Working the clubs again I’m getting to know the new generation of Stand-ups out here in LA that are killing it. I think one of the best new guys I’ve seen in a long time is Vinny Fasline. Vinny’s a funny little Fu#@er. He plays the Laugh Factory and the Store and the improv, has toured the country playing all the comedy clubs and opened for Dane Cook and a bunch of other A -level comics. This guy really has it. I love his stuff, his work ethic, and his energy.  Plus he’s charismatic as hell.

A Philly native, he has a unique story. He had brain cancer and surgery as a child and had to rise above it and fight his way back. (Which must have been the same sort of ordeal as my dealing with my crazy three brothers. Except I couldn’t have them surgically removed.) Either way, his childhood trauma forced out the funny and he’s got it in a major dose. He’s truly a first class entertainer. I love the chances he takes onstage, on his Instagram and his Youtube shorts. He’s got a unique mind for the absurd. ( The one upside to childhood brain cancer? Maybe.)

Check him out, he may become one of your new favorite comics.

VINNY FASLINE WEBSITE

http://vinnyfasline.com/

If you want to see Vinny live, he’s on the show with myself and a few others Feb.9 at the Grand -Re-Opening of the Ice House in Pasadena. Come see the show and see why I’m so high on this guys chance to pop huge.

Ta-ta Sherise, the philly Stand-up was car- jacked on Xmas eve.  Na’Tosha Wyles, whose stage name is TaTa Sherise, was held at gunpoint and carjacked leaving a show on Christmas Eve.

“I made it close to my neighborhood. I was about to go home, got gas. I parked the car. I guess I sat in there 60 seconds too long,” she told the local news. “I saw two guys walking up. They pointed the guns like ‘Yeah, you know what time it is.”

They took off with her Hyundai Elantra and they also took with all of her ‘merch’.  Ta-Ta Sherise T-shirts,hats and other novelties. Yet, she’s unfazed. She’s going to use it as material. She’s the real deal. It isn’t going to deter her from doing Stand-up. She’s taking it serious enough to make jokes about it. If you get a chance check out her YoutTube channel and her Instagram. She’s a lot of fun.

TA-TA SHERISE ON INSTAGRAM

Also visit her website; https://www.tatasherise.com/

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I didn’t know Kelly well, only met him a few times but he was a class act. Just a sweet, nice, funny as hell, hard working guy. I used to love him on the Tonight Show when I was a kid in High School. I remember he went to England and hit it big with his own show over there. He also had a Variety show here on CBS for awhile.  He was one of the good guys. From St. Louis, he became a talk show staple in the early 70’s. He was on every show and he always delivered.

He was also one of the original players at The Comedy Store, and was the first American ever to have his own show on the BBC. ‘The Kelly Monteith Show’ ran six seasons over there. It was much a ‘Larry Sanders/ Jack Benny’ kind of show. It was smartly written. He once told me that he was ‘the perfect guy to play Kelly Monteith.’