| Audiences across America acknowledge Sommore, the Trenton, NJ born comedic actress, as the “Diva of Contemporary Comedy”. Her performances offer audiences a hilarious, piercing look at issues today from the perspective of woman who lives and loves life.
Sommore has emerged as one of America's top glorified comedic performers, consistently providing her audiences with entertaining relief concerning the realities of everyday life. She tells her message the only way she knows how…straight up!
With a sharp wit and cutting sarcasm, Sommore speaks about the things that most women only think about, but never say. Being a true woman of the New Millennium, Sommore's comedic style is centered on everyday scenarios that she and those in her audiences experience. Her views represents the importance of being able to freely express herself first and foremost, to think intelligently, and always represent herself with grace, style and class. Sommore's consistently wonderful live stage performances and television appearances have made her a widely recognized face among the masses. Her success is well deserved.
“Comedy is an expressive art; it's not what you say, it's how you say it,” says Sommore, who views her own comedy as a form of self-expression; it's no wonder why she's been dubbed the new Whoopi Goldberg with make-up on or Joan Rivers with a deep tan. Her audiences find relief and comfort through her comedy. She finds humor in the current situations in everyday life and brings awareness to the positive and negative happenings in the lives of others. “Funny is funny regardless of color,” explains Sommore. Sarcasm coupled with realism empowers Sommore to express her point of view about how one needs to live life in America today.
Her mannerisms are laid back, but beneath her unadulterated style and grace lies an explosive sense of humor. Sommore is always ready to tell it like it is whenever a situation demands a candid approach.
Appearing on a host of shows including touring with and hosting Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam (a feat not easily accomplished), BET's Live From L.A., and Showtime At The Appollo, Sommore's quick verbal wit has added a new dimension to stand-up comedy and generates much demand nationwide.
In 1995, Sommore's classic stand-up act earned her the Richard Pryor Award for Comic of the Year. As the winner of this prestigious award, she was selected as the first female host of BET's Comic View. She hosted the show for an entire year, which brought her into millions of homes daily. Also in that year, over 20 million viewers got to see Sommore's brilliant stand-up comedy firsthand when Oprah Winfrey handpicked her to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Appearing on the show was a milestone in Sommore's career; Oprah dubbed Sommore is “a force to be reckoned with in the New Millennium.
In 2000, Sommore was one of the few comediennes chosen to be a part of the highly successful Queens of Comedy Tour. The tour garnered Sommore a wider fan base and got her registered in Guinness' Book of World Records when she performed to a captivated audience of over 50,000 people in Atlanta, GA; never has any other comedienne accomplished that. Other noteworthy accomplishments for Sommore include several appearances on then ABC's The Hughleys (now UPN) and an appearance on the HBO Special, SNAPS. Rapper/Actor Busta Rhymes even penned a song after her, entitled. “Gimme Sommore”.
Now living on both coasts, Sommore focuses on her theatrical as well as her comedic acting career, always entertaining with difference characters in feature films and television sitcoms. She is currently working on her first book, Gold Diggin' 101, a collection of some of her most hilarious and well-known tips on how to seduce a man and his wallet. Sommore, a favorite at Caroline's On Broadway in New York City, continues to perform to sold-out audiences across the nation, earning the distinct reputation of being one of the only female comics accepted into the “Boys Club” of stand-up comedy.
Her immense talents have earned her the title, “The Diva of Contemporary Comedy,” as she always leaves her audiences wanting “Sommore”. |
