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JIMMY TINGLE
Political Satirist
Jimmy Tingle was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The social, political and economic diversity of that city laid the groundwork for his development as a performer and eventual satirist. Tingle started performing in 1980 during the early stand up comedy scene in Boston and quickly rose through the ranks from open-mike performer to paid engagements, headlining at comedy clubs and colleges nationwide. This led to national television exposure on The Tonight Show, Larry King Weekend, The Late Show with Conan O'Brien, The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, The American Comedy Awards, and to an HBO "One Night Stand" comedy special. Jimmy Tingle most recently worked as a contributor and satirist for the new MSNBC network.
Jimmy Tingle has been featured in National Public Radio with Terry Gross and "Fresh Air", "Talk of the Nation" with Ray Suarez, and is currently a weekly contributor to Jim Hightower's politically charged nationally syndicated radio program "Chat and Chew" from Austin, Texas.
Jimmy Tingle's film work includes starring in the 1991 Emmy Award-winning documentary on art censorship, "Damned in the USA". Tingle co-starred in the PBS "Travels" series special, "America with the Top Down". Jimmy Tingle appeared in "But Seriously" and "But Seriously '94", Showtime documentaries featuring prominent social satirists from Lenny Bruce to the present. Jimmy Tingle most recently appeared as the neighborhood bartender in "Next Stop Wonderland," and independent film shot in Boston and due for release in 1998.
Theatrical credits include writing and starring in his own one man show "Jimmy Tingle's Uncommon Sense, The Education of an American Comic". Directed by Larry Arrick, the play received stellar reviews during a nine-week engagement at the American Place Theater in New York City in 1993. "Uncommon Sense" continued to succeed brilliantly at the Hasty Pudding Theater in Cambridge, MA., in 1995 and 1996, becoming the longest running one person show in that theater's history. Jimmy Tingle's "Uncommon Sense" recently made its Los Angeles debut at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood for a four-month engagement which ran through May 1998.
"Uncommon Sense" has been recorded by Lyric Moon Records and is now available on CD and cassette through Tingle Productions.
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