Rave reviews from Jack's past annual shows include,
"Inconsiderately loud performance."
-Anonymous

It's a threepeat. Humorist and rock & roll raconteur Jack Gallagher makes his annual pilgrimage down the corner and around the block from his Land Park home to the 24th Street Theatre in neighboring Curtis Park. As he says " New music, new stories--and same band and price!"

It's his one night only concert event, "The Joke's On Me....3.0.”

"Music has been a huge part of my life since I was 10 or 12. If I'd spent as much time studying for school as I did memorizing lyrics and reading liner notes, I'd be a rocket scientist" reveals Gallagher. Part rock & roll history, part memoir, Gallagher summons up a Jean Shepherd-esque collective consciousness to perform more gems of baby boomer music and to tell the tales that go with them. "This is an amazing band of Bay Area musicians," Gallagher beams--"The Rubinoos' Tommy Dunbar and Al Chan, drummer Kevin Hayes (Robert Cray/John Lee Hooker/Van Morrison), keyboardist Allen Leong and the legendary maestro himself, Dick Bright."

The past two years, all of his 24th Street Theatre shows have sold out.

Gallagher gives a heads up to ticket buyers: "Remember, there is always a chance you might be called on to help the band, so brush up on your rock star moves."

Jack's back story:
Across the country, PBS viewers know the Emmy-winning Gallagher from his long running shows, "Money Track," "Money Moves," "Off-Limits" and "Kids, Cash and Common Sense." Network/cable television included his own ABC sitcom "Bringing Up Jack," and an occasional recurring role as Larry David's doctor on the HBO Original Series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

A favorite of talk/variety show hosts and audiences, the nationally known stand -up comedian has made numerous appearances across the years on "The Tonight Show" with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, as well as NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." And a certain generation knows him from the 1991 Bobcat Goldthwait cult classic, "Shakes the Clown."

But it is his one-man monologue shows commissioned by Buck Busfield and the B Street Theatre here in Sacramento that have created Gallagher's die-hard fans. His critically acclaimed works--"Letters to Declan" (1998), "Just The Guy" (2003), "What He Left" (2006) and 2010's brilliant "A Different Kind of Cool" have given the Irish-American writer and family man a longer-form chance to dig for common truths via his autobiographical and comic exposés.

Check out videos from last year's show!
"Eleanor"
"Drug Medley"
"Stay with Me"