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MELINDA HILL Melinda Hill is an LA based comedian, actress and writer who has performed stand up all over the world. LA weekly describes her comedy as “bubbly, adorable, outlandish funny” and Buzzine Magazine claims she “puts the fun back in funny and the smart back in smarty-pants.”
This fall she can be seen playing various nut-jobs on Comedy Central’s Pretend Time With Nick Swardson produced by Adam Sandler and in the film Bright Day from the producer of Arrested Development. She can be heard as the voice of Princess Doctor on the cartoon Adventure Time. She has also appeared on Reno 911, The Sarah Silverman Program, Important Things With Demetri Martin, Frank TV, The Winner w/ Rob Corddry, and Chris Kattan’s Bollywood Hero. Her stand up has been featured on Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Bonnie Hunt Show, BBC’s World Stands Up, NESN’s Comedy All Stars, Comics Unleashed, and most recently when she hosted Byron Allen’s series Comedy.TV.
In addition to being a regular at comedy clubs like the Improv, she also frequently performs at story telling shows like the Moth and Sit N Spin. Her stories have been published in LA Innuendo, Opium Magazine, and LA Weekly Comedy Issue and will soon be available on an audio-book produced by New Wave Records. You might also recognize her from the internet sensation “Confessions of a Tooth Fairy” with SNL’sKristen Wiig. Her hit weekly show “What’s Up Tiger Lily” (with co-creator Maria Bamford) has been recommended in Delta Sky Magazine.
Melinda Hill "The Accidental Bisexual" CD
What's this life for? In 1968 Robert Kennedy was shot in the Ambassador hotel. Thirty-five years later, Creed shot their video in the same hotel, and they cast Melinda Hill as ''Crying Motel Girl.'' Scene after wrenching scene, she dipped into her emotional reservoir to become ''overcome by salvation.''
This same emotional reservoir has served Hill throughout her life: it's enabled her to overlook bright-white man-clogs, helped her through an inadequate near-death experience (near enough that the flight attendants shouted ''We're goin' down!'' but not so near that friends in LA were impressed), maintained her throughout the lasagna incident, and kept her romanticism alive in the face of not one, not two, but several dates with a man who inspired the beautifully wrought sentence, ''One after the other, the dark secrets tumbled out of his mouth like crippled little acrobats from the darkness Olympics.''
And, of course, it's seen her through her transformation from video vixen into a subversive, bubbly, disingenuously wide-eyed, accidentally bisexual story-telling comedian extraordinaire. In her first CD for Stand Up! Records, ''The Accidental Bisexual,'' Melinda Hill, weaves the best aspects of any comedian's routine strong punchlines, smart call-backs, and an instant audience rapport together with elegant, deeply funny short-story writing to present a silly and oddly poignant stand up memoir. But should you, dear listener, somehow magically lose sight of the lessons Hill imparts as she recounts her tales like some sort of living ''Demotivator'' poster (''Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others''), don't despair: there will be quizzes.
1. What's This Life For? 2. The Lasagna Incident 3. Quiz 1 4. The Hand Job Hamlet 5. Quiz 2 6. WWMD (What Would Madonna Do?) 7. The Accidental Bisexual 8. The Accidental Bisexual 2: Bi Harder
