COMEDIANS
Bob Greenberg (Emcee/Comedian) has been featured in the Borscht Belt Fest three years in a row and hosts the annual Actors’ Temple Comedy Benefit. Recently he has performed at Pangea, the Triad, the Lambs, and Gotham Comedy Club. He was also a regular performer at the Friars Club. Selected credits: Toured as “Morty” in Old Jews Telling Jokes at George Street Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse, Trinity-Rep., Penn’s Landing Playhouse. Films: Disclosure Day, Tango Shalom/Forbidden Tango, The Tailor (Short), Glow Ropes, Heartbreak Hospital, Big Money Hu$tla$, and Maid in Manhattan. TV: Crashing the System, A Very Merry Toy Store, VINYL, The Characters, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Nite with Conan O’Brien, Law & Order. Greenberg won New York Theater Festival’s Best Actor Award two years in a row for Jimmy Breslin: How to Read the Newspaper... (2022) and The Stella (2021). He won Chain Film Festival’s Best Ensemble in a Short Award for Mosholu Parkway (2022). www.instagram.com/bobgreenbergactorcomic/
Rhonda Hansome (Comedian) From Saturday Night Live and the movie Pretty Woman, Rhonda Hansome’s comedy has opened for Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and Anita Baker, to name a few. She yearly hosts Laughs Likely in the Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest. Monday nights on Sirius XM Progress radio, she joins John Fugelsang’s Tell Me Everything. Hansome writes and anchors the “Real Newz” on the Politipod humor podcast. She also writes the Politoonitics (Poli-tooni-tics) Cartoon Coloring Book available at RhondaHansome.com. She’s the director of the play Dust of Egypt, The Story of Sojourner Truth, recently at The Sheen Center, NYC.
Bob Lombardi (Comedian) Since his debut at NYC’s Gotham Comedy Club in 2023, Bob Lombardi has done over 400 shows in major comedy clubs including Broadway Comedy Club, the Buddha Room, the Comic Strip, New York Comedy Club, the Stand, and West Side Comedy Club. He is a regular at the monthly show Who in the World Has Any Talent at the Brooklyn Art Haus and has also appeared in clubs in Queens, Westchester, New Jersey, and, upcoming, Philadelphia. He also co-produces a monthly show at the Whiskey Cellar. Lombardi is typecast as a seedy comedy club owner in a soon-to-be-released short film called Punching Up. Instagram: boblombardi1
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NOTE
OotB Artistic Director Jeffery V. Thompson is thrilled to welcome the OotB audience to JAZZ ’N JOKES IN JUNE! It promises to be an amazing afternoon starring his longtime friend and collaborator Nat Adderley Jr. and his world-famous Trio, and featuring a trio of topnotch comics. It’s an event which Mr. Thompson conceived of as “the perfect prescription for what ails us.”
So, sit back and enjoy this matinee of mirth and music!
“One good thing about music, when the music hits, you feel no pain.”—Bob Marley
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”—William Shakespeare
