We have another great show with a terrific line up at the M Bar!!!

Videos from each of the performers can be seen at StringsOfComedy.com.

Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E (www.SmoothEtv.ning.com) One of the nation’s hottest rising stand-up headliners, Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E and his music have appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” BET’s “Comic View,” Showtime’s “White Boyz in the Hood,” Mun2, SiTV and more. As dusk sets on the suburban corporate park, a lyrical fire glows from a pocket-protected heart. Mild ManNerd Eric Schwartz morphs from middle management to M.C., delivering his message with lyrical force. If you see him holding a microphone, he’s not there to fix it; he’s there to rip it. He is Smooth-E.

Tyrants in Therapy (www.TyrantsInTherapy.com) A cross between The Eurythmics and Mel Brooks, or maybe a New Yorker cartoon set to music. Which in itself is pretty strange since the Tyrants have always been based in L.A. Drenched in sophistication, dripping with acerbic wit, tumble dried in absurdity, the TIT live show is a kaleidoscope of social commentary, dance beats, a lick of kick-ass country, a healthy dollop of New Wave, and a decadent dose of Cabaret. It’s a one-of a-kind performance so mind-bending you’ll forget how to get home.

Kelly Meyersfield (www.KellyMeyersfield.com) Born on Long Island to a urologist, Kelly was surrounded by dick talk from the very beginning. Her sweet little face gives nothing away but her music tells us all that she is one of the funniest and most perverse gals around.

Sven Amsterdam (myspace.com/lacomedian) A comedian who likes hot babes and domestic beer. Plays electric guitar and sings very funny songs about speed dating.

Chris Valenti (www.ChrisValentiMusic.com) Valenti’s songs, films, and jokes about foiled romantic opportunities and neurotic misadventures, radiate the painfully funny universal suffering we all endure. His live show is part music, part comedy, and when possible, part cinema. A hopeful romantic with a twisted sense of humor, Chris uses blunt honesty, vulnerability, and self-deprecation to write comedy about the frustrations of life and attempted relationships. (www.ChrisValentiMusic.com)

The cover charge at the door is $10, but you can buy half price tickets here – http://www.goldstar.com/events/hollywood-ca/the-strings-of-comedy-1.html

Check out the videos of previous shows a couple inches down from where you’re looking, or at StringsOfComedy.com.

Next show is July 22 at the M Bar. Performers included: Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E, Sven Amsterdam, Tyrants of Therapy, Kelly Meyersfield, and Chris Valenti

We’ll have a great not-to-be-missed show featuring some hilarious crooning satirists including:

Phil Johnson communicates to the audience that no matter what problems they’re going through, there’s always someone even more screwed up than them. Phil Johnson is, in fact, a raging optimist. And better yet, it’s all set to music.

Oded Gross , generally speaking, is a pretty open guy. Except when it comes to people who are different than him. Then his tolerance wanes. His videos “It’s All Because (the gays are getting married)” and “Just Found a Red Sock (in the laundry while washing my KKK sheet)” are both huge internet sensations.

Cynthia Carle is a meat-eating hybrid-driving screen-writing singer-songwriter with life high points that include being caricatured in the New York Times by Al Hirschfeld with a Nina in her hair during the Broadway run of Is There Life After High School?, singing Beethoven’s 9th at Disney Hall for Zubin Mehta, and turning down the opportunity to be killed while sitting on a toilet in Psycho III. Or was it IV. Low points include burning off her fingerprints while wiring up the muffler on a Dodge Dart on the Ohio Turnpike, not hitting the streets and turning cars over when the election was hijacked in 2000, and reading The Da Vinci Code.

Bobby Banuelos Do you want a stand up who can cover topics ranging from marriage… to using “the force” at a grocery store… to motorcycle cops and those ridiculous boots they wear all without dropping a single “f – bomb”? Bobby’s your guy. Do you want a musician who writes his own comedic songs and rocks out on the guitar to tunes like “I Lost My Virginity to Me” (a crowd favorite and request)? Bobby’s your guy. Do you want a performer so charming, likable, and self-deprecating that audiences all over this great nation have called him “charming, likable, and self-deprecating”? You get the picture.

Alicyn Packard Whether she’s doing stand up, rocking the mic, or acting on screen, you can bet Ali’s having fun. She beams with a playfulness and youthful exuberance that is both contagious and energizing. With ukulele in hand she’ll serenade you with unexpectedly catchy and hilarious tunes. Her unique brand of sweet and sassy stand up has graced the stages of The Improv, The Comedy Store, Room 5 and many other clubs around Los Angeles.

Chris Valenti is a romantic comedy expert. A gifted songwriter, wry stand up comic, and award-winning filmmaker, Chris allows his vulnerability to guide his writings about the hazards of love and relationships. He appeared in the hit film in theaters recently, “17 Again” and is currently making a monthly short film for FunnyOrDie.com – he premieres each month’s new short at every Strings of Comedy show.

The show starts at 7 and is being held a The Talking Stick – 1411 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA, 90291. The cover, as always, is $10, but 1/2 price tickets are available at StringsOfComedy.com.

How long will it last? Are we saying the right things? …. There’s got to be a password to get out of this hellhole. Is this sadistic, evil woman just toying with me and enjoying it? These are the some of the questions my new song, “The No-Sex Zone”, explores.

Come hear the tune’s debut this Friday night (May 15) at Genghis Cohen, 8 o’clock. I’ll be performing the entire hour – not just that song, but others as well. It will be my first solo full length show of the year. I’ll get to play a bunch of the old, more musical material that I don’t get to perform in the comedy clubs. Come join me. Genghis Cohen is located at 740 N Fairfax Ave, just north of Melrose.