JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Kojo Prince will be coming to the Bold City. He\u2019ll be performing at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville on June 13 as part of the Bonkerz Comedy Series. I got the chance to chat with the comic and voice actor ahead of his upcoming show to talk about who has the best accent, growing up with a family of performers, and doing standup at a nudist colony.<\/p>\n
Prince says he got into comedy to continue his family\u2019s performing legacy, which consists of his great-grandmother being a vaudeville performer, his grandmother being an opera singer, and his mother singing with Harry Belafonte. \u201cI remember my mother, we were in the living room, big huge living room because she had money at the time, and she asked me to sing this note and I couldn\u2019t,\u201d said Prince. \u201cI tried like three different times. She looked at me like \u2018My own damn son can\u2019t sing,\u2019 and that, to this very day, stuck with me. And I couldn\u2019t sing, but I had to get into the legacy, so I went to school for filmmaking. Then I was thinking about acting. Then life started life-ing, and I couldn\u2019t travel as much as I wanted to, so I started moving into comedy. I\u2019m like, okay, comedy took me a while, but I got into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can hear about the time Prince performed at a nudist colony and what he thinks are the best accents in the full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets to see Kojo Prince at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville<\/a> are on sale now.<\/p>\n You can hear more interviews in the Chase Chats<\/a> section of WOKV.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n [\u00a0Read more local news from WOKV<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Kojo Prince will be coming to the Bold City. He\u2019ll be performing at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-303788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303788","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=303788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}