2007
November 2007
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Wed 7 Nov. 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, 10128. 212-415-5500. 92nd Street Y - [email][events]
Alec Baldwin, Arianna Huffington and Mo Rocca / Andy Borowitz, moderator Award-winning satirist Andy Borowitz of The New Yorker hosts an irreverent look at the upcoming presidential election, featuring Alec Baldwin, Arianna Huffington and Mo Rocca.
Alec Baldwin was recently awarded the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and the Television Critics Award for Best Actor in a Television Comedy for his role on NBC's 30 Rock. He has appeared in numerous films including Beetlejuice, The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Edge and The Aviator, among others. On television, he has appeared on the NBC daytime series The Doctors and the CBS series Knot's Landing, as well as the NBC mini-series Dress Gray and the TNT mini-series Nuremburg: Infamy on Trial. He has hosted Saturday Night Live too many times to count. In the theater, Baldwin has appeared in Craig Lucas' Prelude To A Kiss (OBIE Award), A Streetcar Named Desire (Tony Award nomination), The Twentieth Century and Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, both for Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway. Baldwin is a dedicated supporter of various causes including People For the American Way, the East Hampton Day Care Center, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial and the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, Long Island.
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of eleven books. She is also co-host of Left, Right & Center, public radio's popular political roundtable program. Read her 92YQ interview from September 2006.
Mo Rocca—contributor to NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and CBS' Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood—is known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary. A former correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he also is a regular panelist on NPR's hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me and is the creator and host of AOL's Mo Rocca 180º.
This event is co-presented with The New York Comedy Festival.
Date & Time: Wed, Nov 7, 2007, 8:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Directions
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall Seating Chart
Code: T-LC5FP07-01
Price: $26.00