This Week @ Helium Comedy Club: Dom Irrera, ‘Big Lebowski’ Limo Driver
August 3, 2011 — PDXPIPELINEFrom our sponsors at Helium:
Dom Irrera @ Helium Comedy Club
SE 9th and Hawthorne Blvd.
Thursday, August 4 @ 8 p.m.
Friday, August 5 @ 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Saturday, August 6 @ 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Tickets are $15-20
For tickets and more information, please visit www.heliumcomedy.com/portland or call 888-64-FUNNY.
Nominated, six times for an American Comedy Award, Dom Irrera’s stand-up material was honed in a multi-generational Italian household in South Philadelphia with his mother, sister, grandmother, uncles and cousins all under one very big roof. A great-grandmother even lived across the street. Together there were three floors and four generations of family.
His first big break was his performance on Rodney Dangerfield’s “Nothing Goes Right” comedy specials for HBO. In 1989 Irrera’s own HBO “One Night Stand” earned him his first CableACE award for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. In ’95 he won a second CableACE for the Showtime stand-up series he hosted, “Full Frontal Comedy”. That same year he received a second CableACE nomination in the writing category for his work on Comedy Central’s animated series, “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist”.
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He has performed on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, “The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, “The View”, and has made several appearances on “Oprah”. Recent credits include an all-new stand-up special titled “Comedy Central Presents”, which aired on the cable network this past summer. As an avid sports fan, he hosted four seasons of Comedy Central’s irreverent football show, “Offsides“, where he conducted hilarious on-the-field interviews with football greats.
His film work includes a featured role in Robert Townsend’s “Hollywood Shuffle”, a cameo in the Coen Bros. film, “The Big Lebowski”, “The Fourth Tenor”, starring old pal Rodney Dangerfield, and he played himself in the Rodney Dangerfield / Dom De Luise film, “The Godson”.
