Jen Kober & Suzanne Westenhoefer with special guest Jason Schommer
Thursday, June 6, 2024
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Show
18+
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Celebrate Pride at The Parkway with a hilarious night of stand-up comedy!
Trailblazing lesbian comedians Jen Kober and Suzanne Westenhoefer will have you rolling in the aisles with their signature comedy antics.
Opening the night is Minnesota comic legend-in-the-making Jason Schommer.
Beloved by all audiences — gay and straight, young and old — Jen Kober is originally from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and has energetically bounded onto the national stage bringing crowds to their feet with her original blend of stand-up, storytelling, and improvised rock-n-roll comedy. Her hard-hitting hour is phenomenally funny as Kober commands the stage and dares you not to laugh. She is the winner of NPR's Snap Judgement Comedic Performance of the Year for her Girl Scout Cookie Caper story which went viral upon its release.
Also an actress, Jen can be seen on Disney+ in The Mandalorian and Diary of a Future President, HBO’S Hacks, The Righteous Gemstones, and Curb Your Enthusiasm; Showtime’s Black Monday and American Horror Story; CBS’s How We Roll; and in Netflix’s Dead to Me, RuPaul’s AJ and the Queen, and the Netflix is a Joke Festival. Film roles include Grudge Match with Robert De Niro and Paranoia with Liam Hemsworth and Richard Dreyfuss.
Imagine a truth-telling, hilarious, bold lesbian Barbie and a picture of Suzanne Westenhoefer comes into focus. There’s been nothing in her closet but her clothes since 1990 when she burst onto the comedy scene (on a dare, nonetheless).
With her platinum locks, immaculate makeup, and chicest blazer, Suzanne personified 1990s lesbian chic when appeared on Sally Jesse Raphael’s episode, “Breaking the Lesbian Stereotype.”
Suzanne has been breaking through barriers from being the first lesbian comedian with an HBO comedy special to the first lesbian comedian to perform on Late Night with David Letterman and all points in between.
The girl who grew up on the wrong side of Amish country has been advocating for LGBT rights, women’s rights and choice, and other causes since the 1980s.
Suzanne’s longtime passion for couponing and stockpiling toiletries paid off as she supplied her block with toilet paper during COVID’s darkest days. Yes, she saved their asses.
It doesn’t matter whether you are in line for a TSA screening or in a sold out auditorium, Suzanne will not stop until she has your rolling with laughter. Nothing is off limits to her. Every show is an off-the-cuff, unscripted laugh riot.
Suzanne Westenhoefer whips personal, political, and just plain insane stories into an anarchic and hilarious lather. Her shows should come with a warning label, advising audiences to bring oxygen. — Doria Biddle, SiriusXM Radio
Jason Schommer (pronouns: he/him/his) is a stand-up comedian and storyteller who spent two years as the opening act for comedy legend Louie Anderson in Las Vegas and toured with Louie regularly. Comedy icon Louie Anderson said, “Jason is funny, clever, smart, and on his way to the big time!”
As a stand-up comic, Jason has performed all over the USA as well as Canada and for the US Military in Japan. Jason has worked with such comedy superstars as Chris Kattan (Saturday Night Live, Night at the Roxbury), Josh Blue (Last Comic Standing champion), Judy Tenuta (Grammy Award Best Comedy Album), and Tim Meadows (Saturday Night Live, The Ladies’ Man).