For the last 16 years clean comedians Joe Brinnon & Steve Marks have been performing musical comedy that's a guaranteed hit with audiences everywhere! And now Brinnon & Marks feature musician/singer/songwriter/actor Austin Marks!
Brinnon & Marks create hilarious characters, songs and skits that involve your group both on stage and out into the audience. The end result is a high-energy musical comedy act that will keep everyone laughing from beginning to end!
Joe Brinnon and Steve Marks met 27 years ago and immediately recognized they had many things in common; they both loved music, they both had many years of performing in theatre and television and they both had the same parole officer…WHAT!!?? Actually, they both met while working for a large corporation; Steve as a National Sales Trainer and Joe as a salesman. 9 years later while consulting for a client in Kansas City (a very large church), the two were asked to perform for a city wide Pastors conference, and the rest as they say is history!
“The 101 Voices and faces of Brinnon & Marks”. Tons of music, loads of impersonations and great variety!! It’s a Branson/Vegas-style clean comedians act. Super clean and non offensive, the act appeals to people from all walks of life. Whether it’s a group of factory workers, nuclear engineers, fire fighters, Doctor’s, Administrative Specialists, or executive CEO’s, they‘re always a hit. They mix in a boat load of impersonations, add two parts of audience participation, pour in a gallon of customization by singing and writing skits about your company’s slogans, products, and management and BAM!!… A show that leaves everyone in your audience breathless…. (Especially Brinnon & Marks – since they do these killer big drum sections). Comedians Brinnon & Marks have performed all over the USA and parts of the world for clients such as Discover Card, GE, Nestles, Sara Lee, Amway, Hardees, KPMG, Major/Minor Baseball League, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Oreck Vacuum, Sun Life Clarica, Arbonne and Juice Plus- NSA, leaving their audiences with the same condition….face and belly pain from so much laughing!!
Comedians Joe, Steve and Austin will write a show for your event that your group will love. They’ll play instruments and perform a huge variety of musical styles, genres and crazy skits. Wild impersonations like Shaggy - Johnny Cash - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Back Street Boys - Heavy Death Metal….just checking to see if you were still reading. Jimmy Stewart - Michael McDonald - Bob Dylan - Al Jarreau - Anita Baker - Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Reagan and Barak Obama (actually we’re still working on Barak) Elvis – Frankie Valley – Eagles, Motown medley, Brooks and Dunn, Bee Gee’s, Joe Cocker, Hootie, Johnny Mathis, Hillbilly Opera and more. They’ll even get your top management or team leaders up on stage to help with songs, skits or dances. AND since the show is customized for your event, your audience won’t feel like they are watching another cookie cutter act doing a cookie cutter show...blah blah…sing sing…ok were done. Not with clean comedians Brinnon and Marks – just read some of the comments from their satisfied clients. Then give them a call to have Joe talk to you as Bill Clinton or better yet to book as comedians for your next event! You’ll be soooo glad you did!
In addition to their corporate appearances, comedians Brinnon & Marks can be seen acting, producing and providing the musical score to the soon to be released feature film, 'Last Ounce of Courage'
As a child Joe discovered he had special abilities. To his delight Joe could impersonate the school principal, Father Kelly. With his best Father Kelly voice, Joe called parents to inform them that their child needed an exorcism. Joe had to change schools. As he grew older he also discovered that he had a face like rubber, could play a wicked banjo, tinkle the piano keys, beat the snot out of drums, whip up a lick on the guitar, blow a blues harmonica and sing a little too.
As the years went by Joe wondered how he could take these abilities and entertain people. As luck would have it, Joe finally met a guy at his parole officer’s waiting room…Steve Marks. Actually the two met in the corporate world and quickly realized they could do a wide variety of songs and impersonations - making for a great pair of clean comedians - that was 18 years ago! Now Joe thoroughly enjoys living his dream….getting paid to make people laugh!
Steve Marks is an award winning singer and musician. He's travelled over 20 countries and has performed for 2 United States Presidents. Steve was a finalist on "Star Search" hosted by Ed McMahon. Steve also is owner of Creative Productions Group, a video production company that specializes in Branding and Marketing services. Whenever Steve has any free time he is busy with his family, which consists of 7 children (one of which is Austin Marks) and his lovely wife Brenda. Steve is very active at his church, Living Hope Church in Saint Joseph Missouri, as a team leader and worship leader. Steve also was a Producer and Casting Director for the movie "Last Ounce of Courage", which will be released late 2009.
Austin Marks is a talented musician who has been traveling and performing with Brinnon and Marks since 2005. Onstage you can find him singing and playing guitar and piano. You may even catch a surprising impersonation every once in a while. Offstage Austin is working to make the show musically seamless. He works with his partners Joe and Steve to coordinate the show musically, re-write songs, and produce the finished product. His musicianship expands far beyond the Brinnon and Marks show, however. He is an experienced singer and songwriter and proves that with his band Eyelit where he writes and records all of his own songs. Austin is a young guy who is very lucky to do what he loves.