 Wilde & Hanes began performing their comedy-juggling act on California's Venice Beach Boardwalk in 1984. Three years and nineteen citations for disturbing the peace later, comic/actor Rodney Dangerfield caught the act and set up a showcase at Bud Friedman's Improve Club in Los Angeles. Since that time the team has performed in comedy clubs, casino reviews, and colleges around the country, at conventions and on cruise ships around the world, and has been a featured act on the television shows: Comic Strip Live and Comedy Express on Fox, A&E's Evening at the Improv, The Today Show on NBC, as well as had several appearances on MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour. On both sides of the camera: Wilde & Hanes have choreographed and performed physical comedy for IBM, Footlocker, Miller Beer, 7-11, and Coca-Cola commercial campaigns, as well as for the film, L.A. Story. "...they were breathtaking. We found ourselves spellbound, then laughing helplessly....the interaction with the audience was inspired." Jack Smith, L.A. Times "A wicked cross between Penn & Teller and the Smother's Brothers...hilarious high-tech vaudeville!" Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle
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