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Saturday, March 24 at
8:00 PM
Jackie "The Joke
Man"
Martling
Jackie Martling - A Partial
Life Story
A longtime fixture of radio's Howard Stern Show, comedian Jackie "The
Joke Man" Martling was born and raised on Long Island, NY. He earned a
degree in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University in 1971, and
initially pursued a career in rock & roll with his college band The
Pillowcayse.
Martling was always famed among his friends...and everyone he ever
encountered...for his seemingly inexhaustible supply of dirty jokes, and
upon returning to Long Island in 1973, he and a pal he'd met in kindergarten
formed a duo, The Off Hour Rockers, that played original music, told jokes,
and did comic routines.
For a hoot, Jackie tested his jokes on open-mike night at New York
City's Catch a Rising Star. After the duo disbanded in 1978, Jackie began
telling even more jokes in his solo musical act, and after meeting a few
local comedians, he soon started producing comedy shows in small clubs all
over Long Island and in New Jersey, and was thus one of the initiators of
the comedy boom in the early 80's. In 1979, he released his self-produced
debut LP, What Did You Expect? on Off Hour Rockers Records.
While touring as a national headliner, Martling released two more
albums, 1980's Goin' Ape! and 1981's Normal People Are People You Don't Know
That Well, and three years after sending the lp's to Howard Stern upon
Howard's arrival at WNBC-AM in New York City in 1982, became a full-time
cast member and head writer of Stern's show.
Jackie left the show in 2001 after fifteen-year run as head writer of
the radio show, four television series, and three Pay-Per-Views. He's
released five dirty joke CD's, two videos, and is currently being seen in
the red-hot comedy documentary "The Aristocrats," and over a dozen other
independent films, had written the joke page for Penthouse magazine for
seventeen years, and has a line of electronic joke gadgets he created with
Excalibur Electronics in stores internationally.
He still headlines around the country, performing his solo act of
rapid-fire filthy jokes and the classic finale, "Stump The Joke Man."
For more information, see ...
http://www.jokeland.com
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