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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mike Epps will speak with Indy youth about gun violence during prosecutor's roundtable
Actor and comedian Mike Epps and Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears are partnering to speak to youth about gun violence. The prosecutor's office and Epps are hosting a "youth-centered roundtable discussion on the causes and consequences of youth gun violence," a news release about the May 13 event stated. High school students from Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), Warren Central High School and a local charter school will attend. The conversation will be turned into a podcast episode to "highlight the voices of young people — voices too often missing from conversations about violence prevention and public safety." The event aims to give voice to the city's youngest victims of gun violence and provide them an avenue to help shape solutions, the prosecutor's office said. Indianapolis crime: Teen's 'Talking Guns Project' takes honest look at youth gun violence Mike Epps is an Indiana native who has created an HGTV show alongside his TV-producer wife, Kyra Epps, centered around rehabbing houses on the Indianapolis comedian's childhood block. 'Indianapolis is home for me and there's nothing in the world like it. That's why I'm buying back my block,' Epps says in a promotional video ahead of the show's launch in 2023. He's also run into some gun trouble of his own while returning home. In March 2023, while in town to kick off a comedy tour, Epps was found with a firearm in his bag during a security checkpoint at Indianapolis International Airport. Epps said he carried the gun for protection. 'I literally forgot that I had a pistol in my bag,' he said in an Instagram post. He apologized for the incident and no charges were filed. 'World is crazy ... Stay strapped': Mike Epps responds to gun seizure at Indy airport This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Mike Epps will speak with Indy youth about gun violence
Indianapolis Star
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
Mike Epps will speak with Indy youth about gun violence during prosecutor's roundtable
Actor and comedian Mike Epps and Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears are partnering to speak to youth about gun violence. The prosecutor's office and Epps are hosting a "youth-centered roundtable discussion on the causes and consequences of youth gun violence," a news release about the May 13 event stated. High school students from Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), Warren Central High School and a local charter school will attend. The conversation will be turned into a podcast episode to "highlight the voices of young people — voices too often missing from conversations about violence prevention and public safety." The event aims to give voice to the city's youngest victims of gun violence and provide them an avenue to help shape solutions, the prosecutor's office said. Indianapolis crime: Teen's 'Talking Guns Project' takes honest look at youth gun violence Mike Epps is an Indiana native who has created an HGTV show alongside his TV-producer wife, Kyra Epps, centered around rehabbing houses on the Indianapolis comedian's childhood block. 'Indianapolis is home for me and there's nothing in the world like it. That's why I'm buying back my block,' Epps says in a promotional video ahead of the show's launch in 2023. He's also run into some gun trouble of his own while returning home. In March 2023, while in town to kick off a comedy tour, Epps was found with a firearm in his bag during a security checkpoint at Indianapolis International Airport. Epps said he carried the gun for protection. 'I literally forgot that I had a pistol in my bag,' he said in an Instagram post. He apologized for the incident and no charges were filed.
Axios
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Mike Epps passes baton to new-era comics in star-studded comedy tour
Comedy icon Mike Epps is embracing the social media generation by way of the "We Them Ones" stand-up tour, which will wrap its second year later this month. The big picture: Studies show that consumers prefer watching short and long form videos on their smartphone for entertainment over traditional forms of media. Instagram and TikTok have accelerated the careers of funny content creators like Druski, Sabrina Brier, Matt Rife, B. Simone and Desi Banks. What they're saying:"In this business, there's not a lot of OG comedians that's very accepting of our journey and how we've gotten into some of these rooms and positions," comic Dyon Brooks (aka Mojo Brookzz) tells Axios. "Mike understands that this is the new wave and comedy has evolved." State of play: Brooks, an internet sensation from Chicago, and other talent on the tour who create viral comedy skits like Kountry Wayne and Haha Davis have leveraged social media to grow a fanbase. There are also household names on the marquee like Epps, Karlous Miller, Lil Duval, Corey Holcomb and Tony Roberts. "You got so many different comics coming from different eras. The range of things that we talk about go from here to there. It's a comedy show where you're going to find the flavor that you like," Brooks said. Here are the remaining dates, cities and venues: May 10: Tampa — Amalie Arena May 11: Orlando — Addition Financial Arena May 17: Atlanta — State Farm Arena May 23: Las Vegas — Dolby Live
