PARDON OUR DUST: We are hard at work (again) on building "a new Death Star" over in the MySpace Comedy section! (Well ...those damn Ewoks keep blowing it up!)
Chris McVetta is a freelance comedy writer and stand-up comic living in The Rock 'n Roll city: Cleveland, Ohio! His first job in journalism was with The Free Times where he worked with such writers as Marc Jaffe ("Seinfeld"), Mark Winegardner ("The Godfather Returns") and Harvey Pekar ("American Splendor") while scribbling comedy gems.
Chris has published hundreds of articles on sports, comedy, and pop culture with The Free Times, Scene, The Plain Dealer and Sports Jam! ...among others. Chris was a co-founding member of the comedy group, "The Public Squares" where he wrote such sketches as:
* "Scooby, Doo The Right Thing (A Spike Lee-Snow Ghost Joint),"
* "Dennis Kucinich: The Phantom Menace," and
* "Bend It Like Belichick."
Chris is an alumni of The Second City sketch writing program and his scribblings have been recognized nationally by msnbc.com and Entertainment Weekly - and his writing was recently described as "A blast! Like a double-shot of cappuccino to the system!" by a fellow writer from the Greater Cleveland Writers/Bloggers Association.
Chris was invited to participate in a "sports town hall meeting" with Mark Shapiro and Phil Savage recorded for Sports Time Ohio last summer. In 2006, Chris was invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Progressive Field for his home team, The Cleveland Indians.
Most recently, Chris has shared the stage with some of the best and brightest national comics working in the comedy business today, including Michael Kosta, Jeff Caldwell, Rocky LaPorte, Matt Kazam, Jamie Kaler, Orny Adams and Jeff Dye - among a multitude of other talented national comedy acts touring the nation!
Chris has been coined "the pop culture comic" of Cleveland - riffing on everything from the Pet Rock to Sasquatch to the ShamWow! - and he just recently produced his very own independent comedy show "Law & Disorder: Comedic Intent" to rave reviews at Bogey's Comedy Club and is currently producing and starring in a new show ("Raiders of the Lost Snark") for his latest sketch comedy group and The Improv Network.
He has trained with the legendary Dave Schwensen ("A&E's Night at The Improv") and is currently working clubs around the Northeast region and beyond - and Chris is coming to a comedy club near you SOON!
