News Release

Award-winning comic comes to campus August 27

August 5, 2008

From the very start funny man Ronnie Jordan has proven that he’s a comedy force to be reckoned with. After only a year on the comedy scene, the kid voted “Most Wittiest” in high school was crowned “Rookie of the Year” in 2001 by the famed Uptown Comedy Corner in Atlanta.

Jordan brings his comedic talent to Penn State Harrisburg’s Community Center Wednesday, Aug. 27 at 9:30 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6273.

As one of the country’s hottest up-and-coming comedians, Jordan is quickly making a name for himself as a comic’s comic who has shared concert dates with stand-up heavyweights Rickey Smiley, Bruce Bruce, Earthquake, Mike Epps, Arnez J., and a host of others. A crowd favorite, he held it down as the opening act on the Queens of Comedy 12-city tour; became the crowd favorite on the Miller Lite King and Queens of Comedy Search Tour; served as one of the opening acts on the Crown Royal Comedy Soul Fest Tour featuring R&B music legends Earth, Wind, and Fire and the Isley Brothers; and headlined the RJE Comedy Cabaret Tour 2003; the longest-running and highest-grossing comedy tour targeting colleges and universities. Currently he appears regularly at the Punchline Comedy Club in Atlanta.

No stranger to television, Jordan has been featured on Comic View, as well as host of the successful Atlanta-based video show, Oomp Camp Live. Behind-the-scenes, Ronnie is a gifted gag writer whose work can be seen on That Comedy Show, which airs on the Turner South Network.