The actor, whose credits also include "Thank You For Smoking" and "Waiting," started doing stand-up two years ago and says it came naturally after performing improvisational sketch comedy all his life, including at Second City in Chicago, where he met Steve Carell. Koechner can be seen in theaters now in "Final Destination 5" and "A Good, Old Fashioned Orgy."
For info, or tickets, visit heliumcomedy.com.
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Adam Mansbach, author of the amusing best-selling bedtime book for parents, "Go the F--k to Sleep," will speak at the National Museum of American Jewish History (5th & Market) at 7 p.m. Tuesday as part of the NMAJH's "It's Your Story" series.Mansbach, whose novels include "The End of the Jews," "Angry Black White Boy" and "Shackling Water," will talk about the Jewish storylines in his writing, the intersection of African-American and Jewish culture, specifically in jazz and hip-hop, and his profanely comical "children's" book.