By WKTV Staff
joanne@wktv.org
The Sunday Night Funnies standup comedy show celebrates diversity by hosting both a special February Black History Month show and a March Women’s History Month performances.
The Black History Month show features an all-African American lineup of comedians on Sunday, Feb. 5. Besides that night the two other Sunday Night Funnies performances on Feb. 19 and 26 will feature African American comics who didn’t perform on Feb. 5. Note, there is no show on Feb. 12 because of the Super Bowl.
March 5 will be the March Women’s History Month show featuring an all women lineup of comedians for the first time in the fourteen-plus-year history of the Sunday Night Funnies.
“Both of these special shows are something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while,” said Brian B. producer and MC of the Sunday Night Funnies. “Because of Covid, we were off for close to two years and didn’t start back up again at Spectrum Entertainment Complex till late February of 2022. Now that we’ve been back a year, I felt the time was right to do them both the right way.
“Besides these two special performances I plan on doing more like these throughout the year. Those are in the planning stages right now and will be announced at a later date.”
Brian B. said since he started the Sunday Night Funnies back in the fall of 2008, one of his goals for the show was to be able to offer a stage to a diverse lineup of comedians.
“I think it’s much more interesting for the audience to hear from people of different races and ethnicity, gender, as well as age ranges,” he said.
Since the start of the Sunday Night Funnies in the fall of 2008, more than a 1,100 different comedians have performed at the show.
“We’ve had a great spectrum of comedians perform from pretty much every type of background imaginable,” Brian B. said. “Also, I’m happy to say that I’m seeing a lot more women doing standup now than we did in the past which is great. As far as age ranges go, we’ve had a wide span of performers- everything from a nine-year-old girl to man in his mid-seventies and everything in between.”
About the Sunday Night Funnies: The Sunday Night Funnies is the creation of Grand Rapids stand-up comedian Brian B. (Brian Borbot.) It’s a weekly live stand-up comedy performance featuring a variety of comics from the Midwest and around the country. The Sunday Night Funnies is a weekly free admission show that starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Spectrum Entertainment Complex, 5656 Clyde Park SW.
