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World Touring comedian Turner Sparks (“Kennedy” on Fox) is crashing the Uptown Theatre for one hilarious night of stand-up comedy, and he is bringing The Blaze Radio Network’s Andrew Heaton with him!

Born in California, award-winning comedian Turner Sparks started his comedy career in 2009 in Suzhou, China by founding Mainland China’s first stand up comedy club, Kung Fu Komedy Club.

Now a worldwide performer and a headliner across Asia and the US, Sparks has performed in 15 countries, most recently headlining the 2018 China International Comedy Festival in Shanghai and appearing at the Rogue Island Comedy Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Sparks’ world travels and diverse life experiences give him a unique ability to appeal to a multitude of audiences from The Merry Lion Comedy Club in Singapore to New York’s legendary Friars Club where he was inducted as their newest member in October, 2018.

Turner Sparks is the host of the popular “Lost in America” Podcast on Itunes, which was recently called “Exceptional and Noteworthy” by SplitSider.com.

Sparks pops up on the small screen worldwide on such shows as “Kennedy” on Fox Business and “Lucky Chow” on PBS in the United States, as well as China’s hit show “Roast!” which boasts an estimated 400 million viewers.

Andrew Heaton is a standup comedian, author, and the host of the podcast “Something’s Off with Andrew Heaton.” The World Comedy Club named him “NYC’s Greatest New Comedian” in 2013, and he has become exactly 7% funnier since receiving that award. He is a member of the New York Friar’s Club, one of the most prestigious groups of comedians and entertainers in the country, and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, throughout the United States, and in Germany and Australia. In 2018 he was a finalist in the China International Standup Competition, despite knowing zero Mandarin and despising communism.

Ibidis Mortem Productions is proud to present Pirates on the Prairie VIII, the pirate music concert that will have everyone talking (like a pirate), taking place Sat, February 2th, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the Uptown Theater in Grand Prairie, TX.

The concert will feature the Official Pirates of Grand Prairie, the Bilge Pumps, in an event to appeal to everyone’s inner buccaneer.

This concert will serve as the CD Release Party for the newest album from the Bilge Pumps, “Planned Piratehood”, the long-gestating double-CD from which the band will be performing two sets worth of material.

Also appearing will be our pirate poetry dispensing swabbies, the Seadog Slam, who will be entertaining everyone with salty rhymes in the lobby.

It will be an evening of nautical nonsense and swashbuckling fun for the whole family with not only music and comedy on stage, but caricature artists and face painters in the lobby before the show and during intermissions.

The event will take place at the Uptown Theater, located at 120 E. Main Street in downtown Grand Prairie. Lobby doors will open at 5:00 p.m., theater doors at 5:30, the fun-drenched music and comedy of the Bilge Pumps starts at 6:00, then a second Bilge Pumps set at 7:15.