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BLAIRSTOWN — Buck Hill Brewery and Park. She also co-starred in include guest-starring roles on “Louie,” Restaurant presents a comedy night, featuring Off-Broadway’s “Clinton! The Musical” “Broad City,” “Friends From College,” “The Judy Gold, on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 9 p.m. Doors and “Disasater! The Musical.” Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “The Jim open for dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35, plus a $25 Gold recently appeared on “The Late Gaffigan Show,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” food/drink minimum. Show with Stephen Colbert.” She can “Difficult People,” “30 Rock,” “2 Broke Buck Hill Brewery is located at 45 State Route be seen on the new Showtime series Girls,” “Melissa & Joey” and “The Big C?” 94, Blairstown. Call 908-854-5300 or visit buckhill- “I’m Dying Up Here” and Netflix’s Gold also won two Emmy awards for brewery.com. “Friends From College.” She has writing and producing “The Rosie Gold has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy recurring roles on Pop TV’s O’Donnell Show.” She was the host of Thursday, January 18, 2018 Thursday, Central and LOGO. She has also written and “NightCap!” and TBS’s HBO’s “At The Multiplex with Judy starred in two critically acclaimed, Off-Broadway “Search Party.” Gold” and was an original cast hit shows, “The Judy Show — My Life as a Sitcom” She was featured in member of Tru TV’s “World’s (Outer Critics Circle Nomination) and “25 Woody Allen’s series “Crisis In Dumbest.” Questions for a Jewish Mother” (GLAAD Media Six Scenes” on Amazon, and Award — Outstanding N.Y. Theater, Drama Desk also appears on the hit Nomination — Actor). web-series “The Other F JUDY GOLD She received rave reviews portraying Gremio in Word,” which is featured on The Public Theater’s all-female production of “The Amazon Prime. Gold’s other Taming of The Shrew” for Shakespeare in the most recent TV appearances Steve Solomon brings hit Jim Breuer up close one-man show to Newton at Bernie’s Hillside CHESTER — Not long NEWTON — The hit comedy, “My after Jim Breuer did his first Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m official standup gig in in Therapy!” stars the author and Broadway Clearwater, Fla., in 1989, star of the show, Steve Solomon. This show industry folks began asking has become one of the longest running one- him, “What’s your point of man comedies in history, having just cele- view?” brated its 4,000th performance. “I don’t know…” He Solomon brings the show to The Newton searched for a meaningful Theatre on Sunday, Jan. 21, at 3 p.m. Tickets response to a ridiculous ques- cost $29-$44. Call 973-940-NEWT or visit tion. “To make people www.thenewtontheatre.com. The Newton laugh?” Theatre is located at 234 Spring St., Newton. The freewheeling, New Using dialects, accents and sound effect, York-bred comic storyteller Solomon brings to the stage dozens of wild — who made the list of characters we all relate to, all brought to life Comedy Central’s “100 by his comedy magic. His four shows have Greatest Standups of All had audiences in three countries guffawing Time” — is hotter than ever, since 2003. Almost one million people have a global touring sensation seen his shows. The audience follows along and regular presence on on this wonderfully funny journey about radio and television whose growing up, mixed marriages, ex-wives, rabid audience, he’s thrilled JIM BREUER dogs, cats, dieting and dozens of other side- to note, is filled with “lifetim- splitting situations we can all relate to. ers.” Once folks see him live, young teens to see the family Described as “One part lasagna, one part they’re hooked. man and father of three kreplach, and two parts Prozac,” you don’t On Wednesday, fans in and daughters, all providing have to be Jewish or Italian to love this STEVE SOLOMON around his hometown of genius “dad” material for his show. All you need is to know what it feels Chester will have a chance to sets. Having evolved both like to leave a family dinner with heartburn see him in an intimate show personally and professionally and a headache. the irresistible urge to follow his heart and at Bernie’s Hillside, 125 since the beginning, Breuer’s For Steve Solomon, the road to a career in write comedy. Hillside Road, Chester, at 8 pleased to say he’s been comedy began during his childhood in He left his academic career behind and p.m. Breuer is a regular at F-word free for 10 years and Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where he picked turned his attention to his latent love of mak- Bernie’s, often stopping by on counting. up the many accents and dialects he heard ing people laugh. As Solomon puts it, “I Wednesday evenings. Call Breuer came to national on the streets of his multi-ethnic neighbor- decided to follow my heart and become an 908-879-7120 for more infor- attention during his seasons hood. This self-professed “class clown” grew impoverished comedy writer and perform- mation. on “Saturday Night Live” up to become a physics teacher and an assis- er.” He returned to his roots to write the Breuer estimates that 78 (1995-98), a rebuilding era tant superintendent of schools. He used autobiographical one-man show: the three- percent of his fans have seen whose cast featured Will humor, dialects, and sound effects to inspire time award winning “My Mother’s Italian, him “five, six, seven” times. Ferrell, David Spade and his students and tick off his fellow adminis- My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy!” has It’s becoming a family thing, Norm McDonald. But don’t trators. Eventually, however, Solomon felt See SOLOMON, Page 5 with parents even bringing See BREUER, Page 5