The holiday season may be coming to a close, but the Season of Giving should really last all year. Keep your charitable momentum going, and have a great time in the process, on Jan. 5 when the Sacramento Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins hosts Boogie’s Comedy Slam at the Memorial Auditorium (1515…
Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian and actress Erica Rhodes is naturally funny; she has been her entire life. At just 10 years of age she started down her lifelong path of making people laugh out loud when she voiced the conscience of legendary comedian and writer Garrison Keillor on NPR’s live…
Tracy Morgan is back, and he’s not afraid to let you know. “Still pickin’ up the pieces, man!” he shouts into the phone while driving about New York City after a national television appearance, courtesy of The View. Those “pieces” he’s referring to were of course scattered on June 7,…
Seeing the name for the first time, it seems like 99 percent of people would read it HAM-BUR-GER. But when the host read Daniel Humbarger’s name correctly, it wasn’t a huge shock, because he performs a lot. The room at Comedy Spot was pretty full that night. It was easy…
As Saturday Night Live’s “resident young person” for the last two seasons and the show’s first cast member to have been born in the ‘90s (he’s just 22!), you’d think that stand-up comedian and actor Pete Davidson would be all jokes about weed and dick pics. And yeah, maybe he’s…
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in issue #152 (December 2013) in advance of Michael O’Connell’s Comedians with Disabilities Act performance at Sacramento Comedy Spot. O’Connell passed away on June 29, 2016, so we wanted to re-visit this interview to remember one of the brightest stars of the local comedy…
Sacramento comedian Johnny Taylor straight up puts in work. Known for his self-deprecating and lovably sarcastic style, the dude is literally always playing gigs, both in town and on the road, and he’s never not writing—for proof, join his 128K followers on Twitter (@hipsterocracy) for a daily dose of LOLZ….
Many of you already know Chris Tucker as Detective James Carter from the hilarious Rush Hour films. Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and that’s totally cool with us here at Submerge if that is your thing), you’d be hard-pressed to have missed his face. The quick-witted actor is…
Do you want to be a part of comedy history? Well, here’s your chance! Two ridiculously funny local comics, Robert Berry and Chris Emery, will be hosting a live album taping on Friday, May 20 at Sacramento Comedy Spot, and tickets are only $12 so come on out and laugh…
Those who haven’t heard of Cedric The Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy probably live in a cave and have no friends. For one night only, these talented and wildly popular comedians will descend upon Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena to make audiences roar with laughter. Eddie…
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