Louis C.K. "Hilarious" Tour in Portland

Location: The Newmark Theatre
Inside Antoinette Hatfield Hall
1111 SW Broadway (at Main Street)
Portland, OR 97205
Date: Saturday, November 15th
Admission: $38.50 ($41.50 day of show)
Tickets: The PCPA box office, Ticketmaster
Time: 9 p.m.
Phone: 503/248-4335

Live Nation welcomes Louis C.K. to the Newmark Theatre on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. Louis was born in 1967. Then, in 1984, he went on a stage for the first time. It was open mike night at a comedy club in Boston Massachusetts. Louis found that he had only enough "material" to stay on the stage for two minutes. It was a terrible experience. Louis did not try comedy again until two years later. After much struggling and humiliating failure, Louis became a part of the burgeoning Boston Stand-Up comedy scene.

In 1989, Louis moved to New York City. There were many, many (too many) comedy shows on television at the time and Louis appeared on all of them. He did Evening at the Improv, MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour, Comic Strip Live, Comedy on the Road and he even went on Star Search.

Over the next few years, Louis was living in New York City, doing stand up comedy all over the country. He made another short film called "Ice Cream." Ice Cream was very successful. It was accepted to the Sundance Film Festival and the MOMA's "New Films New Directors" series. It won the Grand Prize at Aspen Shortfest and has shown widely on television, in Europe, Australia, and it still shows frequently on BRAVO and IFC.

The next phase of Louis' career was in Television comedy writing, something which has earned him Four Emmy Nominations and one EMMY AWARD WIN! In 2003 - 2004, Louis was a big hit at the Montreal Comedy Festival and the Aspen Comedy Festival and he signed with CBS and Warner Brothers to do another sitcom pilot. This one was called "Saint Louie."

In 2008, Louis culminated his tour by shooting a second Hour special of all new material, a short year after the first one, called "Louis CK: CHewed Up" which will air later in the year. Louis is also starring this year in Ricky Gervais's new movie "This side of the truth."