Jason Love (comedian)

Jason Love
Jason Love at Fox Theater in Tucson, Arizona. March 2020.

Jason Love is a standup comedian from Thousand Oaks, California.

Career

Love began his career in 2003 by syndicating Snapshots, a daily cartoon published by newspapers such as The Denver Post and Tampa Bay Times. From 2003 to 2007, Love worked as a humor columnist for the Ventura County Star.[1]

Since 2008, Love has worked as a standup comedian, performing more than 200 times per year for comedy clubs, corporations, and cruise ships, and private parties.

Jason runs a non-profit organization, Love & Laughter, that brings free standup comedy shows to cancer support locations across the country.[2][3]

In 2017 he recorded a Dry Bar Comedy special, Jokes On Me.[4]

His second special, Professional Moron, was produced by 800 Pound Gorilla and has been broadcast on Pandora and Sirius XM.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Love has produced a virtual show, Live Comedy in Your Living Room. It features professional comics performing live from around the US.[5]

He is represented by Levity Entertainment Group.

Standup comedy

Known for his “clean style and quirky spirit",[6] Jason Love headlines at comedy clubs[7] and cruise ships while producing his own shows at venues such as the San Diego County Fair and performing arts centers.[8][9] The VC Reporter describes Jason as a "lean, clean, jokin’ machine."[10]

Television

  • Luck (HBO); played a horse race expert
  • Last Comic Standing (NBC)
  • Laughs on Fox
  • Today's Riff (TBS)[11]
  • Standup and Deliver on Nuvo TV [12]
  • One-hour special for Dry Bar Comedy[4]
  • Host of the video series “Canned” produced by Studio 805.[13]
  • Hosted for the Ventura County Star a number of humorous videos produced by Anthony Plascencia.[14]

Radio

  • Appeared on The Bob & Tom Show radio program
  • Podcast Labor of Love produced by Sideshow Network
  • Sirius XM channel Laughs USA

Cruise lines

  • Royal Caribbean
  • Celebrity
  • Norwegian
  • Carnival
  • Holland America
  • Princess

Casinos and clubs

Internet

  • Podcast, Labor of Love [15]
  • Livestream series Jason Love & Friends [16]
  • Pandora Radio [17]

Armed Forces Entertainment

  • Performed in Afghanistan for the troops

Discography

Metro Man [18]

Jokes On Me [19]

Publications

Snapshots: The Big Picture (ISBN 978-1419685163) [20]

So It Goes: Stories for People Who Laugh (ISBN 978-1439260999) [21]

Quotes from Jason Love's standup act can be found in Reader's Digest [22] as well as the books Comedy Thesaurus[23] and Squeaky Clean Comedy.[24]

Awards

2006: Second Place in Humor for circulations over 100K from The National Society of Newspaper Columnists.[25]

Love was a finalist at the Cabo Comedy Festival and at the World Series of Comedy in Vegas.

References

  1. ^ "Former Star columnist Jason Love fills us in on his life as a touring comic » Ventura County Star". S3.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Jason Love is creating Love & Laughter, Live Comedy for Cancer Support Community". Patreon.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  3. ^ Ray, Linda. "Laughing Stock: Comedy for Charity Brings the Love". Tucsonweekly.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  4. ^ a b Love, Jason (19 July 2017). "Jokes On Me". Retrieved 8 May 2018 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ https://www.facebook.com/groups/zoomcomedy [user-generated source]
  6. ^ Ray, Linda. "Laughing Stock: Good, Clean Fun". Tucsonweekly.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Jason Love - Comedian Thousand Oaks, CA". Gigmasters.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  8. ^ Love, Jason (10 March 2018). "Trailer for Live Comedy at Studio Movie Grill". Retrieved 8 May 2018 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ "Jason Love". Eventbrite.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  10. ^ "CREATIVE TYPES - Jason Love: A lean, clean, jokin' machine". Vcreporter.com. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  11. ^ Jason Love (10 September 2017). "Jason Love on TBS". Retrieved 8 May 2018 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ "NUVOtv's Stand Up and Deliver goes to Cabo San Lucas". Thecomicscomic.com. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  13. ^ "After a dusty S.B. trail trip, Studio 805 heads in new directions". Archive.vcstar.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  14. ^ Dave Astor, ed. (August 1, 2007). "Syndicates: Getting the Picture with Video Columns". Dave Astor. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  15. ^ "Jason Love: Labor of Love". iheart.com.
  16. ^ https://www.facebook.com/groups/jasonlovefriends [user-generated source]
  17. ^ "From the Working Comedian – Interview with Don Friesen and Jason Love". Blog.pandora.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  18. ^ "Jason Love: Metro Man". Amazon.com. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  19. ^ Jason Love (19 July 2017). "Jokes On Me". YouTube. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  20. ^ Love, Jason (10 January 2008). Snapshots: The Big Picture. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 978-1419685163.
  21. ^ Love, Jason; Cavazos, Ernie (8 January 2010). Myers, Charlie (ed.). So it Goes: Stories for People Who Laugh. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 978-1439260999.
  22. ^ "Reader's Digest cover" (JPG). Bizedex.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  23. ^ "Comedy Thesaurus cover" (JPG). Bizedex.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  24. ^ "Squeaky Clean cover" (JPG). Bizedex.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  25. ^ "Column Contest Winners, Going Way Back". Columnists.com. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2018.