COMEDY NIGHT AT AZUL STARRING LA'S HOTTEST COMICS

Comedy Night at Azul Starring LA's Hottest Comics announces its Saturday, October 13 show featuring stand-up comic stars SCOTT SILVERMAN of Comedy Central’s Out There 2, A&E’s An Evening at The Improv, and LOGO’s Wisecrack comedy series, BETSY SALKIND of Showtime’s Fierce Funny Women, ABC’s Roseanne and NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and SHELAGH RATNER, the 2012 Winner of California’s Funniest Female, and of Lifetime’s Prank My Mom with Vivica A. Fox and Caroline’s of New York.  

The pre-show starts at 6:30PM and the show begins at 7:30PM.  With 32 sold-out shows in a row, reservations are highly encouraged.  Please call 760.325.5533.  Cover for this great show is only $10.  Azul is located at 369 N. Palm Canyon Drive in vibrant Downtown Palm Springs.   

SCOTT SILVERMAN

 Born and raised in Los Angeles, Scott avoided show business and was on a course to a career as an Automotive Journalist, but “did a 180” and moved to San Francisco to become a stand up comic, sensing that if he could make people laugh.  He has since gone on to open shows for Margaret Cho on her sold-out tours.  Scott has also appeared on several television shows, Including Comedy Central’s Out There 2 and such mainstream shows as A&E’s An Evening at The Improv, and more recent on LOGO’s Wisecrack comedy series.  He has also performed at the Montreal Just for Laugh’s Festival.  Scott was finalist in the San Francisco Comedy Competition.  He has performed in all 50 States, as well as Canada and Australia. 

BETSY SALKIND

Betsy Salkind is a comedian, actress and writer. Best known as “Squirrel Lady,” Betsy has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC), Girls Night Out (Lifetime), Last Comic Standing (NBC), Americas Funniest People (ABC) and ARLI$$ (HBO). She currently appears in Showtime’s Fierce Funny Women.  Betsy was a staffwriter for the television series, Roseanne (ABC) and Saturday Night Special (Fox). 

As a comedian, Betsy has performed at the Comedy Store in LA, La Jolla and London, The Improv in LA and San Francisco, Laugh Factory in LA, Comic Strip in New York, Malta Sports Club in Malta and comedy festivals and competitions in Toronto, Vail, San Francisco and LA.

As an actress, she has appeared in independent films, including Pauly Shore is Dead, and on stage in numerous one-woman shows and with comedy troupes Guilty Children, The Other White Meat, and Terrorist Bridesmaids. She is the author of More Than Once Upon A Time and Betsy's Sunday School Bible Classics (children's books for adults) as well as the blog Ethel's Law.

In her spare time, Betsy is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Association to Protect Children. She was instrumental in changing California law so to give equal protection to children sexually abused by family members. 

SHELAGH RATNER

Shelagh performs in comedy clubs across the US, has written for Life and Style magazine and can be seen and heard in national commercials.  Beginning October 9, she will be appearing on Lifetime’s hidden-camera comedy series, Prank My Mom with Vivica A. Fox. 

In June of this year, Shelagh won California’s Funniest Female Contest at Flapper’s Comedy Club in Burbank.  She trained at Groundlings East and she participated in several improv and sketch groups.  Based in Los Angeles, she appears at The Hollywood Improv, The World Famous Comedy Store and Caroline’s in New York.  Analytic and psychologically astute, Shelagh takes American culture to its absurd limits; Ratner’s sharp, brainy comments are tempered by her warm connection to the audience.    

Ratner was the voice of AT&T Wireless for eight years and gives frequent talks to aspiring voice-over actors. She currently records promos for OWN network.  

She recently wrote, directed and starred in We Got Spirit, an all-improvised mockumentary on NFL cheerleaders featuring Jennifer Coolidge (Stifler’s Mom from American Pie).  She recently taped a pilot for new internet channel Rant LA featuring LA’s hottest comics, airing on ABC television.  Other appearances include VH1’s Total Access. 

Further afield, she contributed her fashion spoofs in Life and Style’s Style Slip-ups for five years.