San Diego's African-American community embraced Gary Owen, and he went on to win the "Funniest Black Comedian in San Diego" contest. That led to his first big gig at Los Angeles' Comedy Store. Then in July of '97 he auditioned for BET's "Comic View." Two appearances on the multi - cultural comedy showcase won him his own one-hour "Grandstand" show. At the end of the season he was selected from the year's 4 "Grandstanders" to be last year's host. Owen was excited because he'd always been a huge "Comic View" fan.

He has numerous appearances on Comedy Central, as well as hosting MUN2's hit comedy show "Loco Comedy Jam". Not one to sit and wait for things to happen, Gary recently released his first comedy CD " Live from Tampa" and his first comedy DVD "Breakin Out The Park".