A Comedy Show Fundraiser with Live and Silent Auction and $10,000 raffle prize!

Where: Roseland Theater,  8 NW Sixth St Portland Oregon
When: Saturday, June 20th, 2009. Pre-show Silent Auction begins at 6pm

LAUGH AWAY RECESSION DEPRESSION
A fantastic opportunity to have two National Comedians give a comedy show during a time when we really need a good laugh! Elayne Boosler and Dennis Blair will perform a benefit show for Indigo Rescue.

About Elayne Boosler:
Elayne Boosler worked as doorman at The Improvisation comedy club in New York for three years, and it was there that she met comedian Andy Kaufman, a regular at the club, who convinced her she should do standup comedy. The two dated for three years and remained friends until Kaufman’s death.

Boosler credits Kaufman for her “comedy education” as well as her other peers at the time which included Freddie Prinze, Jay Leno, Larry David, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Jimmie Walker and Ed Bluestone. Boosler was an instant success in a field which was then still dominated by male performers. In 1986 Boosler became the first female to get her own comedy special on cable when Showtime aired “Party of One”. Boosler had to save her money and produce the special herself, because none of the cable networks thought people
would tune into to see a female do an hour of comedy. People magazine gave it an ‘A’. John J. O’Connor in
the New York Times wrote, ”how refreshing, a woman who doesn’t have to tear her own skin off for our
amusement. . an attractive human being simply standing there being funny, the first to feel she doesn’t
have to be a grotesque..”
Following the rave reviews, Showtime immediately gave her a deal for three more specials, and rival HBO
announced its own new series of specials, “Women of the Night”. For this reason, Boosler is widely credited
with opening new doors to women in comedy.

About Dennis Blair:
Dennis Blair is one of the most talented and versatile comedians in show business. His act combines music, standup and topical observation, and can be tailored to the tastes of any audience he works with. As a result, he is equally at home in comedy clubs, corporate venues, cruise ships and concert halls. He has performed on The Tonight Show and HBO, has co-hosted the Stephanie Miller Radio Show with Elayne Boosler, and has entertained everywhere from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. He has appeared regularly in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Lake Tahoe, Reno and Laughlin with such major celebrities as Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Jackie Mason, the Beach Boys, Gloria Estefan, Tom Jones and George Carlin (with whom he toured for over eighteen years in the U.S. and Canada).