Rita Rudner

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Rudner has performed over 3,000 solo shows in Las Vegas since the MGM Corporation built a theatre for her twelve years ago.  She’s been named “Comedian of the Year” nine years in a row.

Rita’s first solo HBO special, Rita Rudner’s One Night Stand, was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on A&E.  Rudner’s two one-hour specials for HBO, Born To Be Mild and Married Without Children, were ratings standout and she starred in PBS’s first ever stand-up comedy special, Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas.  Rita’s most recent special A Tale Of Two Dresses premiered in September 2018.

Rita Rudner has written five books, including such bestselling non-fiction titles as Naked Beneath My Clothes and Rita Rudner’s Guide to Men and the novels Tickled Pink and Turning the Tables. The audio version of Tickled Pink received a Grammy nomination. Her most recent book was a latest collection of essays, called I Still Have It...I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It.

In the early ‘80s, Rudner took a full-time leap from chorus lines to punch lines and was soon a regular guest on both Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show.

Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband of twenty years, Martin Bergman. The couple’s first produced film script was Peter’s Friends. The film, starring Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Imelda Staunton, Stephen Fry, and Rita, won the Evening Standard Peter Sellers Award for Comedy and was nominated for the Goya Award for Best European Film of 1994.  The couple’s play –Tickled Pink had its world premiere at the Playhouse.

Rita has performed to sold-out audiences everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Universal Amphitheatre, but one of her proudest accomplishments was being asked to perform alongside Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow at a fundraiser for President Obama.

Rita Rudner lives in California, with her husband and daughter. For more information on Rita, log on to her website at www.ritafunny.com.