Hi everybody! I’m Sam Adams, the sports journalist-turned-standup comedian, keynote speaker, author … and television commercial actor. Pleasure to meet you!
I was encouraged to make standup comedy my full-time profession at age 49. The decision was made in June 2009, after I’d received some high praises at the Great American Comedy Festival. Well, that and a few months earlier my day job ended abruptly when the newspaper I worked for closed its doors for good.
It took a few years, but comedy fans around the country started to find out about me. In 2018 the “True Color” clip from my first Dry Bar Comedy special received more than 10 million social media views in less than 72 hours. Since, that “True Color” clip has amassed more than 35 million views on Facebook alone.
https://www.facebook.com/DryBarComedy/videos/1801454193273331/
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette offered this glowing review after one of comedy performances in 2019: “Known for his prize-winning comedy and casual delivery devoid of profanity and vulgarity, (Adams) spent two hours entertaining a full house that belly-laughed and applauded too many times to count. If it’s true that laughter is the best medicine, he administered his healing brand intravenously for two solid hours.”
I spent parts of five decades covering sports for newspapers and electronic media outlets based in Denver, Colorado. My media peers elected me Colorado’s Print Journalist of the Year in 2003. In 2019 I became the first African-American sports journalist to be inducted to the Denver Press Club’s Hall of Fame — the oldest press club in America.
So now you a bit about me, Sam Adams . . . from the pages to the stages.