Wortham Presents
The Comedy Zone with headliner Doug Smith and feature Jason Allen King
Friday & Saturday, February 23 & 24, 2024 at 7 p.m.
The nation’s largest comedy club network is back! After a popular run last season, this hilarious collective returns to bring top-notch comedians for four weekends of side-splitting laughter. Some of the hottest stand-up comedians of today — seen in specials on Comedy Central, HBO Comedy, Netflix, Hulu and more — deliver witty one-liners, preposterous punchlines and hysterical anecdotes that will keep you laughing all night long. Contains adult content.
Headliner Doug Smith
Doug Smith is a New York comic who has appeared on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, and This Is Not Happening on Comedy Central. He also starred in the Comedy Central mini-mock “Brooklyn Ball Barbers,” which has since become their most viewed video of all time. Doug has been featured at numerous comedy festivals including Oddball, Bridgetown, and Just for Laughs, and his debut standup album, “Barely Regal,” is available now on 800 Pound Gorilla Records.
Feature opener Jason Allen King
Jason Allen King is a comedian, writer, actor, filmmaker, and bird watcher from Charlotte, NC.
Fresh off the release of his Dry Bar Comedy Special, “Nobody’s Emergency Contact” and a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, King is back touring the country. He has opened for renowned comedians including Ryan Hamilton, Josh Blue, Preacher Lawson, Pauly Shore, Fortune Feimster, Rob Schneider, Christopher Titus, Colin Quinn, and Dave Attell.
King’s comedy offers a unique perspective on familiar situations. A northerner who’s been living in the south too long, he has endeared himself to audiences across the country by pushing boundaries with a smart, positive spin on observations and self-deprecation.
He was voted Best Charlotte Comedian 2021 by Queen City Nerve, twice voted Charlotte’s Favorite Comedian by Elevate Lifestyle Magazine, featured in It’s A Southern Thing’s One of 15 Southern Comics to Watch and Best of the Fest at the Burbank Comedy Festival.
Jason Allen King is the Host of The Comedy Zone Podcast writing/performing sketches and interviewing A-List celebrities and comedians from The Comedy Zone.
King writes and stars in the popular comedy video series “George & Monty,” which was invited to the L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival. He has appeared in award-winning Feature films Pink (Amazon Prime) and Little Package (YouTube).
King has worked as writer/producer on Feature Films such as Among Brothers and In/Significant Others plus national and regional commercial campaigns for NASCAR, Dirt Devil, CarParts.com, Alzheimer’s Association, and The Good Feet Store.
Individual Sponsors
John & Marsha Ellis • Richard & Francee Healy • Nancy Houha • Henry LaBrun • Ronna & Rob Resnick • Carol & Michael Rosenblum • The Stewart/Meredith Trust • Dianne & David Worley
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