Poppy Champlin

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Poppy Champlin is a graduated of the University of Rhode Island with a BFA in Theatre. She went on to the Famed Chicago Second City Training Center in 1988 and was immediately immersed in the Comedy Clubs near and far. After being crowned America’s Funniest Real Woman on The Joan Rivers Show and then featured on Entertainment Tonight she took her talents to the big arena: Los Angeles.
Champlin has worked her craft with tenacity for 30 years. She has appeared with such comics as Bill Maher, Ray Ramano, Denis Leary, Bill Hicks, Rosie O’Donnell and many more. Her club appearances range from Gotham and The Comedy Cellar in NYC to The Improv, The Comedy Store and Laugh Factory. Champlin has deep comedic chops. She has performed for troops in both Japan and Korea. Her television appearances include; Showtime, LOGO, Comics Unleashed, Comedy Central, VH-1, HBO and the ultimate …Oprah Winfrey. Poppy has without a doubt broken ahead of the pack.
In Los Angeles she honed her writing, got an agent and was a staff writer for Fox’s Show Me The Funny and achieving a spot in Writes Guild of America.
She is also the producer of her own Comedy tour called, The Queer Qomedy Queens, now in it’s thirteenth year.
Now residing in Rhode Island, she runs an open Mic in Kingston RI at the Pumphouse as well as teaching a 6 week class in stand-up and touring the country with her comedy show.
“Poppy is a freakin’ ball of comedic thunder,” says one fan.
Poppy was inducted into the Rhode Island Comedy Hall of Fame this year.
Poppy’s observational style of humor tackles tough subjects with ease. In this comedienne’s hands we can laugh at life’s most formidable perils… and laughter that ravages fear is the best kind of all.

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