Dave Hill with special guest Alicia Kismet
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Show
All Ages
$25 (+taxes/fees) Advance General Admission // $30 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
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‘Cult New York comedian Hill is a hugely talented funnyman’ – Time Out, London
Stand-up comedy with a rockstar edge. Legendary comic, actor, author, and musician Dave Hill comes to The Parkway! A not-to-be-missed night of cool jokes, hot guitar licks, and lukewarm bass grooves from the "Pride of Cleveland" (but now living in New York City, which Dave thinks is great).
A master of just about everything, Dave most recently opened around the globe for Tenacious D and headlined a sold-out solo run in London. When Dave isn't working as an in-demand writer actor, he fronts the hot rock band Valley Lodge, who just released their fifth album, Shadows in Paradise (out now on Tee Pee Records).
Minneapolis comedian Alicia Kismet opens the night.
Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, actor, and musician originally from Cleveland but now living in New York City, which is great. He has appeared on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls5eva, Joe Pera Talks with You, Inside Amy Schumer, @midnight, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Tick, The Jim Gaffigan Show, and the new U.S. version of Would I Lie To You. He also plays a Devo-obsessed weed dealer in the new film Drunk Bus starring Ozark’s Charlie Tahan and Will Forte. Dave has also starred in his own TV series, The King of Miami, on the MOJO Network, which was cancelled even though Dave really liked it.
Dave is a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life and Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly Prairie Home Companion) and also hosted his own radio show, The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, on WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey for five years. Dave is also the resident heavy metal expert on Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin’s Broken Record podcast.
Dave performs live comedy in theaters, prisons, and basements all over the world. He appears regularly with fellow comedians such as Janeane Garofalo, Tom Papa, and Gary Gulman and has opened for musical acts including Snoop Dogg, Tenacious D, Broken Social Scene, Down, Autopsy, Quicksand, and Rhett Miller.
Dave also plays guitar and sings in his own rock band, Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is the theme song for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in addition to fronting Painted Doll with death metal legend Chris Reifert (Autopsy, Death). He is also the founding member of Witch Taint, the most extremely extreme Norwegian Black Metal band from Gary, Indiana ever probably (go to www.theblackmetaldialogues.com for more info). He also composes music for TV and film.
Dave has written for the New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney’s, The New York Observer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Guitar World, among other publications, and is author of three books, Parking the Moose (2019 Doubleday Canada/Penguin Random House), Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (2016 Blue Rider Press, and Tasteful Nudes (2012 St. Martin’s Press). His fourth book, The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey, will be published by Doubleday Canada and Triumph Books in the fall of 2023.
He also smells really great you can ask anyone.