Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Newsletter: November News from Kerri and Ron

Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGeheeDecember 2011
Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
Hello Everyone!

This is your "Anti Thanksgiving " letter. I will not be including anything or anyone I'm thankful for. I'm sure you heard enough about all of that on FACEBOOK. By the way, if you want to be my friend or join my fan page I'll be so happy because Bob Smiley and my other friends are beating me in Facebook likes and I need to be "representin" for the ladies. Ron has actually risen from the dead and started posting--which is a miracle.

lucy, kerri, ronSo...don't be jealous, but the time came this month for us to ride in our own private jet. Now I'm praying to be like Joyce Meyer and get my own. Our family is now ruined from flying commercial. Lucy loved the snacks and mommy loved the fact that they pulled our car up to the plane.

We did an amazing event for Ability Tree, an organization in Arkansas that reaches out to help families with children and special needs. We met some of the kids and we feel like we're life long friends with the folks who are starting it up. Please check them out at www.abilitytree.org.
 lucy, kerri, ron
We survived RockTober (October) with all the birthdays and cake and Ron has embarked on a diet. He's doing amazing . I think it was Lucy that inspired him with her prayer: "Dear God please heal Daddy and make his tummy smaller! Amen." As they say, "Out of the mouths of babes!"

In other news  I was in Toronto, Canada, and got stuck in the Sheraton Hotel elevator for over an HOUR! It was like a bad Charlie's Angels episode and the firemen had to pry me out. If they were a little cuter and I was single it would have been worth it...maybe!

We're off to many places before Christmas, including this fun event in Kansas on December 11th.  We're everywhere from Topeka to WA and sadly we're flying commercial. I guess I have to save my pennies and ask Santa for a Falcon 50 Jet for Christmas!

I hope you guys are doing great and I so appreciate the emails and notes we get back from the newsletter. Thanks for taking the time to read this and pray for us. I would ask for specific prayers for great health for our whole family this season as we've had some battles on that front. But our little ladies Lucy and Ruby are fantastic and once again Miss Ruby has wowed everyone with her new tricks and appearances on stage with the family.

God bless you guys!
Kerri, Ron, Lucy & Ruby

P.S. News update: We're now booked on the east coast Tue-Fri, February 7-10. We have Feb 11th open for a Valentines Day Eat Pray Laugh event for either of us or both of us. It's one of the best nights of the year for an outreach event for couples or families too! The men will thank you because they're already stressed about planning something!

Please check our calendars for 2012 as we're doing  a lot of traveling, and if we're near your area we could piggy back some kind of event so you can save on travel. Give us a call and we'll talk about options!
    
Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
217 Palos Verdes Blvd 
Redondo Beach, California 90277
877-773-4242
booking@kerripom.com 


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Friday, November 11, 2011

Newsletter: FREE Stuff from Kerri Pomarolli!

Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGeheeNovember 2011
Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
Hey guys,
 
I'm so glad the official magazine on paper is not dead. I've recently joined forces with some amazing writers--including super model Kim Alexis and TV Host Tammy Maltby--to be a staff columnist for the new women's magazine WHOA. It's a top notch high quality magazine with a Christian world view. Its beautiful design is amazing and I have a special opportunity for my fans:

Just email me (booking@kerripom.com) your name and address and you get a FREE one year subscription to the magazine! In fact, if you want more than one subscription just get me the names and addresses. I can get 5,000 of my fans a FREE subscription for a whole year! Don't you love me right now???

Here is link to the entire magazine's first issue on line and check out my article, "Why I Still Watch Chick Flicks."

I am also including a pic from our wonderful trip to Fort Bragg Army Base in North Carolina where Ron and I were presented with a special honor for serving our troops and their families.

lucy, kerri, ron

Thanks so much for all your support of our family and ministry. Your prayers have kept us going through a very busy fall schedule. God has been doing amazing things at our events and we look forward to many more.

By the way , we still have open dates Feb 11 and 12th if you haven't planned a Valentines Day Night for your group.

God bless you guys,
Kerri
Featured Event:  Women of Worth Conference


I will be speaking at the January 2012 "Women of Worth" conference in Gadsden, AL. Among the speakers are Darlene Bishop, and Julie Hadden--one of the most successful and memorable contestants on NBC's The Biggest Loser.

 Click here for the "Women of Worth" Facebook page--and make sure to "like" it!

Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
217 Palos Verdes Blvd 
Redondo Beach, California 90277
877-773-4242
booking@kerripom.com 


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Monday, October 10, 2011

Newsletter: October News from Kerri and Ron

Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGeheeOctober 2011
Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
Hey everyone!

October is a big month for us mainly because my little Ruby is turning 1, Lucy is turning 4, and I'm turning...um....not 4--all within 10 days.

We are busy planning many celebrations and managing to do some fun tours all over the map. For example, I'm so excited to be entertaining the troops with Ron on Oct 17th at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

Working Title Agency Logo  I am pleased to announce I've just signed with "Working Title Agency" owner Bill Reeves, who also reps the writers of the films Facing the Giants, Fireproof, and the upcoming film Courageous. Hopefully you'll be seeing my screenplay based on my book on the big screen someday soon. I'm very excited to partner with Bill in many areas.

We just got back from some fun in Memphis, Mississippi, and West Palm Beach, Florid. Now Ron is off to New Orleans and I'm off to Minneapolis with my good friend Thelma Wells from Women of Faith.

The update on the homefront is that Lucy has recently chopped--or should I say "cut"--her own hair. When I asked her,"What possessed you to do such thing?"--she replied, "Satan."

Here are some recent pics of the girls and me: 

Ruby--isn't she cute!Kerri and the girls

Also, click here for a recent video of Lucy practicing her "act" on stage!

In the next months be looking for us in Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico and many more. Happy Halloween or Harvesting..whatever the kids are calling it these days! I call it my birthday since I was born on Oct 31st!  

God bless
Kerri, Ron, Ruby, & Lucy   
Featured Event
October 14-15 at First Presbyterian Church in Monrovia, CA

If you are anywhere nearby, don't miss this amazing conference! ~ Kerri
Christmas Is Coming! Don't forget to contact us to book your Christmas parties or comedy/fundraiser events in 2012!
Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
217 Palos Verdes Blvd 
Redondo Beach, California 90277
877-773-4242
booking@kerripom.com 


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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

"My Marital Bed is Broken" I wrote this May 08 enjoy...

My marriage bed is broken. No really, if you walk into our bedroom you will see that half of our bed is sagging to the floor. My side is neat and perfect. Ron’s side of our brand new mattress has sunk into a deep cavernous mess. If you like splinters in your behind then you can come sleep at our place. This is because I pulled another scheme and got us into this situation.

With our wedding gift money we decided to buy a new mattress. We’ve both had back problems and after watching Lindsay Wagner's 1500th infomercial we decided to try out the “Sleep Number” mattress at the store. These beds are luxurious and wonderful. Each side has a remote control and you can pump up to your desired firmness or pump down to your desired softness. We fell in love with this mattress immediately and had to have one. The only problem was that they cost $2,500.00 and they don’t sell them used on Ebay. I looked! We just couldn’t afford to spend that kind of cash on a mattress when we were newlywed full time starving comedians and needed the money for little things like rent and food. We were a bit heartbroken that we couldn’t purchase our dream mattress but we agreed to save up for it. So about 6 months later we had saved some money and I announced to Ron we were going to get a new “Sleep Number Bed” very soon. He was thrilled. It would be our first grown up purchase.

What he didn’t know was that I had the master plan. He was giving me $2500 for a mattress and box spring. I went online and  saw all the knock off brands and stumbled on a bed that promised to be everything the “Sleep Number Bed “ was and more. It was called the “Sleep Mumber” and it looked really swell according to the pictures and testimonials. Now that I think of it all the testimonials were written by the company’s founders. ARRRGH! Hindsight is 20 /20. But the big thing was that this bed was available now for a one day only internet special for$1200. What a steal! I called up Luanne at customer service and she promised our bed would be delivered the very same week. I wanted to surprise Ron so I scheduled delivery while he was gone.

I answered the door and these two dudes were standing there at the top of my second floor apt with a pen and a clipboard. One guy says” Sign here!” and then he told me to come out to their truck. They had these big boxes and didn’t look too fired up about carrying them to my apt with no elevator. The second guy wanted to leave. He came up with some excuse that the mattress wouldn’t fit through my door. I was standing in the back of this unlabeled truck that looked like it had just come from some back alley making a pick up. I wasn’t letting them leave. I said “I’ll help you guys do whatever needs to be done cause neither of you are leavin till I get my bed!” So after a lot of wrestling and 2 phone calls to their manager they got the boxes up my stairs. Then I said” Ok get started and install my bed!” They both looked at me if I was insane.”Uh maam I don’t know what you heard but we’re just the delivery company for whatever is in these boxes. We don’t do installations. See ya...sucka!” Then they bolted out my door.
I was stuck there with huge boxes in my bedroom and no bed. I thought to myself” How hard can it be? I ‘m a strong woman. I can do this myself!” I got out a kitchen knife and started cutting away through all the boxes. I used all my might and even broke a sweat but I managed to get everything out of the boxes. It didn’t look like a bed at all. It was a bunch of tubes and plastic and bubbles and things that scared me frankly. How was this going to provide those hours of heavenly sleep like Luanne promised? I spent the next two hours trying to make heads or tails of the whole thing. I don’t read directions so I just tried to make it up as I went a long. I failed miserably.

Then at about 6:30pm Ron comes home and heads into the bedroom. He sees me whimpering in the corner surrounded by parts. He had no idea what I had done but I had to sweet talk my way out of the situation. I just wiped my face and said” Surprise Honey! Our Sleep Number is here!” He wasn’t buying it because he knew good and well they would have assembled it for the price they were charging. He had that” I love Lucy” look on his face and they said” Kerrrrrrrrrriiiii..What have you done?” I turned on the waterworks hard and went into my sob story of trying to do something nice for my husband by surprising him with a cost efficient alternative to the overpriced sleep number. So I told him all about the “Sleep Mumber” its high customer rating. (Ok I made that part up!) I was hoping we‘d both giggle together and order pizza. But he knew I had gotten some knock off blow up mattress ghetto version of the real thing. He also knew there was no return policy! He also noticed there were no numbers on the dial of our “Sleep Mumber” bed. We just had to twist the one remote up and down till we liked the firmness.

So we spent the next 6 hours trying to stay married. (Well I was trying)Let’s just say our marriage was put to the test because neither of us is particularly handy. We’ve almost killed each other installing a shower curtain. No not a showerhead the curtain is what was so hard because Ron couldn’t lengthen the rod enough. We’re a mess and we know it.
Well to make a long story longer. We did get the bed installed and then we actual passed out from sheer exhaustion. Over the next couple weeks we enjoyed playing with our little controls that puffed up the bed and actually felt quite accomplished. We saved a lot of money and had the same sleeping experience as all of the fancy people on TV.

Then something started to sag in the bedroom. No not our love life….Ron’s side of the bed. It was slow at first with his side kind of leaking in the middle of the night. He’d adjust his firmness level to really firm and wake up like Goldilocks saying “This bed is too soft!”I didn’t think much of it at first because my side of the bed was holding up just fine. I attributed this to the time on our honey when I got in our private Jacuzzi with no problems when Ron joined me and the overflow of water caused a tsunami in our hotel suite and we had to call the management to fix the darn thing. Once again Ron’s issues with our equipment were not my fault! I was sleeping like a baby. Well when Ron wasn’t snoring like a chainsaw! I could kill that man in his sleep I swear! But that’s another story altogether!

So night after night he’s pump up his side of the bed to extra firm and awaken the next morning with the splinters from the wooden posts in his back and he’d get more cranky each day. I of course told him he had two options. 1. Fix the thing. 2. Sleep on the couch. I think I was secretly voting for option 2 because I’d get more snore free nights and I think I deserve that for carrying his baby don’t I?

The problem with Ron trying to fix our bed is that he has no actual skills in fixing anything and his buddy Tommy was out of town for a long time. Tommy is the one we call on to solve all our home improvement problems. We’ve made him the godfather of our child to ensure he keeps coming over to fix things out of guilt and obligation. So far so good! But Tommy wasn’t coming to the rescue. After a very uncomfortable visit my parents even offered to help us buy a new mattress. My dad said it was like sleeping in a “Cave” when he’d wake up in the morning all sunken down into the wood frame. I took the money they gave us for a mattress and went to a spa! So sue me! I just gave birth and I think God wants me to have relaxed muscles and good fingernails. Ron started sleeping on the couch and our marriage hasn’t suffered if you ask me!

Finally we decided we’d like to live in the same room after all. I kinda missed the snoring bear after all! So what were we to do? Suck it up and buy a new mattress? I didn’t want to sacrifice my adjustable sleep number mattress for some normal one with no remote! And the new ones cost at least $2500. Well leave it to some ingenuity and Ron’s hard work ethic to save the day. Well actually it was his good friend “Duct Tape” that really did the trick Ron got under the bed and taped up the hole in our air hose with Duct Tape and it all of sudden worked like a charm. We had no more air leaks and no more nights with Ron sleeping on the wood frame! It was so simple and only costs us $3.99 for the roll of tape! Whoever says Duct Tape can’t do everything including save a marriage obviously hasn’t tried hard enough!

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Newsletter: News from Kerri and Ron....Kerri Performs with Natalie Grant

Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGeheeSummer Wrap Up
Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
Hey Guys,

We just wanted to send a quick hello with a summer wrap up. Most important fact is that Lucy starts pre-school in 4 days. Do you think it's bad she's in the Overnight Pre School 7 days a week?

We've had an amazing summer with travels from NYC to Napa, CA. We're so blessed with a full travel schedule this fall, including entertaining our troops on a base in North Carolina. I'm thrilled to be performing with Natalie Grant for the second time at a conference coming up this month in Phoenix. You can check out my Facebook page for details. Here is the link for the conference also.

Lucy is doing a great job and keeping us on our toes. Here is a clip of her so-called, um, "Act" on stage with me last week in Napa. This proves my theory: never work with kids or animals!

     

Ruby continues to be truly our JOY. God really threw me a bone. She's perfect in every way and so very mellow. Thank you, Jesus. This makes traveling with two kids a bit easier and also balances her very, very "spirited" (you know the code) sister.

We'd love to hear from you and keep in touch. I sold out and got a smart phone, so I'm doing my best to be "tweeting" as the kids are calling it.

We still have openings for shows this fall and New Year's Eve. Contact me if you are interested in putting on a Family Fall Fun Night or a Rockin' Laugh Night for New Year's or Christmas.

God bless you guys,

Kerri
Kerri Pomarolli & Ron McGehee
217 Palos Verdes Blvd 
Redondo Beach, California 90277
877-773-4242
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

GUEST BLOG: Eat Pray Laugh Day 4

Guest Blog
Behind the Scenes of Comedy by Kristin Weber

Hi! My name is Kristin Weber. You might know me as Kerri's opener if you've followed her comedy. She is mentoring me in the ways of laughter, and I have had the privilege (the crazy, insane privilege) of touring with Kerri, Ron, and their two kids Lucy and Ruby, this past week in their Eat Pray Laugh tour throughout California. Kerri asked me to post my Day 4 Account on her blog. Here it is! Enjoy =)

(By the way, if you wish to read the accounts from the first three days visit my personal blog at http://kristinweber.blogspot.com)

Day 4 of our tour was also spent in Napa. We had two shows that day, so there was no sight seeing. I only performed at the evening show, but Kerri and Ron did some time in the morning at a church service.

Lucy, Kerri's 3-year-old, used to come on stage during her act. Unfortunately Lucy was banned from the stage after saying "stupid" into the microphone during a show.

Kerri decided to give Lucy another chance and had been coaching her on a short comedy bit. The bit was supposed to go like this:

Kerri: "Lucy, what do you say to Satan when he tempts you to do bad things."
Lucy: Sings the chorus of "We're not gonna take it" by Twisted Sister.
Crowd dies laughing.


Here's how it actually went during the show:


Lucy tried defending her actions (and other car craziness) during our ride back to the hotel:


We had a delicious meal after the show with our kind hosts, and I ate the most delicious cupcake from Sift, which was a bakery that won the Food Network's Cupcake Wars. I have been on an unofficial quest to find the world's tastiest cupcake, and so far Sift has taken the cake (my pun zap collar gave me a little shock.)

Kerri, Lucy, and Ruby ready for our evening show:


Me with my Sift cupcake box:


And thus concluded Day 4 of our comedy tour. And the people rejoiced. Yay. Yay. Yay.


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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Here is A Blog I found that I wrote a while ago... "Why I Still Watch Chick Flicks" enjoy..

Why I Still Watch Chick Flicks

(written by actress, comedian, speaker, author, award winning writer, Kerri Pomarolli)



When I was single I wrote a very empowering piece, or so I thought, titled Why I Don't Watch Chick Flicks basically explaining why they are bad for women. I expressed how they were hurting society by portraying relationships in a totally unrealistic way. They also caused me to go into a serious chocolate chip cookie binge late at night under the covers crying myself into a chocolate coma then drifting off to sleep only to dream of the leading man in the movie. When I was single, and pushing the dreaded age 30, I just couldn't find any reason to hope my life would turn out like Julia or Reese or worse yet Rene in the ever popular Bridget Jones movie! My heart goes out to women everywhere who watch these movies - where the girl always gets the guy. Why? Why? Why do we do this ourselves? Real life never works itself out in 90 minutes and I myself have never been picked up by a guy in a horse drawn carriage, limousine or private jet.

However, I did fall in love with a guy who offered me chocolate chip cookies and had no car! I did get married and walk down the aisle in a rented pretty white dress. And to top it all off we had a little girl named Lucy join the crew last year. No it didn't take 90 minutes, it took 32 years!

But tonight after another long exhausting day of chasing my one year old, playing 15 games of don't eat that and folding 343 loads of laundry, I found myself engrossed in a rerun of You've Got Mail on Lifetime with my all time favorite Chick Flick actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Yeah, I'm old school. Meg was the ultimate romantic and you just can't help but love her. At the end of the movie Tom and Meg find out that they really are meant to be together and when they embrace, I'm a goner. I can't help but notice I've got the same goose bumps I had the first time I saw this cheesy film and the same tear rolling down my left cheek. I'm just so darn happy for Meg because she was lonely and then she found her true love. She even used the dreaded internet. God bless her! We've all been there! I got rejected by E Harmony!



My point is that these movies can't be taken from the shelves because like it or not we need them. Yes I said it! We live in a bitter sarcastic world full of sickness, financial crisis and war. But some of us still want to believe in happy endings. Is that so wrong to admit? I grew up with fantasies of what would truly make my dreams come true. I marvel tonight at what true contentment really is.

I've just recently gone through a very tough time where the love of my life, my husband was battling an illness. I didn't have my cuddling time, my movie buddy, my best friend in my home for a while and it's brought new perspective to the term Happy Ending.

 My life may look different than a Lifetime movie and instead of sound track music mine might have Hickory Dickory Dock and Itsy Bitsy Spider. And instead of passionate sex scenes my scenes may involve me, my husband, an entire season of Lost on DVD, popcorn and triple chocolate ice cream, cuddled up for hours on our big fluffy red couch. It's my realization that I don't want Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise. I'm truly content with the man God gave me. I'm truly happy with our little world as corny as it may seem to other people. It works for us.

So instead of watching Meg with bitterness in my heart I can enjoy her journey and realize I wouldn't trade places with her or any other woman for anything in the world. I have my own fairy tale right here every day of my life. So I'm wondering about you out there reading this? No matter what season you're in can you look around and be thankful for all the blessings in your life right now? A mom/dad/friend who loves you? A great job? A roommate who cooks? New shoes you got on sale that go with the skinny jeans you can actually fit into? A child that needs you to hug them goodnight? No matter what trials you're facing I'm challenging you to find some happy endings in your life right now. They make the Chick Flicks more enjoyable because the movies are imaginary and your joy is the real thing.