Just in time for another Giants’ playoff run, I salsa’d over to the drawing board and did this Victor Cruz pen & ink piece. The 11″x14″ drawing shows number 80 in the middle of his 74 yard touchdown run against the hated Cowboys.

I’d normally sell a piece like this for around $100, but I’m running a $75 playoff special. To purchase, e-mail cm@craigmahoney.com

We’ve already booked nationally known headliners, such as Otto & George, Joe Matarese, and Rich Vos for the ComedyFest, and I’m locking down the last few venues as you read this.

However, I am not nearly capable of putting this all together myself, and while I do have some other comics and friends already helping me, we’re going to need a lot more help. Here’s what I need:

• Volunteers to help run the actual shows,  i. e. collect tickets and admission, seat people, hand out promotional items, set up and break down PA & stage area, etc.
• Street crew to hand out flyers in the community,  as well as working with local businesses and store fronts to hang posters.
• Web/graphic design help for the JSCF website, as well as poster & t-shirt designs
• Sales help. We’re looking for sponsors for the entire festival, as well as for the individual shows themselves.

As I’ve said, this will be primarily volunteer work, but will be a great and fun experience creating what will hopefully become a yearly event that will just grow and grow, not to mention meeting an working with some of the funniest people in the area.

If at all interested, please e-mail me at cm (at) craigmahoney dot com.

Craig Mahoney presents… “Don’t You Know I’m Loco?’

A new weekly stand-up showcase featuring some of the finest rising comedians form NY & NJ, including comics seen on Comedy Central, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, MTV,  and VH1.

The show starts 10:30pm every Thursday at Boca Grande, located at 564 Washington Blvd in downtown Jersey City, just a block away from the Newport PATH station.

Here it is, my finished Mariano Rivera painting, available for purchase. E-mail cm@craigmahoney.com for info.

“Number 42″, 2011 36″x24″, acrylic on canvas – $400

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I spent the weekend working on a new painting of the greatest closer in the history of time and space, one Mariano Rivera. I’ll be finishing it up by tomorrow afternoon or evening, so check back here. It will be made for sale, if anyone wants to lay a claim to it now, shoot me an e-mail at cm@craigmahoney.com

Here’s some pics of the work in progress:

Time for another round of Beach Front Comedy @ Charley’s Ocean Grill, featuring a lineup of NJ & NYC’s best up-and-coming stand-up comics.

Roll Call!

DERIK BOIK
GORDON BAKER-BONE
JESSICA SAGER
JIM GINTY
JOE PONTILLO
KELLY SIMMERS

Hosted by your ol’ pal Craiggers.

$10 admission, plus 1 drink minimum
Discounted admission for Monmouth Park employees and NJ Craft Beer members.

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Craft Brewed Comedy returns to Jack’s Goal Line Stand this Sunday with another great lineup of comics, specials from our good friends at BEACH HAUS BEER, and a special offer for employees of Monmouth Park Racetrack!

featuring…

JARRET BERENSTEIN (Stand-Up 360 Festival, Broadway Comedy Club)
BRIAN FRANGE (New York Comedy Club,  The Village Lantern)
ANDY HUDAK (Stress Factory, Jersey Jokers)
CHRISSIE MAYR (MTV, Women In Comedy Festival)
COREY REPPOND (Stand-Up 360 Festival, Stand-Up NY)

Hosted, as always, by your ol’ pal Craiggers

$7 admission, plus 1 drink minimum
$5 admission with current Monmouth Park Racetrack ID

FINE DISTILLED COMEDY
Tue 05/24, 8pm

Roll call!!!

RAY DEVITO – (Stand Up NY, Comedy Central’s AtomTV)
JOE LIST – (HBO’s Las Vegas Comedy Festival, Comedy Central’s Live At Gotham)
MARK NORMAND – (NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Montreal Comedy Festival)
CHRISSIE MAYR – (Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, Women in Comedy Festival)
RAY RUMMEL – (Comix, Caroline’s)
LUKE YOUNGER – (The Laugh Lounge, Stand Up NY)

And hosted by… CRAIG MAHONEY – (that drunk at the bar who kept hitting on your girlfriend)

DORRIAN’S is located right across the street from the Newport PATH station.

$8 admission + 1 drink minimum

Plus, promotions and giveaways from our good friends at BEACH HAUS BEER!

8pm, Sunday, April 10th
Jack’s Goal Line Stand (back room)
149 Brighton Ave
Long Branch, NJ

featuring…
RAY DEVITO – Comedy Central’s AtomTV & Asylum.com
GORDON BAKER-BONE – Stress Factory, winner NJ Comedy Festival’s “King of Campus Comedy”
JOE PONTILLO – Stand Up NY, Governor’s, CringeHumor.com
LIZ RUSSO – Caroline’s , producer of Punchline Entertainment
CHRIS COVERT – Host of Comedy at the Dublin House, founder JerseyJokers.com
PATRICK BEAN – Stage 4 Comedy, The Second Place Champions

hosted by…
CRAIG MAHONEY – NJ State Divorce Court, various police blotters

$3 BEACH HAUS pints
$7 admission + 1 drink minimum