A Night of Laughs

Name: A Night of Laughs
Start: 2024-06-27T19:00:00-05:00
Location: The Gem Theatre

Schedule

Thu Jun 27 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Gem Theatre | Kansas City, KS

Welcome to A Night of Laughs: Comedy Show & Benefit for The Nia Project! Get ready for a hilarious evening filled with laughter and good vibes with our host Janell Banks and headliner Zainab Johnson! TIt's going to be a fantastic event, so come on down and enjoy a great show for a good cause. See you there!
About Janell Banks: Janell Banks , hailing from Kansas City Missouri by way of Houston, Texas. She has always been a natural goofball and class clown. Her quick wit, charisma, and ferociously aggressive style of comedy gives the audience a hilarious and interactive show. Janell is a radio personality and producer of the Comedy Power Hour at KUAW 98.5 FM, content creator, and national touring comic; these are not jokes, these are side-splitting PSA’s! Banks is regarded as one to watch. She has appeared on the Michael Colyar Morning Show as a regular and features for Rodney Perry, featured at Black Women in Comedy Laugh Fest (NYC) Black Girl Giggles Comedy Festival (New Orleans) Metropolitan Ensemble Theater Kansas City (The Color Purple).
About Zainab Johnson: Zainab Johnson is a stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. Zainab’s comedy is based on her unique point-of-view, which was shaped growing up in Harlem as one of thirteen siblings in a black Muslim family. as seen on amazon original upload, netflix‘s 100 humans; Web series AVANT-GUARDIANS; nbc‘s late night with Seth Meyers; hbo‘s all def comedy; jfl just for the culture; and many more notable credits. her hour-long special, “hijabs off“ is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.