NCFF PRESENTS
COMEDY NIGHTS 2024!
UPCOMING SHOWS APRIL 12TH-14TH
All shows at the Historic Nevada Theatre
401 Broad Street, Nevada City, CA 95959
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Friday April 12th
Herd Mentality
Locals Stand Up Showdown
This year’s event kicks off with the first ever Herd Mentality: Stand-Up Showdown presented in association with The BVNKR (pronounced bunker). Come out to see 12-15 of the best local and regional comedians perform their funniest sets. At the end of the night, the audience will vote on which comedian wins the cash prize and the opening slot for Saturday night’s headliner show.
The Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street, Nevada City DOORS 7PM / SHOW 8pm / $10
Saturday April 13th
IRENE TU & IAN LARA
plus the winner of Friday Night's Showdown!
Come join us for a night filled with laughter at the historic Nevada Theatre. Get ready to be entertained by the hilarious performances of comedians Irene Tu and Ian Lara.
The Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street, Nevada City
DOORS 7PM / SHOW 8pm / $35
ABOUT IRENE TU
Irene Tu is an LA-based stand-up comedian, actor and writer who honed her chops in San Francisco. Her first comedy album WE’RE DONE NOW debuted in March of this year at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts. Irene has performed at Netflix Is A Joke comedy festival in the highly coveted “INTRODUCING” showcase. Her STAND-UP FEATURING set is the most watched reel on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up’s Instagram page, with over 2.7 million views. Paste Magazine praised Irene’s “quick wit, relaxed stage presence, and hilariously off-the-wall observations” in this album that “ticks all the boxes of a winning introduction, and then some.” She was named one of Vulture’s “Comedians You Should and Will Know” and singled out in The SF Chronicle as an “artist on the brink of fame.” She’s a regular at festivals and clubs around the country and opens for comics like Taylor Tomlinson and Patton Oswalt.
About IAN LARA
Ian Lara was named a Just for Laughs New Face of Comedy in 2021 and filmed a Comedy Central half-hour comedy special for their digital platform. Freeform television recently nominated him for The Boroughs’ Finest & Funniest at the 2021 Young, Black, and Freeform Awards. He currently has one of the highest watched on Facebook for their THIS WEEK AT THE COMEDY CELLAR set. He’s the host of the “Out of Tune” music game show app, was featured in “Variety” and “Cosmopolitan,” and debuted on Comedy Central in 2017. He was also featured in the first season of “Bring The Funny” on NBC and made his late night television debut on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in November 2019 and his HBO Entre Nos Special: “LA Meets NY: Chris Estrada and Ian Lara” debuted this past November. Ian’s HBO solo special “ROMANTIC COMEDY” is now streaming on MAX.
Sunday APRIL 14th
co-presented with Onyx Downtown
CLERKS
Dir: KEVIN SMITH
On Sunday, NCFF and the Onyx Downtown wraps the weekend with a special 30th Anniversary screening of the cult classic comedy Clerks.
Considered a landmark in independent filmmaking, Kevin Smith’s (Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mallrats) directorial debut made a huge splash when it premiered at Sundance 30 years ago. The film follows a day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof. With its quirky characters and clever, quotable dialogue, Clerks is the ultimate clarion call for slackers everywhere to unite and, uh, do something we guess?
THE Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street, Nevada City
DOORS 6:30PM / film 7pm / $10