The first time I recall seeing Moody McCarthy, he was kind of shy. Reserved, even. Still, there he was walking up to the stage of Wise Guys Comedy Club in his hometown of Syracuse …
Turn back the calendar, oh, to the 1990s, and Wise Guys was in the basement of a Mexican joint out on a suburban thoroughfare we call Erie Boulevard, and I was there wearing my entertainment writer hat for the big daily and Moody was …
Funny.
Moody McCarthy has been funny every single time I’ve seen him tell jokes, at various clubs bigger, over the phone during interviews after he moved away to New York City, in theaters when he’s come back, on TV during “Last Comic Standing” — one judge leaned over to another and whispered loud enough for a microphone to catch and share with the nation the evaluation “He’s funny,” and they should have picked him to go further — and with various late night talk show hosts.
He tells stories about life in a somewhat dry, somehow interesting, altogether humorous manner.
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Moody will be back in Syracuse for an earlybird New Year’s Day show, 6 p.m. Thursday at Justin’s Tuscan Grill off Carrier Circle.
This year McCarthy made his second appearance on “Late Show with …” on CBS, adding to David Letterman’s goodbye run.
The Corcoran High School graduate also has become a father since his last show around these parts. Do you think life in Astoria, Queens, with his wife and new daughter might make it into his stand-up routine?
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Baldwinsville native Dan Frigolette and Big Apple native Matt Richards complete the lineup.
Central New Yorker Frigolette has appeared this season on the HBO show “Boardwalk Empire.” He lives in Hoboken, N.J., and performs 15 stand-up shows a week in New York City.
Richards’ stage work ranges from hypnosis and magic to stand-up comedy.
Tickets cost $15. They are available at www.CommaDProductions.com.
Mark Bialczak 
Agreed. The name is fab! Almost as awesome as, Chum… 😉
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Thanks, Red. Great name, there. 🙂
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you are definitely one of the cool kids, Mark. Comics, bands, restaurants, novels–you’s livin’ the life 😀
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Yeah, that’s me alright. Have topic, will write, Liz. 🙂
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And if he had been born a girl, would he have been “PMSey” rather than “Moody”? 😉
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how fun and what a great return. it seems you have a lot of loyal hometown entertainers and sports figures, who are loyal and come home again. wonderful.
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They do like to come back, Beth. I think they get good meals from their parents. 🙂
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I would go JUST because of his name! 🙂
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Great name, and I know what you’re talking about, Colleen, and he talks about that a lot in his act. 🙂
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Who names their kid “Moody?” Perhaps a nickname? I love the idea of a 6:00 p.m. show on NYE. And $15 bucks. I love that, too.
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True-blue Irish family. Maybe that’s the name thing? Or a nickname, sure. I should have asked him one of the times I talked to him over the years. Dang, Mark, you would have made a good reporter.
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Same question to NBC talking head Stone Phillips. That couldn’t have been an easy childhood. Stone! Seriously?!
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You go, Mark.
My question to you: How can you be graphics guy professionally in this day and age and be wary to tinker with WordPress set up for Reader comments? Don’t you have to do much of your work via computer platforms now?
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I’m old school. Most everything I produce is print-related. (Yes, printed collateral is still used.) That being said, the WP wonks contacted me yesterday and said my site is fixed and starting with the next post, nobody should have a problem. We’ll see.
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You know of my love affair with print, so I’m happy for you there, sir. At the big daily, every time I had a visitor for a music video or interview, I would take them out of the building through the press wing and stop next to the plate glass windows to admire the presses. If they were rolling, papers would be coming off cut and folded one-by-one clipped hangin on a conveyor belt traveling to the mail room. People loved it. Even if it wasn’t rolling, I would tell them to take a big breath and tell me what they smelled. Ink. Every time. And everybody always smiled at that smell.
And yay for the WP wonks. If the fix sticks. 🙂
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