{"id":10035018,"date":"2023-06-05T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10035018"},"modified":"2023-06-09T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:05:56","slug":"the-city-of-boston-proclaimed-sam-jay-day-this-past-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2023\/06\/05\/the-city-of-boston-proclaimed-sam-jay-day-this-past-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Boston declares &#8216;Sam Jay Day&#8217; for Dorchester native and comic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samjaycomic?s=21&amp;t=jM-Oz4uBE9vOnQKzLIAq1Q\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Jay<\/a><\/strong> even hit the Wilbur stage this past weekend, there was a reason to celebrate as one does when making their headlining debut at their friendly neighborhood historic venue. By the end of the night, however, after she delivered her critically-acclaimed comedy beatdown to the local faithful, there was a whole new reason to pop some bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a proclamation handed down by Mayor Michelle Wu following Jay&#8217;s very first headlining set at The Wilbur on Saturday night (June 3), it is now official that June 3, 2023 will go down in history as &#8220;Sam Jay Day&#8221; in the city of Boston. While the lone video of the acknowledgment doesn\u2019t have any words from the Dorchester native, it\u2019s not a stretch to say that her grind and creative output over the past few years can surely speak for itself. In addition to releasing a widely-regarded Netflix special, <em>3 in the Morning <\/em>in 2020, Jay has also been nominated for a handful of awards for her writing work on the <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>staff, as well her hosting gig on HBO\u2019s <em>Pause with Sam Jay<\/em> and her co-starring role on Peacock\u2019s <em>Bust Down<\/em> in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most recently, she can be seen opposite Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy in the hit Netflix film <em>You People.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last night <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorWu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayorWu<\/a> made sure that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamJayComic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SamJayComic<\/a> got her flowers!! The show was hilarious, and this was the perfect ending. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UCSgdpLc9B\">pic.twitter.com\/UCSgdpLc9B<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lex (@clumsyjeweler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clumsyjeweler\/status\/1665354474758496257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Sam Jay even hit the Wilbur stage this past weekend, there was a reason to celebrate as one does when making their headlining debut at their friendly neighborhood historic venue. By the end of the night, however, after she delivered her critically-acclaimed comedy beatdown to the local faithful, there was a whole new reason to pop some bottles. With a proclamation handed down by Mayor Michelle Wu following Jay&#8217;s very first headlining set at The Wilbur on Saturday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4120,"featured_media":10032494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19450],"tags":[6910,5683,32767,25949,32868,3115],"class_list":["post-10035018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","tag-city-of-boston","tag-dorchester","tag-mayor-michelle-wu","tag-sam-jay","tag-sam-jay-day","tag-the-wilbur"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City of Boston declares &#039;Sam Jay Day&#039; 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