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John Biederman
John "Sloop" Biederman is the Stand-Up Poet and Nightclub Emcee/Promoter/Producer Extraordinaire. He's been featured everywhere from the Comedy Store in Los Angeles to the Chicago Comedy Festival; as longest-running nightclub variety show host in Chicago for the Flabby Hoffman Caravans (live and rebroadcast on CAN-TV 19 Thursdays, 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. on the "Hoffman" show) and co-host of the corresponding Internet radio show (http://FearlessRadio.com, Thursdays 7-10 p.m.) and has appeared on WGN Morning News, WLUP-FM and more. He is the founder of two sketch comedy troupes and was the 1999 National Poetry Slam Limerick Champion. He's an award-winning humor writer and "News Poet" for publications including MAD Magazine and the Chicago Tribune's RedEye and runs the popular humor blog, Daily Limerick (http://www.DailyLimerick.net), since 1999. His latest endeavors are Sloop Biederman's Mess, a live/Webcast talk/variety show in Chicago, and seeking literary representation for his book, Stand-Up Poetry (with poems and cartoons).





 

Theatre Reviews by John
  • 12 Hungry Men
  • Abbey Road Project
  • After Ashley
  • BatteryMouth
  • bobrauschenbergamerica
  • Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?
  • Bunbury Me: A Lecture
  • Calls to Blood
  • Hardcore Dad
  • Horrible
  • Letters/X
  • New American All-Stars, The
  • Nightmares on Lincoln Ave
  • Northern Foreclosure: All I Want for Christmas Are My Front Door Keys
  • Party of One
  • Pumpgirl
  • Seven Doors/Sieben Türen
  • Sexy Santa
  • The Flaming Dames in Vamp II
  • The Tim & Micah Project: SEQUEL
  • Wonderful World of Disocia, The
  • World Class Therapy
  • Zombie Bob


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