On February 3rd, 1990, a Queen was born at the Regal Theater in Chicago.
Adele Givens has done it all! Adele was crowned winner of the Crown Royal Comedy competition in the city of Chicago on February 3rd 1990. Since that day Adele has realized that she was destined to become comedic royalty. Since then Adele has the rare ability to make you laugh, think, cry, and cringe all at the same time!! Her famous catch line “I am SUCH a #$%@#% Lady” has gone viral. Her work is popular and she can be heard on songs by Big Sean, Lil Kim, The Brat! Her bold and on point insights continue to delight and amaze her fans and peers alike. Popularity was swift with Adele winning many other competitions and securing the respect of comedy lovers everywhere. Almost immediately fans proclaimed Adele Givens the Queen of Comedy. The title is well deserved with such credits as Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, The All Stars of Def Comedy Jam. Showtime at the Apollo. The Oprah Winfrey show. HBO Comedy half-hour, Comedy Central Presents, Queen Adele has certainly reigned supreme.
The Comedy Zone is a full service Comedy Theater, Conference Center and Special Event facility. Located in the wildly popular North Carolina Music factory the Comedy Zone will feature 400 seats, a state of the art sound system, and presentation ready computer and flat panel screens.
Kerwin Claiborne has just begun a new comedy
production called “Thees W@#$ Folks Crazy” which
has sold out many venues thus far. Some of the
venues that have sold out are The Joke Joint
Comedy Club (Houston), Heyenas Comedy Club
(Dallas), The Comedy Zone (Charlotte), Looney Bin
(Little Rock), Uptown Comedy Club (Atlanta)
Chuckles House of Comedy (Memphis) and The Comedy
Club...
Stand-up comic and Emmy-nominated writer (Saturday
Night Live) SAM JAY can currently be seen on HBO’s
Pause with Sam Jay, a weekly late-night series on
which she serves as Host and Executive Producer,
and is currently in production on its second
season. She will next be seen on the upcoming
Peacock series Bust Down. In 2020, she debuted her
first one-hour stand up special Sam...
Pierre was raised in a mixed biological home in
Germany. At 11 years old he moved with relatives
to the inner city of Washington DC (what a culture
shock) he had to defend himself with the use of
his sense humor because of his bi-racial
background hence a comedian was born. He uses his
unique up brining makes his act stand out.
Joe Dombrowski (aka Mr. D) took the world by storm
in 2017 with a viral April Fools’ Day spelling
test prank that landed him multiple appearances on
the Ellen Degeneres show. Don’t get it twisted
though! It takes at least 20 years to be an
overnight sensation! Joe has been doing stand-up
comedy since he was eight years old in his third
grade talent show. He’s never stopped!...
Mike Recine is your favorite comedian's favorite
comedian. He has toured with Dan Soder, Sam
Morril, Shane Gillis, Colin Jost and Nick Mullen
and also appeared on Conan, HBO's Pause with Sam
Jay, Showtime's Flatbush Misdemeanors and had a
half hour special on Comedy Central. If you like
your comedians like you like your coffee (dark and
Italian) then this is the show for you.
​Jen Kober is originally from Lake Charles,
LA, and has energetically bounded onto the
national stage bringing crowds to their feet with
her original blend of stand-up, story telling, and
improvised rock-n-roll comedy. Her hard-hitting
hour is phenomenally funny as Kober commands the
stage and dares you not to laugh. Jen was the 2017
Winner of NPR's Snap Judgement...
Washington DC’s own comedian, actor and
voice-artist, Earthquake earned a strong fan-base
in stand-up comedy via programming platforms
fueled by BET, HBO, Comedy Central, Showtime and
more. Born Nathaniel Stroman, ‘Quake’ (as he’s
known by fans), entered America’s households on
the classic run of BET’s ‘Comic View’ and HBO’s
comedic rites of passage program, ‘Def Comedy
Jam’....
"Sunday Funday Comedy Show" is a new monthly
comedy show hosted by comedian and actor Leonard
Ouzt, who will be bringing some of his funniest
friend to the Queen City! Each month there will be
a different headliner.
Jiaoying Summers is a stand up comedian, Asian
Hall of Fame inductee and social media comedy
queen with over one billion online views and
counting. She a regular headliner at The Laugh
Factory and also performs at The Comedy Store and
The Hollywood Improv, where she has her own
monthly show. She recently headlined at Carolines
on Broadway and starred in Netflix is a Joke...
Leaving Dublin, Ireland where he was born and
raised until the age of 22, David got drunk on
travel and never quite hit sobriety of it. He has
lived and worked in twelve countries and visited
over seventy. His shows draw on his wide travels,
cultural observations, attempts at language study,
(occasional) international drinking session(s) and
being a mildly confused immigrant.
What happens when the area's best comedians are
given 5 funny topics and just 30 minutes to
prepare? You get the freshest comedy around. Join
us for this heart-pumping, edge-of-your-seat live
comedy format - invented right here at The Comedy
Zone Charlotte! Tickets $10 Online -or- $15
at-the-door.
A Seattle native now suffering in Southern
California, Dustin Nickerson is an in demand comic
on the rise. In 2020, he released his debut comedy
special Overwhelmed which is currently one of the
highest rated specials on Amazon Prime Video.
Comedian Lavell Crawford is quickly climbing the
comedic ranks and becoming one of the hottest
stars in the biz today. He filmed a new one-hour
special in his home town of St. Louis, “Can A
Brother Get Some Love?,” and is on DVD from
Entertainment One. In addition, he filmed an
episode of “Workaholics” for Comedy Central and
he’s been casted in a recurring role on the AMC’s...
On February 3rd, 1990, a Queen was born at the
Regal Theater in Chicago. Adele Givens has done it
all! Adele was crowned winner of the Crown Royal
Comedy competition in the city of Chicago on
February 3rd 1990. Since that day Adele has
realized that she was destined to become comedic
royalty. Since then Adele has the rare ability to
make you laugh, think, cry, and cringe...
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On February 3rd, 1990, a Queen was born at the Regal Theater in Chicago.
