Save the Date for Redding's 6th Annual Pudd’nhead Festival: September 21 – September 28, 2019!
Saturday, September 21: THE PUDD’NHEAD PARADE!
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Funny, free fun for the young! This year’s Grand Marshall is Ame Dyckman, the award-winning author of Boy + Bot and Wolfie the Bunny.
Saturday Evening, September 21: The HOOT’NANNY!
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Tickets: $75, click here for tickets
When 3 stand-up comics from NYC – real deal comics! – venture to Redding for a night of laughs in a barn, the result is a Hoot’nanny!
Saturday Evening, September 28: THE PUDD’NHEAD GALA!
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
$300 General Admission
SOLD OUT
A party like no other, honoring a star…under the stars. Wander 8 acres of InSitu, a glorious sculpture garden. Sip cocktails, wines and beers specially selected for the event by Ancona’s. Savor dinner prepared by Sarah Bouissou/Bernard’s. Laugh – a lot! – with actor, award-winning leading man and funny man, Jon Hamm.
All events are hosted by the incomparable Michael Ian Black.
The Pudd’nhead Festival was founded in 2014 through collaboration between the library and actor/comedian/best-selling author Michael Ian Black. Drawing inspiration from one of Twain’s classic tales, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, Pudd’nhead celebrates library founder Mark Twain’s incomparable humor while raising much-needed funds for the library’s operations.
The centerpiece of the week-long Festival is the Pudd’nhead Prize for Outstanding Humor, awarded to someone who channels Twain’s legendary wit. Prize winners to date: New Yorker magazine cartoonist Roz Chast, Ben Stiller, Jim Gaffigan, Seth Meyers, and Paul Rudd. This fall, the Pudd’nhead Prize for Outstanding Humor will be awarded to Jon Hamm.