Comedy Night at Sam Hill - 9/19/24

Get ready for another night of side-splitting laughter at Sam Hill in Ann Arbor! Join us for an unforgettable comedy show featuring some of the best in the business:

• Headliner: Ned Rice
• Host: Pam Palmieri
• Featuring: Carlo Merrick, Gini Sikes and Joel Marshall

With this incredible lineup, you're guaranteed a night full of hilarious moments and great entertainment. Bring your friends, grab a drink, and settle in for an evening of comedy that will leave you laughing long after the show ends!

Headliner:  Ned Rice is a Detroit native who is a nationally known comedian and writer based in Michigan. He has worn many hats during his lengthy career including producer and Emmy-nominated writer for legends such as Jay Leno, Bill Maher and Joan Rivers. He is back home in Michigan pursuing a career in stand-up comedy. But the title Ned's most proud of is Mom to his three awesome kids Staten Island, Catch Basin, and Dulcimer. "You guys rock- love you to the moon and back!" says Ned.

Host: Pam Palmieri is a comedian based in Detroit who was born in the heart of the baby boomer era in Michigan. She was raised in CA with a pit stop in NY, and is now back in her home state performing comedy. Her love for aviation, sparked at a young age, has taken her soaring through the skies, providing ample material for her side-splitting tales of turbulence and triumph. With a passion for her dogs and aviation, she seamlessly weaves hilarious anecdotes and observations into her stand-up routines, captivating audiences with her wit and charm.

Featuring:  Carl Merrick, Gini Sikes and Joel Marshall 

Carl Merrick is a Michigan based comedian who has performed at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle, Laugh Factory in Chicago, Detroit House of Comedy, Funny Bone in Toledo, The Comedy Project in Grand Rapids, One Night Stans and has hosted at The Second City in Chicago, as well at the Traverse City Comedy Club. Carl will be featuring at The Comedy Chateau in Los Angeles this winter.  A finalist in Ridley's Detroit to LA Competition, he has also performed in Gilda’s Laughfest, Maumee Comedy Festival, Jersey City Comedy Festival, and the Finger Lakes Comedy Festival.

Gini Sikes is an LA-based comedian. She appears at The Improv, The Comedy Store, The Gotham Comedy Club -- as well as at multiple crime scenes. Gini is also an award-winning journalist who has interviewed serial murderers, drug mules, and gangbangers. Exploring life's dark side was her destiny.  Drawing from her off-beat life, Gini explores her missteps as a clueless divorcee, her hatred of unicorns, and her frequent faux pas due to a case of benign turrets and no self-censor. A "pessimistic Pollyanna", she performs comedy to make sense of it all. 

Joel Marshall: Joel Marshall is an actor, comedian and host, and is well known for his live streaming program Joel Marshall’s Lunch Therapy. It began at the start of the COVID lockdown and has been running ever since. A stand-up comic and actor in Hollywood, Joel was struck by the idea that he wouldn’t have venues in which to perform, so he immediately took to YouTube. His show has grown from daily stand-up comedy into a live streaming variety show that takes place every Tuesday and Friday at noon Pacific. There is always a very live chat room and many witty regulars and a cast of fun characters. The show is a constantly evolving hour of fun sketches, commercials, animals, science, and all the best actors, directors, activists, artist and comedians joining in for live interviews and performances. Joel likes to keep an open mind to the possibilities and the ever-changing landscape of comedy and acting and find new ways to inject technology directly into people’s funny bones.