Like My Coffee

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“Like My Coffee” is an improvised game show where the host and creator, J.D. Lowe, invites nine improvisers and comedians to come on stage three at a time and come up with raunchy, absurd, or just plain silly one liner jokes. You’ll hear jokes along the lines of “I like my lovers like I like my coffee: strong, sweet, and I leave them on the countertop at Starbucks.” J.D. listens to the audience’s response and awards points using his homemade scoreboard system, and whoever gets the most points at the end of each round moves on to the final round for one more run of jokes. Whoever wins the final round gets bragging rights, as well as a pound of coffee beans from the show’s sponsor, Allied Coffee.

The first season of Like My Coffee ran for nine months, between May 10th 2024 and January 17th 2025, and featured seventy six different improvisers and stand up comedians, both locally and from outside of the Columbus area.

Despite the ribald nature of the show, this show strives to be as welcoming and supportive as possible, by requiring players to agree to a code of ethics, as well as puts the highest focus on promoting the players over everything else. By empowering the players to prioritize feeling safe and having fun, the audience is able to relax and support the players, even if they tell a groan-worthy joke or two.

When Like My Coffee began, there was demand to bring back players because they had so much fun doing this, so Like My Coffee: Refilled was born! A spin off show designed to give past players another chance at victory and gives the audience another chance to love what humor they bring.

Like My Coffee: To Go

The original Like My Coffee was originally planned to highlight the local comedy scene of Columbus Ohio (with special guests intermittently), but we've realized there may be demand for this to go on the road. So we've designed a version that can be showcased at any theater! Like My Coffee: To Go lets us bring a structure that will let your local talent shine in a way not many others do, and we'd love to bring it to your theater.

Like My Coffee: Cream of the Crop

If Like My Coffee helps us find the best of the raunchy comedians in central Ohio, Like My Coffee: Cream of the Crop helps us find the best of the best. All nine of the past Like My Coffee winners of the season will be asked to perform one more time head to head, with some new challenges and rewards thrown in.

The winner of Season One's Like My Coffee: Cream of the Crop was Melissa Anne-Marie Curley.