“Cure for the BLU’s”: Late Night Comedy Series featuring Chris Clem Join us every Saturday for our new late night comedy series, "Cure for the BLU's!" Hosted by Eric Brewer & Willis Gordon, featuring Dwayne Duke and headliner, Chris Clem!

Each Saturday night at 11:30PM, we turn NE Ohio’s premier live jazz venue into the best comedy club around for our brand-new late night comedy series, “Cure for the BLU’s!” This week’s show includes hosts Eric Brewer & Willis Gordon, featuring Dwayne Duke and headliner, Chris Clem!
 
[from chrisclem.net]:
 
Chris Clem is a 6’ 5”, 280 lb., man-child with blue eyes. He has kissed Meredith Vieira, won $100,000 on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and lost $100,000 by getting married (and going to multiple WrestleManias). He has appeared on Fox 8 Cleveland, TWC’s NEON channel, Kent State’s TV2, and was a contributing performer for Up Late with Steve Guy (UpLate-tv.com). His writing has been featured in Cleveland Scene Magazine, contributing to their first ever comedy issue in November 2013. He also hosts Chris Clem’s Cavs Cast (chrisclem.net) and formerly co-hosted the Pretty Swell Guys podcast with Kirk Robinson (PrettySwellGuys.com) and Mohammed’s Radio with Jeremy Sheer (WCSB 89.3 Cleveland), on top of many appearances on radio throughout northeast Ohio (87.7 WLFM Cleveland, 100.1 WNIR Akron, 98.1 WKDD Akron). Not just a comedian, Chris has also acted in many short films, been in commercials, done voice over work for TV, and ring announced pro wrestling cards. He was also a staff writer for a weekly live talk show at the Second City’s DeMaat Theater in Chicago in spring 2014.
 
Clem studied at Second City Detroit’s training center, the iO in Chicago, and formerly performed with his excellent improv comedy troupe Thunderlips and the Submissives at Big Dog Theater in Cleveland Heights, in addition to performing stand-up all over the midwest. He can riff on any subject, and is known for his hilarious stories, impressions, and obsessions with comic books, professional wrestling, pro sports and movies. Chris is also ruggedly handsome and an excellent speller with a stupendous vocabulary.
 
Now based in Chicago, IL, Chris is looking to take his career to the next level, if he can only overcome his sudden onset of agoraphobia in what might be the most inspirational story since Rocky V.
 
Get your tickets today for a show that is sure to leave you in stitches (discounted rate if purchased in combination with concert ticket)!
 

About Willis Gordon

Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, Willis Gordon is not only a stand up comic and all around entertainer, but also an Acclaimed Author, Powerful Essayist, Controversial Columnist, Master Orator, Multi-instrumentalist, Singer, Boxer, and Veteran of the War on Terror. His work captures the essence of the classics while still maintaining a timelessly fresh and biting quality in his work. A man who will go wherever there’s an audience, Gordon has performed all over the country in many different mediums and incarnations, yet always remaining unmistakably “Willis.”
 

About Eric Brewer

Eric Brewer is a funny guy who also happens to bear a striking resemblance to actor Bradley Cooper. Brewer uses that similarity to his advantage in a charming and self-deprecating way that lets the audience know that looking like a movie star can go from charming to alarming in a hot minute. Brewer has been performing stand up comedy locally for about five years, and is committed to the Akron comedy scene. “I’m happy here, and I really enjoy being in a mentoring position for some of the younger comics. I don’t want to leave Akron for a bigger stage, until the Akron comedy scene is thriving. I want to leave knowing that I built something special in my hometown.”
 

About Dwayne Duke

Originally from Cleveland, Dwayne Duke began performing in Tampa, Florida, at the Tampa Improv. He draws his humor from personal anecdotes, observations of the world around him, and his own vivid imagination.
 
Dwayne has performed in many shows, showcases, contests and festivals across America. Notably at the Fort Lauderdale Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, 2012 & 2013 and the 2013 Cleveland Comedy Festival.
 
Most recently he worked aboard the Carnival Sensation as the Punchliner Comedy Club Manager. He currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.

$7 ($5 if purchased in combination with concert ticket)