{"id":1403,"date":"2017-04-17T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:17:03","slug":"comedy-night-2017-with-bob-somerby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/comedy-night-2017-with-bob-somerby\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Night 2017 with Bob Somerby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Our show&#8217;s first performer was Bob Somerby who shares our belief in the power of humor. He comes by it honestly: Bob\u2019s grandfather Rufus was a traveling entertainer and storyteller and his father Al owned the legendary Old Howard Theater in Boston. In addition to working as a comedian for over twenty five years Bob owned his own comedy club in Baltimore for 6 years and created a one man show <i>Material World<\/i> from which he presented routines at our Comedy Night including the piece &#8216;Blue Corn Flakes&#8217; we\u2019re posting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/212509746\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Washington Post reviewed Bob\u2019s one man show <i>Material World.<\/i><\/p>\n<pre>THANK YOU BOB!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our show&#8217;s first performer was Bob Somerby who shares our belief in the power of humor. He comes by it honestly: Bob\u2019s grandfather Rufus was a traveling entertainer and storyteller and his father Al owned the legendary Old Howard Theater in Boston. In addition to working as a comedian for over twenty five years Bob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,19,20,21,22],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-charlottesville","tag-comedy","tag-cville","tag-humor","tag-smartcomedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}