Saturday, August 24 @ 8:00 PM
Schrott Center for the Arts
What is Permission to Speak?
A HILARIOUS mix of Paul’s Emmy Award-winning stand-up, crowd work, and theater. But it’s crowd work you’ve NEVER experienced before – the audience is NOT the butt of the joke, rather it’s the STAR – by allowing them to tell their fun, wild stories if they so choose or to just watch either way, everyone will have a ball!
Paul creates a new reality where the funny and profound mix. When the audience begins to really care about a stranger telling Paul their story, he magically transforms an audience from the seemingly divisive herd we are often described into a group of human beings who want to laugh with, hear from, and learn about others. With Paul as our link, we recognize ourselves in the funny and real stories of others, and we become aware that we’re not so different from each other after all. First and foremost, the show is SUPER fun and funny, something you’ve NEVER seen before!
Paul is an Emmy & Peabody Award winning comedian for his work on “The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart,” “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert,” making recurring appearances on “The Late Show,” other national shows and his own comedy specials. He is also an accomplished actor, hosts the critically acclaimed podcast “Inside Out w/Paul Mecurio,” an award-winning writer and appears regularly as a commentator on news and sports outlets including, CNN, MSNBC, “CBS Sunday Morning,” Fox News, HLN and ESPN.
