Comedy Heights has two great shows this week with headliner Matt Donaher.

Out inaugural show at the Fleet Reserve Club in Imperial Beach is this Friday night at 7pm. Doors open at 6:30pm. Saturday night we’re at Twiggs in University Heights. Doors open at 7:30 with the show starting at 8pm.

Matt Donaher is a comedian and writer from New Hampshire living in Los Angeles. He has performed on CONAN multiple times. Matt was staffed on Demetri Martin’s show Our Fascinating Planet for Funny or Die, served as head writer for Fuse TV’s Uproarious, served as co-head writer for The Comedy Network’s All Access Live and wrote and provided voiceover for Jonathan Katz’s series Explosion Bus. Matt has written jokes for comics such as Natasha Leggero, Mike Birbiglia, Wyatt Cenac and Moshe Kasher.

Matt had the honor of being a New Face in the prestigious Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy festival where his performance led to him being part of Best of the Fest and selected to perform on a Gala special taped for the CW hosted by Howie Mandel starring Russell Peters, Tom Papa, Iliza Shlesinger, J.B. Smoove and more. Read about Matt’s highlight performance here. 

Matt is the winner of the 38th annual Seattle International Comedy Festival.  Comedy Central named Matt one of their “Comics to Watch” and the Boston Phoenix named him the best comedian in Boston.  Matt was also the winner of the Magner’s Comedy Festival and has been featured in the Glasgow International Comedy Festival in Scotland, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival in NYC and was one of twenty comedians hand picked by David Letterman’s Talent Coordinator to perform in the Johnny Carson Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk, NE.

Joining Matt Friday night are Ryan Shores, Gina Manning, Ty Shelton and Al Gavi. Saturday night at Twiggs Matt headlines with Ty Shelton, Sam Skolnik, Al Gavi and guest host Natasha Collier rounding out the show.