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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.

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.

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

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.

He is represented by Levity Entertainment Group.

Standup comedy

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

Television

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

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
  • Livestream series Jason Love & Friends
  • Pandora Radio

Armed Forces Entertainment

  • Performed in Afghanistan for the troops

Discography

Metro Man

Jokes On Me

Publications

Snapshots: The Big Picture (ISBN 978-1419685163)

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

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

Awards

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

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. ^ Love, Jason (19 July 2017). "Jokes On Me". Retrieved 8 May 2018 – via YouTube.
  5. https://www.facebook.com/groups/zoomcomedy
  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
  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.

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