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Article: No joke -- comedy club set for Waukegan
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- The News Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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Like most people who ended up making a career out of comedy, her first audience was blood relations.
"When I was like five, my parents used to take me to family reunions and have me make people laugh," says Chicago comedian Sonya D. "They wouldn't pay me for it, though."
Then, in the early 1990s, Sonya was goaded into going onstage at a Chicago comedy club on open-mic night -- after a friend offered her $50 to take the dare. Within two years, she was appearing on Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam and moving on to Showtime at the Apollo and BET Comicview.
Along the way, Sonya has played before every brick-wall comedy club imaginable. Zanies and All Jokes Aside in Chicago. The Improv in Miami ...