Jackie The Joke Man Martling headlines SoulJoel's

Saturday August 15th at 8pm SoulJoel’s 50 SunnyBrook Road Pottstown, PA 19464 Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time FREE Parking Full Bar available before, during and after the show Food available inside Gatsby’s Pub before or after the show General Admission is $25 Preferred Seating (Closest 50 Seats) is $35 The only purchase condition we have is that all tickets are non-refundable. All sales are final. Tickets from any 3rd party ticketing will not be accepted. Only tickets purchased directly from SoulJoel’s will be accepted for admission. About Jackie: For eighteen years (1983-2001) a fixture of radio & television’s Howard Stern Show, comedian Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling was born and raised in East Norwich, a tiny hamlet on the glorious North Shore of Long Island, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Oyster Bay High School and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1971. As he was accumulating the world’s most extensive collection of jokes, Jackie toiled in the music business until abandoning it in 1979, saying farewell to his beloved trio “The Off Hour Rockers,” to give his punch lines a shot on the not-yet-existent Long Island comedy stages. To promote Long Island’s first comedy show that he and fellow fledgling comedian Richie Minervini partnered in producing at the bar-restaurant “Cinnamon” in Huntington, Long Island, in March, 1979, he created a dirty joke line, “Use Your Finger! Dial (516) 922-WINE!,” which has been in uninterrupted operation since 1979 [516-922-9463]. ​The jokes worked. Jackie released three self-produced comedy lp’s, 1979’s “What Did You Expect?,” 1980’s “Goin’ Ape!,” and 1981’s “Normal People Are People You Don’t Know That Well” on his own label, OHR Records. ​In 1982, after founding “Governor’s Comedy Shop” in Levittown on Long Island and touring as a national headliner, on a suggestion from a Washington DC comedy club owner, he blindly sent his three LP’s to Howard Stern upon Howard’s arrival…