Join us for a special Drive-In Comedy Fundraiser to benefit The Derry Friendship Center! This show features Kenny Rogerson and Francis Birch.

KENNY ROGERSON: The funniest man you’ve never heard of, started his comedy career working the Chicago club circuit and at the famed Second City. After touring with the improvisation troupe The Comedy Rangers, Ken moved east and  became part of the exploding Boston comedy scene of the 1980’s, where he honed his standup act to a fine edge “…sharp enough to cut the head off a rabbit at thirty yards.”

Fresh off his second nationwide “Rescue Me Comedy Tour” with Denis Leary, Kenny is a favorite in clubs, theaters and on the large and small screen. You may have seen him as “Kevin the Biker Fireman” on F/X’s hit show “Rescue Me” starring Denis Leary and as “Pat the Cop” on ABC’s “It’s All Relative” with Lenny Clarke. He has also made numerous other television appearances on such shows as NBC’s , “Late night  with Conan O’Brien”, “The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Comics Come Home” for Comedy Central and Showtime’s  “A Pair of Jokes” just to name a few. Rogerson has also appeared at The Chicago Comedy Festival and TBS’s The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas.

FRANCIS BIRCH: A native New Englander, Francis Birch is well acquainted with the comedy of life. Born into a robust Italian/Native American family with six older brothers and sisters, this runt of the litter now has a clan of his own. He’s a veteran of a crazy household, but a stranger to the parenting battlefront and his award-winning act has been requested all around.

The Derry Friendship Center is a non-profit community organization that provides a safe and supportive environment for twelve-step recovery regardless of race, creed, color, gender or ethnic origin. For over 30 years, The Derry Friendship Center, Inc. has provided a safe, confidential, alcohol and drug free environment for people seeking and/or maintaining recovery from substance abuse and to participate in activities and ongoing rehabilitative peer support to people in recovery from alcoholism and drug abuse. The Derry Friendship Center, Inc. enjoys a positive relationship with the town of Derry as well as the surrounding communities, civic organizations, and healthcare providers. The Center is open to the public as a drop-in center – when staffed by our volunteers. We encourage the community, our members, and patrons to enjoy the benefits of our services and the peer support and fellowship this provides, as well sharing the experience of helping people seek and/or maintain recovery.