Jason Love (comedian)

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Jason Love at Fox Theater in Tucson, Arizona. March 2020.

Jason Love is a standup comedian from Thousand Oaks, California.

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Career

Love began his career in 2003 by syndicating Snapshots, a daily cartoon published by newspapers such as The Denver Post and Tampa Bay Times . From 2003 to 2007, Love worked as a humor columnist for the Ventura County Star. [1]

Since 2008, Love has worked as a standup comedian, performing more than 200 times per year for comedy clubs, corporations, and cruise ships, and private parties.

Jason runs a non-profit organization, Love & Laughter, that brings free standup comedy shows to cancer support locations across the country. [2] [3]

In 2017 he recorded a Dry Bar Comedy special, Jokes On Me. [4]

His second special, Professional Moron, was produced by 800 Pound Gorilla and has been broadcast on Pandora and Sirius XM.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Love has produced a virtual show, Live Comedy in Your Living Room. It features professional comics performing live from around the US. [5]

He is represented by Levity Entertainment Group.

Standup comedy

Known for his “clean style and quirky spirit", [6] Jason Love headlines at comedy clubs [7] and cruise ships while producing his own shows at venues such as the San Diego County Fair and performing arts centers. [8] [9] The VC Reporter describes Jason as a "lean, clean, jokin’ machine." [10]

Television

Radio

Cruise lines

Casinos and clubs

Internet

Armed Forces Entertainment

Discography

Metro Man [18]

Jokes On Me [19]

Publications

Snapshots: The Big Picture ( ISBN   978-1419685163) [20]

So It Goes: Stories for People Who Laugh ( ISBN   978-1439260999) [21]

Quotes from Jason Love's standup act can be found in Reader's Digest [22] as well as the books Comedy Thesaurus [23] and Squeaky Clean Comedy. [24]

Awards

2006: Second Place in Humor for circulations over 100K from The National Society of Newspaper Columnists. [25]

Love was a finalist at the Cabo Comedy Festival and at the World Series of Comedy in Vegas.

References

  1. "Former Star columnist Jason Love fills us in on his life as a touring comic » Ventura County Star". S3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. "Jason Love is creating Love & Laughter, Live Comedy for Cancer Support Community". Patreon.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  3. Ray, Linda. "Laughing Stock: Comedy for Charity Brings the Love". Tucsonweekly.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  4. 1 2 Love, Jason (19 July 2017). "Jokes On Me" . Retrieved 8 May 2018 via YouTube.
  5. https://www.facebook.com/groups/zoomcomedy [ user-generated source ]
  6. Ray, Linda. "Laughing Stock: Good, Clean Fun". Tucsonweekly.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  7. "Jason Love - Comedian Thousand Oaks, CA". Gigmasters.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  8. Love, Jason (10 March 2018). "Trailer for Live Comedy at Studio Movie Grill" . Retrieved 8 May 2018 via YouTube.
  9. "Jason Love". Eventbrite.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  10. "CREATIVE TYPES - Jason Love: A lean, clean, jokin' machine". Vcreporter.com. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  11. Jason Love (10 September 2017). "Jason Love on TBS" . Retrieved 8 May 2018 via YouTube.
  12. "NUVOtv's Stand Up and Deliver goes to Cabo San Lucas". Thecomicscomic.com. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  13. "After a dusty S.B. trail trip, Studio 805 heads in new directions". Archive.vcstar.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  14. Dave Astor, ed. (August 1, 2007). "Syndicates: Getting the Picture with Video Columns". Dave Astor. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  15. "Jason Love: Labor of Love". iheart.com.
  16. https://www.facebook.com/groups/jasonlovefriends [ user-generated source ]
  17. "From the Working Comedian – Interview with Don Friesen and Jason Love". Blog.pandora.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  18. "Jason Love: Metro Man". Amazon.com. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  19. Jason Love (19 July 2017). "Jokes On Me". YouTube . Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  20. Love, Jason (10 January 2008). Snapshots: The Big Picture. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN   978-1419685163.
  21. Love, Jason; Cavazos, Ernie (8 January 2010). Myers, Charlie (ed.). So it Goes: Stories for People Who Laugh. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN   978-1439260999.
  22. "Reader's Digest cover" (JPG). Bizedex.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  23. "Comedy Thesaurus cover" (JPG). Bizedex.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  24. "Squeaky Clean cover" (JPG). Bizedex.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  25. "Column Contest Winners, Going Way Back". Columnists.com. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2018.