Local restaurants aren’t the only venues celebrating Valentine’s Day. A special Valentine’s Day edition of the Ha Ha Hamptons Comedy Tour will happen at the Bay Street Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m., bringing four nationally touring comedians to Sag Harbor.
The showcase promises to deliver “the ultimate in he said, she said” comedy, with its focus on the realities of relationships, modern life, and everything that makes love complicated, funny, and relatable.
Talia Reese is a nationally touring headliner who combines her career in stand-up with her Orthodox Jewish lifestyle. With deep roots in the New York City comedy scene, she has performed at Stand Up New York, Comic Strip Live, and Caroline’s, among others. The International Association of Top Professionals named her the top female comedian of 2024.
Cited by The New York Post as a “hot ticket,” Ms. Reese has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, and The Jerusalem Post, and has shared the stage with Jim Gaffigan and Nick Cannon, among others. Her comedic influences include Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman, Rita Rudner, Dave Attell, and Sebastian Maniscalco. Noting that she doesn’t work on the Sabbath, she told an interviewer “Basically I’m available 24/6.”
A former professional wrestler, Dan Barry has been on the comedy scene since 2010, performing across the United States, Canada, and Ireland. He tells stories true to his life and finds ways to be engaging along the way, according to the Long Island Comedy Festival website, which added, “He can work clean, not-clean, and everything in between.”
Marla Schultz is a stand-up comedian, speaker, and actress who has said her most important role is “saving lives one punchline at a time.” She has performed at comedy clubs, theaters, and on cruise lines, and toured nationally for two years with Chelsea Handler. Her television credits include E!, CBS, Starz, FX, and MSNBC, and she appears regularly on SiriusXM. She has also been featured in the documentaries “The Big Talk Over Dinner” and “You’re Gorgeous, I Love Your Shirt: A Look Inside the Crisis of Bullying and Mental Health.”
Rich Walker is a comedian, writer, and actor whose website names him “the 9,647th biggest name in show business.” Nonetheless, he is a two-time winner of Best Comedian on Long Island from The Long Island Press and has opened for Ray Romano, Kevin James, Gabe Kaplan, Wendy Liebman, Robert Klein, and Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge band.
He is the co-founder and current professor of Stand-Up University, a school designed for the teaching of stand-up comedy on Long Island, and the co-host of the weekly televised podcast “Laughter Saves Lives” on Cablevision Long Island.
Tickets are $44 to $56. The theater’s full bar will open one hour before showtime.
