ORANGE PARK \u2013 His comedy bits have become as\u00a0popular as the number of Publix stores in Florida. In fact, he often talks about that on stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
OMGItsWicks, along with\u00a0Myke Herlihy and Ken Miller, will bring their family-friendly comedy acts to\u00a0Thrasher-Horne Center on Saturday night at 8 p.m.\u00a0OMGItsWicks, whose real name is Josh Robinson, lives in South Florida, and he bases his act on observations about\u00a0all things\u00a0Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has millions of social media followers, with \u201ca voice as loud as a Florida thunderstorm,\u201d according to his public relations team.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0considered the unofficial spokesperson for the Sunshine State\u00a0who makes light-hearted remarks about Florida\u2019s critters, bugs, drivers and, of course, the number of Publix supermarkets, remarking there are a few spots where the grocery store has locations across the street from each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone who\u2019s driven on State Road 16 in St. Augustine in the Marabella area at International Golf Parkway can see a Publix on the southeast corner of the intersection and another one on the southwest corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His\u00a0travel\u00a0around the state have\u00a0also been educational.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0learned there\u2019s a difference between Floridians in the Panhandle, South Florida, Central\u00a0Florida\u00a0and Northeast Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m\u00a0down in Southwest Florida, so\u00a0there’s\u00a0a lot about North Florida and even North Central Florida that I never even knew about,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0been learning about all of that\u00a0and incorporating that into the content, so that we can include the full Florida\u00a0and not just one part.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have pythons and monitor lizards\u00a0and all kinds of crazy things just run around in the wild, you know, a lot of things that people don’t realize here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bet he\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0know we have the Space Shuttle fuel tank sitting on the shore of the St. Johns River in Green Cove Springs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing I can promise is you\u2019re going to have a good time,\u201d he said during a telephone interview. \u201cWe prioritize having\u00a0a good time\u00a0over\u00a0anything else.\u00a0And you\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0have to worry about it being\u00a0vulgar\u00a0or anything crazy happening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of his reflections is a conversation with a non-Floridian who asks if a pond\u00a0has an Alligator.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it wet?\u201d\u00a0OMGItsWisks\u00a0responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d the visitor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen it has gators.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tickets, which start at $45, are available at the box office or at thcenter.org. And\u00a0OMGItsWicks\u00a0said everyone is invited to a\u00a0meet and greet after the show. And unlike most acts,\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0no charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u00a0actually comes\u00a0free\u00a0with the actual cost of the ticket,\u201d\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201cI\u00a0don’t\u00a0feel right charging people extra for anything.\u00a0Them\u00a0just coming to the show is good enough for me, and we do the meet and greet after every show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0also want to thank\u00a0everybody,\u00a0too.\u00a0I\u00a0like\u00a0to take that\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to thank\u00a0everyone that came out\u00a0because it might seem like most performers\u00a0don’t\u00a0really care, but I know me,\u00a0personally,\u00a0taking time out of their day\u00a0to\u00a0come out, it means everything to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Opening acts Miller was the winner of the 2013 Florida\u2019s Funniest Comedian contest and the Steve Harvey Standup Spotlight winner, while Herlihy was the\u00a02023\u00a0Florida\u2019s Funniest Comedian\u00a0winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE PARK \u2013 His comedy bits have become as\u00a0popular as the number of Publix stores in Florida. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3496,3487,3495,3498,3488,3493,116,118,117,3492,3494,3499,3490,3489,3497,3491],"class_list":["post-187576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-argyle","tag-clay-county","tag-doctors-inlet","tag-eagle-harbor","tag-fleming-island","tag-green-cove-springs","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-keystone-heights","tag-lake-asbury","tag-margaret","tag-middleburg","tag-orange-park","tag-pace-island","tag-penney-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}