Big Daddy Graham

May 11, 2013 
7 - 10 PM
$25 per person

Beef - N - Beer

Proceeds benefit
New Jersey Veterans Home

Tickets are going fast so....
email
commander@berlinvfw.com
or call him at:
 Kevin: 856-625-1591

Big Daddy Graham Is A Comic… BDG has performed over 4000 shows at comedy clubs, colleges, corporate and private parties, sports banquets, golf outings and fund-raisers in the tri-state area for over 20 years. He has been a staple at clubs like the Comedy Cabaret, Catch A Rising Star, the Funny Bone, Helium, the Comedy Factory Outlet, holding attendance records at many of those clubs. TWO FUNNY PHILLY GUYS, starring BDG & Joe Conklin has been playing to sold out houses at such theatres as the 1000 seat Borgata Music Box and the Broadway Theatre in Pitman. He has appeared on the SHOWTIME Comedy Club Network three times. His hilarious video's ."Let's Call In Sick" & "Action News Theme" aired on MTV & PRISM. He's been voted Philly's Funniest Comic by Philly Magazine, The City Paper, and other publications. a total of eleven times. BDG’s annual Wing Bowl stunts are classics and he has also sang the national anthem at a Sixers game.
Is A Radio & TV Personality… BDG is currently in his 12th year as a host on the #1 sports talk radio station in America, WIP. Hear BDG lose his mind nightly, Monday through Friday, and on the legendary “Overlap Show” with Angelo Cataldi and the Morning Guys. Bits like “Let’s Go Back to Your Childhood,” “Get Home Right Now or I’m Gonna Break Your Face,” the BDG “Ditty and Babe of the Night,” and the award winning “Snack of the Night” are among many of the bits BDG brings to every show. BDG was also a co-host on 1210 AM’s, "'The Sports Attack" with Scott Graham & Neil Hartman where he interviewed the top names in sports. BDG has also hosted for WWDB. KISS100, and WOGL. BDG has also appeared as a guest on over a hundred stations nationwide, and of course, it all started with the Morning Zoo on WMMR. On TV, BDG’s “Big Daddy’s Big List” was for four years the longest running segment on CN8’s “The Lou Tilley Show” and also ran for two years on Fox 29’s “Good Day Philadelphia.” BDG has been a frequent guest on “Daily News Live” “The Angelo Cataldi Show” and “The Wally Kennedy Show.” As a comic Big Daddy has appeared on Showtime, A&E, and MTV among many other networks.
Is A Recording Artist… It all started in 1984 with a song called "Nuns!". a satirical look at Catholic school upbringing. WMMR's Morning Zoo picked it up. (the show was the most highly rated morning show in the country) aid BDG’s recording career was underway. A salute to malls with "Walk On The Mild Side" followed and then came to BDG's classic "Let's Call In Sick", a song that has been heard on over 300 stations and is still played) on Monday mornings on many stations to this day. Over the next ten years, songs like "Love Theme From the Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Wake Up I'm Horny!". "Action News Theme". "Senile Casino", continued to crack up BDG's fans. Counting two "Morning Zoo" albums (which "Sick" & "Mild Side" appeared (in), three albums and two CD's, an amazing amount of 100,000 copies of BDG’s songs have been bought, almost exclusively in the tri-state area. BDG’s tunes have also been heard nationwide on, 'The Dr. Demento Show. NPR's "Comedy College", the American Comedy Network- The Dick Cavett Comedy Hour. and WXPN's award winning "Kids Korner".
Is A Writer... LAST CALL, BDG'S book about his Dad has been released to rave reviews and big sales. BDG also wrote the one-man show, LAST CALL, based on the book that played to sold out houses at Society Hill Playhouse and also garnered rave reviews. His book with Glen Macnow, THE GREAT BOOK OF PHILADELPHIA SPORTS LISTS, has sold over 40,000 copies and is currently being turned into a TV show. BDG has written commercial & song parodies for SJS as well as the "Oooh, I Hate That !" series, a collection of pet peeves, set to music, that ran twice a week for a year and a half, one of SJS's all time running comedy bits. BDG also conceived, produced and co-wrote Philadelphia radio personality Joe Conklin's "Philadelphia's Funniest Spoils Moment." BDG's one liners appeared dozens of times in Stu Bykofsky’s Daily News column. BDG also writes for CITY PAPER and many other local newspapers.
Is An Opening Act… Just checkout a few of the acts BDG has worked with, NINE Rock & Roll Hall of Famers!
Manhattan Transfer
Ray Charles
Melissa Etheridge
Black Crowes
Brooks & Dunn
Righteous Bros.
Weird Al Yankovic
B.B. King
Hall & Oates
Dennis Miller
Smokey
Lee Ritenour
The Roches
Brooks & Dunn
Terrence Trent Darby
The Drifters
Phyllis Diller
Tammy
Anita Baker
Robert Klein
David Sanborn
Jay Black
Herbie Hancock
The Four Tops
The Commitments
Dom Irrera
Gladys Knight
Taylor Dayne
Temptations
Bonnie Raitt
Also, check out some of the venues where BDG has performed:
TLA
Spectrum
Scottish Rite
Mann Music Center
Valley Forge Music Fair
Taj Mahal
The Borgata
Tower Theater
Trump’s Castle
Trop World Showroom
The Keswick Theater
BDG can open up with just stand-up or a mixture of stand-up and music, depending on what the head-liner specifies.
Is A Producer... BDG was a co-producer of the award winning "Always Patsy Cline" at The Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City and LAST CALL, the one man show that ran at Society Hill Playhouse and TWO FUNNY PHILLY GUYS with Joe Conklin.
Is An Actor... Along with starring in the the one man show, LAST CALL, BDG also recently starred as “Oscar" to sold out audiences in "The Odd Couple' with Joe Conklin as "Felix'". BDG was a member of the federally funded award winning TROUP, a group of twelve actors, that worked out of Society Hill Playhouse. TROUP performed shows at prisons, elderly homes, playgrounds. and libraries throughout Philadelphia for over two years. BDG has also appeared in many theater productions including the title role of the lion in Shaw's, "Androcles and the Lion" (BDG was singled out in excellent reviews) and also took the very last bow from the stage of the legendary Main Point in "Moving Out", a production of the Peanut Butter Children's Theater Group. BDG has also appeared as an actor in many industrial films and commercials.
Is An Earthling... BDG was born and raised in Southwest Philly. a graduate of West Catholic HS.BDG started his career as a drummer and is now living in Mullica Hill, NJ, with his wife Debbie and their two daughters, Keely and Ava and beagle Morgan.
To reach BDG, go to BigDaddyGraham.com