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Comedian Kevin James will haul his stand-up act all over the country in 2022. SYR
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In Kevin James’ recent Netflix film “Home Team,” he plays a former NFL football coach.
Over the years, the comedic actor also played Paul Blart, Doug Heffernan on “King of Queens” and Larry Valentine in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.”
For the rest of 2022, though, Kevin James will be playing Kevin James on an upcoming nationwide stand-up comedy tour .
The 30-show run includes sets at Red Bank’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre (May 6, 8), Bethlehem’s Wind Creek Event Center (May 7) and Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Nov. 4).
If you want to see James live on stage, here’s everything you need to know.
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A complete calendar featuring all tour dates, start times, venues and links to buy tickets can be found here .
Other comedians on tour in 2022
Kevin James not headed to your town this year?
Not a problem.
There are a ton of other great comedians set to play all over the U.S. this year. Here are just 11 who may be coming to a comedy club, amphitheater or arena near you soon.
- Chris Rock’s “Ego Death Tour”
- Kevin Hart’s “Reality Check Tour”
- Dave Chappelle’s “In Your Dreams Tour”
- Chris Rock and Kevin Hart’s “Only Headliners Allowed Tour”
- Amy Schumer’s “Whore Tour”
- Bill Burr’s “Slight Return Tour”
- John Mulaney’s “From Scratch Tour”
- Weird Al’s “The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour”
- Chelsea Handler’s “Vaccinated and Horny Tour”
- Hasan Minhaj’s “The King’s Jester Tour”
- Tom Segura’s “I’m Coming Everywhere Tour”
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Star of “The King of Queens,” “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” and “Grown Ups,” Kevin James, will bring his stand-up comedy tour to Mayo Civic Center on September 15, 2022 at 8:00 p.m.
Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.
The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a sitcom set in the world of NASCAR and is currently developing a single camera comedy (both for Netflix).
James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim.
James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween. He starred in the feature True Memoirs of an International Assassin for Netflix, the independent action-thriller Becky, and starred in and produced Home Team for Netflix.
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Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. He's well known for his sitcom, The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a sitcom set in the world of NASCAR. James brought his stand-up act to TV with “Sweat the Small Stuff,” a one-hour special for Comedy Central. His second comedy special “Never Don’t Give Up” premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim. James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween.
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Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom. The King of Queens , which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination in 2006 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in and executive produced the sitcom Kevin Can Wait for Sony Television and CBS.
In 2001, James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff , a one-hour special for Comedy Central. In 2005, Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach ; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix in April 2018.
James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper , and Here Comes The Boom . James made his feature film debut in 2005 in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2 , and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry . He starred in the feature True Memoirs of an International Assassin for Netflix in 2016. In addition to his on-camera work, James’s voice has been featured in the animated films Barnyard for Nick Movies, as well as Monster House and the Hotel Transylvania franchise for Sony Pictures Animation.
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Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.
The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a sitcom set in the world of NASCAR and is currently developing a single camera comedy (both for Netflix).
James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a onehour special for Comedy Central. Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim.
James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween. He starred in the feature True Memoirs of an International Assassin for Netflix, the independent action thriller Becky, and starred in and produced Home Team for Netflix.
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You know him from King Of Queens, and several Adam Sandler movies. Now you can see him in Upstate New York. Kevin James is bringing his latest standup comedy tour for 6 different shows.
James is best known for his roles as Doug Heffernan on The King of Queens, and as Paul Blart in the movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
James has appeared in the films Hitch (2005), I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Grown Ups (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), and Pixels (2015). He has also done voice work for Monster House, Barnyard (both 2006), and the first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018)."
Did you know he does stand up comedy too? Here's the upcoming shows to check out:
August 21st- Sunday- 7:30PM at The Paramount Huntington in Huntington, NY October 28th- Friday- 8:00PM at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, NY October 29th- Saturday- 7:30PM at the Kodak Center in Rochester, NY October 30th- Sunday- 5:00PM at the Mulroy Civic Center At Oncenter - Crouse Hinds Theatre in Syracuse, NY November 5th- Saturday- 7:30PM at the Palace Theatre Albany in Albany, NY November 6th- Sunday- 7:00PM at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, NY"
You can buy tickets online right through Kevin's website .
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Kevin James: Owls Don't Walk Tour
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Just announced: kevin james - owls don't walk tour on june 28th at the bellco theatre.
Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.
The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a sitcom set in the world of NASCAR and is currently developing a single camera comedy (both for Netflix).
James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim.
James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween. He starred in the feature True Memoirs of an International Assassin for Netflix, the independent action thriller Becky, and starred in and produced Home Team for Netflix.
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K evin James, the actor and comic best known for his turn-of-the-millennium sitcom “The King of Queens,” is bringing his comedy tour to Houston, and as little as $47 can get you seats at his Bayou Music Center show March 3.
The early aughts made James a star as witty deliveryman and family man Doug Heffernan on his Emmy-nominated “ The King of Queens .” But beyond this breakout sitcom role, you’d recognize him as mustachioed mall cop Paul Blart , Adam Sandler’s gay-for-insurance-purposes husband in “ I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry ,” bio teacher-turned-MMA fighter in “ Here Comes the Boom ,” and the dude from that Internet meme that made the rounds on X late last year.
More recently, January brought James’ lovable brand of comedy back into living rooms, with Prime Video’s comedy special “ Kevin James: Irregardless ” filmed during his 2023 arena tour of the same name. With his charm, physical comedy and self-effacing humor on full display, the real-life father of four tackled dad-favorite topics ranging from getting older, raising kids, frustration with technology and finding the laugh in everyday situations.
James is now back on the road with a new tour, Owls Don’t Walk . It kicked off Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama, the first of 25 shows, with more dates and cities coming soon, his site teases. The roadshow pulls into Houston this Sunday, the only Texas stop on James’ schedule so far, and it’s not too late to score seats to see Kevin James at Bayou Music Center.
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(RICHMOND, VA) Comedian and Emmy® nominated actor Kevin James announces “The Irregardless Tour”, coming to Dominion Energy Center on February 1, 2023 . Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, November 18 at 10:00AM and start at $48.00 , plus additional taxes and fees. Tickets can be purchased at Dominionenergycenter.com.
Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.
The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a sitcom set in the world of NASCAR and is currently developing a single camera comedy (both for Netflix).
James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim.
James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween. He starred in the feature True Memoirs of an International Assassin for Netflix, the independent action thriller Becky, and starred in and produced Home Team for Netflix.
Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, November 18 at 10:00AM. For more information, visit dominionenergycenter.com. Tickets will be available online at altriatheater.com, by phone at (800) 514-3849 via Etix, or in-person at the Altria Theater Box Office, located at 6 N. Laurel Street, open Monday-Friday, 10AM-2PM local.
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For Kevin James, all roads lead back to stand-up
By Jim Axelrod
March 3, 2024 / 10:09 AM EST / CBS News
Kevin James, one of our most popular and successful comic actors of the last quarter-century, recently headed back to Huntington, Long Island, and stood outside what was at one time the East Side Comedy Club.
"First place I ever did stand-up," he said. "I think I had a couple Coors Lights, to get the courage up. And then I went in here, and this was the first place: 1989, July 26th!"
Thirty-five years later, he has quite a lot to look back on.
Deliveryman Doug Heffernan made him famous on the sitcom "The King of Queens." Mall cop Paul Blart made him a bankable movie star. But it's still stand-up, like his new special "Irregardless" on Amazon Prime, that makes him happy.
To watch a trailer for "Kevin James: Irregardless" click on the video player below:
A high school football star, James went off to play college ball at Cortland State in Upstate New York. When a back injury ended his athletic dreams, a public speaking course sparked some new ones, when he played it for laughs. "I didn't know what it was, but I had something," he said. "I don't know how you bottle it and make money off it, but I never went back to school."
He went to work honing his style – affable and observational, never dirty, and always with an eye on the future. He pointedly never worked "blue," he says, "because I knew it was gonna prevent me from being able to get on a TV show. I want my act to be able to go and play wherever. It's like, I want to build an act that people can relate to."
By the mid-'90s, James was big enough to bag an audition for "Saturday Night Live," a chance to follow comedy legends like John Belushi, Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy.
He fell flat on his face.
"It was the worst audition I've ever had in my entire life," he said. "Because it was literally me in a room, and it was absolutely brutal. And I just started doing my standup to no laughs, but I just kept going through it."
Which is where you learn all you need to know about Kevin James, living proof that no one fails; they just stop trying.
And while a bombed "SNL" audition might cause 99 people out of 100 to curl up in the fetal position and never move again, James said, "It was the best thing that happened to me."
Losing out on "SNL" meant he was free to audition and win the lead in a pilot called "The King of Queens." The bet James made on himself when he left college had paid off.
In less than a decade he had gone from driving a forklift while moonlighting at Long Island comedy clubs, to starring in a network sitcom – too fast, perhaps, to completely trust the success, to believe it would last. "Well, that's been my whole career," he said. "If someone literally tapped me on the shoulder and God just said, 'Hey, we know what's going on, right?' I'd go, 'Yup. Where do I go? It's all up? All right. It was a fun run, thank you!'"
But at 58, married for 20 years, James would now have a hard time making the case that it's not gonna last. Maybe the only doubters now? His four kids.
Asked if his children think he's funny, James replied, "They do, at times. They have really high taste, which kinda, like, stung me a little bit! They were like, 'We get it, your falling down in the 'Mall Cop' thing, and it's good. But we're lookin' for a little bit more, you know?'"
But for all the success he found in Hollywood, this son of Long Island will never stray too far from his roots.
Asked if he had to decide between doing only stand-up, sitcoms or movies for the rest of his life, James had a quick answer: "Stand-up. It's just me and a mic and I get to do it. And there's no process through the studio or the network of saying, 'Well, we're gonna change it this way. We're trying to cast this way …'
"You know, I really do enjoy the process. And there's gonna be times where this is not gonna work out the way you want, and you're not gonna connect with people the way you expect. And there's other times where it's like, 'Yeah, you can still do this. This is great!' But the opportunity's there to do it.
"And I'm grateful for that," he said. "I'm grateful that I'm still here!"
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Jim Axelrod is the chief correspondent and executive editor for CBS News' "Eye on America" franchise, part of the "CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell." He also reports for "CBS Mornings," "CBS News Sunday Morning," and the CBS News Streaming Network.
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With nods in its production design and costumes by Donatella Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, and even Federico Fellini (who the singer once asked to direct one of her music videos, only to be declined), there’s no question that the Celebration Tour continues to cement Madonna as the Queen of Pop.
And for anyone questioning that, Ms. Ciccone reminds us of her status in a penultimate homage segment, putting a shadowed projected image of herself next to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, as the duo have a dance-off set to their music “Like a Virgin” and “Billie Jean.”
Neither a four-day induced coma from a bacterial infection, nor being the age of retirement can stop this mezzo soprano, who continues to be as pitch perfect vocally as she was in the 1980s. No more is this evident amid the carnivalesque, symbolic sequences, which feasibly melt into each other, as the 7x Grammy Award winner settles for a mic and light for her performance of “Crazy for You,” a rendition that will zip one back to the slow dance days of junior high 1985.
To use a word from the Madonna glossary –ambitious– sums up the sophisticated artistry and expression that she brings to the stage with the Celebration Tour, as it recaptures moments in Madonna’s life from her NYC club days to the laser beam- infused 1990s (the near close of the show’s “Ray of Life”) and beyond.
Behold and pay respect, kids: Give unto Madonna’s what is Madonna’s. Look no further than the rotating wedding cake centerpiece stage which goes aflame during a “Beast Within/Justify Your Love.” Eilish at her December 2022 Happier Than Ever Kia Forum concert jumped on a plain-old industrial crane and stoked fans as it floated above their seats. But Madonna is fashionable and high-end: She gets inside a neon-lit plexiglass floating box above the entire crowd, which she boogies inside during such performances as “Ray of Light,” as well as “Live to Tell,” a beautiful memorium to those who died of AIDS, complete with an array of their images (i.e. Freddie Mercury) on myriad retractable screens.
Performing ‘Live to Tell’ Madonna honors victims of AIDS (📸 Anthony D’Alessandro/Deadline) pic.twitter.com/DchaObcuWZ — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 6, 2024
“Beast Within” is one of several showstopping moments. Madonna in red Arabic garb stands on the shoulders of Arabic-clad dancers as she’s paraded around the multi-catwalks of the show, speaking the Biblical lyrics from Revelation, “Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear.”
On the trifecta of screens, we see images of her in Indian garb. The Arabic-clad dancers leave the red-clothed pop icon behind and form a circle in which one is ultimately beaten by the group. Jaw-dropping, political stuff, leaving the Forum to interpret.
An appetizer to this earlier in the show is the lead-up to “Like a Prayer,” in which a nun- clad Madonna and two other black habit-wearing dancers eventually make their way over to a rotating glass carousel (perhaps, church) filled with bare-chested men who appear to be hanging inside off crosses — but then they flip themselves upside down. All this against monk-chanting.
“Like A Prayer” (📸 Anthony D’Alessandro/Deadline) pic.twitter.com/hZsKDyYtTW — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 6, 2024
From the onset of her show, Madonna always lets you know that you’re in for a ride. Her Confession tour, which kicked off at the Forum in May 2006, began with a wide-screen, oval-shaped landscape screen (amazing for its day), displaying black and white footage of her taming the horse that threw her. It was her way of showing that she had prevailed from her 2005 accident which cracked three of her ribs, and broke her collarbone and hand. For Celebration, the Bay City, Michigan native drops jaws again with a flipping circular light bridge against three screens as she takes the stage like a Mother of God, but in black, with a lightbulb lit halo singing, “Nothing Really Matters.”
Madonna concert in LA from Monday. She is singing Nothing Really Matters from Ray of Light album (📸 Anthony D’Alessandro) pic.twitter.com/IvLKpm9RgA — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 6, 2024
For Celebration, Madonna counts creative directors Lewis James and Jamie King, the latter one of her former choreographers who was behind her Confessions concert. Madonna found James after being wowed by Post Malone’s show, an aesthetic layout which Celebration also took inspiration from.
“I went to this party, met this guy who told me he was in a band. It was like ‘Bing.’ I asked him if he would teach me how to play guitar. ‘What kind of exchange? What are you going to give to me?’ So, I was thinking about it…I went ‘I don’t know.’ Some things came to mind, and a couple of things came to mind, and it worked. So, that’s how I learned how to play guitar,” says the “Like a Virgin” crooner.
In a special express-herself moment at Monday night’s concert right before a sublime slowed down version of “Express Yourself,” Madonna shared that there was a special guest in the crowd, that being her doctor, Dr. David Agus, who she credited with saving her life after her hospitalization last June.
“This summer I had a surprise. It’s called… um… a near-death experience. Yes, and I’m not kidding. It was pretty scary. Obviously, I didn’t know for four days, because I was in an induced coma. But when I woke up, the first word I said was ‘No.’ Anyway, that’s what my assistant tells me. And I’m pretty sure that God was saying to me, ‘Do you wanna come with us? You wanna come with me? You wanna go this way?’ And I said, ‘No. No.’”
Madonna said that Agus, “put up with so many entertaining phone calls from me. When I was sick this summer and I literally couldn’t walk from my bed to the toilet, I would call him every other day and ask him why I didn’t have any energy. When was my energy gonna come back? When was I gonna feel myself again? When could I go back on tour again? When, when, when, when, when, when, when? And all he would say was, ‘Go outside in the sun.’”
Madonna continued “’Have you seen my skin?’ His response: ‘Go outside in the sun. You need Vitamin D so your kidneys will keep working.’ I couldn’t put those two together. And I hate the sun, but I did it anyways, and it was so hard for me to walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sun. I know that sounds insane, but it was difficult, and I didn’t know when I could get up again and when I could be myself again and when I would have my energy back. It was a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control. And that was my lesson to let go.”
She then turned to talking about the three-month postponement of her concert. “When my manager (Guy Oseary), that greedy bastard, came to me and said –he’s probably next to Dr. Agus right now. They’re planning… they have a new plot to almost kill me again. When he said, ‘Well, when do you think you wanna go back on tour?’I took the oxygen out of my nose, I looked at him, and I said, ‘In two fucking months!‘ … I swear to God, I just said it. And sometimes you just gotta say shit, put that out in the universe, and it happens. Are you with me, Los Angeles?”
Other eye-brow raising moments included her choosing not to sing “Material Girl.” Instead there was a black clad gaucho pulsating rendition of her 007 song “Die Another Day,” as well as a quick croon of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” from Alan Parker’s feature version of Evita, in which she starred and won a Golden Globe .
Said one attendee sitting next to me as to why they came to see Madonna: “After the bad news last summer, I thought, could this be her last time?”
Hopefully, dear God, never.
Leading into her Oscar party on Sunday night, Madonna is performing Thursday March 8, Saturday March 9, and Monday March 11 as part of a five-night booking. To date from 27 shows in Europe, her Celebration Tour has made a reported $77M-plus and significantly counting.
Below is the set list from Monday:
- Celebration Intro/Nothing Really Matters
- Into The Groove
- Open Your Heart
- Live To Tell
- Like A Prayer
- Act of Living For Love/The 90’s (Interlude)
- Erotica/Papa Don’t Preach
- Justify My Love/Fever
- Hung Up On Tokischa
- Vogue (Estere’s Ball)
- Human Nature/Crazy For You
- The Beast Within (Interlude)
- Die Another Day
- Don’t Tell Me
- Mother And Father
- Express Yourself/La Isla Bonita/Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
- I Don’t Search I Find (Interlude)
- Bedtime Story
- Ray of Light
- Billie Jean vs. Like A Virgin
- GMAYL/Bitch I’m Madonna
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Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom. The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination in 2006 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in and executive produced the sitcom Kevin Can Wait for Sony Television and CBS. In 2001, James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. In 2005, Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road.... Read more...
Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom. The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination in 2006 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in and executive produced the sitcom Kevin Can Wait for Sony Television and CBS.
In 2001, James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. In 2005, Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix in April 2018.
James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James made his feature film debut in 2005 in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. He starred in the feature True Memoirs of an International Assassin for Netflix in 2016. In addition to his on-camera work, James’s voice has been featured in the animated films Barnyard for Nick Movies, as well as Monster House and the Hotel Transylvania franchise for Sony Pictures Animation.
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Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom. The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy ...
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Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom. The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy ...
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