2024
PERFORMERS
2024 PERFORMERS SHOWCASE SCHEDULE
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Ahmed Al-kadri is a Yemeni-American comedian based in LA. He was previously working as an Accountant but his immigrant parents are forcing him to be a comedian. Most of his material is mined from his upbringing, relatable situations, and just some goofy fun. He has performed in numerous improv, sketch, and stand up comedy shows. With his improv troupe Sunglow, headlined Dallas Comedy House and traveled across the country performing in various comedy festivals before moving to Los Angeles in 2018. You may recognize him on Fox's Love Connection or “Liam” from the series “David Diamondhands” releasing this year.
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The “bad boy of homeschooling”, Jeremy Alder’s smartly stupid, sweetly dry comedy about his weird childhood and young fatherhood has made him a favorite at clubs and festivals across the country. Jeremy has worked with several national touring acts, including Demitri Martin, Russell Howard, Tom Papa, Aparna Nancherla, Nicole Byer, and Chad Daniels. He has been a featured performer at numerous comedy festivals, including Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Big Sky Comedy Festival (“Best of Fest”), Asheville Comedy Festival, and Cleveland Comedy Festival (“Best of Fest”). His Dry Bar Comedy special, “Purity Pants”, is available on YouTube now.
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Alia Atkins is a stand up comedian and writer born and raised in LA. She's performed all over town at The Comedy Store, The Hollywood Improv, The Elysian, church birthday parties, etc. She's a showrunner assistant at NBC Universal and prior to that she served as a political staffer for the Los Angeles Mayor's Office. She won the Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Award last summer for a two-woman show she co-wrote and co-starred in about two interns stuck in the capitol building on Jan 6th. She's also always on antibiotics.
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Remember that goth girl in high school who always sat silently in the back corner of homeroom and no one could really figure out what her deal was? Well, she does stand-up now. A black sheep with a silver tongue, Ainsley Bailey’s enigmatic brand of comedy is timidly deadpan with a heavy dose of childlike whimsy. In a style that is both earnest and experimental, Ainsley strives to alchemize her musings & maladies (both physical and mental) into comedy that gives voice to those who were once too scared to speak.
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April Boddie is a rising star in the comedy world. She has written for BuzzFeed, iHeart Radio, HuffPost and opened for Mike Epps. The Georgia girl who resides in New York City was even featured in a 2022 Super Bowl commercial. When she’s not on stage or being flaky vegan, you can catch her podcast “Copay With April Body.”
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Becky Braunstein grew up on a mountain in Alaska, moved to America when she got diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and almost lost her voice forever, but she didn’t lose it and now she won’t shut up. A uniquely enthusiastic actor & comedian, Becky can be seen on Shrill (Hulu), Chad (TBS) & has a special on Unprotected Sets (MGM+). She wrote & directed the music video for ‘Hey New Zealand’ by The Exbats and co-wrote a pilot ‘Cancer Culture’ about her cancer experience, which is in the top 7% on Coverfly and was named a winner at the Yes And Laughter Lab.
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Sydney Breedlove is a Chicago-based but Florida-born comedian, and oh boy does it show. When she’s not performing around Chicago, she’s saving the day as an RA at DePaul University.
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Amy Bugg is a Toronto-based stand-up comic and writer with a diet like a toddler. Her deadpan delivery has been featured on CBC’s Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs Toronto, San Francisco Sketchfest and Sirius XM radio. In 2020, she was named one of Reader’s Digest’s comedians to watch out for.
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Kristin Chirico is an Indigenous (Cayuga, Seneca) comedian, writer, and YouTuber. Kristin spent nearly 7 years as a writer and content creator for BuzzFeed, during which she starred in BuzzFeed's Ladylike, as well as The Empty Suitcase Show for Facebook Watch. Afterwards, Kristin started her own YouTube channel (The Kitchen & Jorn Show) with fellow BuzzFeed alum Jen Ruggirello. Over the course of Kristin's career, her YouTube videos about food, fashion, and have earned over 2 billion views and counting. She lives in Los Angeles with her trans wife and her cis dog.
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Matt Duckett is a comedian and writer who uses his biracial background to fuel his humor and perspective on the world. His stand up covers everything from his upbringing in a "post-racial" society to an ill-advised law school stint, for which he is still in debt. Matt performs at prestigious clubs such as the Hollywood Improv, and has opened for the likes of Todd Glass, Jamie Wolf, and Morgan Jay. His sketch team, Party Line, can be seen every fourth Wednesday at the Pack Theater. Matt can also be seen at festivals across the country, most notably Big Pine.
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Thomas Endashaw is a young stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer based out of Los Angeles, CA. He is a door guy at The World Famous Comedy Store. He is currently a junior at the University of Southern California studying the Business of Cinematic Arts. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington to Ethiopian parents, Thomas’ work playfully addresses the juxtaposition of the different worlds he inhabits. Audiences enjoy his clean material and charismatic stage presence. Thomas is president of USComedians, where he produces and hosts a monthly show called "USC Comedy Nights” as well as weekly open mics.
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Andy Erikson is a professional standup comedian, writer, actress and unicorn nerd from Ham Lake, Minnesota. In 2015 Andy placed third on NBC’s Last Comic standing and in 2016 she was a recurring guest star on Ryan Murphy’s television series Scream Queens on Fox. She got her start at Acme comedy club in Minneapolis and now tours the country and cohosts the Get Real Podcast. Yes, Andy wants to be your friend.
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Julian Fernandez is a non-binary, Latino comedian and impressionist from Los Angeles. They started doing stand-up at seventeen, mixing celebrity impression and voices with observations and stories from their life. Julian's comedy has been featured on shows like: First Impressions with Dana Carvey, Laughs on FOX, and ESPN Sports Center. In 2022, Julian produced and released their first comedy special, "Thirty." They've traveled ll around the country performing at clubs, festivals, apartments and other events like Kevin & Bean's April Foolishness in 2017. With their chill and charming personality, audiences can feel comfortable knowing they're in for a great time.
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Olivia Flood-Wylie is a Los Angeles-born comedian who moved to Amsterdam to achieve her lifelong dream of not being in America anymore. Now back in Los Angeles, she is trying her best to remain positive about traffic. She recently opened for Maria Bamford at SF Sketchfest, and will be performing at Moontower Festival. She debuted her first hour-long comedy special “Slowpoke” at the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in 2021, and her second hour special “Half and Half” in 2023. She taught improv for Boom Chicago, and is currently an actor and writer with the sketch group That's Hollywood, Baby.
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He is Colombian, was raised in Puerto Rico and Illinois, and lives in LA. He is co-host of Identity at Play, a Spotify Original podcast, and host of “Comedians Conquering Climate Change” a podcast that was called “irreverent but aspirational” by Variety. He was the star of Jungletown, a tv show airing on VICELAND. He won the Rise Comedy Festival in Denver, won "Judges Choice" at the Uncle Clyde Contest, and was "Best of the Fest" for the Burbank Comedy Festival. He has been featured on NPR’s Science Friday, ABC Nightline, and elsewhere.
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Bee Gutierrez is a force to be reckoned with in the Comedy world. Originally from SLC Utah her surprisingly silly, raunchy and aggressive humor and strong crowdwork make her strong favorite of many. She is the producer and founder of the Brunch Bunch monthly event for women in comedy, the Best Buds Comedy Showcase, Host of Plan B mic, producer of The Hive Comedy show and cohost of Stoner Origin Stories podcast. She has no plans of slowing.
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Unlike most comedians, Karen's name is on the wall outside The Comedy Store. She was a favorite of Mitzi Shore and appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show and The Late Show with Joan Rivers. She worked the big showrooms in Las Vegas, did the Just For Laughs Festival, and comedy specials for HBO. Karen made her return to comedy in the summer of 2022, picking up where she left off before "taking a break" to raise two daughters. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, and works out new material with several neighborhood squirrels that she also feeds.
She made her return in the fall of 2022 and did over 200 open mics to work on her craft. She is deliriously happy to be performing in the Bergamot Comedy Festival.
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Diana Hong is a Korean-American stand-up comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. Her comedy has been featured at Limestone Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, on Fuse TV, and has won a Best of Fest at the 2022 Big Pine Comedy Festival. She shares personal anecdotes of navigating identity and life, digging into serious topics in a way that will make you laugh, relate, and want to give her a hug. Her humor is like the ocean: deep, dark, and salty.
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In 2022, she was named one of the Top 35 Comics to Break Out by Interrobang. In 2023, she was a finalist in KTLA's Summer of Funny. Macey also runs a monthly stand-up show in Santa Monica at The Crow called "The Picture Day Show
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Kazu Kusano is a comedian and actress. With her Japanese accent, she brings a dark sense of humor, crazy physicality, and hot flashes. She immigrated to America alone in her 30s to do comedy. Kazu is a Japanese correspondent on Comedy Central’s Channel Hopping, and the undefeated champion of Joke-E-Oke, where Robin Williams declared her, “Hilarious!” She performed stand-up in clubs, colleges and festivals such as San Francisco International Comedy Competition, SF Sketchfest, and Camp EDC Las Vegas. Her autobiographical show, PRETTY BEAST, won Best of San Francisco Fringe, Hottest Selling Show of Vancouver Fringe, and more.
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Ray Lau is a Chinese American standup comedian based in Los Angeles, CA. Growing up with immigrant parents he was taught to not burden others with your problems. Now at 26, Ray learned that actually it’s ok to burden others as long as you’re funny. You can find him on Instagram @rayjlau and performing across LA.
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John Liu is a first generation Asian American (Filipino-Chinese) Comedian based in Southern California. With his sharp wit and unique perspective, John's comedy centers around growing up with a multicultural background, being a first-generation immigrant, current events, and dealing with the ever-changing American zeitgeist. An experienced host and feature comic, John performs all over Southern California and beyond, having performed with Rex Navarrete, Joe Wong, and Edwin San Juan. He also performed Comedy in Washington DC, Arizona, and Nevada.
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Jorge Lopez is an LA comedian originally from the Bay Area (East Palo Alto). He started writing and performing while working at the soon to be world famous Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica in 2021. He loves to joke about being Latino, having a girlfriend, and other silly little things. 2023 was a huge year for him as he started opening and featuring for other comics all around the important parts of California, submitted his first writing packet, debuted at the Comedy Store and Hollywood Improv, and started training for his first marathon ever, which he ran last month.
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Kristen is a Los Angeles based comedian, writer, actor and violinist from Dayton, Ohio. She was Best Of Fest in the musical comedy category at the Laugh After Dark Comedy Festival. She’s featured for Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofalo, and many others. She completed both the Second City writing and conservatory programs in Chicago and was named a “Comedian You Should Know,” which features shows in Chicago, LA, and NY. Kristen brought home an Orchid Award for best comedic actress in the production of “The Curious Savage.” Today she continues to do stand up and act in commercials and films.
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Willie Macc, a standout from BET's "College Hill: Virgin Island," is a versatile Hollywood actor and comedian. With over 100 million views on social media, his humor shines in national commercials for brands like Kia, Verizon, and more. Featured in Deadline for his work in the Black Boy Writes Program, and performs stand-up internationally, including for the US Military. Willie Macc has also been seen on Snowfall on FX and recently finished filming for National Lampoon TV. Willie Macc can also be seen at the Comedy Store and Laugh Factory in Hollywood.
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Eric McDowell is a comedian, writer, and director based out of Los Angeles. He is set to graduate from USC’s film production program, and can be seen performing at clubs such as the Comedy Store and the Improv. Raised in Toronto, Eric’s humor often addresses the cultural differences between Canada and America, as well as the theme of growing up on the internet and the depravity that comes with it. Eric has served as president of the USComedians club and runs a Youtube page where he regularly posts documentaries, commentaries, and sketches.
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This Queens native regularly performs all around New York City, the country, and internationally. In 2023, she won the Jersey City Comedy Festival's Sandy Gunar Award. In 2022, she was selected as a Comic to Watch for the New York Comedy Festival and she won Best of Fest at the Black Women in Comedy Laugh Fest. She won the 2021 U.S. Comedy Contest and was a Finalist for Ladies of Laughter 2021. When she's not performing, you can catch her hosting We're Done Here, an emotional wellness comedy podcast, and in season two of HBO’s Game Theory with Bomani Jones.
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Maddi Moran is a comedian, actor, and writer in her final semester at the University of Southern California. She can be seen doing stand up at college open mics, performing with The Suspenders Sketch Comedy troupe, or pacing fervently in her bedroom, recording ideas in voice memos. Maddi’s comedy is a stream-of-consciousness rant about her lackluster love life and over-enthusiasm for new experiences. She’s an energizer bunny with a broken heart, relating stories with every ounce of her being. Maddi would like to thank all of the men in her life for keeping her in the friend zone.
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Drew Morgan is a comedian, writer and actor from hills that put the East in Tennessee. He tours internationally as a member of the wellRED comedy tour. Drew has been featured on Comedy Central, MTV, ABC’s The View, and is co-author of the best selling political comedy book The Liberal Redneck Manifesto.
His award winning podcasts wellRED and Into the Abiscuit have been streamed over a million times. He is a good dancer.
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Caroline Murphy is an up-and-coming comedian and the "New Faces" winner of the 2021 Bay Area Comedy Competition. She has performed all over California in shows like "Best of SF" and "Don't Tell Comedy," and is a producer in Santa Barbara as President of UCSB's standup comedy club Laughology.
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Nina Nguyen’s comedy is vulnerable and sincere but will quickly detour into playful foolishness. She’s a bisexual Vietnamese trans comic from Houston TX pouring her heart out on stage, punctuating sentiment with something silly. Nina was a finalist on StandupNBC, toured colleges through NACA and a writer for CBS Diversity Showcase. She recently performed at SFSketchfest and Limestone Comedy Festival and can be seen at clubs and festivals all over - but mostly in Los Angeles where she lives with her wife and cat.
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Milan Patel is an LA-based comedian from the Pacific Northwest. He's been featured on Bumbershoot, The Bridgetown Comedy Festival and produces a bunch of great stand up showcases in LA including Dead Serious (@deadseriouscomedyshow). He also produces an amazing monthly show at Alamo Drafthouse called Dishoom Comedy (@dishoomcomedy) where comedians roast scenes from their favorite Indian Action movies in front of a live audience - think Mystery Science Theater, but with a Bollywood vibe!
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A Los Angeles comic who navigates the physical and philosophical inaccessibilities of the world. Armed with nothing but his wheelchair and his self-deprecation Greg Roque challenges the conventions of contemporary society through his unique deconstructions of pop culture, politics, sex, and disability. He’s been featured on Comedy Central, Amazon Prime, and The LA Times.
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Kate Saltel is a filmmaker and comedian from Austin, Texas. She has directed films which have screened at SXSW, NFFTY, and the BFI Future Film Festival.
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Jessica is an LA based actress, comedian, and content creator hailing from the mediocre cultural landscape of South Florida. Her unhinged internet videos have garnered millions of views on Tik Tok on Instagram as well as caused concern for her mental health. Her comedy short film, Clementine which she wrote and starred in, showcased at 12 film festivals across the country, taking home the title of "Best Short" at the Laugh After Dark Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. Jessica can be seen performing standup and sketch with the LA based group “This or That” all around Los Angeles.
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Melissa Shoshahi is an Iranian American award winning stand-up comedian, actress and digital content creator. She has toured all over the country and world, delighting audiences near and far with her witty personality, impressions and unique perspectives on life as a second generation Iranian woman - all while still being a disappointment to her family. As a digital creator, Melissa’s broad range of characters in her sketches have created a large fan base on YouTube and TikTok, accumulating in millions of views online. Her stand-up has been featured on Laughs on Fox, All Def digital and Nickelodeon.
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Jamie Shriner is actually Bo Burnham and Jenna Marbles cryogenically frozen together in a pair of cat lady glasses. A former theatre kid, current queer, deaf, & mentally ill gig-worker, Jamie uses humorous original songs to discuss her hearing loss, mental illness, body image, womanhood, and queerness. Jamie was named Best of the Fest at Big Pine Comedy Festival and is a regular feature at Zanies and Laugh Factory Chicago. The host and producer of Chicago Underground Comedy, she's opened for the likes of Beth Stelling, Randy Feltface, and Chrissy Chlapecka, and is a former Features Contributor for The Onion.
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Neeraj Srinivasan is a first-generation Indian-American comedian from Boise, ID now based in Portland, OR. He was the runner up in the 2023 Portland’s Funniest Person contest and was named one of Willamette Week’s Portland’s Funniest Five. Neeraj has appeared on ABC and IFC in addition to the 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival, and Big Sky Comedy Festival.
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Izzy Ster is a current student pursuing a BFA in Writing for Screen and Television with a minor in Comedy at the School of Cinematic Arts from San Diego, CA. On campus, she is the head writer for her sketch comedy troupe, The Suspenders, and Editor-in-Chief for USC’s parody/satire newspaper, The Sack of Troy. She’s most interested in comedy writing and female-driven storytelling. In her free time, if she’s not reading, writing, or on a short film set (which is very rare), she enjoys making hyper specific Spotify playlists and finding new coffee shops to look mysterious at.
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Julian is a writer and comedian from Kensington, Maryland whose work has appeared in Maxim, McSweeney's, FuseTV, Women's Health, and Cosmopolitan. His stand up and musical comedy show about the art of failure, Julian Stern Keeps Trying, has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Comedy Central Stage, Lyric Hyperion, and wherever else he's allowed.
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Julia Stone is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian and writer who regularly convinces herself to leave the house. Her dry humor and dead-pan delivery have been seen at venues like the Laugh Factory (Hollywood & Chicago), Don't Tell Comedy (Nashville), and the Hollywood Improv, where she co-hosts a monthly show: Gimmie Gimmie! Peach Samba. She's also been a featured performer at a number of comedy festivals, including Big Pine, Asheville, and Flyover. When not on stage, she spends her time in a variety of sweatpants.
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Incubated in Boston and blowing up in San Diego, it's Ellen Sugarman! Ellen’s comedy has been called both accessible and unique. Her outrageous, unsparing takes on everyday topics have won over audiences. Winner of the 2018 Latch Key Comic Standing, Ellen’s been featured in the Boston Comedy Arts Festival, Portland Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sno-Jam Comedy Festival, Rogue Island Comedy fest, the Jackie and Laurie show, and the San Diego Comedy Festival. She's featured for Maria Bamford. Ellen was selected as a comic-in-residence at Boston’s acclaimed Comedy Studio and as a regular at the Comedy Store in La Jolla.
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Based in the Pacific Northwest, Tory Ward combines her amiable, light hearted personality with sardonic humor creating an experience that is singularly hilarious. She is a regular host at Helium Comedy Club, was voted one of Portland's funniest people by the Willamette Week, and has opened for Dave Attell and Marc Maron (Lost my dad 3 years into comedy. He and I had a comedy show together called Laughs and Lasagna where he cooked lasagna and I waited tables while also hosting the show.)
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Haley Warren is a Junior at the University of Southern California, majoring in Writing for Screen and Television and minoring in comedy. She was born and raised in Rochester, NY. Haley is a writer/actor for USC's Sketch and Improv troupe Ludus Remedium. In her free time, Haley is the showrunner for a student web series called "Don't Go Breaking My Heart".
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Originally from Chicago, Zoe Zakson is already making waves in the LA stand up scene. She was named a 2023 “Westsider To Watch” by the Argonaut and is the reining champion of LMU’s Last Comic Standing, where she is finishing her senior year studying film production. You can catch Zoe hosting and producing LA’s only professional college stand-up show “The Kids Are Fine, Not Great” at The Crow, or opening for comics like Brandon Wardell, Troy Bond, and author John Green.
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Bri Giger is a multi-talented artist known for her diverse skills in the entertainment industry. As an accomplished Queer, actress, comedian, DJ, musical comedian, improviser and writer, Bri had a unique blend of humor, charisma, and creativity as earned her the title of a modern-day superwoman. Bri has a One Woman show titled 'Through My High Eyes,' a captivating performance with Character, Comedy, and music that has successfully toured across the United States. You can find Bri's comedic brilliance at renowned venues such as the Hollywood Improv, Comedy Store, Stand Up Live, and NYC's UNION Hall, where she has become a regular and a crowd favorite. With an undeniable talent and an infectious energy, Bri Giger continues to captivate audiences nationwide, leaving a lasting impression with her wit, humor, and the ability to effortlessly wear multiple hats in the world of entertainment.
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Brittany Ross is a Los Angeles based standup, actor, and writer. Originally from, well, she grew up moving all around the world; Alaska, Scotland, Colombia, Venezuela, Texas, Chicago, & Hawaii. As a result, she is very normal... Aside from the Coco Krispies commercial that not only starred a 5-year-old Brittany, but probably changed ALL of your lives, you can catch her on Netflix’s Huge in France, ABC’s The Rookie, and the Netflix film Like Father. Other notable credits include her long-running role on ABCs The Middle, CBS’s 2 Broke Girls, TBS’s Clipped, Disney’s Bizaardvark & more.
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Heather Pasternak had her network debut on CBS’s The Late Show with Steven Colbert. Her other television appearances include FOX’s New Girl, The Mindy Project, Netflix’s Cooking on High, etc. She’s a content producer for the comedy trivia game show Funny You Should Ask and she headlines at The Jimmy Kimmel Comedy Club in Las Vegas. Her comedy special, Slay at Home Mom, is out now on 800 Pound Gorilla.
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Jessica is an LA based comedian, actress and content creator originally from the mediocre landscape of South Florida. Her comedy has been featured at the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston as well as numerous clubs and venues across each coast. She co-hosts and produces the new monthly comedy show “Pizza Party” at the Crow. Her comedy short film, “Clementine” which she wrote and starred in, took home the title of Best Short at the Laugh After Dark Festival in Las Vegas. Jessica can be seen performing standup comedy around Los Angeles as well as sketch with the group “This or That”.
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Kazu Kusano is a comedian and actress. With her Japanese accent, she brings a dark sense of humor, crazy physicality, and hot flashes. She immigrated to America alone in her 30s to do comedy. Kazu is a Japanese correspondent on Comedy Central’s Channel Hopping, and the undefeated champion of Joke-E-Oke, where Robin Williams declared her, “Hilarious!” She performed stand-up in clubs, colleges and festivals such as San Francisco International Comedy Competition, SF Sketchfest, and Camp EDC Las Vegas. Her autobiographical show, PRETTY BEAST, won Best of San Francisco Fringe, Hottest Selling Show of Vancouver Fringe, and more.
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Before she was a comic, Kiki Andersen was an Emmy award-winning news reporter under her real name, Kelly Andersen, but after enough people confused her for Kellyanne Conway on Twitter (yes, really) she decided to change her name, her career and do something way less depressing. Now she uses everything she learned about how the world works to make people laugh, performing standup and sketch comedy seven nights a week. Since moving to Hollywood, Kiki has rapidly moved up the comedy ladder, performing regularly at the Laugh Factory and other clubs on the west coast. She has shared the stage with comedy’s biggest stars including Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Jim Jefferies, Nick Kroll and others. Her podcast, Indecent with Kiki Andersen, has garnered a loyal following in just under a year since debuting. In Spring 2024, she will be performing as a Featured Festival Comedian for the Netflix is a Joke festival.
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Lisa Chanoux is an LA based stand-up comedian, writer, podcaster and producer who makes audiences laugh with her vibrant and fun approach. Chanoux hosts and produces Chatterbox Comedy Night, a weekly comedy show that has been called "the best independently produced comedy show in the country," and has been acclaimed by the LA Times. She is also a host and producer of the virally successful What's Your Sign? comedy and astrology podcast, instagram meme account, and live show--featured in Vogue, Cosmo, Nylon, Refinery 29, Splitsider, A.V. Club, and more. She appeared on Comedy Central Digital's Saturday Morning-ish Cartoons and has written for Netflix Is A Joke. Chanoux was a live/on-camera festival correspondent for the inaugural Netflix Is A Joke Festival. Her comedy is deadpan and observational while somehow being personal and telling a story. Her writing is a testament to the power of perseverance, passion, and a unique comedic voice.
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Madison Bakich is a comic who performs all over LA and Orange County, primarily. Originally from Florida, she moved to Los Angeles in 2017 where she enrolled at The Groundlings and is now a student in their Advanced Writing Lab. During her time at The Groundlings, she was encouraged by her teachers to try stand-up and has been doing it ever since. She is also the co-producer and co-host of the stand-up comedy themed podcast, Rascal Summit.
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Meet Nthenya, a dynamic force in comedy with a cynical mind and an extroverted persona. She masterfully blends observational humor with thoughtful reflections, leaving audiences in a delightful quandary: is this deeply profound, or is this a playful commentary on our collective shallowness? Born in Nairobi, Kenya, her early life unfolded against the backdrop of Vancouver’s diverse cityscape and later in the complicated but charming streets of Charleston, SC. As an immigrant, her humor draws from the reality of navigating life in different places, capturing the essence of being both an insider and an outsider. Nthenya's bold spirit shone as the owner of The Comedy Nook, the only female black-owned comedy club in Los Angeles. She is a two-time JFL Standup and Pitch winner (2019 & 2022) and NBC’s Writers on the Verge nominee (2021). You may have seen her on ‘Them’ (Amazon), ‘Shameless’ (Showtime), ‘Loosely, Exactly Nicole’ (MTV) or in a Lifetime movie if you’re about that life.
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Olivia Hill is a stand up comedian, writer, actor, and everyone’s favorite ex-girlfriend. Olivia brings a cutting warmth to her confessional style, and a unique animation to poking fun at her own vain and vapid ways. As a Southern California native, she loves performing all over Los Angeles with regular appearances at The Hollywood Improv, The Westside Comedy Theater, & The Crow. She’s been seen on Hulu & FOX–the channel, not the news.
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Reem Edan is an Iraqi-American comedian, content creator, award-winning writer and actress based in Los Angeles. Her performances have captivated audiences globally, performing in nine countries across four continents, while amassing tens of millions of views online for her character-driven sketches and culture-bending commentary. Since “quitting her day job,” Reem has made appearances on Shahid VIP's "The Stand Up Sketch Show," Laugh After Dark, Sirius XM, Elizabeth Banks’ WhoHaha, on the popular YouTube channel Fail Army. Before that, she honed her skills by participating in sought-after industry programs, including: the NBC Late Night Writing Program, Warner Bros / Rooster Teeth Content Creator Program, the MGM Writing Program, and as a writer on the Disney TV Discovers Showcase.
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Tatyana Komaguchi a.k.a “GUCHI” is a stand-up comedian with a unique comedic style influenced by her East Coast and Southern roots. Combining storytelling and set-up-punch jokes, Tatyana delves into topics such as race, inequality, and human observation, offering a thought- provoking perspective focusing on Black, Queer, and Asian issues. Tatyana can deliver clean sets of various lengths, showcasing her versatility. While currently not represented by an agent or manager, Tatyana's talent has garnered recognition, including participation in Sketch Fest ‘23 & ‘24, being named a Laugh Factory Fresh Face, and as a Finalist in the ABFF Because They’re Funny Comedy Festival’s Breakout Comedian Of The Year.
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In 2022, she was named one of the Top 35 Comics to Break Out by Interrobang. In 2023, she was a finalist in KTLA's Summer of Funny. Macey also runs a monthly stand-up show in Santa Monica at The Crow called "The Picture Day Show