Jimmy Tingle Live on Screen and Stage 
Brattle Theatre October 7, 8, 9 Click Here for Tickets!

“More than comic wit…so cheerfully intelligent he makes his audience optimistic in the face of appalling reality.  It takes a serious and well intentioned man to make one laugh to such good effect.”

“No Cheap Shots, Just “Sense.” Jimmy Tingle’s one-man show doesn’t capitalize on political crisis;

Instead his uplifting Uncommon Sense draws honest laughs.”

From Montreal Gazette – Read whole article here

MONTREAL – It’s a wrap for the 29th Just for Laughs festival. Just as well, because our sides are aching from nearly a month’s worth of guffaws.

But the challenge wasn’t just lining up stellar stand-ups and stars from the tube to titillate us. This year’s fest also entailed major change: moving a majority of the indoor and outdoor shows to the Quartier des Spectacles around Place des Arts.

Montrealers can be mightily resistant to change, but the consensus was that the move to centralize to the funkier Quartier des Spectacles – from the former and often ragtag St. Denis St. epicentre – was a major success. Certainly, the comics weren’t complaining. The unfinished portions of Ste. Catherine and St. Urbain Sts. provided them with endless fodder about our endless road construction woes – though it may not be so funny for the rest of us.

The numbers seem to support the move as well. Close to 2 million people – an increase over last year’s attendance figures, according to Just for Laughs – took in the fest’s 2,000-plus indoor and outdoor shows, feauring more than 500 French and English performers from 20 countries. Nearly 135,000 tickets were sold to the 158 indoor shows.

On the anglo side, this year’s fest marked the largest number of gala tickets sold. No big surprise, since the new venue, Salle Wilfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts, is larger than Théâtre St. Denis, the previous site for those shows. It didn’t hurt that Russell Peters hosted four sold-out galas. On the non-gala front, tickets were all gobbled up for the Louis C.K. and Daniel Tosh shows at Théâtre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Just+Laughs+2011+right+moves/5192245/story.html#ixzz1VQeXXcnb

Jimmy Tingle explains why he loves the Boston Red Sox!

From FilmMaker Magazine Click Here to Read Full Article

Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream (pictured above) is a delicious, humorous romp through one man’s probing mind, interspaced with the commentary of notables from Robert Altman to Howard Zinn to Jimmy’s mother Francis (certainly notable to Jimmy). This is not an American Dream that jumps reality. There is criticism, and a look at the underbelly of America, yet Jimmy’s smile of optimism always returns.

A comedian from Boston with national recognition, Tingle’s boxer-like body twists and jabs to the rhythms and meanings of his spoken words. He leaps forward for an exclamation mark! Steps back to give us space to contemplate. Lunges toward the camera to drive home a point! Sweeps his arm wide to build drama. Tingle is working class with a sharp mind, American patriotic with an open mind, funny guy with a wallop of a verbal punch.

After an hour of Tingle’s American Dream, you may not feel better about America, you may not even feel better about the American Dream, but you will definitely feel better. And this is probably Tingle’s hidden agenda: make Americans feel better, which will draw Americans closer together and reduce some of the country’s ugly and destructive divisions.