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Anthony Oakes
WRITER*COMEDIAN*PRODUCER*STORYTELLER*ACTOR
Making everyone laugh their faces off so we can't tell who's pretty or ugly...
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou
Who is Anthony Oakes?
Hailing from North Carolina, Anthony D. Oakes is a District of Columbia resident who is taking comedy and storytelling on the east coast by storm. A natural comedian, Anthony has hit the ground running. His clean-esque, yet edgy, southern, intellectual, witty humor will have you reeling with laughter.
Sweet Little Oakes Boy, his premier comedy special is out now on Apple TV.
His first feature film, I Hate Love, is out now on Tubi.
Anthony is a 2021 recipient of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's prestigious Mayoral Arts Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
Taking the funny to the masses, he was in the 2023 Because They're Funny festival in DC, 2023 DC Comedy Festival, and participant in the 2021 Sixth City Cleveland Comedy Festival, and the 2021 Memphis Urban Laughs Festival.
He has graced the stages of: The Apollo, The John F. Kennedy Center, The DC Improv, The Broadway, The Westside, and The Greenwich Village Comedy Clubs in New York City, The Laugh Factory, Comedy Store, Flappers, and The Ice House Comedy Club in LA.
You can catch him locally at: The DC Improv, DC Drafthouse, The Bier Baron Comedy Loft, Busboys and Poets, and, The Wonderland Ballroom.
Anthony is currently a show host every first Wednesday of the month for Busboys and Poets 450 K Street NE. He also produces several comedy shows in the DMV area, like, Seven Black Minutes. Anthony can be found on all social media outlets.
