Corey Adam is an American

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts. These performances are typically composed of rehear ...

from

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. He has released three comedy albums on Stand Up! Records, including 2018's ''Jokes''.

Personal life

Adam was born Corey Adam Allegrezza in

Hibbing, Minnesota Hibbing is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 16,214 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city was built on mining the rich iron ore of the Mesabi Iron Range an ...

. Adam began using his first and middle names as a stage name in 2008 because of his frustration with frequent mispronunciations of "Allegrezza."

Career

Stand-up comedy

Adam's comedy has been described as "self-deprecating and sarcastic." Adam's early comedy was influenced by

Sam Kinison Samuel Burl Kinison ( ; December 8, 1953 – April 10, 1992) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. A former Pentecostal preacher, he performed stand-up routines that were characterized by intense sudden tirades, punctuated with his distin ...

; he studied group improv comedy at venues such as Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, but eventually decided solo stand-up was more suited to his style. He moved briefly to

Las Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...

at age 22 to further his stand-up career, but has been based in the Twin Cities until 2021, when he moved to

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. Adam has toured internationally, performing to audiences in Ireland and at the Akumal Comedy Festival in Mexico, and has been a frequent tour opener for

Nick Swardson Nicholas Roger Swardson (born October 9, 1976)

. He has been a regular host of comedy nights at several clubs in Minneapolis. Adam has released three albums of his stand-up comedy. Two of these, ''No Joke'' and ''No Joke 2'', are nontraditional sets capturing not his actual stage performance but his interactions with audiences and hecklers. Originally self-funded through crowdsourcing, ''No Joke'' was later picked up by Grammy-winning producer Dan Schlissel of Stand Up! Records, who produced his subsequent works. Richard Lanoie of The Serious Comedy Site praised 2018's ''Jokes'' for its "adult sense of humor and a taste for the absurd."

Radio and podcasts

He was a regular co-host on the Steel Toe Morning Show on Youtube.com out of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and has been a frequent guest on the sports talk show ''SKOR North Live'' on

KSTP-AM KSTP (1500 kHz; ''SKOR North'') is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is the flagship AM radio station of Hubbard Broadcasting, which owns dozens of television and radio stations in nine states. KSTP has a ...

, '' Laughing Matters with Robert Baril'' on

KTNF KTNF (950 kHz, "AM 950") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to St. Louis Park, Minnesota that serves the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The station brands itself as "The Progressive Voice of Minnesota," and offers a combinati ...

-AM, and the

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-TV pop-culture show ''On the Fly with Tony Fly''. In 2019–20, he co-hosted the podcast ''Unregulated Radio''. In 2012–2013, Adam co-hosted ''Dirty Bomb Shop'', a podcast about the craft of stand-up comedy.

Discography

*''No Joke'' ( Stand Up! Records, 2015) *''Jokes'' ( Stand Up! Records, 2018) *''No Joke 2'' ( Stand Up! Records, 2019)

References

External links

Official Corey Adam websiteCorey Adam at Stand Up! Records website
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