Tribute Island 2025 is in the books! Thank you for joining us. Please check back next year to see the plans for Tribute Island 2026 Happenings Magazine’s smash-hit event is back, offering three days and nights of entertainment on the shores of Lake Michigan. Tribute Island returns for its 9th year! KENOSHA, Wis. – As you begin to make your summer plans, don’t forget to save these dates: August 1-3. That’s when the nation’s largest tribute-band festival will return, better than ever, to Downtown Kenosha!
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Originally from the UK (by way of Australia…long story), Adam Burke has been performing comedy in Chicago and throughout the U.S. for almost two decades. He is a fixture headliner on showcases and clubs throughout the Midwest and beyond. He is a regular panelist on NPR’s popular comedy quiz show “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me,” and was a writer for WGN’s “Man of the People with Pat Tomasulo.” Voted Best Standup by readers of The Chicago Reader in 2014, he was also the winner of Second City’s Up Next Comedy Competition. He appeared at numerous festivals including Bridgetown Comedy Portland OR, Just for Laughs Chicago (four years running), and the local stage of Funny Or Die’s Oddball Comedy Festival. Burke has two debut albums through A Special Thing Records—”Universal Squirrel Theory” (2012) and “Weaponized Empathy” (2023), and his first special “UnAmerican” was released through SNG/Comedy Dynamics in 2025.
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With humor and heart, Kevin Farley brings his book to life by revisiting the unforgettable moments of his upbringing in the Farley household. Q & A during the show! Don’t forget to bring your copy of “Growing Up Farley” for Kevin to sign after the show.
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It’s not just comedy, it’s not just karaoke… It’s a party with Annastasia and Jayson!!!
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Since taking 4th place on Last Comic Standing’s 8th season, Joe Machi has been busy touring the United States as a headlining stand-up comedian. He has performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and has become a regular on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News. Joe also won the 2013 NY Comedy Festival’s Funniest Comedian Competition, and the 2010 NY Underground Comedy Festival’s Emerging Comics Competition.
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An evening of comedy and behind the scenes stories of one of America’s funniest TV shows “What’s Happening” with Ernest Thomas & Haywood Nelson. We will kick off the show with Back Porch Radio singing songs from the era.
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Joey Ilo is an American stand-up comedian known for his high-energy, physical, and clean comedy style. A former musician, he began his comedy career at age 26 and has since toured across the United States and Canada, with performances in comedy clubs, churches, and corporate events. He is currently a regular performer and based in Branson, Missouri. • Notable appearances: ◦ NBC’s Last Comic Standing (Season 5). ◦ Warner Brothers’ Thou Shalt Laugh 5. ◦ Dry Bar Comedy’s Just Work With What You Got special.
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Valentine’s Day Dance with Yesterday’s Children!
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As a writer, comedian and actor Tom Arnold has established himself to both television and film audiences worldwide having won such awards as the Peabody Award for writing and a Golden Globe Award for writing and producing. Additionally he helped put Fox Sports Network on the map with his hosting duties on “BEST DAMN SPORTS SHOW PERIOD.” Currently he’s on the Netflix series Fubar with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold cornered the market on playing the resident comic relief in films like “NINE MONTHS” with Hugh Grant Julianne Moore and Robin Williams James Cameron’s “TRUE LIES” with Arnold Schwarzenegger “HERO” with Dustin Hoffman and “AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY” with Mike Myers. Other film credits include “SOUL PLANE,” “CRADLE TO THE GRAVE” and “EXIT WOUNDS.” Arnold also starred in “THE KID & I” an action comedy he wrote for a 16-year-old family friend with cerebral palsy. The film was directed by...
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A hybrid of Minnesota and Wisconsin (with a severe cheese dependency), comedian Mary Mack is a favorite on radio shows and podcasts around the country including, Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast, The Bob and Tom Show, and The Grand Ole Opry. Mary co-stars as Jesse in the Hulu cartoon Solar Opposites by the creators of Rick and Morty. She’s appeared in Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, HBO’s Andy Kaufman Awards, San Francisco’s Sketchfest, and the Dry Bar comedy series.
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