Father’s Day Weekend Comedy: Allan Sidley Presents Daddy Issues
Date and Time
Jun 19, 2022 5:30 pm
Location
Shirlington
4251 S. Campbell Ave, Arlington, Virginia, 22206
Jun 19, 2022 5:30 pm
Shirlington
Doors: 530PM Show: 6PM | Food & drinks will be available for purchase.
This year, don’t disappoint dad with a tie, card or a grill accessory. Instead, bring him to Busboys & Poets Shirlington for a fun and hilarious evening of jokes that will have you laughing, groaning, and finding humor in the unexpected.
Headlining the weekend is local comedian and author Allan Sidley. Despite growing up without a dad, he mastered the “dad joke” and wrote Daddy Issues: A Fatherless Comedian’s Original Jokes, a #1 new release on Amazon.
Join Allan and hilarious comedians from all over the DMV. This show is for dads, those with their own daddy issues, or simply love jokes.
Can't make this event? Father's Day Comedy continues all weekend at these Busboys & Poets locations:
ABOUT THE COMICS
Headliner Allan Sidley: A comedian, author, actor, hip hop improviser, and producer, Allan Sidley is a jack of all trades and has performed in festivals, clubs, and colleges across the country. Allan got his comedy start at a young age, riffing on his Mom's issues at the dinner table. Many years later he founded the Tysons Comedy Cellar, where he refined his comedy chops by producing hundreds of comedy shows and teaching stand-up classes.
Allan's humor is dry, and a little wet from perspiration, usually. Poking fun at real subjects like his family, religion, politics, and pokémon, his highly relatable material includes jokes and one liners that are edgy, provocative, corny, genius, and stupid. He loves sprinkling in top notch word play much to his audience's delight and dismay.
Allan has hosted clean shows and corporate comedy gigs for Deloitte, the military, and non profit agencies, but he prefers the intimacy of a club. Allan has recently headlined Jammin Java, Church of Satire Comedy Club, Highwood Theater, and has opened at Laugh Index Festival (2017, 2018, 2019). He was a member of the Unkosher Comedy Tour (DC 2018 & 2019) and has appeared on TV (TLC, Fox 5, FPA.) Even though he lost his Dad at a young age, Allan has mastered the “dad joke” and wrote an entire book of them. Featuring 187 pages of original jokes, Daddy Issues was a #1 new release on Amazon. After not being on stage at all during the pandemic, Allan recorded an hour-long comedy special on Father's Day 2021. He was seen on Fox 5 talking about his book, comedy, and show taping. Special release coming soon.
Mark Mensh: Mark Mensh was born in DC and raised by a single mother in Alexandria, Virginia (which was cool) and by a single father in La Plata, Maryland (which was less cool, but totally unsupervised). After a full career in technology helping lay the groundwork to strip global citizens of their privacy AND their attention spans, he’s decided to atone for those poor choices by entertaining strangers with his comedy. You may find him funny; you may not. He doesn’t care, he has a 401k.
Tim Trueheart: Tim Trueheart is a local DM(V) renaissance man whose comedy has been described as energetic and playfully self-deprecating. In addition to performing stand-up, Tim also acts in commercials (as the token black guy), improvises with indie improv comedy troupe The Improv Imps, and co-hosts The Jellyvision Show podcast. Check it out at www.thejellyvisionshow.podbean.com!
Hosted by Gigi Modrich: Gigi Modrich is a Jicarilla Apache Washington, DC based comic originally from New Mexico. She was a part of the First Nations Comedy Experience available on Amazon Prime. She has performed in clubs across the country including Dangerfield's in New York City, The Funny Bone in Richmond, Virginia, and The DC Improv in Washington, DC. Gigi has opened for Tom Thakkar and performed with Judah Friedlander. She’s sarcastically optimistic and tells jokes that are stimulating enough to provoke thought, but won't prompt a hate crime.
