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. 2003 marks the 30th 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.

"...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