Kick off the 2025 Catskills Comedy Festival with an unforgettable double-header event! Join us at the historic Community Theatre as comedy veterans Dave Hill and Erin Jackson take the stage. Experience a night filled with inventive humor and side-splitting laughter, setting the perfect tone for the festival ahead. Don’t miss this dynamic duo delivering some of the best stand-up performances in the country.

Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, actor, and musician originally from Cleveland but now living in New York City, which is great. He has appeared on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls5eva, Joe Pera Talks with You, Inside Amy Schumer, @midnight, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Tick, The Jim Gaffigan Show, and the new U.S. version of Would I Lie To You among other programs. And he plays a Devo-obsessed weed dealer in the new film Drunk Bus starring Ozark’s Charlie Tahan and Will Forte. Dave has also starred in his own TV series, The King of Miami, on the MOJO Network, which was cancelled even though Dave really liked it.

Dave is a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life and Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly Prairie Home Companion) and also hosted his own radio show, The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, on WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey for five years. Dave is also the resident heavy metal expert on Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin’s Broken Record podcast.

Dave performs live comedy in theaters, prisons, and basements all over the world. He appears regularly with fellow comedians such as Janeane Garofalo, Tom Papa, and Gary Gulman and has opened for musical acts including Snoop Dogg, Tenacious D, Broken Social Scene, Down, Autopsy, Quicksand, and Rhett Miller.

Dave also plays guitar and sings in his own rock band, Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is the theme song for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in addition to fronting Painted Doll with death metal legend Chris Reifert (Autopsy, Death). He is also the founding member of Witch Taint, most extremely extreme Norwegian Black Metal band from Gary, Indiana ever probably (go to www.theblackmetaldialogues.com for more info). He also composes music for TV and film.

Dave has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney’s, The New York Observer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Guitar World, among other publications, and is author of three books, Parking the Moose (2019 Doubleday Canada/Penguin Random House), Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (2016 Blue Rider Press, and Tasteful Nudes (2012 St. Martin’s Press). His fourth book, The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey, will be published by Doubleday Canada and Triumph Books in the fall of 2023. He also smells really great you can ask anyone.

Erin Jackson is one of the fastest-rising comedians in New York City. She's a fixture in the city’s top comedy clubs and made her Netflix debut on Season 2 of Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready. Erin is a television writer, currently working on the hit Netflix show, The Upshaws, and has appeared on Hulu's Life and Beth, Late Night with Seth Meyers, CONAN, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, This Week at the Comedy Cellar and Last Comic Standing, just to name a few. She also co-hosted three seasons of Exhale, a panel talk series that aired on the ASPiRE television network. Her comedy album, Grudgery, debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes comedy charts. Erin is a proud alumna of Howard University and a die-hard Philadelphia Eagles fan.

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