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The Keystone Light Friends of The BOB & TOM Show Comedy Tour presents a rotating ensemble of the world’s best comedians to stages all across America. Each live comedy show features several headliners heard on The BOB & TOM Show, one of the longest-running and highest-rated radio programs in America and the premiere radio showcase for today’s top comedians. Now in its 9th year, The Keystone Light Friends of The BOB & TOM Show Comedy Tour has performed more than 400 shows from coast-to-coast.
Hosted by Bob & Tom’s own Kristi Lee, The Keystone Light Friends of The Bob & Tom Show Comedy Tour in Des Moines will feature the following Bob & Tom comedians: Bob Zany (www.bobzany.com), Ralph Harris (www.ralphharris.com) and Tim Bedore (www.vaguebuttrue.com).
The tour will be making its stop at Hoyt Sherman Place, 1501 Woodland Avenue on Friday, November 14, 2014 at 8:00 PM.
Tickets will be available starting on Friday, August 29, 2014 at 10:00 AM Central. Tickets may be purchased by visiting www.hoytsherman.org, calling 800-745-3000 or by visiting in person at the Hoyt Sherman Place Box Office, 1501 Woodland Ave., Des Moines, IA 50309. Box office hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (All tickets INCLUDE a $1 Red Cross donation). This show is recommended for those 18 years old and older.
Comedians:
Kristi Lee:
Kristi joined The Bob & Tom Show in 1984 as News Director. Kristi is a native of Indianapolis and attended Indiana University. She has also worked in television with Fox Sports and ESPN.
Ralph Harris:
Ralph Harris is one of today’s hottest comedic and acting talents! He marked his feature film debut in Dreamgirls, a film that has struck gold (of the Golden Globe variety). Ralph kicks off the movie as the Detroit MC that helps Jamie Foxx hook up with the Dreamettes. Not one to slow down, Ralph continued his film career momentum, immediately landing his second feature film role in the Universal Pictures release Evan starring Steve Carell and Wanda Sykes.
Ralph’s jump to the big screen comes after years of successful television work, including appearances on “Seinfeld”, “Parenthood”, “Nick Freno”, “Living Single” and “In Living Color”. No stranger to late night, Ralph has been featured on “The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. However Ralph is probably best known for his starring role in the ABC-TV sitcom “On Our Own,” which aired during the immensely popular TGIF block on Friday nights, and which currently airs in syndication on TV One.
You can also catch Ralph on TV in airings of his two previously recorded Cable TV specials – “Comedy Central Presents” and the “HBO Half-Hour Comedy Special”. When he’s not filming, Ralph continues to tour the country and perform to sold-out audiences as a stand-up comedian, his first career and love. Ralph’s comedy is character driven, and is influenced by many of the greats, including his idols Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters and Whoopi Goldberg, to name a few.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Ralph spends what little time he’s not on the road at home in Los Angeles.
Tim Bedore:
Tim Bedore was born in a nice Catholic hospital on Chicago’s near north side and then promptly left for northern Wisconsin. Asked to leave the Catholic School system after seven and a-half years(changed “Dominos Nabiscum” to “Oreos from Nabisco” during High Mass) Tim finished college with a cum laude B.S. in Communication (in just four years). More than just watching films and drinking beer, Tim actually learned something about the transference of complex thoughts and ideas.
Nonetheless he ended up in radio and spent years using the airwaves to mis-inform, mis-guide and mis-advise the youth of America. “From the Mayo clinic this just in, the liver transplant operation for young Amy Tannebaum has not gone well, turns out they put in a veal cutlet by mistake. According to doctors it was a prank donor”. “Winnie the Pooh was shot and killed gangland style outside of Disneyland today. We’ll have cartoons before the film at eleven”.
Some of the features Tim entertained the great unwashed with included “Words are Fun”, “The Bible According to Tim”, “The Big Genital Nickname Report(big modifies report), “The Hitler Diaries” and “Mother’s Little Helper” in which he advised harried young mothers to play the game ‘Shut up and play dead’ when their kids were forced to stay inside on a rainy day. This is a game where the kids are campers in Yellowstone National Park and Mommy is a hungry grizzly bear that wandered into their camp. If anyone flinches a muscle, Mommy goes for the throat. Now a headlining comedian at top clubs across the country, Tim ponders the status quo, “I’m not saying adultery is a good thing, but don’t you want a happy President”? “They said that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane. Let’s review. You walk into a bar…buy someone a couple of drinks…take them home and eat them. If that’s not insane, what is it…mean spirited? Really Hungry”? “Why do they put handicap parking at Roller Rinks”?
Bob Zany:
In 1977, Bob Zany started his career where most performers want to end up –on national television. At the tender age of fifteen, the native Southern Californian appeared on the infamous Gong Show. Halfway through his stand-up routine, which he read from a piece of paper, Bob Zany was pulled off the stage by a man dressed like a nun wielding a net. Eleven years later, Zany made a triumphant return to The Gong Show, this time as a celebrity judge. Though the initial experience was painful, it marked the first of over 100 appearances on national television.
In 1981, while attending Mt. San Antonio College, Bob Zany applied for a job as a newscaster at the campus radio station but was turned down. Later that year, Zany auditioned for the owner of The Ice House in Pasadena. The audition took place in the middle of the afternoon in a club that seats 300. From the only occupied chair came the voice of the owner, ‘You’re not ready.’ Bob Zany looked around the empty showroom and said ‘Neither is your club!’ Undaunted, he talked the owner into letting him produce his own show so he could have the stage time, and for the owner, an audience. The result was The Bob Zany Show. The shows sold out consistently– with everyone Zany knew from his hometown, West Covina, and then some–in attendance. After one show, Bob Zany was approached by Frazier Smith, the host of a top-rated radio show on KLOS/LA. After a short time doing guest spots on Frazier’s show, Zany was hired by KLOS as a personality with his own show on Saturday mornings.
His other accomplishments include the creation of Bob Zany’s Comedy Outlets, with over 50 locations throughout California and Nevada; a comedy album Hi Home, I’m Honey; a soon-to-be published diet scrapbook, Laugh at Fat, Bay-bee!, which chronicles his 175-lb weight loss; numerous roles in feature films; and the highlight of his career to date, being hired by his idol, Steve Martin, to appear on George Burns’ Comedy Week.
Bob Zany’s stage persona has evolved over the years, but the dramatic weight loss in 1991 caused the need for a major overhaul…along with the 175-lbs, he lost 30 minutes of his act! Bob Zany spent the following year doing late night spots at Hollywood clubs, trying to ‘reinvent’ himself. The result is the cigar-smoking, audience-interactive crowd favorite Bob Zany we know and love today.
The Bob & Tom Show:
The Bob & Tom Show is a lively, humorous program inspired by the day’s news, sports and topical lifestyle occurrences. The program also hosts many of the world’s best comedians every weekday morning. Nationally syndicated by The Bob & Tom Radio Network, The Bob & Tom Show is one of the longest-running and highest-rated radio programs in America and one of the most award-winning morning radio shows, having been honored with seven Billboard Magazine “Personality of the Year” Awards, 11 awards from Radio & Records, and five Marconi Awards from the National Association of Broadcasters. In addition, Bob & Tom have released more than 60 comedy albums, CDs and DVDs, and expanded their brand with popular comedy tour live shows. Program schedules and additional information is available at www.bobandtom.com.
