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America’s Top Corporate Comedy Team. Jamie Alcroft was working as a disc jockey at a Florida radio station when he got a note from somebody named Mack Dryden.  "You're one of the funniest men in town", read the note, "I'm the other one."
 
To make a wild and colorful story short, they worked up an act and hit comedy club after comedy club.  Eventually landing in New York, they took the comedy club circuit by storm.  Their clean, physical, musical, anything-can-happen style left patrons begging for mercy and club-owners begging for bookings.
 
They had been working together for less than two years when the call came from The Tonight Show.  Johnny Carson and his audience howled at their fast-paced bits, parodies and impressions of everybody from a tipsy wine connoisseur to Sean Connery, and they were asked back almost immediately.
    
That and other TV appearances led to their own syndicated show called Comedy Break.  They taped 125 half-hours in less than a year ("I was reading my dreams off cue cards," said Jamie).  The guest performers joining them on the show reads like a Who's Who of Hollywood: Leslie Neilson, Betty White, Julia Duffy, John Larroquette, Jan Hooks, Kevin Pollak, Paul Reiser and many, many, more.
 
They've most recently been seen on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  Jay Leno said, "When comedians talk about comedy teams, Mack and Jamie are at the top of the list.  They are the funniest duo, working today!"
 
Mack & Jamie have become favorites on the corporate circuit because they're clean ("We've worked for Bible salesmen"), hilarious ("My cheeks hurt" is a common complaint), flexible (they once performed for twenty executives sitting around a campfire in Arizona and 8,000 nurses in New York within 24 hours) and creative customizers. ("The reason we work for folks like Nissan, Dr. Pepper, General Motors and others, over and over is because we know how to come up with material that's special for their group ... they love that").
 
One of their specialties is hosting award shows.  Ask any group why they are having Mack & Jamie host their annual ceremony often for the second or third time and you'll get basically the same answer: the duo can turn a dreaded evening of polite applause and long walks to the stage into a night of pure fun.
 
They also write and perform in dozens of in-house videos, most recently for Gartner Group, Sony, Infiniti, Isuzu, Embassy Suites Hotels, and Kraft Foods.
 
Mack & Jamie are no strangers to the casino stages in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, either having performed with such headline artists as Diana Ross, Michael McDonald, and Melissa Manchester.  They're even getting laughs abroad, having wowed audiences in Sydney, Australia, on the QE2 out of London, and repeat appearances on The Des O’Connor Show, Great Britain's version of the Tonight Show.
 
Their new play "Two For All" garnered rave reviews in Hollywood.  The show was Critic's Choice of the L.A. Times, which said "Mack & Jamie are the smoothest and most engaging pairing since Bob Hope met Bing Crosby." At this writing, the show is being developed toward a national tour and Feature Film.
 
Mack & Jamie's first comedy book, “Remember When....”, was published by Longstreet Press, and their comedy CD Extreme Channel Surfing that has received rave reviews from the industry press.
 
 
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