JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Actor and comedian Rodney Perry is coming to Jacksonville at the start of the new year. The former co-host of \u201cThe Mo\u2019Nique Show\u201d will be performing at The Comedy Zone on January 2-3. I got the chance to chat with the stand-up comic ahead of his Jacksonville shows to reflect on his multi-decade career, recovering from his stroke, and his advice for aspiring comics.<\/p>\n
In his 30 years of doing stand-up comedy, Perry says he only quit once. \u201cI was stationed in my first duty station in New Orleans, Louisiana.[…] So I go do a gong show[…] I get gonged, ferociously gonged. Two days later, I meet Harry [Ratchford], and I encouraged him to get on stage. And he and I started a comedy career that would span another 25-30 years,\u201d says Perry. \u201cHe was so funny to me, and I was trying to tell him that I used to be a comedian and that he should try it. He said I\u2019m not going to do it without you, so we became a comedy team for the first decade.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can hear more about Perry\u2019s recovery from a stroke that he suffered while touring, and his time in the Navy, in the full interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets for Rodney Perry<\/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 Actor and comedian Rodney Perry is coming to Jacksonville at the start of the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,20819,794,28,116,118,117,49766,795,349,49765],"class_list":["post-93140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-796","tag-comedy-zone","tag-duval","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-monique-show","tag-ne-florida","tag-northeast-florida","tag-rodney-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93140","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=93140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}