Dave Losso at the Raccoon Motel -- May 17.
Sunday, May 17, 6 p.m.
Raccoon Motel, 315 East Second Street, Davenport IA
Headlining a joyously untraditional night of comedy at the Raccoon Motel, touring standup sensation Dave Losso takes over the downtown-Davenport stage on May 14, the funnyman's Stand Up! Records album A Careless Whisper of a Man having reached number two on the iTunes comedy chart and number four on Amazon's chart.
A touring comedian, writer, and comic-book artist born and raised in Chicago and now based in Seattle, Losso began performing standup in 2012, with Savage Henry Magazine calling him a "joke machine" In Chicago, he was a co-founder and co-host of the Yeah Buddy Awesome Time Comedy Show, co-host of Best Night Ever, and a frequent performer at long-running show and podcast We Still Like You;. Best Night Ever producer Sam Ash McHale called Losso "one of the funniest comics in Chicago."
Over the years since, Losso has toured widely across the U.S., and has performed at: the High Plains Comedy Festival; Orlando Indie Comedy Festival; Hell Yes Fest; Savage Henry Comedy Festival; Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival; Beast Village Comedy Festival; Cream City Comedy Festival;10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival; and the Turnbuckle Comedy and Music Festival. In 2016, he also appeared in the SeeSo series Hidden America with Jonah Ray.
Losso's album and video A Careless Whisper of a Man was released July 16, 2021, on Stand Up! Records. It reached number two on the iTunes comedy chart and number four on Amazon's chart, with reviewer Richard Lanoie of The Serious Comedy Site calling it "an entertaining and fun stand-up comedy album," noting that "Losso does biographical and anecdotal/observational comedy in a laid-back way."
Meanwhile, the comedian's work in comic books includes 2010's The Great Sandwich Detective, an all-ages Sherlock Holmes spoof he wrote and drew, and superhero thriller Kill the Wonderhawks, released in 2011 by Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello's imprint Paper + Plastick, which Losso wrote and co-created with artist Aaron Pittman. His visual art has appeared in the touring art show Thirty Three Point Three and concert posters for bands and comedians including The Number 12 Looks Like You, Tig Notaro, and The Sklar Brothers.
Dave Losso brings his standup to Davenport on May 17 alongside fellow comedians Dan Untham, Jason Melton, Sophia Smarandesqu, and Benji Robles, admission to the 6 p.m. show is $15.88, and more information and tickets are available by visiting TheRaccoonMotel.com.
