Can't Stop The Gay: Poppy Champlin

Poppy Champlin is a veteran comic whose sharp wit and intuitive jokes can penetrate the heart of any discerning audiences funny bone. She has a hip, fearless and in your face style of comedy. Spitting out jokes, quips, songs, impressions, interactions, and yes bird calls.  Her shows can be described as spin art – “No two alike.” Not to mention her voice, every show ends on a good note.   Her stand-up pedigree is flawless; from her  SHOWTIME SPECIAL: Pride The Gay and Lesbian Comedy Slam hosted by Bruce Vilanch to her LOGO SPECIALS: One Night Stand-Up, to Oprah Winfrey, and a featured story on Entertainment Tonight, as she was the winner of America’s Funniest Real Woman on The Joan Rivers Show, to a panel guest on Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen. 

Now residing back in Rhode Island she performs in P-Town every year for the past 24 years. She has been inducted into the Rhode Island Comedy Hall of Fame. She is teaching stand- up comedy and she just won best comedian in the Ladies of Laughter 2024 competition in New York City.