YOU CAN SEE JEANNE ROBERTSON LIVE!

Fri. Aug 5 San Diego - Birch North Park Theatre

Sat. Aug 6. Los Angeles – Wilshire Ebell Theatre

With her career nearly half a century in the making, humorous speaker Jeanne Robertson will add to her collection of milestones with her upcoming solo tour “Comedy with Class.” This 67-year-old former Miss North Carolina stands tall at 6'2" and has a personality, heart and sense of humor just as soaring. For years, her witty speeches have been mostly limited to conventions and meetings that were closed to the general public, but with six nationally released DVDs, three books, hundreds of hours on satellite radio and over 8 million YouTube views, the demand for Jeanne's family friendly and engaging brand of comedy has grown exponentially.

Entertaining thousands each year, Jeanne is heard daily on Sirius XM Radio on the Laugh USA, Family Comedy and Blue Collar Comedy channels. Meanwhile, the buzz around her laugh-out-loud comedy videos on YouTube has “gone viral” and now spans over 8 million views, including more than 3.5 million for her “Don’t Send a Man to the Grocery Store” story alone.

Jeanne's real life stories are relatable and memorable, making her humor stand out amongst typical comedic entertainers. After decades as a public speaker and humorist, this former Miss Congeniality makes sure to keep her content revolving and new. "I tire of telling the same set of stories. The thrill is in creating new material. It keeps me fresh," says Jeanne.

She delivers a message to her audience in each performance, pleading with them to laugh more and embrace the humor in their everyday lives. Through her comedy, listeners can easily see that Jeanne reaches for the positive in people and consistently brings it to the surface while leaving them holding their sides and wiping tears from their cheeks in laughter. She embodies the classic southern woman, and at 67 years of age she shows no signs of slowing down.

Jeanne is no stranger to recognition either; she recently became the first woman to receive the Boy Scouts' regional "Man of the Year" award and has earned every top honor and award in her profession. She garnered the Certified Speaking Professional designation in 1980 and was inducted to the National Speakers Association’s (NSA) Hall of Fame the following year. She shares the recognition with only 183 others, including Zig Ziglar, Ronald Reagan and Norman Vincent Peale, and was the first woman to receive NSA’s most cherished honor, the Cavett Award. Standing tall in the man’s world of professional speaking, she is one of the few women ever given the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International, joining the likes of Earl Nightingale, Art Linkletter and Walter Cronkite.