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From disabledcomedytour.com:

The Blue Collar Comedy Tour featured southern, white comedians. The Kings of Comedy—black comedians. Latin Kings of Comedy—Mexican American comedians. The Disabled Comedy Tour follows the same model, producing the next groundbreaking comedy tour . . . The Disabled Comedy Tour is a two hour stand-up comedy show featuring five fantastic comedians with disabilities, supplemented by one of the following, more intimate, events with the comedians:

• Post Show Q&A
• Pre or Post Show Panel Discussion
• Pre or Post Show Private Reception

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Meet the Comics:

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Tanyalee Davis

3′6″ Tanyalee is the Ferrari of comedy—low to the ground and kind of racy!
(A stand-up-on-a-chair comic!)

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Charles Walden

Funny, sarcastic, laid back, fresh and urban—with a splash of Cerebral Palsy!

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Patrick Deguire

Legally blind comic who first ‘discovered laughter as a means of self therapy.’

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Josh Blue

The comedian who puts the cerebral in Cerebral Palsy!

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And…Mr. David Roche

Brilliant author, performer, motivational speaker, and comedian who has a facial disfigurement

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Original text by David Roche after the jump…

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At Middle School

By David Roche

Marlena and I sit on folding chairs as kids spill into the gym. The noise level rises exponentially. I sit with my eyes closed so the students can stare at me. Click to continue »

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“The Second Glance,” starring David Roche

A short film by Nic Askew; produced by Edwin Escobar

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The Church of 80% Sincerity – a new book by David Roche

Perigee, $19.95
160 pages
ISBN 978-0-399-53390-7

A review by Lynne Murray

I can pinpoint the exact page on which I decided to join The Church of 80% Sincerity—page 8. I’ll explain in a minute. Click to continue »

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When Penguin Books asked if I was interested in turning my signature one man show, “The Church of 80% Sincerity,” into a book with the same title, I was excited and eager.

In some ways I was well prepared. For example, I already had an agent from my life as a performer: Robyn Stecher, a warrior with heart who did the negotiating. But when I found myself with twelve pages of contract with very small type, and I had to come through with a book within six months, I was also quite afraid.

I had always found consolation in the old Irish saying, “Writers are failed talkers.” But I secretly feared the opposite was true as well. Click to continue »

 

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My Men’s Group

by David Roche

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