothy Joseph Ryan and Renée Torrière in 1995. The performers have extensive backgrounds in music,
dance and theatre and have written for and toured in productions throughout the country.
Over the past six
years, FUNNY SHEESH Sketch/Improv has unveiled its skewed perspective at: Carolines, Chicago City Limits, CB's Gallery, Public
Theatre, Collective Unconscious, Archway Inn (Bronx), Dannys Skylight Room, Dont Tell Mama, HERE, Naked City Coffeehouse (Cambridge,
MA), manhattantheatresource, Stand-Up New York, Surf Reality, The Duplex, Austins (Queens), The Knitting Factory, Plum Crazy
(Clifton, NJ), The New York Comedy Club, The Sidewalk Café, Tracy Js, Syncronicity Space, Tribeca Lab, Upstairs at Roses Turn,
The West End Gate.
Over the years, FUNNY SHEESH has shredded such diverse subject matters as spaghetti westerns,
insurance fraud, talk radio, the dating ritual of animals, vultures at home, gay nuns, compulsive forgetfulness, self-censorship,
personal ads, the proper use of toothpicks, monster party mixers, insecure astronauts, a family of martyrs, the worlds worst
chorus, photogenic homeless people, cowboy bravado, dating sheep, doomed wedding proposals, the sex life of professional wrestlers,
playing mandatory charades, dancing police officers, behind the scenes of the infamous Echoes performing group and various
methods of suicide on and off stage.
The comedy relays what is funny and necessary reminding us that truth is hysterical, whether it be funny ha-ha or FUNNY SHEESH.
Most importantly, no one is afraid to look silly.
Ever.
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