Lewis Black

George carlin, larry king and jules feiffer love lewis black. They love him because his insights and love/hate relationship with america are brilliantly expressed in his concerts and tv appearances worldwide. How can you not love a man who says, "republicans are a party with bad ideas and democrats are a party with no ideas." will rogers would have been proud.

Lewis is one of the most prolific and popular performers working today. He executes a brilliant trifecta as stand-up comedian, actor and author. Receiving critical acclaim, he performs over 200 nights a year to sold out audiences.

Lewis’ live performances provide a cathartic release of anger and disillusionment for his audience. Lewis yells so they don’t have to. A passionate performer who is more p~~sed-off optimist than mean-spirited curmudgeon, he's perfected expressing what the rest of us cannot say in polite company. Lewis is the rare comic who can cause an audience to laugh themselves into incontinence while making compelling points about the absurdity of our world

in 1996, he was tapped to create a weekly segment for a show on comedy central called the daily show. The segment, a three minute rant about whatever was bothering him at the moment, evolved into back in black. It became one of the most popular and longest running segments on the show and also created a long and successful relationship with the network. Since then, lewis has taped four specials for the comedy central presents series, co-created last laugh with lewis black and continues to perform back in black on the daily show with jon stewart today. These popular appearances on comedy central helped to win him best male stand-up at the american comedy awards in 2001.

Increased exposure from the daily show eventually generated a record deal. His first cd, the white album, was released in 2000 to much critical acclaim. Lewis followed with five more. He received a 2006 grammy nomination for luther burbank performing arts center blues and in 2007 won the grammy for best comedy album for the carnegie hall performance.

Having developed a strong relationship with hbo, he's filmed two specials, black on broadway and red, white and screwed, which was nominated for an emmy in 2007. He has a regular feature on inside the nfl and in 2006 was asked to participate in comic relief. He was honored to do so.

In the midst of a rigorous touring schedule and several tv appearances, lewis’ first book, nothing's sacred debuted on the new york times best seller list. His second release, me of little faith, just came out.

In 2006, lewis had a break out year as an actor. He co-starred with robin williams in barry levinson's man of the year (universal pictures), appeared as “the fake dean of a fake college” in steve pink’s accepted (universal pictures) and as the harried airport manager in paul feig’s unaccompanied minors (warner brothers). In addition, he lent his voice to the role of “jimmy” in bob sagat's parody, farce of the penguins

tickets go on sale saturday june 21 @ 10:00 am

at all ticketswest outlets, front-range king soopers, the citadel guest services desk, the pikes peak center box office, the world arena box office or charge by phone at 719 -520-show (7469), 1-866-464-2626 or online at www.ticketswest.com

both box offices (pikes peak and world arena) are currently open 10am – 4pm monday – friday and the pikes peak center box office is also open saturday 10 am – 2pm.

Tickets are $59.00 and $49.00 res plus applicable service charges.

Doors open 60 minutes before showtime. / for mature audiences!