Cocoa Brown

If you’ve seen any of Progressive Insurance’s Name Your Price commercials, then you’ve seen comic Cocoa Brown. In the commercial, this vivacious comedian and actress plays the angered wife whose husband decides he wants to juggle chainsaws. Tyler Perry has even taken her on as a vital character in his TV shows and films. Brown’s no-holds-barred attitude has gotten her a Screen Actors Guild award nomination; she’s now in the process of writing a revealing autobiography and putting together her own one-woman show, The Confessions of a Suicidal Diva. She performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv and has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets start at $17. (Lisa Hammond)