Carole Montgomery is an American

standup comedian Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage (theatre), stage and delivers humour, humorous and satire, satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical comedy, physical acts. These ...

, writer, producer, director and actress.

Early life

Montgomery was born April 19, 1958, in

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, where she lived until she moved into

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in the early 1980s.

Career

In her early career she performed in various

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s in the NYC area including the legendary Catch a Rising Star and Who's on First, both now shuttered. In 1987 she made the move out to Los Angeles with her husband Todd. It is in LA that Montgomery's television appearances started to multiply. She has been featured in over 2 dozen television shows, including Showtime's ''Comedy All Stars 6'' with

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and ''

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'' with

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. The '' San Antonio Times'' called Montgomery "one of the pioneering female comics of the modern era." In 1992 she had her only child, a son, James Layne Montgomery. Soon after, while she was playing at The Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas, she was asked to step in to the Las Vegas revue Crazy Girls which turned into a 5-year run. She was then asked to join '' Midnight Fantasy'' at the

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where she remained for three years. During her time in Las Vegas, Montgomery wrote and performed her one-woman show ''Confessions of a PT&A Mom'' in various theatres. In 2006 she returned to NYC with her family. That year she was one of 10 contestants on

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's ''

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'' reality competition. She has also appeared on ''

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'' with

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, and on the TV Guide Network's ''Standup in Stilettos''. Montgomery was also a co-producer of the NY Underground Comedy Festival which in its heyday was dedicated to furthering the art of standup comedy. Carole Montgomery standup

In 2010 Montgomery joined forces with Armed Forces Entertainment to bring comedy overseas to the US military. She has been to over a dozen countries including Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Haiti, Honduras, Djibouti and Kosovo. On her overseas tours, she refers to herself as the "NATIONAL MOM". Montgomery has directed and developed solo performance shows including

Jim Florentine James Bernard Florentine (born August 18, 1964) is an American comedian, actor, author, and television personality. He is best known for co-hosting '' That Metal Show'' on VH1 Classic and voicing several characters on '' Crank Yankers'', incl ...

's ''I'm Your Savior'' and ''The Lighter Side Of Death'' by Jim Mendrinos. More recently she was supervising producer on two television specials: ''Shang is Shangry'' and ''

Paul Ogata Paul Ogata is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Early life and education Ogata was born and raised in Pearl City, Hawaii, and moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to devote more time to performing stand-up comedy. Ogata graduated from the Univ ...

: All Lies''. Her most recent project, Funny Women of A Certain Age, premiered on the Showtime Network in March 2019. It made history as the first TV comedy special to feature female comics over the age of 50. She has also been a blogger for the ''

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''.Carole Montgomery archive
''Huffington Post''

References

External links

* http://www.carolemontgomery.com * http://www.funnywomenofacertainage.com * https://www.facebook.com/carolemontgomerycomedian {{DEFAULTSORT:Montgomery, Carole 1958 births American stand-up comedians Living people American women comedians 21st-century American women Comedians from Brooklyn Comedians from Manhattan