Chris Martin started doing stand-up comedy in March, 2009, performing in open mics at Sticky Rice, Cafe Diem, Fallout, Aztek Grill, Strange Matter, City Dogs and the 9:55 Comedy Club in Richmond, VA and the Charlottesville Comedy Roundtable in Charlottesville, VA and Cozzy's Comedy Club in Newport News, VA. His specialty is topical humor.
He was in the new talent showcase at RITA's Comedy Club in Richmond, Virginia. opening for Erik Myers. He's also been the MC for Blake Midgette's Super Friends Camp Comedy show at the New York Deli and Joe Hafkey's Cafe Diem Comedy Night in Richmond. He received a standing ovation at the Official Blake Midgette Roast at Cafe Diem.
He was the stand-up comedian at the Paradox Comedy improv group's Halloween show, "Motel Hell." He's also been in Santa de Haven's comedy showcases at Artspace in Plant Zero. He was a contestant in the Jim Beam "Last Stag Standing" comedy competition presented by Kenny Wingle at Cafe Europa in Richmond last year.
He frequently contributes jokes to DailyComedy.com and his jokes are regularly featured as staff picks. He's a frequenst competitor in the MakeaStar.com stand-up comedy competition. "Smokin' Hot: Conversations with Comedians" is an ongoing series of interviews with comics. He started Salty Tongue Records on Last.fm to showcase comedians. He also established RVAstand-up.com, which allows stand-up comedians to post notices of upcoming shows and audio, photos and videos of their sets. He's also done videography and appeared in Omari Brown and John Reaves' sketch comedy group, "The Undergrads" on FunnyorDie.com.
He has a website at ChrisMartinComedy.com and his Twitter handle is @ChrisBMartin. He has over 1,500 subscribers to his stand-up comedy podcasts on iTunes.
He is less well-known than British comedian Chris Martin but English comic Carl Donnelly told the London googleganger, "I reckon this one is going to be funnier than you."
What comedians say about Chris Martin:
"Talented and quick-witted." - Odyssey Michaels
"I really enjoyed your set: witty, thoughtful, and quirky. Great stuff... killarious."
- James Paulk
"Richmond's Bill Maher." - Corey Marshall
"An effed-up Yahoo! News!" - Kelly Henderson
"One of the few comedians I don't hate... kill an immigrant. You know you want to." - Robb Loving
"Dry." - Tom Via
"One of the best joke writers in this Goddamn city." - Joe Hafkey
"Comedian extraordinaire." - Kenny Wingle
"The hardest working comic in RVA." - Blake Midgette
"One of the best." - David Marie Garland
"Very funny." - Bill Metzger
"I could never forget any ofyou crazy bastards." - Roy Rogers
No one likes a joke better than Cancer, and his funny side is all the more startling when it pops up so incongruously from his normally quiet, gentle personality. Lunar humor runs deep.
- Wanda Lee Porter
CarlDonnelly: @ChrisMcomedy I reckon this one is going to be funnier than you: https://chrismartincomedy.wordpress.com/
What people are saying about Chris Martin:
@eMOMster: @chrisbmartin so tacky
Sicko. - Lolabee
All you cyber-bullies are just pathetic, saying all that stuff about Miley. What has she ever done to you? And making that joke about she should be dead, it is horrible. - Emily
An enraged, profane, unmoderated, unmediated, hit-loving, trash-talking rage monkey. - Peggy Noonan
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