JEFF BRADLEY
Variety Comedian/Roving Performer
Standup + Stunts + Illusion
Standup + Stunts + Illusion
In 1984 i saw my first live stand up comedian. I was hooked. From that moment on I spent every night i could in comedy clubs. But I wasn’t performing. I was studying. It looked like fun. It looked exciting and it looked like the hardest thing I could ever imagine doing. I think that is what attracted me more than anything else. Eventually Ii got on stage and countless open mike nights, one degree and five years later I was performing full time.” And that was just the beginning... This was about the same time as Cirque du Soleil and Penn and Teller were becoming well-known. Both were big influences on me. Penn and Teller showed me that something as simple as a card trick can be as big and theatrical as you want it to be while Cirque inspired me to strive for elegance and class in performing. I think my performance style developed along the same line as Cirque and Penn & Teller. Both Cirque and P &T were breaking new ground in their own way. Cirque strived to “re-invent the circus”, while P&T made fun of magicians who were performing stale routines. In fact, after a few years of performing generic “hack” material I feel that I found my footing and my act really started to develop. It might be a bit of a niche market but my ideal audience is one that thinks they have seen it all and has become tired of the same old routines and tricks. I have heard, literally hundreds of times, “you know, I normally hate (jugglers/ magicians/ standup), but I really loved your show.” I don’t claim to have invented new props or a new style of performance. I just present things theatrically, comically, as original as possible and with elegance and class that some may consider missing in today’s comedy.
Jeff will be performing, roving style, at the show on Saturday Nov 12 in the Festival Village
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