Fargo Comedy Fest

Presented by Captain Morgan

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM Natasha Leggero ABOUT Fargo Comedy Fest Presented By Captain Morgan! “To my amazing fans, Not exactly kicking off my tour with a bang as I am canceling my first show. Fargo, please understand! I am a worried new mom and I don’t feel comfortable leaving my baby amidst an escalating global pandemic while LA is in a state of emergency. My husband, Moshe Kasher, is a very brave man of his word so he will be there. I am not scared of Fargo, just the hourly escalation of all things Corona here in LA and I don’t feel comfortable traveling and leaving my child. Please accept my truly talented replacement, Nick Thune.” Laughs are still on the agenda this weekend! Nick has been on The Tonight Show seven times, has a stand-up special on Netflix titled Nick Thune: Folk Hero. Moshe and Nick can’t wait to perform at the historic Fargo Theatre TONIGHT with The Cellar’s favorite John Kennedy! Before the show, stop by The Cellar and catch your favorite local comedians. Following the show, there will be an after party at Marge’s Bar. We invite you to join us and laugh + drink with the best company in the Midwest. Tickets will be available at the door of The Fargo Theatre. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Tickets300 at 866-300-8300 or by email at [email protected].

Date

March 06 - 07, 2020
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Location

Fargo Theatre
314 Broadway N, Fargo, ND

Cost

$39.50 - $99.50
  • Doors: 8:00 pm
  • Audience: Mature
  • Seating: Reserved Seats

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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM Natasha Leggero ABOUT Fargo Comedy Fest Presented By Captain Morgan! “To my amazing fans, Not exactly kicking off my tour with a bang as I am canceling my first show. Fargo, please understand! I am a worried new mom and I don’t feel comfortable leaving my baby amidst an escalating global pandemic while LA is in a state of emergency. My husband, Moshe Kasher, is a very brave man of his word so he will be there. I am not scared of Fargo, just the hourly escalation of all things Corona here in LA and I don’t feel comfortable traveling and leaving my child. Please accept my truly talented replacement, Nick Thune.” Laughs are still on the agenda this weekend! Nick has been on The Tonight Show seven times, has a stand-up special on Netflix titled Nick Thune: Folk Hero. Moshe and Nick can’t wait to perform at the historic Fargo Theatre TONIGHT with The Cellar’s favorite John Kennedy! Before the show, stop by The Cellar and catch your favorite local comedians. Following the show, there will be an after party at Marge’s Bar. We invite you to join us and laugh + drink with the best company in the Midwest. Tickets will be available at the door of The Fargo Theatre. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Tickets300 at 866-300-8300 or by email at [email protected].

About

Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher will co-headline the Friday, March 6, event. Leggero first catapulted to fame as host of MTV’s The 70s House and her stint on Chelsea Lately. Her observational comedy is noted for pop culture influences. Leggero is best known for her stand up career and has appeared on late-night shows such as Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Late Show with James Corden. She was also regularly featured as a panelist on Chelsea Lately and also on shows like “@midnight.” She and her husband, Kasher, also released “The Honeymoon Stand-up Special” on Netflix last year.

In addition, Leggero co-created and starred in the Comedy Central series Another Period. Her other acting roles include Dice, A Million Little Things and Ugly Americans.

Actor/comedian/writer Kasher has quickly become one of Hollywood’s most in demand and highly regarded talents. He is the author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16.

Moshe can also be seen in his 2017 Comedy Central talk show, Problematic with Moshe Kasher. Named one of Variety’s “10 Comics To Watch,” Kasher is native to Comedy Central serving as co-executive producer on Another Period, on which he is also a cast member. He makes frequent appearances on Comedy Central’s @midnight with Chris Hardwick, This Is Not Happening, and Drunk History and has also appeared on the series Not Safe with Nikki Glaser and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. Kasher has also had roles on Portlandia, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The League, Shameless, Maron, Garfunkel and Oates and The New Normal.

Kasher has written for several films, series and specials including, Wet Hot American Summer, Zoolander 2, Another Period and the Comedy Central Roasts. He co-hosted the popular podcast The Champs and is the host of The Hound Tall Discussion Series on the Nerdist Network. In 2012, he released his first one-hour special, Moshe Kasher: Live in Oakland.

Joel McHale will headline the Saturday, March 7, event. McHale is one of the most sought-after comedians and actors in the industry. ​He was most recently seen in The Happy Time Murders as well as Netflix’s A Futile & Stupid Gesture opposite Will Forte, in which he played Chevy Chase, his former Community co-star. McHale also recently hosted The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale on Netflix, a half-hour topical series that took a sharp, absurdist look at pop culture and news from across the globe. ​In 2015, McHale wrapped the 12th and final season of E! Network’s The Soup, in which he satirized pop culture and current events. He is best known for his starring role on the hit comedy series Community, which ended its sixth season on Yahoo! after five seasons on NBC.

He previously starred in The Great Outdoors on CBS, where he played a renowned adventure reporter who took a desk job in the digital department of a magazine. He was also seen on Fox’s revival of The X-Files, where he played a conservative news anchor. Other starring feature roles include A Merry Friggin’ Christmas opposite Robin Williams, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced supernatural thriller Deliver Us From Evil, the Warner Bros’ romantic comedy Blended alongside Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, Seth MacFarlane’s comedy smash Ted, David Frankel’s The Big Year, Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant as well as What’s Your Number? starring Chris Evans and Anna Faris. In 2014, McHale hosted the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington D.C. He also hosted the 2015 ESPYS on ABC. In the fall of 2016, McHale released his first book through Putnam Penguin, ​Thanks For The Money: How to Use My Life Story To Become The Best Joel McHale You Can Be​, which is part memoir, part self-help guide.

Amber Preston has fifteen years of stand-up experience to national commercials for Buffalo Wild Wings, Comcast, and pretty much every Midwest insurance company imaginable, actor/comic/producer Amber Preston is as mischievously charismatic onstage as she is onscreen.