ДЄfter winning the 2006 season of NBC's reality show Last Comic Standing, he was the first comedian to do stand-up on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Blue won $10,000 for finishing in first place at 2004 Las Vegas Comedy Festival's 2004 Royal Flush Comedy Competition. He has appeared several times on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia. In 2002, he won the prestigious Comedy Works New Faces contest. Audiences reacted enthusiastically to his self-deprecating humor, and Blue started making a name for himself on the comedy circuit.

A bewildered crowd threw him bananas and peanuts anyway, to which Josh quips, 'that was the best day I ate in Senegal!' Career Д«lue got his start in comedy doing open mic sets while attending The Evergreen State College. At one point for a joke on a busy weekend, Josh locked himself in an empty animal exhibit for eight hours. Дuring college, he went back to Africa to volunteer as an intern at Parc de Hahn, a zoo in Senegal. He began his career as a comedian while seeking a creative writing degree at The Evergreen State College. Blue grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from Como Park Senior High School in 1997. Josh is a single father living in Denver, CO, with his son, Simon, and daughter, Seika.Blue was born in Cameroon where his father, Walter Blue, was a professor of Romance languages at Hamline University teaching during a mission.

Josh was also a member of the US Paralympic Soccer Team and competed in Athens at the Paralympic Games, the worldвЂ™s second largest sporting event. Josh has even become quite an Internet sensation with his top two YouTube videos getting over 3.5 million plays. Josh has also performed at the prestigious HBO-Aspen Comedy Festival, Comedy CentralвЂ™s South Beach Comedy Festival, and The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. Josh is a repeat guest on such nationally syndicated radio programs as NPRвЂ™s Talk of the Nation and The Mancow Show and has been featured in numerous print publications including People Magazine and The New York Times. Portions of the performance also aired on Bravo Network as a half-hour comedy special. Blue is set to appear in the sports based comedy 108 Stitches. He became the first comic to debut a stand-up special on the big screen when 7 More Days in the TankВ was shown in theatres across the country. He was the first comedian to perform stand-up on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, was named Best Winning Reality Show Guest for his appearance on Live with Regis and Kelly, and made a standout guest appearance on Comics Unleashed.

Josh has appeared as a regular guest star on Comedy CentralвЂ™s Mind of Mencia and his story has been featured on Fox, CBS, ABC,and MSNBC. His stand-up routine is in a constant state of evolution and his off-the-cuff improvisational skills guarantee that no two shows are exactly alike. Possessed with an undeniable likeability and comedic timing that belies his youthfulness, Josh continues to break down stereotypes of people with disabilities one laugh at a time. He has appeared twice on Ron WhiteвЂ™s Comedy Salute to the Troops on CMT and recently made his late night television debut on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The special is currently available on Netflix. Most recently, Josh debuted a one-hour Showtime special, Sticky Change, where he cracks jokes and tells stories about everything from being a white African-American, to dealing with cabbies who think he'll pay in sticky change. Josh starred in Comedy Central Presents: Josh Blue, which received rave reviews from fans and critics alike and was named the 11th best special on the network in 2011. Having already established himself as one of the most sought after comedians on the college circuit, his weekly appearances on Last Comic in the summer of 2006 expanded his fan base exponentially. He exploded onto the national comedy scene by capturing the attention and endearment of the country as the winner of NBCвЂ™s Last Comic Standing. Perhaps best known as the comedian who puts the cerebral in Cerebral Palsy, Josh Blue centers much of his self-deprecating act around his disability.

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