Tommy Davidson is back in town.

The actor and comedian who was here last year for the Hollywood Comedy Jam at Hollywood Casino Toledo, returns to Funny Bone Comedy Club tonight for the first of six shows this weekend.

“Toledo’s always good,” Davidson said. It’s a down-to-earth crowd, and a diverse one, which he credits to the groundbreaking TV comedy sketch series, In Living Color, in which he starred with Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, and David Alan Grier, and the audiences it drew for several years.

“[Living Color] is the best thing that ever happened to me,” Davidson said. “Keenen Ivory Wayans brought me in. He came along and saw me and put me in a show that he had been working on [for a long time.] He chose me for that, and I’m very grateful.”

And, Davidson added, his material and unique comic sensibility also bring people in. He focuses on social comedy — sex, relationships, or whatever, he said, not current events. “I just have a way of doing it. I’ve been very lucky. I came up at a time when I watched a lot of great comics work, and I worked among them,” he said, including Jerry Seinfeld, Carrey, Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Judi Tenuta.

He’s been known for his impressions, usually President Obama in recent years. “[Impressions] are really hard to come by, so I’m glad he got two terms.”

In addition to his work in TV and stand-up comedy, Davidson has a film career. He has appeared in Booty Call with Foxx, Strictly Business with Halle Berry, and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls with Carrey, the 2011 documentary I Am Comic opposite Lewis Black, Tim Allen, and Kathy Griffin. In July, he will appear in the TV movie Sharknado 4, playing tech billionaire and playboy Aston Reynolds.

He said he enjoys doing stand-up because of the freedom “nobody tells me what to do, absolutely not what to do.” He loves TV because of its speed and the collaboration. And he loves film “because of the art of it, and because of the final product, the final product is just a work of art.”

Davidson has taken his comedy act to American troops overseas for several years, most recently in Afghanistan. He has been there three years out of the last four, he says.

Now he’s putting his well-honed fashion sense to work with Tongue Tied, a line of men’s ties, pocket squares, and flower lapels.

“I’ve been interested in fashion ever since I got in the business, but I’ve never been in GQ once, not even ONCE,” he said with a laugh. “So it was time to bring GQ to me instead of me trying to go to GQ.”

Davidson says he was funny even as a kid. “I’ve always been the funniest thing around.”

Tommy Davidson appears at Funny Bone Comedy Club, 6140 Levis Commons Blvd., at 7:30 p.m. today, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday, 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday, and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets, $20, from 419-931-3474 or funnybonecentral.com/​venues/​toledo.

Perrysburg ‘Fish’

The Perrysburg Musical Theatre Company will present Big Fish, a musical that began life as a 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and then a 2003 film by Tim Burton. The show came to Broadway in 2003, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by John August, who wrote the movie’s screenplay.

The story centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who has a loving wife, Sandra, a young son named Will, and a talent for telling fanciful stories. His job often keeps Edward away from home, but when he does return he captivates Will with the wonderful tall tales he tells. But eventually Will grows up and apart from his father, coming to believe that his dad never told him the truth about anything, only tall tales. Will doesn’t know his dad. Will the son come to understand the reason for his dad’s stories?

The cast includes D. Ward Ensign as Edward; Elizabeth Cottle as his wife, Sandra; Garrett Leininger as Will; Esther Swan as Will’s wife, Josephine, and Isaac Bermudez, 9, as young Will. The artistic team includes: Nicole Spadfore, C. Jordan Benavente, D. Ward Ensign, and Julie Bermudez.

Ensign says he was drawn to Big Fish because he loves both the music and the storyline, and its beautiful relationship between father and son.

Cottle said she decided to audition for Big Fish because she saw the movie and fell in love with the storyline and its complex relationships, and saw the show at the Croswell Opera House last summer and admired its music.

Big Fish will be presented at 7 p.m. today, Friday, and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday at Perrysburg High School, 13385 Roachton Rd. Tickets are $15 on day of show, $13 online at perrysburgmusicaltheatre.org.

Contact Sue Brickey at: sbrickey@theblade.com.

First Published June 23, 2016, 4:00 a.m.