12/24/2009
Boston Globe - Comedy Club Owners Are Laughing, If Not to the Bank...
"At Mottley�s, you might catch a comic on the verge like Joe Wong, who was born in China and recently joked on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that he wasn�t afraid of the bad economy ("I grew up poor, and if I become poor again, I�ll just feel young"). You might also check out a specialty show like "Mortified," featuring confessional storytelling as people share humiliating youthful diary entries, love letters, poems, and more...On a Friday earlier this month, crowds varied considerably...It was standing-room-only at Mottley�s for a double bill of New York comics returning to Boston..."
11/23/2009
Chronicle - A Night Out
"Mottley's Comedy Club has that old school vibe - small, crowded, unpretentious..."
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10/25/2009
The Gary Gulman Email Newsletter
"I have done a few walk-in appearances at the club over the past few months and I really think it is an ideal place to see and perform standup comedy, warm, intimate and dedicated to setting the perfect vibe for comedy..."
09/28/2009
Yelp Revew (Sept. 28, 2009)
"Very cool place we found by luck. We were visiting Boston and standing around wondering what to do so I fired up Yelp and searched for comedy clubs. Turns out we were only a block away from Mottley's Comedy Club. It was a little hard to find because it was hidden in the basement of the Trinity bar. We got there 5 minutes before the show started, the house was packed. Thankfully the staff was super friendly so they moved some stuff around and made room for us. It was $20 for a 2 hour show and two of the comedians had been on Comedy Central Presents so that was really cool. The comedians were really funny and it was a lot fun..."
04/17/2009
Shecky Magazine
The town's been going through a transition, a re-shuffling of its venues. Bill Blumenreich pulled his Comedy Connection club out of Faneuil Hall back in August and opened up a gargantuan venue at the Wilbur Theater. At about the same time, it was announced that Mottley's would open (which it did, in September) in that very same Faneuil Hall, but in a much smaller venue.
Now, the Boston Phoenix has determined that Mottley's is Boston's Best Comedy Club in a Readers Poll.
04/16/2009
Boston Phoenix Best Comedy Night - 2009
It might be the new kid in town, but MOTTLEY�S COMEDY CLUB has already earned the respect and devotion of local comedians and audiences � something that�s difficult to do in this, the most jaded of art forms...
04/08/2009
Yelp Revew (April 8, 2009)
It's a great setting for comedy, though! I was concerned, as a performer, that I'd feel too much like the audience was on stage with me, but that wasn't the case at all. The stage lights are bright enough to set the performer(s) apart from the audience, while still maintaining a pleasant amount of intimacy between the two.
Not a bad seat in the house, and awesome, friendly management, who obviously have a great appreciation for comedy. I'm looking forward to going back!
03/02/2009
The Comedians - America's Comedy Magazine
...Lincoln adds, �Tony V [veteran Boston comic] after his show here gave us a great compliment, �This is what comedy clubs used to be like.� He had a sold out Saturday and just ripped it.�
01/11/2009
The Weekly Dig
Since opening in September, Mottley�s Comedy Club has been a standout in the city and a member of the proud line of intimate, comic-run rooms, which means cool vibes, interesting bookings and sensible ticket policies. Co-owner and Northeastern grad Jon Lincoln hosts the wild Wednesday nights, a mix of multi-act showcases with the insane character comedy of Chris Coxen and the all-around musical ridiculousness of local favorite Robby Roadsteamer. And, unless bread bowls of chowder filled with touristy goodness make you laugh, you won�t find any better place near Faneuil Hall for $10 comedy.
01/01/2009
Northeastern Alumni Spotlight
There�s something equally satisfying and terrifying for a budding talent in a stripped-down setting: a comedian, a microphone, and a show-us-what-you�ve-got audience.
It�s that kind of atmosphere that Northeastern University graduates Jon Lincoln, BA�04, and Jeff Fairbanks, AS�06, have created in the newly opened Mottley�s Comedy Club near Faneuil Hall Marketplace. The club opened last September, just in time to host a portion of the annual Boston Comedy Festival.
The 100-seat venue has gotten solid reviews as a great place to see up-and-coming comics. Its intimate feel allows the entertainers to connect with the audience.
12/05/2008
Boston Comedy Blog - A Swinging Supershow at Mottley's
But downstairs, in a small room that can hold about 90 people, co-owner Tim McIntire was giving the cash register a work-out with a nice, steady stream of people for Dan Sally and Andy Ofiesh�s Supershow, which they host every Thursday.
The pair started the show with their �mission statement, � which included the promise �to go too far,� to �threaten nudity,� and, said Ofiesh, to have a �rape whistle talk.� �Very important to protect your ears while raping,� he said. And yes, they did make good on the nudity promise, at least partially, in a hypnotists bit later on.
McIntire, Sally, and Ofiesh say that attendance has been spotty so far, but the place was roughly two thirds full Thursday, and they got to see a great show.
Sally and Ofiesh developed their chemistry a few years ago hosting Thursdays at the Comedy Studio, and they haven�t lost a step with Supershow. They are loose and conversational, and like to tweak their audience a bit.
11/19/2008
Yelp Review (Nov. 19th, 2008)
Mottley's though fairly new is a great place to go for Comedy. I have attended two shows so far and I have not been disappointed. The comedians have a real talent and the Hosts were on top of their game. If you are looking for a fun night out and a bunch of laughs I suggest you stop by and join in the entertainment you will not be disappointed.
10/17/2008
Brendan Boogie Blog
"I know I've mentioned it before, but y'all should really check out Mottley's. It's a great, intimate room featuring a great mix of old school Boston legends and some of the brightest young comics in town. It's a fun night pretty much guaranteed. Because you never know what's going to happen.
For instance, last night I had to wait ten extra minutes to play my second song because SuperShow host Dan Sally asked a cop from the audience to come up on stage and tell a story about a drunk kid claiming someone else [peed] his pants..."
-Local musician Brendan Boogie
10/07/2008
Yelp Review (Oct. 7, 2008)
" It's a pretty cozy club, which was pretty cool. There were three comedians plus the mc for the show Fri night and it was about an hour and a half for about $20 each a ticket. I'd definitely recommend checking it out for somewhere new to go."
09/22/2008
The American Jerk
"This is clearly no circle jerk comedy room for rank amateurs to hone their �If I had a four-hour erection, I would have sex! Lots of sex! Ha HA!� material. Make no mistake: it also isn�t one of the famed windmills; after all, the closest thing to the entertainment industry in the place was me, who knows a disc jockey on a station in Worcester� but it was a room built by people who care about comedy and who want to make sure that the comics go home with a little money in their pockets for their hard work. Which sadly says more about the state of stand-up comedy than it does about the room itself. In an industry of factory farms, Mottley�s Comedy Club is a free-range farm with cruelty-free killing� but it�s an exciting step in the right direction..."
09/22/2008
Boston Globe
Mom Always Liked Them Best
Tom and Dick Smothers were the deserving recipients of a lifetime achievement award at this weekend's Boston Comedy Festival. The silly siblings, who are celebrating 50 years in the business, were feted Saturday at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. (Local loon Steve Sweeney was the recipient of the fest's first Boston comedian of the year award.) Earlier in the day, the Smothers, Sweeney, and "America's Funniest Home Videos" producer Vin Di Bona talked to a crowd of comics at the newly opened Mottley's Comedy Club. Owner Jon Lincoln was giddy about the star power gathered on the stage, but he wasn't getting ahead of himself. "I'm taking the Bill Belichick approach," he said. "We won this game, but there's next week now."
09/17/2008
Boston Phoenix
"The Connection�s geographic and philosophic shift has created a domino effect, prompting local comics to seek out and, in some instances, create, new places to perform, like the much-buzzed about Mottley�s Comedy Club, which opened this week in conjuncture with the Boston Comedy Festival (which has its big finale this weekend, honoring the Smothers Brothers). �Boston comedy is in a transitional phase,� says comedian Jon Lincoln, who owns Mottley�s with fellow comedian Tim McIntire and non-comedian (but still funny) Jeff Fairbanks. �In the �80s, comedy here was huge. But, suddenly, in the �90s, it wasn�t a mainstream thing. Clubs died out because they�d never had to think about developing before. Out of that, the alternative-comedy scene developed. Now, we�re on the cusp of the whole scene growing. We�re in the early stages of a new generation of comedy.�
09/12/2008
The Boston Globe
"The club is owned and operated by comics Jon Lincoln and Tim McIntire and entrepreneur Jeff Fairbanks. Lincoln and Fairbanks sold the Comedy Lounge in Hyannis six months ago and had been looking for a new venue in Boston. They partnered with McIntire after a discussion on McIntire's website about how clubs could be run to better benefit the scene and the comics, and then found the room and partnered with the festival.
As a veteran of the local scene, McIntire has seen a divide between "alternative" comics, who mostly play in Cambridge, and "road" comics who play suburban clubs mostly north of Boston. Mottley's will aim to bridge that gap.
"I've seen plenty of comics in Cambridge that would work out of [Route] 128, and I've seen plenty of comics on the road that would kill in Cambridge," he says. "I think it's kind of a meaningless divide."
09/11/2008
Northeastern's Mottley Crew
http://media.www.nu-news.com/media/storage/paper600/news/2008/09/11/TheInside/Northeasterns.mottley.Crew-3425848.shtml
"McCue, a stand-up comedian by trade, said the club will reinvigorate the Boston comedy scene, which has few venues for comedians to perform for small crowds.
"This kind of allows the local comedy scene to start again," McCue said.
The venue has 100 seats - significantly smaller than the 400-seat Comedy Connection. McCue said this will allow audiences to better connect with performers.
"What's great about this club, [is] it brings comedy back to its roots of what it should be," McCue said. "In my mind, comedy is like jazz, it's supposed to be a place where you can connect with your audience. Not like these giant places, where you feel like you should be watching the act through binoculars. Here, there isn't a bad seat in the house."
08/24/2008
The Comic's Comic
"Enter Mottley's Comedy Club. It opens Sept. 15 (Grand Opening night's show is Sept. 19) in the basement of Trinity bar near Faneuil Hall and has a capacity of 100. The opening week's schedule neatly coincides and partners up with the annual Boston Comedy Festival. The owner/operators are Jon Lincoln, Jeff Fairbanks and Tim McIntire. McIntire is a working veteran stand-up from the Boston area. Lincoln and Fairbanks, both Northeastern grads, previously opened and ran the Comedy Lounge in Hyannis for three years before selling off that operation to comic Mary Beth Cowan."
08/24/2008
Shecky Magazine
"On the 15th of this month, we linked to the Phoenix article that detailed Bill Blumenreich's migration from his Faneuil Hall Comedy Connection room to the huge Wilbur Theater location.
Now we receive word that a new comedy room will open up in Faneuil Hall, but in a smaller, 100-seat venue downstairs. Mottley's is the creation of Tim McIntire, Jon Lincoln and Jeff Fairbanks. The first two are comics.
We recall that in the Phoenix story, Blumenreich was quoted as saying, "I love the Boston comics, but the day of Boston people flocking to see local comedians has come and gone. You can't squeeze blood out of a stone." We also recall thinking that was one of the dopiest things we'd ever heard anyone in this business say. Apparently, three entrepreneurs from Boston also thought it rather dopey."