I'm A Professional

Damon Sumner treats adulthood like an uneasy performance where everyone involved is pretending to know what they are doing. The running premise is that grown adults and small children operate on virtually the same social code, except toddlers are honest about throwing a fit when dinner plans fall through.

Recorded at The Limelight Theater in Atlanta, the set marks Sumner’s debut full-length special for Comedy Dynamics, directed by Jeremy Essig. A longtime fixture in Atlanta stand-up with a background working as a classroom educator, Sumner builds the hour around domestic fatigue: raising three kids, the logistical friction of making couple friends, and bad outdoor decisions on hiking trails.

He never pushes the material past where it wants to go, relying on a calm, conversational cadence instead of theatrical panic.