Jim Breuer: Building the Arts in Your Backyard

Chester resident, actor and comedian is working with the Morris County Arts Workshop to bring improv, film and comedy classes to the town he calls home.

Jim Breuer: I Marked Road Trips by Metal Albums

The SNL alum and Morris County resident performs Aug. 27 at The Community Theatre.

For many, road trips tend to be measured in hours, or perhaps the number of states driven through. For comedian Jim Breuer, many were measured by the heavy metal albums he listened to on the way. In his 2010 book I'm Not High (But I've Got a Lot of Crazy Stories about Life as a Goat Boy, a Dad, and a Spiritual Warrior), he notes a trip to Washington, D.C., was measured "in two [Queensryche] Operation: Mindcrimes' and one [Metallica] ... And Justice For All." "I was a huge Queensryche fan," Breuer said, noting his disappointment he was unable to see them perform locally at The Community Theatre on Aug. 3, because he was going to be performing in Germany. "Operation: Mindcrime, I listened to it 10,000 times," he said. The Long Island native …

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