YPAC Presents Date Night: Comedy Night

As a card-carrying member of AARP, Joel Brill, aka, The Loveable Curmudgeon, has pretty much seen it all, done it all, and can’t remember most of it. He shares the bits and pieces that he can remember about life, with side-splitting results. His unique blend of comedy comes out as he discusses the challenges of being a senior citizen, marriage, business, dieting, kids, and a host of other topics. As a young man, he moved from a small, rural town on the east coast to Los Angeles because it was a cool place to live. He lives there now because it is a warm place to live.

Barry’s beginnings were unusual. After graduating from Northwestern University and completing a successful run in the famous Mee-Ow show (who’s celebrity members have included Julia Louis Dreyfus, Dermot Mulroney, George Newborn, Craig Bierko, Seth Meyers, and Ana Gasteyer), his brother dared him to go on stage at an open mic to do a routine. Barry was hit that night and knew that stand-up comedy was his next mountain to climb.

Barry learned from the best comedians in the country. Jerry Seinfeld was a regular. He watched people like Bill Maher, Ellen Degeneres, Paul Reiser, and Tim Allen just to name a few. Barry learned by not only watching these comics but by being a good listener when these comics would talk about comedy.

Barry’s style is clean, high energy, and relationship material was a hit in almost every market. He quickly moved up the comedy ladder and was on cable and network tv, from MTV, NBC, Comedy Central, and VH-1. Barry’s act was noticed by a production company that loved his Counselor of Love persona, and his act is currently being shopped as a sitcom called The Counselor of Love that Barry wrote along with his partner Dan Patterson, who was the creator and executive producer of Who’s Line Is It Anyway?