Press Kit
Mark Turcotte
Stand-up comedian
Lewiston, Maine
maineeventcomedy@gmail.com
Highlights
- Gotham Comedy Club – Gotham All-Stars
- World Series of Comedy – Semi-finalist at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre, Sarasota, FL
- Funniest Comic on the East Coast Contest at Mohegan Sun – Finalist
- Boston Comedy Festival
- Cleveland Comedy Festival
- North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival
- Salem Comedy Festival
- Maine Comedy Festival
- Last Comix Standing at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Casino
- The Steve Katsos Show
- The Nite Show with Danny Cashman
- Free Beer & Hot Wings – Comedy Bash and Live at Night Show
- Mrs. Maine International Pageant – Judge
- Emerge Film Festival – Host, Comedy Night
- Liberty Festival – Host
- SCORE-Maine – Keynote Speaker
- Agren Appliance Television Campaign – Script Writer and Voice Actor
- First Amendment Project – A Comedian’s Perspective
- Making of the Maine Business Mind Seminar – Entertainment
- International Paper – Holiday Party
- Lewiston-Auburn Chamber of Commerce – Entertainment, Annual Meeting
Bio
Mark Turcotte is a married father of two and lifelong New Englander. Most of his material is mined from his family life, an adultlike curiosity, and a series of misfortunes. He’s the founder of Maine Event Comedy and was a finalist in the Funniest Comic on the East Coast Contest at Mohegan Sun and a semi-finalist at the World Series of Comedy in Sarasota, Florida. He was also part of the Gotham All-Stars Show in New York City and was a recent selection for the Boston, Cleveland, and North Carolina comedy festivals. Mark once facilitated a marriage proposal during a 2015 show in Biddeford, Maine…the couple is still married.
Mark believes in using his powers for good. In 2012, he began the Comedy Fix fundraising series, which raised money for a variety of local non-profits including The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Advocates for Children, John F. Murphy Homes, Tree Street Youth, Greater Androscoggin Humane Society, and The Pixel Fund.
Media
Television
- The Steve Katsos Show
- The Nite Show with Danny Cashman
- ‘207’ (WCSH6 , Portland)
- WMTW News 8: Comedy Fix XVIII coverage
Print/Web
- LA Metro Magazine: LA’s Comic Craze
- Portland Magazine: Just for Laughs
- Turner Publishing: Comic Relief
- Dispatch Magazine: Homegrown Humor
- Sun Journal: Lewiston performer finds balance among day job, home and stand-up comedy
- Lewiston-Auburn Magazine: Comedy for a Cause
- Sun Journal: FaceTime – Mark Turcotte Getting His Comedy Fix
- Maine Today: Mid-Week Comic Relief (photo)
Radio
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Notable Venues
- Gotham Comedy Club (New York, NY)
- McCurdy’s Comedy Theater (Sarasota, FL)
- Hilarities (Cleveland, OH)
- Comix at Mohegan Sun (Uncasville, CT)
- The Comedy Studio (Cambridge, MA)
- Laugh Boston (Boston, MA)
- Gracie Theater (Bangor, ME)
- Lewiston Colisee (Lewiston, ME)
- Comedy Connection (Portland, ME)
- Headliners Comedy Club (Manchester, NH)
- Rhodehouse Live (Lincoln, RI)