aboutspence

 

comedian.

Spencer Humm has been performing professionally for 25 years. His comedy appearances have included television, film, animation, comedy clubs and theatres. He has performed  more than 3000 live comedy shows in sixteen countries. In 2005, he won the DC Comedy Festival with the DC Unscripted Players. Hs’s managed and performed with the intrepid team of comedy professionals known as “Operation Swashbuckle, a Comic Expeditionary Force” on six U.S.O. tours, far down range to forward operating bases deep in Afghanistan and Iraq. Spencer’s comedy has been described as “at once indulgently intellectual and delightfully juvenile.” He revels in the deeply absurd and random with brief  stops in the philosophic. Spence has been called “a thinking man’s Einstein”, and “a worldwide global comedian for the planetary comedy world of Earth.” He is more man than Emilia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt combined. Oprah was named after him.

 

action hero.

Spencer has made a living with a sword in his hand for more than twenty five years. He is a fight choreographer and a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and the creator of Action Hero Boot Camp, a four day personal breakthrough adventure. Spencer recently worked on a current Marvel production, doubling Iron Man and Thor as member of the choreogrphy development team. As one third of the comedy sword fighting duo, Hack and Slash, he has performed over 6,000 live swordfights at festivals and theatres worldwide. Spencer is an expert with the bullwhip and is a lifelong martial artist, having studied close combat with Special Ops unit instructors internationally. He is a compaetitver boxer, training out of a UFC Gym. He has taught stage combat at universities and professional training programs all over North America. An adrenaline junkie, Spencer has appeared as a skydiver, in an energy drink commercial and on short action features. As a founding member of the International Order of the Sword and Pen, he was recognized in 2011 by the international stunt and fight choregrapher’s community with the “Patrick Crean Award” for a spirit of contribution and gentlemanly accord.

executive coach.

Spencer Humm is a corporate speaker and presentation coach and, for 20 years, he has assisted teams from companies such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, IBM, Raytheon, SAIC and Xerox in presenting winning competitive bids for over 100 government and commercial contracts through effective oral presentations, and powerful conversations. His teams have won over $16B with his coaching. Spencer has coached CEO’s, astronauts, humanitarians, educators, nuclear scientists, amusement park ride system designers and aerospace engineers on programs including satellites, combat systems, USAID to Africa, laptops for students, flight simulators and the space suit that will go to Mars. He is the top orals coach for Shipley Associates, the leading provider of business development and proposal consulting. Spencer established OralsCoaching.com to use his combined background in best practices for competitive procurements, a degree in dramatic arts and doctoral studies in behavioral and cognitive psychology to promote better access to outstanding information resources for competitive oral presentations. [LinkedIn]

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

-Gustave Flaubert


Love like you don't the need money, dance like you've never been hurt, and watch like no one's working.

~spence.

Where are all my peeps who like sentences to end in prepositions at? Peace out.

~spence.

How? The hardest way possible, in the shortest time frame feasible, with the minimum resources available in the most efficient method knowable, with the maximum style allowable and the largest return achievable.


When? As soon as possible when I find the time.


Why? Because it's free, it doesn't kill brain cells and it feels like I'm falling in love... every time.

~spence.

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world."

~Ludwig Wittgenstein


If you cannot yet use the right words or consciously constructed mental images to describe, in exquisite detail, the boundless possibilities of your life, you are not fully ready to experience the ability to create them. Express in your words the qualities that feed creative power and the most unexpected and uncommon things will happen commonly in your everyday life.

~spence.

Spencer Humm’s Comedy Appearances:


Comedy Clubs

  1. •The Improv, Hollywood and Tampa

  2. • Magooby’s Joke House, Baltimore

  3. • Sidesplitters, Tampa, Florida

  4. • The Fun Factory, Alexandria, Virginia

  5. • The Comedy Spot, Ballston, Virginia

  6. • The Funny Farm, Atlanta,Georgia

  7. • The Laughing Skull Lounge, Atlanta Georgia

  8. • Club 54, Toronto

  9. • The Comedy Alley, Richmond, Virginia

  10. • Austin Coffee and Film, Orlando, Florida

  11. • Bonkerz Comedy Club, Orlando, Florida

  12. • Comedy Sportz, Raleigh, North Carolina

  13. • Comedy Sportz, Kansas City

  14. • Snappers Comedy Club, Palm Harbor, Florida

  15. • Sleuths, Orlando, Florida


Festivals

  1. • DC Comedy Festival - **Winner, Best Improv Show 2005**

  2. • Miami Improv Festival

  3. • ComedySportz National Tournament

  4. • Maryland Renaissance Festival

  5. • Georgia Renaissance Festival


Tours

  1. • Six USO tours, entertaining troops in fifteen countries,

  including Iraq and Afghanistan

  1. • Honors and Awards from NATO, The Pentagon and Armed Forces Entertainment

  2. • The Comedy Project “We Can Make You Laugh” College Comedy Tour

  3. • “Almost Homeless Comedy Tour”


Television

  1. • Breakfast Television, Citytv

  2. • Deco Drive, Miami, Fox Television

  3. • Dozens of Local News appearances on NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox

  4. • Barry Croaker’s “Croaked” TV series, in development at WestWind Pictures


Radio

  1. • Westwood One’s “The Jim Bohannon Show”

  2. • NPR’s “Fresh Air”

  3. • CBC Radio

  4. • WNOE, New Orleans

  5. • 102 Zoo, Cleveland, Ohio

  6. • 98 Rock, Baltimore

  7. • WYPR, Maryland Public Radio


Theaters

  1. • The Bellagio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

  2. • The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, DC

  3. • The Folger Shakespearean Library, DC

  4. • The Shakespeare Theatre, DC

  5. • The Source Theatre, DC

  6. • The Washington Shakespeare Company, DC

  7. • Carter Baron Amphitheater, DC

  8. • Hamilton Place, Ontario

  9. • The Tivoli Theatre, Ontario

  10. • Oakville Center for the Performing Arts, Ontario

  11. • The Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, Alberta

  12. • The Chesapeake Center for the Performing Arts, Baltimore

  13. • The St. Louis Repertory Theater

  14. • The Palladium, St. Petersburg, Florida

  15. • The Centrum Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio


Spencer Humm is a classically trained actor

with a degree in Theater Performance

and holds candidacy in the Actor’s Equity Association.

spencestudio spenceaudience

Corporate Coaching and Speaking      www.OralsCoaching.com

Facebook                                             Spencer Humm

Twitter                                                  twitter.com/SpencerHumm

Instagram                                             @SpencerHumm

YouTube                                              www.youtube.com/spencerhumm

Internet Movie Database                     imdb.com

Philosophy and Spiritual Thoughts      spencespirit blog

Hack and Slash Shakespeare Co.       www.HackandSlash.com

Action Hero Boot Camp                       www.ActionHeroBootCamp.com

wherespence

I saw a 70 y/o man wearing a hat that said, "Who needs Viagra?" I thought it made him look spry. It would make me look like a dealer.

~spence.

helpful human.

Spencer has produced, directed and headlined in charity shows which benefitted Make-a-Wish, Habitat for Humanity, Johns Hopkins Childrens’ Center and funded fifteen global clean water projects. His events have generated over ten tons of food and clothing donations from the thousands of generous patrons who attended. In 2010, Spencer was honored by the International Hypnosis Federation as “Humanitarian of the Year”.


His brainchild, “The Hack and Slash Miracle Machine” has encouraged comedy fans to create dozens of community projects of their own.


He continues his yearly charity work through “The Baltimore Christmas Special” a holiday comedy event that provides food, clean water, clothing and shelter.