The Definitive Guide to Comedy
David “Deacon” Gray, the stand-up comedian who also nurtured a generation of Denver-area comedians as the new talent coordinator at Comedy Works since 2004, died over the weekend. He had cancer. Gray grew up in Oklahoma City, graduated high school in 1983 and started comedy on March 5, 1986, according to his …
From the finals last night of the inaugural Great American Comedy Festival contest… Deacon Gray from Denver (and originally Oklahoma City) wins $5,000!Second place to Erin Jackson from D.C., and $3,000.Third-place prize of $2,000 split between Drake Witham (Seattle) and Jim McDonald (Los Angeles). The local paper in Norfolk, Neb., …
Eight finalists have made it to tonight to compete for nice prize money and who knows what other rewards at the inaugural Great American Comedy Festival. And they are… Erin Jackson, Shane Mauss, Deacon Gray, Marianne Sierk, Chris Coccia, Drake Witham, Jim McDonald and Chuck Bartell. Really a cross-section of …
