Sam Adams is a standup comedian, keynote speaker and television commercial actor. He’s an author and award-winning sports journalist, as well.
Sam became a full-time standup comedian in 2009, at age 49. He won prize monies at the 2009 Great American Comedy Festival, just four months after his stellar career as a sports writer ended abruptly. The timing was right for a career switch.
In 2018, comedy fans around the world took notice of Sam via social media, when the “True Color” clip taken from his first Dry Bar Comedy special went viral. The clip received over 10 million views in less than 72 hours.
Sam Adams spent parts of five decades covering sports for newspapers and electronic media outlets based in Denver, Colorado. His 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 the United States.
On stages and pages, Sam Adams is accomplished . . . and highly entertaining!