Joe Gautier

Whether LIVE or REMOTE, it should always be about LIFE. Comedy is about the art of listening to the audience, when the audience is listening to you. I try to find the audience at whatever PLACE they may be and "come get them"...against their will, if I have to. haha. Engaged and with a focus on "audience participation", the SHOW is about taking the audience to their collective HAPPY PLACE. I don't DO dark or sullen or BLUE or naughty. Words are very powerful things and they are supposed to create life and joy. That's the goal and that's what you should expect!

Joe Gautier began his professional career as a staff writer for Saturday Night Live's head-writers, Buddy and David Sheffield. He quickly skipped into writing for the Broadway Children's Series (yes, the real Broadway) and then on to Disney's "new" project, EPCOT CENTER, in Orlando. The son of a Baptist minister, Joe brings a refreshing and "oddly unique" view of the Christ-centered life, while bathing everything in laughs and poignancy, based on his life of very up ups and very low lows. His material spans every genre, from hip-hop (Bible Hits Video) scripture-memory songs to his new, hysterical look at the highs and lows of fame and fortune, in the realm of Country Music stardom (Cowman, the Moosial). He is also a highly-respected and licensed Bible teacher, having worked in foreign missions, in both Eastern and Western Europe and Scandinavia. Comfortable with every audience and faith, you will find a bag full of insights and laughs.

Typically require a single guitar hookup with direct box and a hand-held mike on a stand w flexible connection, that extends the mike out over the guitar to prevent feedback. Lighting is typically general stage lighting and a spot light, if available. NOTE: Spot light helps keep the audience focus on the artist, rather than the decorations or setting around the performance. I also prefer to have at least one "wedge" speaker dedicated to the vocal performance with the guitar mike mixed in a 50% or less, but, again, this is not a deal breaker. I'm used to performing in almost any kind of situation you could imagine, including sitting out on a flat bed travel trailer in the Sinai Peninsula in 110 degree weather.