{"id":2818,"date":"2016-12-16T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mateel.org\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2017-01-20T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:42:03","slug":"jan-13th-mateel-comedy-cabaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mateel.org\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 13th: Mateel Comedy Cabaret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Mateel Community Center \u2013 59 Rusk Lane, Redway<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Friday, January 13<sup>th<\/sup>. Doors open at 8:00pm. Show starts at 8:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:<\/strong> $10 cover at the door.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Mateel Community Center. (707) 923-3368. <a href=\"mailto:office@mateel.org\" target=\"_blank\">office@mateel.org<\/a>,\u00a0Tony Persico. (707) 502-9656. <a href=\"mailto:av.persico@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">av.persico@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mateel Community Center presents their monthly Comedy Cabaret. The funniest comedians from both far and near come together each month to bring you the very best stand-up comedy in Humboldt County.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is Featured:<\/strong> January features two of the very best comedians from the Bay Area \u2013 Daymon Ferguson and Iris Benson. Joining them is Humboldt\u2019s own Kim Hodges.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2818 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mateel.org\/?attachment_id=2828'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Daymon-Ferguson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Daymon Ferguson\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Daymon-Ferguson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Daymon-Ferguson-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Daymon-Ferguson.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2828'>\n\t\t\t\tDaymon Ferguson\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mateel.org\/?attachment_id=2829'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iris-Benson-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Iris Benson\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iris-Benson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iris-Benson-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Iris-Benson.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2829'>\n\t\t\t\tIris Benson\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mateel.org\/?attachment_id=2830'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kim-Hodges-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Kim Hodges\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kim-Hodges-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kim-Hodges-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kim-Hodges.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2830'>\n\t\t\t\tKim Hodges\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Daymon Ferguson Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daymon Ferguson hails from Hell. Or rather, Oroville California, where he was born into a white trash tradition that he\u2019s been trying to escape ever since. High school brought the impetus Daymon needed to become a comedian\u2014he announced to his tenth grade drama teacher that he would one day become a stand-up comic. He got right on that, too. A mere twenty years later, here he is! But first he had to take care of a few other careers\u2014Daymon has been a diesel truck mechanic, pizza delivery guy, forklift mechanic, waiter, racecar driver, ditch digger, exotic dancers\u2019 bodyguard, and lawyer. All of which have helped prepare him for a career standing up in front of a bunch of people, sharing his most intimate feelings and telling jokes about genitals. \u00a0Ten years of work as a lawyer taught Daymon to truly despise lawyers. Since making the decision to quit law for comedy, he\u2019s started to feel his soul growing back. It kind of itches.<\/p>\n<p>When he\u2019s not telling jokes, Daymon likes to tempt the fates that have let him live for the last 35 years. He flies small planes, scuba dives, is an avid hiker\/backpacker and pretends to be a medieval warrior by putting on 50 pounds of plate metal and running around in the blazing sun getting hit by big men with sticks. He is also an actor, a half-assed guitar player, and an avid wine connoisseur. (But please don\u2019t call him a wine geek\u2014he prefers the far more dignified \u201ccork dork.\u201d) He\u2019ll pay $100 for a bottle of wine. But in beer he is true to his white trash roots\u2014he refuses to spend more than $6 on a 12-pack. Daymon lives in San Jose, California with his lovely wife, his lovely daughters, his dog, cats, some hate filled love birds, and a bunch of fussy, demanding, and emotionally abusive houseplants. Daymon is a regular at clubs all over the country and has been a featured performer in the Laugh Your Ashville Off and Laughing Skull comedy festivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daymonferguson.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/21xeY3AxGRY\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iris Benson Bio: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iris Benson is a comedian because no other profession will have her and that includes drug dealing and prostitution. Since her comedy debut in 2011 she\u2019s garnered such praise as \u201cbleak and honest,\u201d \u201cpleasantly dark,\u201d \u201cwonderfully weird\u201d and \u201cpretty good for a woman\u201d by no one worth mentioning.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Sumi of Toronto Now described her as \u201cleast likeable\u201d, \u201cangry\u201d and \u201cmisanthropic\u201d to which her best friend\u2019s husband, Clint, retorted via Facebook \u201cHe doesn&#8217;t like angry and misanthropic comics? &#8211; so he&#8217;s missing out on George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Dennis Leary, Lewis Black, Roseanne Barr&#8230;&#8230;pretty much all my favorite comics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow comic Mean Dave says of her, \u201cShe is a very sweet person and a funny comedian who I relate to very much. And she once drove a table of Mormons away with one fell swoop of an anal sex joke simply cuz {sic} she didn&#8217;t know that&#8217;s how young Mormon girls preserve their virginity.\u201d and comic and author Steve Mix says, \u201cWarn your children about Iris Benson&#8230;before it is too late.\u201d Iris has performed all over the United States.<strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irisbenson.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ogv0zM7KNVY\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2820\" src=\"http:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cabaret-poster.jpg\" alt=\"Mateel Comedy Cabaret\" width=\"600\" height=\"927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cabaret-poster.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cabaret-poster-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cabaret-poster-560x865.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mateel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cabaret-poster-500x773.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: Mateel Community Center \u2013 59 Rusk Lane, Redway When: Friday, January 13th. Doors open at 8:00pm. Show starts at 8:30pm. Cost: $10 cover at the door. Contact: Mateel Community Center. (707) 923-3368. office@mateel.org,\u00a0Tony Persico. (707) 502-9656. av.persico@gmail.com Mateel Community Center presents their monthly Comedy Cabaret. 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