Sam Adams is a standup comedian, keynote speaker and television commercial actor. Author and former sports journalist are on his resume too.
Sam became a full-time standup comedian in 2009, at age 49, after he’d won prize monies at the Great American Comedy Festival. The timing was right. Four months before the festival, Sam’s stellar career as a sports writer ended abruptly when his employer, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, went out of business.
Comedy fans around the world learned about Sam via social media in 2018, when the “True Color” clip taken from his first Dry Bar Comedy special went viral. It received more than 10 million views in less than 72 hours. Since, that “True Color” clip has amassed more than 35 million views on Facebook alone.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette offered this review after one of Sam’s live 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.”
Sam Adams spent parts of five decades covering sports for newspapers and electronic media outlets based in Denver, Colorado. Sam’s media peers elected him Colorado’s Print Journalist of the Year in 2003. In 2019 Sam became the first African-American sports journalist to be inducted to the Hall of Fame for the Denver Press Club — the oldest press club in America.
On stages and pages, Sam Adams is both entertaining and accomplished.