Alonzo Bodden
When Fri, August 6 @ 8:00 pm
Email boxoffice@bankheadtheater.org
Where Bankhead Theater -
2400 First Street
Livermore,
Phone 925.373.6800
Bankhead Presents Alonzo Bodden
A regular panel member on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, Alonzo Bodden has been making audiences around the country laugh for more than 20 years. His recent stand-up special on Amazon Prime, Heavy Lightweight, spanned a range of topics from slavery, cell phones, and the #MeToo movement, to millennials, Kanye West and Taco Bell. As he says, “he likes to mix it up and hopes that audiences will join him for a laugh and a think, or two.”
Alonzo’s first big comedy break came when he was on the “New Faces of Comedy” showcase at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, but it was as the season three winner of NBCʼs Last Comic Standing, where Alonzo was first introduced to America. Since then, he has starred in two comedy specials for Showtime, appeared on shows on Comedy Central, as well as Fresh Off the Boat, Dr. Phil, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and more.
A car and motorcycle aficionado, Bodden hosted Speed Channel’s 101 Cars You Must Drive and America’s Worst Driver on the Travel Channel. He was also a field correspondent on Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson, and a contributor on the Science Channel’s How to Build Everything. In 2018 he released his fifth comedy CD Man Overboard, and now gives his unique take on what’s going on in the world as host of the podcast Who’s Paying Attention?
“Bodden has found his place in the world, and it’s all over the place, sharing his hilarious art” – Las Vegas Magazine