Clark Brooks

Clark has experience as a host and emcee. He's affable and friendly, adept at making an audience feel comfortable and engaged. Expect observations on current events and modern society. His material can be adapted from risque, rated R adult to a family friendly mild PG as needed.

Originally from Benton Harbor, Michigan, where a devastated local economy was in style way before everybody else in America thought it was cool, Tampa’s Clark Brooks has been doing stand-up comedy since January of 2015. Coming to the scene after establishing himself as a writer with numerous published pieces, including the book “A Ridiculously Inconsistent Treasury”, a best-of collection from his successful blog, “A Ridiculously Inconsistent Trickle of Consciousness”, his coverage of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning at (link hidden) and as a contributing member of "The Unbelievables", Clark decided that being just a writer wasn’t nearly self-indulgently neurotic for him so he started doing stand-up. Clark’s humor comes from being alternately entertained and annoyed by the antics of his fellow human beings and our insistence on being our own worst enemies.

Clark has worked with national touring comedians like Alonzo Bodden, Lou Angelwolf, JB Ball, Lynne Koplitz, Dale Jones, Steve White, Josh Blue and Nick Griffin. He has appeared on the main stages at Side Splitters and the Tampa Improv.

His influences include Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Steven Wright, Brian Regan, Carl LaBove and Maria Bamford.

He is a writer and editor for Tampa News Force.

A microphone (preferably plugged into some sort of amplification device) and a good, old, sturdy bar stool to put stuff on. Actually, the bar stool isn't even that important.