This just in:
The “Godfather of Boston Comedy,” Dick Doherty, will shell out more than $1,000 for the funniest amateur stand-up comic in Boston.
The Beantown Comedy Riot 2009, slated for Thursdays — 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, and the FINALS -8/27 — has 50 funnymen and women competing for the ‘top banana’ honor.
Veteran comics Doherty, Robbie Printz, Jim Lauletta, John David & Kevin Knox, guest star.
The ‘Riot’ shows are open to the public, at Dick Doherty’s Beantown Vault, Remington’s Restaurant, 124 Boylston St., Boston. . They start at 8:30 p.m. and tickets are $15.
Call 800-401-2221 for more information.
