There aren't many gay comics who would leap at the chance to perform for a crowd of military veterans or suburban Latinos. But where some might see a potentially resistant audience, stand-up comedian and author Jordan Pease only sees a new potential group of friends ready to laugh.

Born and raised in New Jersey into an Italian-American family that has embraced his adult identity ("When I came out to my grandparents, their only comment was that they hoped I married an Italian man"), Pease mines the sometimes painful and more difficult avenues of life in order to fashion self-deprecating jokes that render him equal parts endearing and outrageous.

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