The Comedy Zone returns to Lynchburg, Va- Sean Finnerty & Jordan S. Huggins

708 Crowell Ln,Lynchburg VA 24502

02 March, 2023

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Thursday, March 2nd Headliner: Sean Finnerty After 21 years of growing up in Longford, Ireland, Sean Finnerty decided to move stateside where a series of mature decisions he failed to make led him to stand-up comedy. Recently he was rewarded for his efforts as he became the first ever Irish comedian to perform on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (2019). Spending his first number of years in comedy based out of Orlando, Sean was selected for Comedy Central’s Up Next competition (2013) resulting in him opening for WWE hall of famer Mick Foley. A breakout year in 2015 saw Sean make his television debut as co-host of Season 9 of Fireball Run on Amazon Prime as well as being to selected to perform at the Boston Comedy Festival. In 2016 Sean moved to New York where he quickly became known as one to watch, performing at famous venues such as The Comedy Cellar, Gotham Comedy Club, Caroline’s on Broadway, The Stand and The Friars Club. Recently, he has also performed at several festivals including Laugh Your Asheville Off (2017)  Edinburgh Fringe (2018) and Electric Picnic (2018), along with making it to the semifinals of the nationwide talent search Stand Up NBC. A keen eye for detail Sean has also developed a reputation as a Roaster as of 2019 became the number 1 ranked roast comic in New York City. Feature Act: Jordan Scott Huggins Jordan Scott Huggins is a comic and tv writer based in Raleigh, NC. He has been a featured performer at a number of national comedy festivals and was a finalist at the Laughing Devil Comedy Competition in NYC in 2018. He's opened for Brent Morin, Jon Crist, and TJ Miller. He has written for VH1, TV Land, Comedy Central, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. MC: Rob Ruthenberg Former nationally touring comedian turned radio and TV host Rob Ruthenberg has been working with some the top talents in comedy such as Adam Sandler. George Carlin, Kevin James, Weird Al Yankovic and more. Working comedy clubs and colleges for over 30 years he is proud to bring is biting observational humor back to the place he has called home most of his life. Karaoke with DJ Cam to follow! 9-11pm The Comedy Zone appears the first Thursday monthly here at The Clubhouse.