Credit: Katue Kearney

Credit: Katue Kearney

We’re not used to taking Matt Fernandez seriously. The longtime Tampa comedian is one of the best the Bay area has ever produced (he’s opened for Dave Chapelle and had his jokes featured on national TV), but now he’s taking a big leap and filming his own one-night stand-up special, which mean that the jokes he’ll deliver may be the funniest he’s ever told. 



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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...