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"...the most successful act on
the circuit, the nonpareils [Men in Tights]."

Calvin Trillin, The
New Yorker
"Someone has spliced together pieces
of a Marx Brothers movie and an Errol Flynn swashbuckler. Very exhilarating
and highly entertaining!"

Jim Ahrens, Minneapolis/St.
Paul Magazine
"...a decidedly daft duo currently
tickling many a funnybone at Summerfest. With their less-than-fancy
swordwork, rapier-like punning and broad physical humor, their comedy
owes as much to Laurel and Hardy as it does to Avon's Bard."

James Adams, The Edmonton
Journal
"Intense wit, flashy swordfights,
organic vegetables... leaves the audience breathless with laughter."

University of California
"The laughs come in waves, often
with race-track speed ...they engage each other and their audience
with one-liners, double entendres and countless sight gags, keeping
lovers of vaudeville in literary stitches."

Martin Keller, Twin Cities
Reader
"A tremendously appealing act,
a huge hit!"

John Habich, Minneapolis
Star Tribune
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Men in Tights is the disturbed brainchild
of Minneapolis actor/comedians Mark Sieve and Joe Kudla. Developing
quickly as a street act alongside such notable contemporaries as
Avner the Eccentric, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, and Penn and
Teller, Men in Tights moved out of the streets and into the alleys
"....where the audiences were already seated." Since then they have
steadily attracted a national audience.
This duo anchors their show with a fearsome blend of mock-violence,
iambic pentameter, uncooked vegetables, and the funniest vaudeville
routines in show biz. At a combined weight of 370 pounds, they are
arguably the heaviest comedy act out of Minneapolis since Louie
Anderson.
Sieve and Kudla have been on the run from Vancouver to Orlando,
working hundreds of clubs, colleges, festivals and corporate gigs.
They've booked World Fairs, Disney World, and Bob's World O' Donuts.
If you watch a lot of television, you will see them in commercials
for Sun-Maid Raisins, Best Buy Inc., American Family Insurance,
Schmidt Beer, Ping Golf, and many more. 2008 marks the 35th year
these two have been cracking people up. It can't last.
A club owner in Los Angeles once said of M in T: "This act heralds
the merging of the visual discipline of performance art with the
verbal discipline of classical drama, resulting in nothing less
than a new art form. They'll never work here again." Nevertheless,
they have appeared at comedy clubs from Minneapolis to Los Angeles,
from Denver to Edmonton, including a highly successful two-week
run of their bizarre vaudeville show, The Knights of Pythias Circle
of Death Family Fun Show in Minneapolis.
If you have the opportunity to stroll into Adventureland in The
Magic Kingdom at Orlando's Walt Disney World you can watch Men in
Tights do their thing on the Plaza outside the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Bring the kids, it's a wild ride.
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