Spring Day (comedian)
Spring Day is an American comedian, writer and actress.[1] She performed around the world, including clubs based in London, Manchester, Dublin, Los Angeles, New York and Paris.[2] She was voted Brooklyn's Best Comedian in 2016.[1]
Spring Day | |
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| Born | |
| Occupations | Comedian, writer and actress |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Website | http://springdaycomedy.com/ |
Early life
[edit]Day was born and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri,[3] in a house containing 20 dogs, five rats, three cats, two birds and a ferret.[4] From the age of 13, Day knew she wanted to live in Japan and would later study there as an exchange student.[4]
Career
[edit]After being fired on her first day from a teaching job in central Japan, Day moved to Tokyo and took up comedy after seeing an advert in an English language magazine.[4]
Day learned her craft in the Japanese comedy scene, headlining at the Tokyo Comedy Store in 2002.[5] In 2004, she opened for Japanese comedian Zenjiro at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.[5]
She was featured in the 2008 documentary The Tokyo Comedy Store.[5]
She has appeared in the 2014 book The Humour Code and the 2017 book Joker Face alongside Jimmy Carr, Sara Pascoe, Russell Howard and Katherine Ryan.[2]
In 2020, Day performed alongside fellow Americans Hopwood Depree and Will Franken in a Yank in the UK stand-up gig at the Leicester Comedy Festival.[3] Day also appeared on the You'll Do podcast with Sarah Keyworth and Catherine Bohart, alongside Tim Renkow.[6][7]
Since 2010, she has written, directed and performed five solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.[2] She had also intended to take her show Spring Day: Dark Comedy for Nice People to the 2020 fringe until its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][8]
In February 2023, Day appeared in episode 7 of series 17 of Live at the Apollo on BBC One.[9]
Personal life
[edit]Day has mild cerebral palsy.[2] She is married to fellow comedian Tim Renkow.[6][10][11]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Comedians - Spring Day". www.thefunnyside.info. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- 1 2 3 4 "spring day comedy". spring day comedy. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- 1 2 3 "Spring Day: A Yank in the UK!". www.theamerican.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- 1 2 3 ""I Got Fired On My First Day" - Comedian Spring Day on Life In Japan With Cerebral Palsy". Access Magazine. 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- 1 2 3 "Spring Day". Laugh Out Loud Comedy Clubs. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- 1 2 "BBC Radio 4 - You'll Do - Downloads". BBC. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- ↑ "How two comedians with cerebral palsy fell in love". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- ↑ "Edinburgh Fringe and Festival cancelled". The Independent. 2020-04-01. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- ↑ "BBC Two - Live at the Apollo, Series 17, Episode 7". BBC. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
- ↑ Saunders, Tristram Fane (2019-03-25). "Jerk star Tim Renkow: 'I'm a disabled redneck Mexican Jew – I can make fun of anyone'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
- ↑ "Tim Renkow - Got married yesterday!! Photo by @stevebestpics". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2022-10-27.