Emmett Montgomery

Seattle Komedy Documentary
Fri 10/15-Sun 10/17
9:30 Film, Q&A after
Central Cinema
1411 21 Avenue Seattle WA 98122

http://www.central-cinema.com/

This is from the first annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival afterparty at the house of festival founder Andy Wood. The brilliant and drunk James Adomian is doing an impression of the brilliant and eccentric Brody Stevens. I have no idea what I am doing in the background, most likely I am being drunk and brilliant and eccentric or at least two of those things.

During my first trip to New York in 2007, I was asked by the people I was staying with if I wanted to be part of a music video. We went to a church in Brooklyn and spent the next couple hours shooting this single shot “organic” video. I make my appearance at 2:39. It was an interesting experience.

Dear life,

Ever since I found stand-up comedy, I have felt that it was the thing that I was meant to do. Over the past six years I have been able to tell jokes on both sides of the country, perform in and produce some amazing shows and meet some amazing people. Telling jokes has made me a better writer and a more prolific artist and opened a creative door in my head that I couldn’t close if I wanted to. It is time to focus on that full time.
I have found myself in the terrible cycle of not being able to do all the amazing things I want to do because I have to work too much and working too much because I wasn’t making money from being awesome.
I had to choose from the two lives I was living and I made more the more reckless and romantic choice.
I came to the decision that the world will always have somebody to coordinate large scale pizza delivery but there are not enough puppets or poop jokes inside of it.
October 1st was my last day at my very supportive grown-up job and now armed with a pocketful of dreams and a very supportive wife, I attempt to pursue the thing I feel I am supposed to do, living off the creative talents the universe has cursed me with.
Please join me at the Seattle Comedy Underground on October 12th as I celebrate my 6th year comedy “birthday” and the beginning of this new chapter in my life. If you can’t make it I understand but don’t worry my calendar is becoming full and awesome and we will have many opportunities for sharing.
In the meantime, I would appreciate if you examined your lives for any holes that could be filled with joketelling, puppets or amazing facial hair and consider me as the person to plug them.

xoxo,

Emmett Montgomery

I will be in New York CIty doing amazing things starting late afternoon Sunday, September 19th and ending early morning Sunday September 26th to perform in and enjoy the amazing Castlebraid Comedy Festival. I have several shows lined up and plan an having many adventures. If you live in New York and would like to go friendshipping please get a hold of me at emmett@emmettmontgomery.com and we can cause some trouble together.

So far this is what I have on the books:

SUN-The Beauty Bar Comedy Show!
231 E. 14th st between 2nd and 3rd ave
Sunday 9/19 8:30 pm

WED-The Castlebraid Comedy Festival!

http://castlebraidcomedyfestival.tumblr.com/

Wednesday 9/22 8pm

THU-Comedy as a Second Language!
ar Kabin Bar & Lounge!
92 2nd Ave (btw 5th/6th Sts) 9pm

The above are my booked shows but joketelling seems to randomly happen to me when I am in New York and I also understand that there is a clown festival going on. The possibilities for adventure are limitless.

I will keep you posted.

I would like to apologize about the lack of updates on the site over the last couple of months. Shortly after the Bridgetown Comedy Festival I was working on a new routine inside my practice box and managed to get locked inside for several months. Fortunately I was able to continue performing but the internet connection inside the box was pretty awful. Now that I have escaped please enjoy this recording of one of my sets from the box and expect more posts about the past few months and what is happening in the future.

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This will be the third year in a row that something wonderful will happen to Portland this spring. There will be a festival that will take over the Hawthorne street and over a hundred talented people will mingle and perform. It is something special. Some of the comics are nationally known, others nobody has heard of, but all of them are awesome. This festival has a special place in my heart, not only because it is where I was able to work up the courage to ask my wife to marry me last year but because it is an awkward circus of dreams that celebrates the thing that I feel I was made to do. I am looking forward to the great performances and the fellowshipping with people I don’t get to see enough of. I am glad to be part of this. If you have the ability to make it to Portland this is something you should do. If you happen to attend, find me, high fives and hugs will be on me.

The past two months have been a strange journey for me. I feel like I have been neglectful in my communication with the outside world. Most of my time has been dedicated to making puppets. Today I hang them up at the wonderful Faire Gallery Cafe/Wine Bar.

I am excited to get them out of my house and help them find homes. I only have so many hands and they need a lot of love.

It will be nice to see you at the opening reception this friday, there will be a cheese plate and slide guitar by Kyle Moseby. If you can’t make it swing by the gallery they are nice there.

“Making Friends” puppet art by Emmett Montgomery

opening reception:

Friday, March 26, 2010

7pm-11pm

Faire Gallery

1351 e olive way, Seattle WA 98122

exhibition runs from 3/22-4/18

Joke Church with Emmett Montgomery from

Sometimes I have so much sharing inside me, I just have to let it all out.