Comedy fans in Oklahoma City get a rare close-up look at Sommore, who brings four shows to the 300-seat Bricktown Comedy Club. Known widely as the Queen of Comedy, she is scheduled to perform at 7:00 PM and 9:45 PM, as well as 6:00 PM and 8:45 PM, bringing her signature humor and perspective to the downtown club.
According to KOKH, the Oklahoma run puts Sommore on stage at a venue built specifically for up-close comedy experiences. The Bricktown Comedy Club event listing confirms four showtimes and notes that all guests must be 18 or older with valid ID to enter. Those planning a trip should also know the club requires a two-item purchase minimum per guest inside the showroom, covering food, alcoholic drinks, or non-alcoholic beverages.
A Showroom Built for Close Encounters With Comedy Royalty
Bricktown Comedy Club seats around 300 people, giving audiences a theater-style setting with front-row premium seats and general admission on the main floor, according to Event Tickets Center. The club itself has a resilient backstory: it opened in December 2019, ten weeks before the COVID shutdown, and held limited-capacity shows with mask requirements, as reported by 405 Magazine.
The club has since rebuilt into a steady stop on the national comedy circuit. BARK Entertainment expanded its Oklahoma footprint by opening a second location, Bricktown Comedy Club Tulsa, in 2023, a move that lets touring comedians route dual-city Oklahoma runs more easily, per the same 405 Magazine account. That regional expansion has helped bring bigger national names through the state, following a similar path to Hoodline's prior coverage of Marlon Wayans' five Bricktown shows earlier this month.
From ComicView Pioneer to Guinness World Record Holder
Born Lori Ann Rambough, Sommore made history as the first female host of BET's ComicView during its 1994-1995 season and won the Richard Pryor Award for Comic of the Year in 1995, according to The Bay State Banner. Those television milestones helped cement the performance style she still brings to stages like Bricktown's today.
Her box-office pull reached record-setting territory in 2000, when she entered the Guinness Book of World Records during The Queens of Comedy tour after performing for a live audience of more than 50,000 people in Atlanta, the Bay State Banner reports. That tour was later adapted into a 2001 Showtime special that became one of the network's highest-rated comedy programs. Sommore has also built a film career alongside her stand-up work, making her acting debut in the 2002 comedy Friday After Next and later appearing in Soul Plane in 2004 and Dirty Laundry in 2007, according to Wikipedia.
A Family Connection She Kept Quiet for Years
Sommore is the older half-sister of actress Nia Long, sharing the same father, poet Doughtry “Doc” Long, according to Yahoo Entertainment. She reportedly avoided revealing the relationship early in her career so her own achievements would stand on their own, even as both sisters went on to build prominent, distinct careers in entertainment.
The Bricktown shows put her in Oklahoma City's Bricktown Entertainment District. Tickets and full showtime details for the Oklahoma City run are available through the Bricktown Comedy Club show page.
