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Comedian Tommy Savitt
Tommy Savitt--Winner of the 2007 Boston Comedy Festival AND The 2008 Seattle International Comedy Competition!
Tommy's journey to bring laughter to those that sacrifice for our country has taken him to AirForce,Army,and Naval bases in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Japan, South Korea, Bahrain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Curacao, Honduras, and Ecuador. Tommy has done it all - even performing at the United States Embassy in Belarus. This year,Tommy is scheduled to go to the Balkans,Turkey,and Iraq to do what he does best make 'em laugh.
Tommy has also gone international in other ways,making his mark on the Canadian comedy circuit,headlining Saskatoon's Great Plains Comedy Festival and Calgary's FunnyFest. What David Hasselhoff is to Germany, Tommy Savitt is to Canada but, better looking. Tommy has also appeared on Si TV's "Funny is Funny", Comcasts' "Boston Comedy Festival", National Lampoon,and commercials including Adidas, Monster.com, and Lowe's. As an actor, Tommy starred as Horatio in Love's Labours Lost at the Expanded Arts Theatre in New York City.
Former attorney Tommy Savitt's locker-room humor is out of order!
Savitt started his comedy career in 1994 while still in school. He would play New York comedy clubs but humor didn't become a full time occupation until 1999. After five years he found his comedic voice, which often finds him uttering "Hey, Tommy,'' to himself onstage followed by a joke and a punch line.
For example, "Hey Tommy, I want to spend more time with my husband, what should I do?'' "Get yourself a job at a topless bar.''
The humor may sound slightly misogynistic, but Savitt, 28, tempers it by being instantly likable. Punch lines are delivered with a smile. He hit upon his stage personality eight years ago.
"I tried, like, 12 different personas until I found the right one," he says.
"I found the voice that is actually the closest to who I am, and it's the one people relate to."
For example, he wonders aloud onstage:
"I just got my girlfriend pregnant. ... How long should I wait before I start dating again?"
Thanks to his prickly humor, women occasionally object to the gags in his set.
"But that's because they're just listening to the words," he says.
"My act is not mean-spirited. It's all tongue-in-cheek. Some people don't get irony. But if they get offended, hey, that's my right to free speech."
And Savitt knows what he's talking about in that area, too. He's more than just a not-so-smooth operator. He's an attorney licensed to practice in New York and Connecticut.
"No one believes I'm a lawyer, even when I say it onstage," he says with a sigh.
"They think it's an act."
But he graduated from Brooklyn Law School with plans to become a judge advocate general until he got a taste of Marine boot camp.
"I would make the drill instructors laugh," he says.
"They encouraged me. That's when I realized I had this power."
He later took a two-week course in stand-up comedy -- don't laugh, he swears by classes -- before turning professional. He hasn't practiced law in years.
"All I do is comedy. This is my passion. I'm in this for the long run."
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LocationMarson's Restaurant
620 SE Everett Mall Way
Everett, WA 98208
United States
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