Glenn Beck to tour U.S.

Glenn Beck to tour U.S.

NEW YORK — Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel’s latest sensation, is taking a comedy show on the road for six live performances over six days during the first week of June.

Beck calls his act a “poor man’s Seinfeld” and intends to mix topical humor with his modern-day re-imagining of Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense.”

The radio and TV talk show host will start June 1 in Denver, then perform in theaters in Phoenix, San Diego, Kansas City, Houston and Richmond, Va., over the next five days, he said. The Kansas City show June 4 will air as a live simulcast in select theaters across the country and as a recorded broadcast in theaters a week later, a spokesman for Beck said.

Today’s birthdays

April 13: Actor Lyle Waggoner (“The Carol Burnett Show”) is 74. Actor Paul Sorvino is 70. Actor Tony Dow (“Leave It To Beaver”) is 64. Musician Al Green is 63. Actor Ron Perlman is 59. Singer Peabo Bryson is 58. “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” bandleader Max Weinberg is 58. Actress Saundra Santiago (“Miami Vice”) is 52. Actress-comedian Caroline Rhea (“Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “The Biggest Loser”) is 45. Guitarist Marc Ford (Black Crowes) is 43. Actor Ricky Schroder is 39. Singer Aaron Lewis of Staind is 37. Singer Lou Bega is 34. Singer Nellie McKay is 27.