Hire Comedian ARNEZ J For Your Event
Diverging from the hard-edged raunchy and streetwise observational styles of other contemporary African-American comedians, Arnez J offers comic routines reminiscent of an earlier era of comedy. His improvisational comic style is a physical comedy routine with a strong reliance on impressions and exaggerations of familiar personalities. “J is a whirling dervish on stage—he runs, jumps, spins, slides, slips, and mugs through a performance, acting out many of his bits while describing them,” wrote Doug Kaufman in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Finding a more comfortable niche on programs like Black Entertainment Television’s Comic View and becoming a finalist in the 1992 Bay Area Black Comedy Competition, Arnez J began to appeal more and more to racially mixed audiences.
One factor in his broad-based appeal was his avoidance of profanity in his shows, which attracted family-oriented fans of all races. “I’m not going to sell myself short by [cursing], because No. 1, I have a son. I’m just not going to do that. And No. 2, I don’t curse in my daily life, why would I do it on stage? Then I’m contradicting myself.”
In the late 1980s, Arnez landed a job as a Continental Airlines flight attendant. His talent for getting a laugh from passengers wedged into jets made him think about a new career. “I entertained the passengers—always,” he recalled to Bruce Westbrook of the Houston Chronicle. “If I went to San Francisco, I’d be a gay flight attendant, or for Boston, I’d be real hard and snobby. But people knew I was putting them on.” His talent for impressions carried over into his career as a comedian, and he boasted to Kaufman that “I can basically do anybody I study.”
In the late 1990s, Arnez J became a familiar face on the comedy circuit and landed plum television spots on Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam A&E’s An Evening at the Improv, and Comedy Central‘s Make Me Laugh, among other shows. After a half-hour solo comedy special on BET, Arnez J became the host of Comic View in 2002.
In 1995, Arnez J got a chance to combine his ambitions as an athlete and performer: he was recruited by scouts for the famed Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. In 1996 he joined the team, but three months later a knee injury ended his Globetrotters career. “Apparently I’m meant to make a living as a comedian, which is fine.”
As his career developed, Arnez J branched out into new activities. He toured with actor Billy Dee Williams in a play called The Maintenance Man, playing a nightclub owner, and he performed as an opening act for the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Arnez J moved to Los Angeles, and indeed film seemed to offer the best new potential avenue for his talents. Arnez began working in the movie business and starred in the independent film Up Against the 8-Ball, and hopes to make more movies.
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