Book Morgan Jay for colleges, corporate events, comedy clubs, festivals & private events. Contact Degy Entertainment for booking info.
Morgan Jay is a comedian who sings, and the songs are the joke. His act lives where stand-up meets R&B and soul, with bossa nova phrasing slipping in under the punchlines, and it has scaled to rooms that comedy rarely fills: AO Arena, Circus Krone, Jahrhunderthalle. The recorded version of that act arrived on 2020's I Hope My Ex Doesn't See This, a title that tells you exactly what the material is built from, and he caught the live one in front of an audience on Live at the Village in 2023.
He came to it by way of New Jersey. A first-generation American of Brazilian and Italian heritage, Jay studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and started working in New York City, which is where the sung comedy and the melodic instincts got their hours in. It is not hard to hear the Brazilian half of that inheritance whenever the bossa nova turns up.
There is no band behind him. Morgan Jay Venticinque works solo, carrying the timing and the melody himself, which is what lets the set move from a comedy club stage to an arena stage without changing shape. That flexibility makes him a strong fit for college calendars, corporate programs, comedy club and festival dates, and private engagements where a room wants to laugh and hear a song at the same time.
