Actor and comedian Rodney Perry is coming to Jacksonville at the start of the new year. The former co-host of \u201cThe Mo\u2019Nique Show\u201d will be performing at The Comedy Zone on January 2-3. I got the chance to chat with the stand-up comic ahead of his Jacksonville shows to reflect on his multi-decade career, recovering from his stroke, and his advice for aspiring comics.<\/p>\n
In his 30 years of doing stand-up comedy, Perry says he only quit once. \u201cI was stationed in my first duty station in New Orleans, Louisiana.[…] So I go do a gong show[…] I get gonged, ferociously gonged. Two days later, I meet Harry [Ratchford], and I encouraged him to get on stage. And he and I started a comedy career that would span another 25-30 years,\u201d says Perry. \u201cHe was so funny to me, and I was trying to tell him that I used to be a comedian and that he should try it. He said I\u2019m not going to do it without you, so we became a comedy team for the first decade.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can hear more about Perry\u2019s recovery from a stroke that he suffered while touring, and his time in the Navy, in the full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets for Rodney Perry<\/a> are on sale now.<\/p>\n You can listen to more of Chase\u2019s interviews in the Chase Chats section<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Read more local news from WOKV<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor and comedian Rodney Perry is coming to Jacksonville at the start of the new year. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":465583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,211846,7310,211822,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-465582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-gong-show","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-rodney-perry","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115766353266674445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}