Award-winning LGBTQ comedy icon Sampson McCormick is serving laughs this month in Atlanta.
The entertainer, who has performed around the world for more than 20 years, including appearances on FOX Soul, TV One, BET and the Tom Joyner Morning Show, will perform at Mixx Atlanta on Tuesday, Feb. 22.
The show features special guest Kia Comedy; a comedian, activist, writer and producer of Andro Fashion Show in Atlanta.
Tickets can be bought here for $20 in advance, or at the door for $25.
In 2018, McCormick made history as the first LGBTQ comedian to headline a Smithsonian Museum at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Chill Magazine reported.
“Black humor has historically always been about laughing at the oppression of the past and present and presenting an optimism for the future,” McCormick said to the magazine. “Our humor has always been about taking tragedy and turning it into comedy gold. I look at earlier black comedians like Burt Williams, who had to perform in black face, and Moms Mabley, Pigmeat Markham, Dick Gregory and Redd Foxx who were on stage crushing it for years — without fanfare, and no one was letting them on television, they weren’t given opportunities to play mainstream stages because of segregation, but they kept kicking on the doors until they opened for black comedians.”
McCormick’s most recent work, “Party-N-Play,” which he wrote and produced, is now available on Amazon Prime.
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