Dubbed by one admirer “the undisputed King of Boston comedy,” Sweeney embodies, almost
literally, the city he calls home. A master of dialects and character voices, Sweeney can riff on
everyone from Dorchester church ladies to Beacon Hill pols to certain radio personalities who
seem a little too old to be peddling rock and roll to younger generations. In fact, while Sweeney
has played to national audiences many times throughout his thirty-year career – not only by
touring as a stand-up but also through roles in sitcoms and movies – he is so thoroughly
Bostonian that he merits his own stop on the Freedom Trail.