JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Gary Owen is coming to the Bold City later this month. You can see Owen at the Florida Theatre on December 27. The stand-up comic sat down with WOKV\u2019s Chase Bunker ahead of his upcoming Jacksonville show to talk about using the military to get into comedy, reminisce on his first-ever set, and working with actor Michael Jai White.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just remember the Navy recruiter came to my trailer, I grew up in a trailer park, and I was like, wait a minute, this could be a way out. They\u2019re going to fly me out, and then eventually, I figured I could get to California, and at that age, 17, I thought the whole state of California was Los Angeles. I didn\u2019t know there were other cities. So the whole thing was if I could get to L.A. I could start doing stand-up. So the Navy was basically my way of getting to California, and that\u2019s what happened. I got stationed in San Diego, and that\u2019s when I started doing stand-up,\u201d says Owen.<\/p>\n
You can hear Owen reminisce about the first time he did stand-up comedy, where he went to do comedy, and redeem himself on a viral clip with comedian Andrew Schulz in the full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets for Gary Owen<\/a> are on sale now. <\/p>\n You can listen to more of Chase\u2019s interviews in the Chase Chats section<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/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 \u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Gary Owen is coming to the Bold City later this month. You can see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,13426,794,28,44518,19954,49475,116,118,117,49477,795,349,49476],"class_list":{"0":"post-92382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-796","9":"tag-comedian","10":"tag-duval","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-theater","13":"tag-florida-theatre","14":"tag-gary-owen","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","17":"tag-jacksonville-news","18":"tag-michael-jai-white","19":"tag-ne-florida","20":"tag-northeast-florida","21":"tag-undercover-brother-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92382","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=92382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}