Jimmy Tingle

  • Political Comedian

From 60 Minutes II and MSNBC, comedian and commentator Jimmy Tingle captures the sweet spot between Jon Stewart and Jay Leno. His unique brand of topical yet timeless comedy is as insightful as it is hilarious. Jimmy Tingle will make you laugh, make you think, and make you feel better. Clean, funny intelligent humor for all audiences.

 


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Past Hosts Include:
  • United States Conference of Mayors
  • John Hancock Life Insurance
  • Credit Union National Association
  • The New York Times
  • Fortune Magazine
  • EMC Corporation
  • Basin Electric Power Cooperative
  • New England Council
  • Advest
  • Catholic Charities
Rave Reviews About Jimmy Tingle as a Speaker
“What can I say? You were a hit! …Everyone I spoke with was just delighted with your performance. Your intelligent humor kept us all laughing; not always an easy feat for corporate types.”

Jimmy Tingle's Harvard Commencement Speech - Get Sharable Link
Talks & Conversations with Jimmy Tingle
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Jimmy Tingle for President: The Funniest Campaign in History

Presidential election nationally known comedian, filmmaker, and commentator for 60 Minutes II, Jimmy Tingle has constructed another hilarious, thought provoking and politically charged presentation based on his 2012 run for the presidency. As the founder of the Humor for Humanity party, Jimmy Tingle ...

Presidential election nationally known comedian, filmmaker, and commentator for 60 Minutes II, Jimmy Tingle has constructed another hilarious, thought provoking and politically charged presentation based on his 2012 run for the presidency. As the founder of the "Humor for Humanity" party, Jimmy Tingle is running on his comedic record. The campaign underlines his passion and creative thinking on every issue the next president must grapple with from alternative energy to immigration to jobs and the national debt. Despite the seriousness of the issues confronting America and the world, Jimmy Tingle for President is The Funniest Campaign in History.

Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream

Are you looking for something different—fun and entertaining, yet with a relevant message—that will unite your group and inspire them with pride and patriotism, while making them laugh? Jimmy Tingle’s newest program blends his award-winning documentary film “Jimmy Tingle&rsqu ...

Are you looking for something different—fun and entertaining, yet with a relevant message—that will unite your group and inspire them with pride and patriotism, while making them laugh? Jimmy Tingle’s newest program blends his award-winning documentary film “Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream” with a taste of his unique and insightful live stand-up comedy. He welcomes questions from the audience following the screening of the film, providing an uncommon take on what it means to be an American in the 21st Century.

Winner of Independent Film Quarterly’s Film and New Media Festival “Best Documentary” award, Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream is a one-hour tour de force of comedy, commentary and conversation with Howard Zinn, Robert Altman, Mort Sahl, Lewis Black, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jimmy’s mother and other real Americans defining what it means to be a citizen of modern America. View a preview... The film (run time is approximately 62 minutes) is followed by 30 minutes of Q &A and improv comedy for a complete program that will leave your audience uplifted and optimistic.

Uncommon Sense

Jimmy Tingle is a brilliant humorist who targets the things in contemporary life that just don't make sense. Whether it's politics, parking tickets, automated telephone menus, our frustrations with technology or smoking - Tingle's eye for the absurd makes his wit a hit with audiences everywhere. ...

Jimmy Tingle is a brilliant humorist who targets the things in contemporary life that just don't make sense. Whether it's politics, parking tickets, automated telephone menus, our frustrations with technology or smoking - Tingle's eye for the absurd makes his wit a hit with audiences everywhere.

Tingle! A Painless Sensation

In “Tingle!” his hilarious, insightful yet positive take on the state of the world, Jimmy Tingle illuminates life's funniest challenges to an unprecedented degree. Whether it’s alternative energy, immigration, the national debt or airport security, his highly original and extremely ...

In “Tingle!” his hilarious, insightful yet positive take on the state of the world, Jimmy Tingle illuminates life's funniest challenges to an unprecedented degree. Whether it’s alternative energy, immigration, the national debt or airport security, his highly original and extremely entertaining performance inspires the audience to laugh, to think and ultimately to feel better. Topical, Timeless, Tingle!

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Biography

Jimmy Tingle is regarded as one of the top social and political humorists in America. He has worked as a stand up comic, producer, writer, actor, filmmaker and commentator in several mediums from the early 1980’s to the present day. Tingle was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts where the social, political and economic diversity of that city laid the groundwork for his development as a performer and satirist. After graduating from Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1977 he started performing during the early stand up comedy scene in Boston in the 1980s and quickly rose through the ranks from open-mike performances to paid engagements, headlining at comedy clubs, theaters and colleges nationwide.

Tingle recently returned to school, earning a masters degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He was selected to give the graduate address at Harvard’s 2010 commencement ceremony.

His latest one-person show Jimmy Tingle for President- The Funniest Campaign in History continues to evolve with the changing political landscape of 2012. His newest film Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream directed by Vincent Straggas won Best Documentary at the Independent Film Quarterly Film and New Media Festival in Los Angeles in 2011 and is currently airing on over 60 PBS affiliates around the US. His professional career has spanned nearly 3 decades.

He worked for two seasons with 60 Minutes II on CBS as the humorist / commentator in the Andy Rooney spot. He has worked as a contributor and satirist for MSNBC and has appeared on The Tonight Show, CNN, Larry King’s Weekend, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The American Comedy Awards, as well as his own HBO comedy special. He has also been a guest on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and was the US correspondent on The Strategic Humor Initiative with Sir David Frost and The BBC.

Film credits include consulting and playing a television talk show host on Chris Rock’s Head of State; a neighborhood bartender in Next Stop Wonderland; a priest in Boondock Saints; and a restaurant owner in By the Sea. He played himself in the International Emmy winning arts documentary Damned in the USA. His theatrical credits include writing and starring in four one-person shows all of which were directed by Larry Arrick. Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense; Jimmy Tingle in the Promise Land; Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream and his current production, Jimmy Tingle for President: The Funniest Campaign in History.

Tingle has the rare distinction of winning the prestigious “Best of Boston” award as both a performer in 2001 in the “stand up comedy” category and as a producer in 2007 for Jimmy Tingle’s OFF BROADWAY Theater.