The Bob & Tom Comedy Show - Feb. 15

Saturday, February 15
7:30 pm
Presentation Hall

 Popular comics from syndicated morning show Bob & Tom (as heard locally on Laser 101.7 FM) perform live at the Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall for one night only. The lineup includes Tim Bedore, Drew Hastings, Tim Wilson and Chick McGee. This show is recommended for those 18 years of age and older.

Tickets
Adults $28.50*
*Includes a $1.00 donation to the American Red Cross
Inquire at the box office for available discounts.

Presale:
Wednesday, January 8 at 10am
Passcode: COMEDY

Tickets on sale Friday, January 10 at 10am

Tickets available at the Mayo Civic Center Box Office, ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster Outlets (Walmarts in Rochester)
or Charge by Phone at 800-745-3000.
*tickets purchased at the box office do not incur additional service or convenience fees

Comic Lineup:

 Tim Bedore

Tim Bedore was born in a nice Catholic hospital on Chicago's near north side and then promptly left for northern Wisconsin.

Asked to leave the Catholic School system after seven and a-half years(changed "Dominos Nabiscum" to "Oreos from Nabisco" during High Mass) Tim finished college with a cum laude B.S. in Communication (in just four years). More than just watching films and drinking beer, Tim actually learned something about the transference of complex thoughts and ideas.

Nonetheless he ended up in radio and spent years using the airwaves to mis-inform, mis-guide and mis-advise the youth of America. "From the Mayo clinic this just in, the liver transplant operation for young Amy Tannebaum has not gone well, turns out they put in a veal cutlet by mistake. According to doctors it was a prank donor". "Winnie the Pooh was shot and killed gangland style outside of Disneyland today. We'll have cartoons before the film at eleven".

Some of the features Tim entertained the great unwashed with included "Words are Fun", "The Bible According to Tim", "The Big Genital Nickname Report(big modifies report), "The Hitler Diaries" and "Mother's Little Helper" in which he advised harried young mothers to play the game 'Shut up and play dead' when their kids were forced to stay inside on a rainy day. This is a game where the kids are campers in Yellowstone National Park and Mommy is a hungry grizzly bear that wandered into their camp. If anyone flinches a muscle, Mommy goes for the throat. Now a headlining comedian at top clubs across the country, Tim ponders the status quo, "I'm not saying adultery is a good thing, but don't you want a happy President"? "They said that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane. Let's review. You walk into a bar...buy someone a couple of drinks...take them home and eat them. If that's not insane, what is it...mean spirited? Really Hungry"? "Why do they put handicap parking at Roller Rinks"?

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 Drew Hastings

If it appears that critically acclaimed comedian Drew Hastings is looking down on you, he probably is. At 6’6”, Drew’s astute observations on the decline of American society have made him a favorite throughout the Midwest and coast-to-coast for more than 20 years.

Drew’s humor stems from his own personal angst and his relatively new fish-out-of-water lifestyle by leaving Hollywood and landing, as a cattle farmer, in small town America. Thus, his new tour "Farmageddon" is aptly named. From “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” to his critically acclaimed one-hour Comedy Central special “Irked and Miffed," Drew has done it all.

As newly-elected mayor of his small town of Hillsboro, Ohio, he now finds himself in an unlikely mix of having one foot in show business and one foot in small town politics. He is also an avid supporter for agriculture, often taking on fringe groups that often attack modern farming practices. As he always finds himself "on the edge" of normal, he is a self-proclaimed "alternative conservative" and the most unlikely farmer you will ever meet.

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 Tim Wilson

 Forty five years is hard to squeeze into a web page so here are the basics.

Born August 5, 1961 in Columbus Georgia. Parents were school teachers so Tim Wilson grew up on mustard sandwiches, playing Little League baseball and Pop Warner football and making straight A's in School.

"I grew up listening to a ton of AM radio during the commute back and forth to games and I memorized most of the records that played on two jukeboxes at a Tom's Foods employee swimming camp where my father and older brother were lifeguards for about sixteen years. That was my musical training."

A born ham, he developed a talent for doing impressions of teachers and anybody he saw on television which got him involved in numerous talent shows.

"My mother would take me to her school sometimes and I would entertain her classes with this act I had put together. I actually did my first pro show when I was about 11 at some soldier at Fort Bennings' birthday party and I got paid 15 dollars for it, which was double what we would all later get paid at The Improv in New York."

By high school, his grades had gone to hell and Tim started writing songs about all the girls who wouldn't go out with him. There were a lot of songs! Tim decided he wanted to be in the music business.

"I was playing football and running track and dragging around a guitar and listening to every record I could get my hands on. Eventually I became a huge fan of Clapton and a bunch of Southern Rock groups: mainly Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Atlanta Rhythm Section."

Tim finagled a part time job as a sports writer at the local paper and would later moonlight as a concert reviewer.

"I was kinda like the kid in Almost Famous except instead of working for Rolling Stone, I was at the Ledger Enquirer in Columbus." "Short version, I went to review an Atlanta Rhythm Section concert and met the drummer Roy Yeager. I told him I was a songwriter and I'd heard he was a producer and I wanted to send him some stuff. I mailed it to him and about three months later he called me and brought me up to Studio One in Doraville where they recorded and we made some demos. That is where I got close to real show business. I always tell people I got in show business going to the Waffle House and getting the Atlanta Rhythm Sections orders right!"

Somewhere in there he graduated college.

So I'm renting this bullshit apartment in Atlanta, but mostly sleeping on Dean Daughtry of ARS's couch,working a job at a one hour eye wear store that Roy's wife Laine had found for me and I drive this girl I work with home one day and pass something I'd never heard of: A COMEDY CLUB. I show up on open mic night and am informed that you can make more money telling jokes than you can selling glasses. So I go up and do three jokes I'd written and my impression of Richard Pryor's MudBone. I meet my manager Chris DiPetta the same night and here we go. Suddenly Songwriter Boy is a Comedy Man.

The rest of it is a long story.

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 CHICK MCGEE

Born in London, Ohio. Chick began his broadcasting journey in West Virginia but eventually made it to WFBQ’s sister station in Indianapolis. When they had enough of him, he came on the Bob and Tom Show to do sports, take on announcer and commercial duties and assume the role of the one and only Mr. Obvious.

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