Dave Rattigan Headlines New Year’s Eve Comedy in Gloucester Boston comedians Dave Rattigan, Dan Boulger and Jeff Koen will help Cape Ann laugh in the new year at the Gorton Theater, home of the Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main Street, Gloucester on Saturday, December 31. “There’s no better way to close out one year and enter another than with a good laugh, and the Gorton Theater is a great space to do it,” Rattigan said. “We’re thrilled to have the chance to work with the Gloucester Stage Company to make this happen.” Showtime is 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $24 to $27. The show is produced by Scamps Comedy Productions, and tickets are available at gloucesterstage.com and scampscomedy.com. Dave Rattigan headlines clubs, fundraisers and corporate shows, and is an award-winning writer who has written humorous columns, essays and feature stories for many publications including The Boston Globe, Northshore magazine, People, The Robb Report, The Christian Science Monitor, and others. His standup has run on Sirius Satellite Radio, Nickmom.com, SlackerRadio.com, and RooftopComedy.com. He’s appeared in TV commercials, the 2011 film Heavy Times, and has written humorous pieces for the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Northshore Magazine, and others. He hosts an annual fund-raising comedy night for the Gloucester Rotary Club. Dan Boulger has appeared twice on CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, and BBC America’s World Stands Up. The Boston Comedy Festival winner has performed at the prestigious HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado and in A-list clubs, theaters and colleges around the country. He was named a “comic to watch” by The Boston Globe. That’s very impressive for a comic who grew up idolizing the standup of Steven Wright, Mitch Hedberg and Todd Barry, and began his career shortly after graduating from high school in 2004. Jeff Koen’s family was on America’s Funniest Home Videos and won $10,000. Can anything be more glamorous than that? Koen often works the clubs and theaters of New England with Juston McKinney, and is in constant demand as an actor on independent film projects. He’s known for his portrayal of one of the characters in the on-line cartoon Man Servants, and for playing the offensive “Uncle Rick” in the 2010 cult film Heavy Times, which gained him fans from all over the world, though not very many in any one country. “A guy from Sri Lanka wanted to visit me and stay at my house,” he said. “All he needed me to do was write a letter to the prime minister.” For more information, go to scampscomedy.com.