Bernie McGrenahan is a stand-up comedian touring the globe expressing gratitude to our Military’s service members, civilians and dependents for their service to our nation! This original Comedy ‘With a Message’ training has been delivered to over 300 military bases world-wide. Bernie’s Stand-up comedy material breaks the ice, followed by his personal life experiences.
The ‘inspirational testimony‘ is the key factor to this program’s overwhelming demand and success.
A true program of the heart.
A tale of one person’s willingness to admit his shortcomings,
the courage to ‘ask for help’ and the resilience to ‘make a change’!
Program Topics include:
Resiliency, Safety, Risk-Reduction, Substance- Abuse/Sexual Assault/Suicide Prevention & Bystander Intervention! ‘Comedy “With a Message’ is where Laughter meets Inspiration and Resilience!
For more, please click here to read Bernie’s BIO
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Joint Base Lewis McChord- Brigade Safety Days!
Congrats to “I Killed” raffle book winners: Francisco Caro, Venicia Sala and John Granado!!
It was SO wonderful to be back up here in beautiful Washington State at Joint Base Lewis McChord. Thank you to the 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade and the 17th Field Artillery Brigade for inviting me here to deliver my Comedy With A Four Star Message Program for your Brigade Safety Day. What an honor!! Mr Garris, Mr Ford , CPT Spaulding and Chaplain Flores…THANK YOU for all of the effort put in to bringing the program here and taking such great care of me. Hopefully you all had some laughs and left the Evergreen and Carey Theaters with much to think about. Please check back tomorrow morning (Saturday at 0800 for the raffle winners). The 201st EMIB rapidly provides deployable all source predictive intelligence, electronic warfare intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance, target acquisition, battle damage assessment, command and control warfare, and broad bandwidth communications support to I Corps. The 17th FAB’s mission is to provide trained and ready units capable of deploying to any theater to plan, synchronize and execute strike, counterstrike and close supporting fires in support of shaping operations throughout the spectrum of Decisive Operations.
Above: emblems of the 17th FAB and 201st EMIB. Right: me and my special ‘little’ brother Sean. The Evergreen Theater pre-speaker to Happy Hour. Me and Mr Garris! Me and the 201st EMIB leadership. Afternoon program photos for 17th FAB: Me, Jeremy Ford, Chaplain Flores and Captain Spauling, me with the soldiers after the 1300 program! Me and my special ‘little’ brother Sean. My brother Scott: you are missed.
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“I Killed” True Road Stories from America’s Top Comics featuring Bernie McGrenahan
Raffle Winners only. Do not leave a comment on this post. Leave a comment on the POST matching your Base!
The following show attendees were randomly picked to receive a copy of I KILLED:True Road Stories of America’s Top Comedians!
May 2016
3- NAS Rota, Spain- Jeremy Gould, Zack Funk and Contrail Allen
5 & 6- NSA Souda Bay, Crete- Jordan Morgan, Christy Dismukes and Steven Lane.
11- NAVMEDLOGCOM- LCDR Chris Barnes and Joseph Watkins
12- TSC Hampton Roads- McKenzie Harrison, Katrina Laundrup, and Richmond P Solar
April 2016
13- Tinker AFB- Michael Pentecost, Nicholas Schueler and Metta Mundell
March 2016
2- US Air Force Academy Colorado Springs- Logan Feasline, Sean Harvey, Mitchell Robinson and Justin Katzovitz
15- NAWS China LAke- Rodney Lively, Christine Abing AND Nicholas Imperatore
16- NAS Fallon- Joshua Palomares, QM1 Timothy Kid and David Hazenfield
21- Luke AFB- Tim Hoffman, Tyler Hoffmeyer and Christian Sanchez
24- NOLF Imperial Beach- Michael Alvarez, Richard Wade Bretia Hillnewman, Joseph P. Ragusa, and Richard Moran
February 2016
2- NAF- El Centro – Eric Sayer, Rafael Cervantes and Zekyle Stockdale- prize contact info sent Feb 3
January 2016
12- Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa- Matthew Struck, Amy Smith and Darren Drake- prize contact info sent Jan 13
14- ISA Air Base Bahrain- Aaron Angell and Katie McCalden- prize contact info sent Jan 15
20 & 21- NSA Bahrain- Brian Baldus, Daniel Currier and Isabela Dunklin- – prize contact info sent Jan 27
November 2015
12- NNPTC Charleston- Rebekah Piccolo and Kyle Rosencranz
12- JB Charleston- Kyle Payne, Matenoa Taufa and Bernie Allemeier
19- NAB Coronodo- Daniel Zeiger and Jerry Palka
20- Pt Loma- Valerie Fundling and Adam Springsteen
September 2015
21- McAlester AAP- Bryan Smith and Carolyn Bennett- prize contact info sent Sept 21
23- Naval Station Norfolk-LTJG Patrick Foster, LT Jody L Brown and EM2(SW) Sherey Garcia- prizes sent Sept 25
August 2015
4- Fairchild AFB-Anton Smith and Courtney Hawkins- prize contact info sent Aug 5
13- Naval Sub Base New London Groton, CT – Brandon Dean, Javier Vargas III and Joel Watson- prize contact info texted Aug 14
14- Tinker AFB- Brien Ward, AWV2 Alexander Santos and Daniel Marquez-prize contact info texted Aug 15
17- NAS Lemoore- Robert Buschman, Alma Loza, MA1 Tony Vuono and Airman Garcia Kenel- prize contact info texted Aug 18
July 2015
1- Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham- Josh Amberger and Ryan Shannon- sent Ryan’s book on July 7. Sent Josh’s book on July 16.
22- NCBC Gulfport, MS- Shawn Littrell and Melissa McLaughlin- prize contact info sent July 23
27-NAS Whidbey Island, WA- Jillian Lotti and Chris Tancrell- prize contact info sent July 28
28- NS Everett, WA- Sebastian Soto and Dustin Vong- prize contact info send July 29
29- NS Kitsap Bangor & Bremerton- Angela Toledo and Anthony Weitzel- prize contact info sent July 3
Congratulations from The HAPPY HOUR Comedy with a Message staff!
Contact Melissa@Comedyisthecure.com to claim your softback copies of I KILLED !
Training Support Center Hampton Roads – Home of the “Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic”
Thank you to all who came to my trainings today at Training Support Center Hampton Roads (Damneck Annex)! You guys were amazing and thank you for all the love! See pics from today’s programs below. TSC HR provides centralized student management, and support to the Learning Centers and Elements in the execution of their training responsibilities for the east coast of the United States. Thank you to OPNAV and Walter Lee for going to such great lengths to host my program and take care of me while I was there. Your efficiency and thoroughness is much appreciated! You are the best!
Above: pics from today’s program. Me and the sailors and me and POC Walter Lee (photos courtesy of Walter Lee).
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Naval Medical Logistics Command- “Comedy With A Four Star Message” is here!!
Thank you for hosting my “Comedy With A Four Star Message” program here at Naval Medical Logistics Command! What a great way to spend my morning with you all. Thank you for all the laughs! The mission of NAVMEDLOGCOM is to deliver patient-centered logistics solutions for military medicine and their vision is to become the Department of Defense’s premier medical logistics support activity.
Above: Pics from today’s program. Photos courtesy of Julius Evans..thank-you!
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