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Best of the Seattle Comedy Competition - Starring Harry J. Riley and Mary Lou Gamba

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Best of the Seattle Comedy Competition - Starring Harry J. Riley and Mary Lou Gamba

ABOUT HARRY J. RILEY

Born in a small town in South Carolina, Harry didn’t start performing stand-up until his final year in the U.S. Air Force. Tales of his childhood and crazy musings, lead him to perform for such acts as Dan Cummins, Jay Wendle Walker, Jay Mohr, Jamie Kennedy, and many more. He has won Valleyfest’s PG Comedy Competition three times and was a finalist in the prestigious Seattle International Comedy Competition. He has appeared in the movie Falling up and has been on the SYFY television show Z-Nation.

His blend of absurdist humor and slice of life observations, keeps audiences coming back for more.

ABOUT MARY LOU GAMBA

Mary Lou Gamba is an East Coast transplant happily nestled in the Pacific Northwest.  A middle aged teenager and delightfully dirty bird, Mary Lou will get you laughing til you snort with her charming and silly exaggerations of her goofy life.

As a regular opener for national headliners, this pint-sized dynamite burns down comedy clubs, bars, and locker rooms all over the country.  Mary Lou has been featured at HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival,  The Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival and competed in the 2017 Seattle International Comedy Competition.  Watch out, she’ll steal your chicken.

SCHEDULE & TICKETS

MAR 26 | 7:30 PM

$25 | All Seats

Earlier Event: March 21
BloodworksNW Pop-Up
Later Event: April 2
Lakou Mizik

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.