How Kountry Wayne’s Faith and Family Fuel His Comedy

Published: May 11, 2026

By Shawn Smith

From skits about $1,400 prom send offs or students unable to finish schoolwork due to “asymptomatic depression,” comedian and content creator Kountry Wayne’s 10 kids and “five and half” baby mamas provide plenty inspiration.

“I don’t write material. It’d be right there. I just have to figure out a way to structure it. If I see it, hey, I’m talking about it,” Wayne told Fox News.

Wayne, born DeWayne Jamarr Colley, is also known for his clean comedy, though he says that when it comes to family-related material, it is “raw.”

“I’m trying to bring back just comedy, man. Just making people laugh, not trying to be controversial,” Wayne said. “The gut laughter, people escaping from their bills and their heartaches and pains.”

The Georgia native switched to clean comedy thanks to his first manager, who told him to “clean it up,” and his grandmother.

“I was like, ‘Okay, let me try it out,’ because, you know, my grandmother was watching, so that’s the only reason I switched it up for real, just for the people,” he revealed on the “Rickey Smiley Show.”

While there is some of his past comedy he wouldn’t do again, he takes it as a learning experience.

“You see yourself growing, and be like, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t even make that joke.’ That was crazy, because you won’t be thinking, you don’t care about people’s feelings or nothing. You just say stuff. But hey man, past is the past,” he said.

His faith is also an important part of his life. It came at a point when he was selling drugs as he saw his father do, but he knew he wanted to get out.

“The reason why I picked up the Bible because I was at a peak in that town. Had a good bit of money, had the girls, I had the cars, and I was like, I’m up, but I’m up in the wrong way,” Wayne recalled. “And I remember my niece had a Bible up there on the TV stand, and something told me, ‘Just go get that word.’ And I did because everybody talked about the Bible, but they never told me how to read it.”

Wayne started to read the Bible from the beginning where he felt the presence of God.

“But that word, when I picked that word about really, was you could feel God. It was like every move was a move,” he said. “Yeah, I was trying to get out the whole time, like that was my goal, though, my true intentions.”

Another driving force in his life is his children, and he is an active part of their lives and are close to each other.

“Fatherhood changed me from the day I had my first child,” said Wayne. “I didn’t play with no opportunity.”

Faith and family certainly are the driving forces in Wayne’s comedy.

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