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Co-producer of The Art Critique Comedy Show {comedians analyze & auction thrift store art}, Jordan Cerminara currently manufactures humor right outside of Portland, Oregon—exports include IRL stand-up, VR comedy experiences in partner with FlipsideXR, goofy ass analog collages, and good ol’ fashioned comic strips for the Seattle-based Scarfff Comics (an underground comix anthology newspaper).

With more than a decade of stand-up experience, Jordan Cerminara has worked clubs and independent venues across North America, opening for acts such as Kyle Kinane, Nikki Glaser, Tom Rhodes, Gabriel Rutledge, Becky Braunstein, Cory Michaelis, and Dave Nihill. Recently, Jordan recorded his debut comedy album Cuttin It Up at the Garland Theater in Spokane, Washington and is expected to be released in the summer of 2024. For news and updates about live shows and inane moments from his daily life, follow @strangehumorist on all social media or just come back to this website some time!

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Curated works of “art” found in thrift stores, garage sales, and sometimes on the street are put on display to be analyzed and auctioned off by stand-up comics! The idea to produce this came to co-creators Jeremy Talamantes and Jordan Cerminara after a night of mocking local San Francisco gimmick show concepts one stoned evening in 2016.

On February 17th, 2017 they finally had sourced enough goofy paintings and weird mixed media disasterpieces to put on their first show at 111 Minna Gallery in downtown San Francisco. After about a year of running this kitschy event, a Bay Area cult following had formed that threw the unknown comics into the local limelight. After a year residency at Art Attack SF in the Castro district, repeated coverage in the SF Chronicle and a feature story on ABC7 in 2018 the show appeared on several regional comedy and art festivals and expanded its reach into a number of northern California cities and venues.

“The Art Critique Comedy Show is great for comedy lovers, art snobs, first dates, date nights, and people who think they’ve seen everything...”
- Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle

At the three-year anniversary show in February of 2020, a talent rep from a Los Angeles/New York agency attended and began talks of taking the show to the next level by way of producing a screener to pitch a pilot for TV and streaming. Within three weeks of that conversation, the hopeful comedy producers were watching their dreams get masked up and were forced to cancel 22 shows across 10 cities including the July 7th taping that was set to be at the world famous Punch Line Comedy Club.

The pandemic and personal life circumstances took Talamantes to Los Angeles while Cerminara wound up in Portland—it seemed as though the show was all but done. However, as live events began to make a comeback and some sense of normalcy returned to American nightlife, it was clear that the show must go on! The Art Critique Comedy Show found a temporary home at Third Wheel Hollywood in Los Angeles for a short run of shows that were used as preparation for the filming of a self-produced pilot in October of 2022 that is currently in post-production.
To find out more about the status of the project and the 2024 Pacific Northwest tour, follow @lowartforms on Instagram or visit lowartforms.com for news and updates.

After a few years working as a content creator with virtual reality’s Flipside Studio and using their ground-breaking real-time animation motion capture software that emulates being on a film set, 2020 brought a unique opportunity for Jordan Cerminara to bring dynamic stand-up performances to video call audiences during a very trying time in comedy. Performing jokes as an avatar was never his dream but quickly became reality after watching one “comedy show” via Zoom. Which if you remember, was basically just comedians on webcams in sad little apartments holding conference calls about the state of their depression whilst telling jokes they wrote before live entertainment was temporarily reduced to this. Not only did this help Cerminara stand out but it also created new pathways to monetize, offering his Virtual Happy Hour Comedy to a number of corporate entities throughout the multiple waves of the pandemic.