PORT ANGELES — Comedian and writer Steve Hofstetter is coming to Peninsula College for a comedy show Friday, April 15.
The show will be at 7 p.m. in the Pirate Union Building on the Port Angeles campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Admission to the show is free to Peninsula College students and by donation for guests.
The show will feature adult content and is not suitable for children.
“I’m very excited to have Steve Hofstetter at PC,” said Kennady Whitehead, Peninsula College’s vice president of programming for the Associated Student Council.
“He’s well known from Fox Sports, CBS, Sirius Satellite Radio and more, which makes it exciting to be able to host another high-quality event at PC this year.”
Hofstetter’s resume includes appearances on ESPN’s “Quite Frankly,” CBS’s “Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson,” Showtime’s “White Boyz in the Hood,” VH1’s “Countdown,” CNN’s “Campbell Brown Show” and ABC’s “Barbara Walter’s Special.”
He is the host and executive producer of Fox Networks’ “Laughs.”
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He was the original writer for www.collegehumor.com, has released five albums and authored three books, and has written humor columns for The New York Times, www.SportsIllustrated.com and www.NHL.com.
He also played a role in Adam Carolla’s movie “Road Hard.”
Hofstetter’s show, “Comedy Without Apology,” has audiences laughing at more than 100 colleges and universities every year, Whitehead said.
His 2015-16 national tour has only two other stops in the Northwest: at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho and at Washington State University in Pullman.
Hofstetter, best known for his writing, was first published at the age of 15, mainly to impress girls, according to the biography on his website.
At 18, he co-founded “Sports Jerk of the Week,” a website that was featured on USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, Sports Illustrated and CNN.
During his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, Hofstetter was a columnist for the Columbia Daily Spectator.
He also wrote for Maxim, ESPN and Sports Illustrated for Kids.
Hofstetter, a New York native who now lives in Los Angeles, later wrote for Sports Illustrated, where his “Stand Up Guy” column ran every Monday morning in Scorecard.
He has written three books: Student Body Shots: A Sarcastic Look at the Best 4-6 Years of Your Life; Student Body Shots — Another Round: More Sarcasm on the Best Four to Six Years of Your Life; and National Lampoon’s Balls! An In Your Face Look at Sports.”
For more information, contact Rick Ross at rross@pencol.edu or 360-417-6533.
