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More than anything, Jeff Allen likes to make people laugh and, rare among comedians, he knows a joke doesn’t have to be dirty to be funny. Just who is Jeff Allen and how on earth did a nut-job atheist from Chicago’s South Side, who’s crawled across the grittiest comedy club floors in America, end up :
♣ as the featured performer at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC;
♣ working with the world’s top Gospel quartet;
♣securing a development deal with Castle Rock Television to produce a sitcom based on his ultra-clean family friendly standup comedy Happy Wife, Happy Life?
Excellent question! Jeff’s been doing comedy for 20 years and his work has been seen on every cable comedy show in the U.S., including Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” and VH1’s “Standup Spotlight.” His one hour special, Happy Wife, Happy Life aired on the Odyssey Channel and Family Net. He is a regular on the Grand Ole Opry and was a featured comedian at the 1998 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and the Montreal Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival 2000, the biggest laugh riot on the planet. Jeff is one of the few comedians who can “kill ‘em” at a casino in Vegas and then bring down the house at the Baptist Youth Missionary Board... doing the exact same act. He says, “Funny is funny. What makes people laugh works anywhere. I don’t change a word.”
The words may not change but what has changed radically is the man who delivers them. It’s hard to believe the Jeff who works the “Estes Park Christian Seminar in the Rockies” is the same Jeff who used to get mail addressed to “Mr. psycho.” Jeff wasn’t always a happy, well-adjusted Christian comedian. After fighting off addictions to drugs and alcohol and hitting rock bottom, he has found the top of the world. At the peak of his comedic powers, he works the best rooms in the country, is developing a sitcom with the most talented people in Los Angeles, and has a family he adores. Having survived his past, Jeff is a rare exception in the world of creative talent--a happy guy. And that joy drawn from the crazy pain of everyday living is precisely what Happy Wife, Happy Life is all about.
♣ as the featured performer at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC;
♣ working with the world’s top Gospel quartet;
♣securing a development deal with Castle Rock Television to produce a sitcom based on his ultra-clean family friendly standup comedy Happy Wife, Happy Life?
Excellent question! Jeff’s been doing comedy for 20 years and his work has been seen on every cable comedy show in the U.S., including Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” and VH1’s “Standup Spotlight.” His one hour special, Happy Wife, Happy Life aired on the Odyssey Channel and Family Net. He is a regular on the Grand Ole Opry and was a featured comedian at the 1998 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and the Montreal Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival 2000, the biggest laugh riot on the planet. Jeff is one of the few comedians who can “kill ‘em” at a casino in Vegas and then bring down the house at the Baptist Youth Missionary Board... doing the exact same act. He says, “Funny is funny. What makes people laugh works anywhere. I don’t change a word.”
The words may not change but what has changed radically is the man who delivers them. It’s hard to believe the Jeff who works the “Estes Park Christian Seminar in the Rockies” is the same Jeff who used to get mail addressed to “Mr. psycho.” Jeff wasn’t always a happy, well-adjusted Christian comedian. After fighting off addictions to drugs and alcohol and hitting rock bottom, he has found the top of the world. At the peak of his comedic powers, he works the best rooms in the country, is developing a sitcom with the most talented people in Los Angeles, and has a family he adores. Having survived his past, Jeff is a rare exception in the world of creative talent--a happy guy. And that joy drawn from the crazy pain of everyday living is precisely what Happy Wife, Happy Life is all about.
