Joe
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Joe's Mid-Life Crisis: Launching Comedy Career
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67 years old
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA
United States
Last Login: 5/4/2007
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Joe's Comedian Bio
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| Bio | JOE SUMMERS spent a career being mostly serious as a professional journalist. While working for Voice of America in Washington, D.C., Joe came to the realization that he had accumulated enough years on the job, combined with his advanced age, to retire. So he did. His wife, the lovely and excited Carol, was bitterly disappointed. The next morning at breakfast, hockey fan that she is, she looked at Joe, shook her head and said something that sounded like what the puck are you doing here? Apparently she married him for better or worse, but not for breakfast. So Joe was told to do something else with his life. It was then he decided he wanted to become a comedian. After all, he had done some acting and could make people laugh with Neil Simon's stuff. And he had been a professional writer all his adult life. Maybe he could write some stuff, perform it and make people laugh. Thats just what Joe has been doing ever since, trying to make people laugh. Before he knew it, he was being featured in comedy clubs and working corporate comedy events for pay. So, if you see Joe at your local comedy club you'll get double credit. He'll appreciate your laughter and the lovely and excited Carol will be so happy that he's out of the house. |
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Joe's Interests
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| General | My wife, daughter and granddaughter; golf; boating; fishing; comedy; a good mystey novel; and trying to stay out of trouble, which seems to be impossible. | | Music | Most of my all-time favorites are dead: Hank Williams, Elvis, Jim Croce and I'm not sure about Gordon Lightfoot (he's still a favorite, I'm just not sure if he's still alive). Play a Jimmy Buffett tune and I'm happy. I mostly like country music because it's what rock used to be when Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and them boys were on top. | | Movies | I haven't been to the movies since the bargain matinee began to cost more than a six-pack of beer. I'll just wait to rent the DVD or until it pops up on HBO. Give me a live stage play, live stand-up comedy or any live entertainment done with enthusiasm any day. | | Television | The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, The Wire, Entourage (we seem to be stuck on HBO); classic comedies such as Taxi, Cheers, Seinfield, both Bob Newhart shows (because they entertained without preaching some half-baked political philosophy); standup on Comedy Central; and of course whatever sport is in season -- baseball, football, college basketball (the NBA never plays defense until the playoffs) and of course, golf. If golf is a good walk spoiled, then golf on TV is a good nap spoiled. | | Books | Anything by Tony Hillerman, Janet Evanovich, Ed McBain, the Travis McGee series; all the Ernest Hemingway novels; Civil War history written by Bruce Catton. | | Heroes | Jesus Christ, because he set the standard for living on earth; U.S. Grant, because he finished the job others started so poorly; Stonewall Jackson, because he thought he was right; the soldiers who gave us freedom; and the police and firemen who protect it. |
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Joe's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Virginia Beach, Va. | | Body type: | 5' 9" / Some extra baggage | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Christian - other | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | comedian |
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Joe's Schools
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University Of Miami
Coral Gables,Florida
Graduated: 1969
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Journalism
Minor: English
Clubs: I attended the University of Miami when it recruited only dumb white football players. They became a national power when they began to admit black players. The journalism department sucked, I got my education of the job.
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About me:
I'm just an old fat man trying to make people laugh. If you're a booker, hire me. If you're an audience, laugh at me. If you're a woman, love me. If you're a regular guy, let's drink beer, play golf, shoot pool or go fishing.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Number one, Jesus Christ; then in no particular order: Ernest Hemingway, Jim Croce, Stan Musial, Linda Lovelace, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Stonewall Jackson and the guy who convinced everyone that Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach is a public park (he has to be a PR genius because that's a garbage dump).
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