On the Mic with Mike Peters (Homebrewed Comedy )
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| 15 Apr 2022 | Robin Phoenix and the Best Medicine Brigade | 01:18:59 | |
Robin Phoenix is relatively new to the comedy scene in Charlston, S.C., but she’s far from inexperienced. After 26 years in the military, she decided to help her fellow veterans and the surrounding community by starting the Best Medicine Brigade, which books those with ties to the service on comedy shows. A talented stand-up, Phoenix produces shows in South Carolina and is working on starting the American Comedy Guild, which she hopes will be a benefit to comedians all over the United States. Follow Robin Phoenix: | |||
| 04 Mar 2022 | Mathew Snover and the Mayhem | 01:09:29 | |
Mathew Snover grew up in Endicott, N.Y., and started doing stand-up after moving to New York City. A regular at the Eastville Comedy Club, Snover is working with Mayhem Comedy Inc. to produce shows in New York City. He's a frequent visitor of the scene in Binghamton and stopped by the studio after giving me a Taco Bell gift card. That's how you do it. | |||
| 18 Feb 2022 | Justin Chupp and the Grand Rapids Resurgence | 01:02:18 | |
Justin Chupp has been doing stand-up in Grand Rapids, Mich., for the last six years. He started out as a radio deejay and decided to try his luck at an open mic with 150 people in the audience and hasn't looked back. Now Chupp is one of the people behind Full House Comedy and the new Grand Rapids Comedy Club, which had its first show on Jan. 14, 2022. He's helping develop talent in the scene on his way to becoming a headliner. | |||
| 22 Jul 2022 | Yale Hollander and the New Yorker Submissions | 01:06:58 | |
Yale Hollander did his first stand-up set in 1985 and his second in 2016. Things changed a bit between them. Hollander became a lawyer, which has served him well in the St. Louis comedy scene. He books shows in the area, including at the Gaslight Theater and works at the Helium Comedy Club. He also regularly submits to the New Yorker's caption contest -- much to the delight and disdain of his peers. | |||
| 24 Jun 2022 | Avery Quinn and the Face of a Serial Killer | 01:11:50 | |
Avery Quinn started doing stand-up while he was a senior at Shippensburg University and found a good home in the Lancaster and Harrisburg comedy scenes. He ran the White Swan show in Lititz, Pa., before moving to Hartford, Conn., in late 2021. Quinn wrestled and played football in high school and does commercial acting. He's been drenched in Bud Light and cast as two serial killers. Follow Avery Quinn: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/averyquinn66/ | |||
| 08 Jul 2022 | James Nghiem and the Drumming Comedian | 01:17:58 | |
James Nghiem started doing stand-up in Oklahoma City, Okla., way back in 2007. Over the last 15 years, he's calmed down as a comedian and is able to find the joy in what he's doing. He's released two albums -- "That Lonely Beast" and "Lonelier Beast" -- on his label, Robot Saves City. He's also the drummer in The Nghiems, a band he started with his brother. They've got a new album in the works, too. He does it all. | |||
| 25 Feb 2022 | Dan Geurin and the Suburban Comedian | 01:10:35 | |
Dan Geurin started doing stand-up in Albany back in 2012. Already a responsible adult with two kids, a wife and a house, Geurin used his experience as an elementary gym teacher to boost himself into regular work at the Comedy Works in Saratoga, N.Y. He's spent the last nine years working on his writing and developing into an excellent comedian. He's a regular at the Albany Funny Bone and works at clubs all over the Northeast. | |||
| 11 Mar 2022 | Stephen Taylor and the Last Time in Lawrence | 01:12:12 | |
Stephen Taylor is a comedian from Kansas City, Mo., who got his start in stand-up back six years ago. He's traveled all over the country, telling jokes to strangers, and also produces his own shows and is a regular host. He stumbled on one of the best ways to defuse a bomb during what turned out to be his last gig in Lawrence, Kan. Taylor used to be 330 pounds and now he's "Formerly Fat" Stephen. He also co-hosts the Set to Destroy podcast and owns the Barrel of the Bottoms, a venue and studio in Kansas City. | |||
| 25 Mar 2022 | Kass Smiley and the B4UDie Comedy Festival | 01:24:06 | |
Kass Smiley started doing stand-up in Anchorage, Alaska, back in 2009. She learned from Greg Chaille, Doug Stanhope's right-hand man, and is the brains and muscle behind the B4UDie Comedy Festival, which runs from April 6 and April 10 and features a collection of comedians all across the "lesser 48." Smiley is full of stories, from being heckled by Stanhope in Los Angeles to buying a leisure suit on a tour of the southeast. Plus that whole missing-and-possibly-murdered uncle thing. It's a story as old as time. | |||
| 01 Apr 2022 | Damon Sumner and the Year of the Comedian | 01:18:54 | |
Damon Sumner's life changed completely in 2010 when he became a father, a teacher and a comedian all in just a few months. One of the bright spots in the Atlanta scene, Sumner released his debut album, "I Know Who I Am," on March 25. Tagged a combination of Jim Gaffigan and Kevin Hart by a friend, Sumner spent 18 months in China, teaching and doing stand-up, before moving back to Georgia. Damon and his wife, KaToya, have a podcast called Sum it Up with the Sumners, where they talk about marriage and everything that comes with raising three kids. | |||
| 03 Jun 2022 | Steve Wrigley and the Birth of New Zealand Stand-up | 01:27:42 | |
Steve Wrigley started doing stand-up when he was 17 years old as a way to impress high school girls. He traveled all over New Zealand, working his way onto TV and into a good living before coming to the United States in 2014. Now married with two kids, Wrigley is settled in Alfred, N.Y., and works all over the state -- wherever he can get in front of a microphone. He's got big plans for local comedy and is ready to put doing stand-up on an airplane -- yes, an airplane -- behind him. | |||
| 29 Apr 2022 | Mark Riccadonna and the Hatred in Their Eyes | 01:21:37 | |
Mark Riccadonna grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, but got his start in stand-up while working the door in a New York City club. His comedian friends bet him he couldn't get on stage in 2002 and he hasn't gotten off. He went to school to become and actor and he's doing that, too, along with directing. Riccadonna moved to Ambler, Pa., but he's staying just as busy. He's got a podcast called Drinks, Jokes and Storytelling and will be featuring at the Rubber City Comedy Festival in Akron, Ohio, between May 4 and May 7. | |||
| 22 Apr 2022 | Karen Rontowski and the Paranormal Encounter | 01:14:19 | |
Karen Rontowski wanted to get out of Massachusetts, so she took a job as a cigarette girl in Las Vegas and it changed her life. She's been doing stand-up for the last 30 years, performing on The Late Show with David Letterman, Comics Unleashed, Live at Gotham, Comedy Central and Mysteries of the Unexplained and has a Dry Bar Comedy special. She left Los Angeles to visit her parents in Utica, N.Y., and is getting acquainted with the different comedy scenes. Rontowski makes her living reading Tarot cards and she's been able to blend the two quite well. It was good to meet her -- officially. You'll see what I mean. | |||
| 06 May 2022 | Helen Keaney and the Group Therapy Show | 01:08:59 | |
Helen Keaney is a comedian in Florida and host at the Home Shopping Network. She started doing stand-up in New York City after moving there at 19. She picked up momentum quickly, taking over for Dave Attell at a show at the Boston Comedy Club and working her way onto Comedy Central, VH1 and A&E's Evening at the Improv. Keaney toured as a member of the "3 Blonde Moms" for four years before going off on her own. She's been a host at the Home Shopping Network since 2008. She'll be at the Comedy at the Carlson in Rochester from May 12-May 14 and at Tap House 66 in Johnson City on May 15. Get tickets online or at the door. | |||
| 20 May 2022 | Ashley Pontius and the Never-Ending Revenge Tour | 01:25:16 | |
Ashley Pontius is a super funny comedian who grew up near Hagerstown, Md., and performs all over the DMV area. She got her start in stand-up by lying about how she knew Myq Kaplan and then worked semi-illegally for Stephen Colbert’s Campaign for Truthiness. Over the last decade, she’s established herself as one of the best up-and-coming comedians in the Mid-Atlantic. She’s a regular just about everywhere from Harrisburg to Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Virginia and co-hosts a podcast called Quality Time with brothers Erik and Jeremy Woodorth. Ashley is a master of revenge and she described some of the best instances of payback I’ve ever heard. | |||
| 17 Jun 2022 | Lisa Rossi and the Funny Side of Journalism | 01:13:52 | |
Lisa Rossi was doing a journalism fellowship at Stanford University when an improv comedian caught her attention and inspired her to get on stage. A journalism professor at the University of Maryland, Rossi did her first open mic in 2019 and has been doing stand-up and improv in Des Moines, Iowa, ever since. She began working through The Groundlings’ courses during the pandemic and has been able to add some of what she’s learned in improv to her stand-up skillset. She keeps herself busy in the Midwest and will be in Los Angeles this summer. She’ll also be at the Omaha Fringe Festival on Aug. 12. | |||
| 13 May 2022 | Darryl Charles and the Red Dodge Neon | 01:07:20 | |
Raised in thenBrooklyn, N.Y., Darryl Charles went to school for engineering before starting his comedy career in Philadelphia. He realized he was kind of good at that and moved down I-95 to Baltimore. His debut album, Black Gentrifier, debuted at No. 3 on iTunes at the beginning of 2020 and he's almost got another hour done. Darryl co-hosts the podcast: DTF: The Darryl and Timaree Funhour. He's also got a great story about his first guest spot in front of his proud girlfriend -- now, his wife -- her friend and a determined security guard. | |||
| 15 Jul 2022 | Manny Santiago and the Benefits of Juggling | 01:09:02 | |
Manny Santiago got his start in performance by juggling because, well, duh. He decided to step away from the juggling to dive into stand-up with his best friend, roommate and co-host of the A Boy and His Fridge podcast, Mike O'Donnell, and has become one of the best comedians in Harrisburg, Pa. Santiago also co-hosts The Falls Count Anywhere Podcast with Brandon Youngblood. | |||
| 27 May 2022 | Brandon Vincent Jackson and the Time Kevin Hart Bumped Him | 01:12:14 | |
Brandon Vincent Jackson is one of the most talented comedians in Delaware. An adjunct professor at the University of Delaware, teaching English as a second language, Jackson started doing stand-up in Philadelphia in the winter of 2013-2014. He spent time in New York City before the pandemic and moved home to wait it out. Jackson found a new way to approach stand-up and turned it into his debut album, English for Criminals, which comes out on Friday, May 27. He's also working on a variety show, also called English for Criminals, that he's hoping to bring across the country. | |||
| 01 Jul 2022 | Jim Bryan and the Church of Satire | 01:14:56 | |
Jim Bryan grew up in Long Island and started doing stand-up in 2002 and moved to Las Vegas. He met his wife there and they moved to Hanover, Pa., to raise their kids, but he put stand-up to the side for a few years. He got back into it in 2015, then started the Den of Satire in 2017 and formally opened the Church of Satire -- in the same room -- a couple years later. It's now one of the best clubs in Pennsylvania, attracting comedians from all over and serving as a development center for local comedians from all over the Mid-Atlantic. Jim's also a funny comedian and works all over the Harrisburg and Baltimore areas. | |||
| 12 Aug 2022 | Isaac Novak and the Upper Left Comedy Festival | 01:18:02 | |
Isaac Novak is a Seattle comedian and one of the founders of the Upper Left Comedy Festival, which had a successful first year in 2022. Novak started doing stand-up in 2012 and got tired of hearing people say, "Why isn't there a festival in Seattle?" He's a graphic designer, too. Novak runs a monthly show at Central Cinema, so if you're in Seattle, check it out. | |||
| 05 Aug 2022 | Rebecca Kaplan and the Unhappy Birthday Party | 01:11:34 | |
Rebecca Kaplan started doing stand-up back in 2014 when she was going to SUNY Purchase. A New York City native, Kaplan moved back to Brooklyn after school and has been able to carve a path in the scene. She was one of the Best of Fest winners at the Rubber City Comedy Festival in Akron, Ohio, and is going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in August. She also produces a show, Beanie Babe Comedy, at Young Ethels Brooklyn. | |||
| 10 Jun 2022 | Spencer Thomas and the Prison Folding Chair | 01:20:49 | |
Spencer Thomas is a really funny comedian traveling around North Dakota. After spending a few years in Los Angeles, working in post production, Thomas returned him to help take care of his mother. He quit drinking, got a college degree, met his wife and has established himself as a go-to comedian for hire. Following the pandemic, he dropped Dobson and switched to performing under Spencer Thomas and added a guitar to the mix. He's got stories about doing stand-up at prisons and proms. | |||
| 09 Dec 2022 | Zack Lyman and the Big Laugh | 01:05:11 | |
Zack Lyman started doing stand-up in Phoenix, Ariz., when he was 18 years old. He hosted fire-breathers for an outdoor open mic until he was old enough to get into bars. Over the last 13 years, Lyman has been working all over the West, from Texas to Seattle, teaching himself how to become a headliner. He hosts the Zack Lyman Podcast and is producing The Big Laugh, a stand-up series he's pitched to streaming services. As soon as the edits are done, he plans on releasing the six-episode series. Lyman's also planning on moving to New York City. Follow Zack Lyman: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zacklymanpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zacklymancomedy The Big Laugh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBigLaughLLC/ The Big Laugh website: https://biglaughshow.com/ Zack Lyman Podcast: https://www.zacklymanpodcast.com/ | |||
| 26 Aug 2022 | Ron Caine and the Clothing-Optional Open Mic | 01:01:55 | |
Ron Caine has been working all over the Harrisburg, Pa., comedy scene since 2017. He produces shows under 2CS Productions, including one at Fratelli's in New Cumberland, Pa., that celebrated its first anniversary in July. Caine performs all over Pennsylvania and Maryland and is a co-host of the DNR Podcast with Damien Robinson and he hosts two open mics -- the Mr. Tongue Open Mic at the Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center on Monday and Tuesday's Doghouse Open Mic at The Kennel in West York, Pa. | |||
| 29 Jul 2022 | Becky Wiggins and the Chandelier Above a Toilet | 01:06:07 | |
Becky Wiggins started doing stand-up in Utica in early 2020, right before the world shut down. She kept busy during the pandemic and came out with a purpose -- to get on stage and stay there. Wiggins has worked at the Syracuse Funny Bone and Fat Katz Comedy Club and runs an open mic at Chris' Grub and Pub in Rome, her hometown. She's been able to find a job she loves as a realtor to allow herself to keep making people laugh. Just don't talk to her or look at her. | |||
| 02 Sep 2022 | Stephen Brown and the Difference Between an Orange | 01:11:59 | |
Stephen Brown started doing stand-up in Binghamton on April 8, 2021 at 40 years old as a birthday present. Since then, he's performed all over New York and dipped into Pennsylvania, taking the material his three kids have given him. He grew up promoting punk bands in Binghamton and found a similar feel within the comedy community. We've known of each other for more than two decades and, without knowing, bonded over the same stupid joke for 22 years. | |||
| 19 Aug 2022 | Raghu Adibhatla and the Perfect Time for a Comedy Special | 01:09:42 | |
Raghu Adibhatla grew up in the Corning area in Upstate New York, but got his start in stand-up in Chicago back in 2010. A father of two with a career in marketing, he's got big plans for the future -- a late-night spot and eventually, a finished book about his life as a comedian. And if they don't happen, at least his daughter is talented. Adibhatla put in 12 years of work and filmed a Dry Bar Comedy special in April and it came out on Aug. 17. | |||
| 09 Sep 2022 | Mat Alano-Martin and the Sweet Price of Silence | 01:22:15 | |
Mat Alano-Martin began his stand-up career 13 years ago in Bloomington, Ind. He's got a home at the Comedy Attic and he teamed up with its owner, Jared Thompson, back in 2013 to create the Limestone Comedy Festival, which they now run with Dwight Simmons. Alano-Martin came from the punk scene, where he played in several bands -- as the singer, guitarist, bassist and drummer. He just released his third comedy album, Midnight Nachos, and recorded his first half-hour special for Helium. He's got a podcast called Take These Songs, so you should listen to that, too. | |||
| 02 Dec 2022 | Jim Search and the Pep Talk from Ice-T | 01:11:43 | |
Jim Search grew up in Binghamton and moved to New York City after college. He’s been doing stand-up for more than a decade and recorded his first album, Upstate Understandings, in July. The album is out now, so go buy it and see Jim live. He’s all over New York City and runs a monthly show in Brooklyn. He’s got big plans for 2023, including recording a special, and he even got some encouraging words from a big shot at the Special Victims Unit. | |||
| 16 Sep 2022 | Korey David and the Fresh Start in Denver | 01:06:18 | |
Korey David got his start in stand-up in the Albany area back in 2017. A couple years in, he decided to move to Denver and his career has been going in the right direction ever since. He got passed at the Comedy Works in Denver, tours the country and runs a weekly Friday show at Banded Oak Brewing Company in Denver called Late Night Comedy, featuring the best comedians in the area. He just started the Interrogation Podcast, which is an off-shoot of his comedy show that he plans to take to cities all over the country. | |||
| 23 Sep 2022 | Tyler Rothrock and the Therapist's Suggestion | 01:12:22 | |
Tyler Rothrock lost two friends and a father in one year, so his mom had him talk to a therapist and a comedian was born. Rothrock spent six years in New York City, but he feels way better in Bethlehem, Pa. A co-host of the Night Moves podcast, Rothrock runs shows in Pennsylvania with Paul Spratt and Kris Fried and released his debut album, Tyler of Nazareth, in 2017. | |||
| 30 Sep 2022 | Raj Suresh and the 9/11 Lego Set | 01:00:24 | |
Raj Suresh started his stand-up career in Arkansas before moving to Cleveland. After a brief stop in New York City -- he moved there in March 2020 -- Suresh moved back to Ohio to keep pushing. He's a regular feature for Nimesh Patel and Zarna Garg and recorded his first special in June. He's moving back to Arkansas with his girlfriend, but comedy is going to take him all over the country. | |||
| 07 Oct 2022 | Brian Netzel and the Worst Trip to the Dentist | 01:11:20 | |
Brian Netzel started doing comedy in Buffalo back in 2014. He's spent this summer driving across the country, going from the Portland Comedy Festival in Maine to the North Carolina Comedy Festival and landing at the Savage Henry Comedy Festival in Eureka, Calif., where he'll be performing between Oct. 6 and Oct. 8. He's been living in his car and writing a book about his travels. The survival skills he's learned from the National Guard are certainly helping him. Brian will be heading back to Buffalo just in time for the fall and winter. | |||
| 14 Oct 2022 | Marc Hoover and the Time He Woke Up in Uganda | 01:10:15 | |
Marc Hoover started doing stand-up in Binghamton in 2019. He was on stage a few months before the pandemic. He's got great timing. Hoover is a former police officer and an active military member. He's also eight months' sober and is using his newfound outlook to his advantage. Hoover has become a student of the craft and plans to put down the pizza and make a career out of comedy. | |||
| 21 Oct 2022 | Paul Spratt and the Long List of Grievances | 01:21:41 | |
Paul Spratt's started doing stand-up in Scranton, Pa., when he was 25. After seven years in New York City, he moved back during the pandemic. Now at 39, he's set to record his second album on Oct. 26 at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia and first special Oct. 26 at Karl Hall in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He's been traveling all over the East Coast and Midwest over the last few years, trying to perfect the material. His first album, "Fuck Yeah! Paul's Here!" came out in 2017. Catch him live when you get the chance. | |||
| 28 Oct 2022 | Danny Hucks and the Shirtless Set | 01:03:17 | |
Danny Hucks has been doing stand-up all over Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania since 2014. He started out in Louisville before following his family to Hagerstown, Md., where he got to know the scenes in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pa. Hucks moved back to Louisville in July of 2022 and has been able to transition well into the mix. | |||
| 04 Nov 2022 | Jesse Winterhalter and the Barbeque Death March | 01:09:46 | |
Jesse Winterhalter started his stand-up career when he moved to Buffalo in 2014. He lived in Virginia, Philadelphia and New Mexico, but found himself a home in the Buffalo comedy scene. He's one of the best in the upstate area. He's a regular at the Helium Comedy Club and is on stage whenever he can be. He placed in a comedy contest by not saying a word. Plus, Doug Stanhope is a fan. What more do you want? | |||
| 11 Nov 2022 | Brian Beaudoin and the Right Way to Eat a Doughnut | 01:14:13 | |
Brian Beaudoin started his comedy career twice. The first time was a tribute to Eddie Murphy. When he began again in 2007, it was all Brian Beaudoin. Since then, he's become the talent coordinator at the Comedy Connection in East Providence, R.I., and has toured the country, telling jokes. He hosted a weekly hardcore show at the Connection to build his chops. Now he helps develop the local talent and book the hosts and features at the club. Beaudoin hosts the Wicked Funny Podcast with Katie Arroyo and Frank Gazzero, too. | |||
| 18 Nov 2022 | Kirk Griffiths and the Contentment within Comedy | 01:14:42 | |
Kirk Griffiths started doing stand-up while going to Kutztown University. He had a couple memorable performances in front of his fellow students before graduating and joining the comedy scenes in Lancaster and Philadelphia. Twelve years into his comedy career, he's incredibly balanced and happy with how things are going. He hosts the Proper Ebonics podcast with Alan Massenburg and is a regular all over the eastern part of Pennsylvania. | |||
| 25 Nov 2022 | Luc Thiers and the Bourbon Street Bathroom | 01:13:37 | |
Luc Thiers started his stand-up career in Rochester after living in New Orleans and Boston. He saw an open mic in New Orleans, but didn't get on stage until 2017 after moving back home. Thiers works at the Comedy at the Carlson in Rochester and is launching a new podcast, Sports Lobotomy, with comedian Andy Kuhn. Plus he once met Steve Zahn in a bathroom. | |||
| 16 Dec 2022 | Ryan Garcia and the STD Joke Heard 'Round the Class | 01:10:49 | |
Ryan Garcia started doing stand-up while he was a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. After joining the improv group at school, he decided to dive into stand-up. Since then, he's become one of the stronger, young comedians in Rochester's scene. He just did his first weekend at the Comedy at the Carlson club, hosting for Ian Lara, and he's been able to turn his wiseass remarks in class into something productive. | |||
| 06 Jan 2023 | Andy Malafarina and the Powers of Podcasting | 01:26:50 | |
Andy Malafarina went to Kutztown University and started his stand-up career in the Allentown area. He's in New Jersey now and co-hosts Panties in the Mouth with LeMaire Lee and Nate Marshall and Drag the Lake with Pat George. He also hosts No More Heroes. He just performed at Skankfest in Las Vegas. He's got opinions on everything, from stand-up to sandwiches. | |||
| 23 Dec 2022 | Jason Zongrone and the Joey Gladstone Comedy Model | 01:01:59 | |
Jason Zongrone saw the Uptown Theater in Utica was coming back and decided to give improv a try. A few months later, he started doing stand-up. Now he's a member of the Bus Stop Robot improv troupe and does stand-up all over New York and making a name for himself in the comedy scene. He's going to do everything it takes to be the next Joey Gladstone. Jason's taking part in the Uptown Tonight's A Very Merry Uptown Family Christmas Holiday Special Broadcast Experience Live! on Friday, Dec. 23. | |||
| 30 Dec 2022 | Hedi Sandberg and the Route to the Road | 01:13:51 | |
Hedi Sandberg is a hilarious comedian in Bethesda, Md. A Silver Spring native, she got her start in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia comedy scene back in 2015 with a strong first open mic. She's been a mainstay in the DMV over the last eight years and she's working to become a regular feature on the road. Sandberg's been at comedy clubs in the area, festivals all over the country and produces a monthly house show with Ivi Demi called The House Rules. Plus she's got a cat named Morpheus Eagle. Beat that. | |||
| 13 Jan 2023 | Damon Millard and the Lie That Launched a Comedy Career | 01:10:34 | |
Damon Millard has done stand-up all over the country over the last 13 years, but he's based in Brooklyn. A Binghamton native, Millard worked for a TV station in Milwaukee when he tried to impress a woman by telling her he was a comedian. He went to his first open mic after that and hasn't looked back. He tours the country, runs Punching Bag Comedy and stars in and produces the Low-Budget Show with Damon Millard, available on YouTube. | |||
| 20 Jan 2023 | Rose Vineshank and the Gathering of the Original Lesbians | 01:15:49 | |
Rose Vineshank is a hilarious comedian from Baltimore. She started on her birthday in 2018 and has already become a standout in one of the best comedy scenes in the Mid-Atlantic. She opens for Matt Braunger and works regularly all over Baltimore, D.C., and Virginia. She's a great joke writer and a must-follow on social media. Raised on cartoons and Jim Henson creations, she won't rest until she's a household name. | |||
| 27 Jan 2023 | Tim Rager and the AA Feature Spot | 01:06:46 | |
Tim Rager grew up in New Jersey and started doing stand-up on Dec. 13, 2019. Four months later, he had to pause. But he's made up for lost time and is one of the best up-and-coming comedians in Jersey. He gave up drinking and doing cocaine at 28 and is solely focused on writing the best jokes he possibly can. He's a regular at Uncle Vinnie's Comedy Club. | |||
| 03 Feb 2023 | Jacob Morrison and the Comedy Jam | 00:59:18 | |
Jacob Morrison started doing stand-up off and on in Buffalo when he was 17. Since the pandemic, he's become a big part of the comedy scene. A musician when he was a kid, he found a way to combine the two. He began producing the Comedy Jam last year and is bringing it back to Buffalo on Saturday, Feb. 4 and then taking it to the Comedy at the Carlson in Rochester on Friday, Feb. 10. He won't be wearing a werewolf costume for these shows, but The Gerk'n Jerks will be there. | |||
| 17 Feb 2023 | Mike Celona and the Pop Punk Princess | 01:07:45 | |
Mike Celona got his start in stand-up in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania before moving to New York City. He's in Nutley, N.J., now and is performing all over the country. Celona started out as a musician, playing in punk bands, and is always busy. He's working on a project with Hidden in Plain View, a punk band on the Drive-Thru label in the early 2000s, and plans on recording a special in 2023. | |||
| 10 Feb 2023 | Aaron Naylor and the Pursuit of a Circus Joke | 01:13:22 | |
Aaron Naylor began doing stand-up in Tucson, Ariz., in 2013 before coming home to Kansas City, Mo., to help create the independent comedy scene. He spent nine years there running shows and building his set and decided to move to Chicago. Naylor co-founded the Fountain City Comedy Festival, which debuted in October of 2022 and has traveled all over the country telling jokes. He was named Kansas City's Funniest Comedian by KC Magazine in 2022 and has performed in more than 30 festivals. Now he's flying for free thanks to Delta's serverence package. | |||
| 24 Feb 2023 | Cody Montanye and the Open Mic Gunman | 01:20:38 | |
Cody Montanye started doing stand-up in Albany seven years ago and has performed all over the Northeast. He's a regular at the clubs in Albany and Comix at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and just started to headline local shows. He's working on sketches, too, and plans to release them on YouTube soon. He's definitely making the most out of his art degree. | |||
| 03 Mar 2023 | Prateek Srivastava and the DePaul Debut | 01:13:51 | |
Prateek Srivastava has been doing stand-up for the last 13 years. He started his career in Chicago, taking the train in and out of the city, and he wound up moving to Los Angeles in 2021. He released his debut album, Nick and Sheila's Kid in 2020. Prateek has been in festivals all over the country and he co-hosts the Gimmick Street Wrestling Podcast. He's got enough ideas to fill a career. And it all started with a speech at DePaul University. | |||
| 10 Mar 2023 | Anthony Morelli and the Flagship City Comedy Fest | 01:15:24 | |
Anthony Morelli has only been doing stand-up for about five years, but he's put the spotlight on the Erie, Pa., comedy scene. He runs the open mic in town and was in the Sixth City Comedy Festival in Cleveland. Morelli and Dan Brady founded the Flagship City Comedy Fest, which debuts this year between April 27 and April 30. They had 240 submissions for their first-year festival, and Morelli is expecting a big boost to the local scene. | |||
| 17 Mar 2023 | Ella Fritts and the YouTube Special | 01:10:49 | |
Ella Fritts got her start in comedy by going to Second City to take improv classes. She took the stand-up classes the next year and is still going. Now in her eighth year and growing in St. Louis' deep scene, she released her YouTube Special, "We Should Write Together," on Wednesday, March 15. She's traveling the country -- on small tours and participating in comedy festivals -- and loves any time she can get away from St. Louis. The lady just wants to be able to have an abortion, all right? | |||
| 24 Mar 2023 | Andrew Glessner and the Potato Gun | 01:12:59 | |
Andrew Glessner is one of the best comedians in the Harrisburg area. He did his first open mic when he was 25 years old and it went so well that he took five years off. After meeting his future wife, Glessner decided to get back at it and he's been performing all over Pennsylvania and Maryland over the last six years. He co-produces the open mic at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone and works regularly at the club. He's good with a potato gun, too. | |||
| 31 Mar 2023 | Erin Depke and the Comedy Student | 01:14:44 | |
Erin Depke grew up as a very shy child, hiding behind her mom whenever she could. Now the junior at Indiana University is in her third year as a stand-up and commands the attention from audiences all over Bloomington. She's a regular at the Comedy Attic, where she opened for Beth Stelling last fall, and will be performing at the Middle Ground and Limestone Comedy Festivals this spring. Erin also knows who Kyle Cease is. That's huge. | |||
| 07 Apr 2023 | Greg Behrens and the Perfect Timing | 01:17:50 | |
Greg Behrens, a Buffalo native, is an excellent writer and comedian in Atlanta. His wife convinced him to give sketch comedy a try and he transitioned into stand-up in 2010. He used his time at Sketchworks to learn how to host and he's developed into one of the best comedians around. He decided to pursue stand-up full-time -- a week before the pandemic. Behrens was a semifinalist in the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival and the San Francisco Comedy Competition and a finalist at the Devil Cup at Broadway Comedy Club. He's been at Limestone Comedy Fest, Boston Comedy Festival, the Red Clay Comedy Festival and will be at Middle Ground on April 27-30. | |||
| 14 Apr 2023 | Jay Yoder and the Lone Souvenir | 01:13:41 | |
Philadelphia comedian Jay Yoder only started doing stand-up in 2020, when he was 38 years old. He'd watched enough people do comedy that he figured he could do it, too. And he can. He's already doing theater shows with the Bad Teachers tour and he's a regular at the Helium and Punchline comedy clubs. Yoder coached baseball for 18 years and teaches Latin, Spanish and three other languages at his schools and keeps. Even in comedy, he's an educator. | |||
| 28 Apr 2023 | Kyle Haunhorst and the Rubber City Comedy Festival | 01:11:34 | |
Kyle Haunhorst is a comedian and producer in the Cleveland and Akron areas. He's in charge of the Cleveland Comedy Festival and the Rubber City Comedy Festival, which begins on May 3 at the Funny Stop in Akron and ends on May 6. He wants to do everything he can to show everybody how strong the comedy in Ohio is. Haunhorst talked about his penchant for roast battles and why he took a step back from performing. | |||
| 21 Apr 2023 | Alisha Rayne and the Busy Bzzzline | 01:09:06 | |
Alisha Rayne began her comedy career as a byproduct from her Bzzzline blog. She started doing stand-up while living in Los Angeles and is now keeping busy in Sioux Falls, S.D. She ran the successful Wish You Were Here series of shows over Zoom during the pandemic and helped create the Morning Bzzz, a hybrid morning show done over Zoom. She also runs an open mic on Monday at Lucky's Bar in Sioux Falls and produces a monthly show there on the last Thursday of the month. | |||
| 05 May 2023 | John Lockwood and the Failed Robbery | 01:18:51 | |
John Lockwood is a stand-up comedian out of Buffalo. He's been working in the scene for the last eight years and gets out of town whenever he can. He'll be at the Rubber City Comedy Festival in Akron, Ohio, from May 3 to May 6. Oh, yeah. He's also been shot. Lockwood told the story about how a bullet went through his stomach four times and he was able to get a great joke out of it. Because that's what matters most. | |||
| 12 May 2023 | Dave Yates and the Business Side of Comedy | 01:17:46 | |
Dave Yates started doing stand-up back in 2011 a couple hours outside of Chicago. He got sober in 2012 and is at the top of his game -- so far -- while making it work as a full-time comedian. He's been all over the country and he brings his HaHa Hot Sauce with him. Yates released his album, One Long Merch Pitch, in 2019 and should be teaching a business course for stand-ups. He also acts, writes for a YouTube series and does voiceover work. | |||
| 07 Jul 2023 | Tyler Ross and the Switch from Skates to the Stage | 01:17:59 | |
Tyler Ross is a Chicago comedian who got his start in the Akron scene while going to Kent State University. He grew up playing hockey and had dreams of going pro pro. He got all the way to his college team before stand-up felt like the better way to go. He's traveled the country, headlining shows all over the place, and recorded his first album in May. He's in the editing process now and expects it to come out in the fall of 2023. | |||
| 21 Jul 2023 | Ben Frank and the Comedy Vigil | 01:07:43 | |
Ben Frank was working for the NBA in China when he decided to give stand-up a try. Eight years later, he's living in New York City and competing well in the World Series of Comedy all across the country. A lot of things have changed since he decided not to take the initial real estate job. He became one of the better ex-pat comedians in China before moving back to the United States in 2021. He works regularly around New York City and will be at the Laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival in Loveland, Colo., on Aug. 3 to Aug. 6. | |||
| 01 Sep 2023 | Shaun Murphy and the Comedy Cellar | 01:19:21 | |
Shaun Murphy moved to New York City from Buffalo in 2008 and once more, for good, in 2013. He's been doing stand-up since 2004 and is a regular opener for Mark Normand. Murphy got passed at the Comedy Cellar in 2021 and is performing all over the world with Normand and headlining clubs. He also co-hosts In the Hunt: A Buffalo Bills Podcast with Greg Bauch and Kyle Turner. | |||
| 29 Sep 2023 | Devin Mahoney and the Road from Scrubs to the Uptown Comedy Festival | 01:19:03 | |
As a kid, Devin Mahoney wanted to be on SNL. He settled for getting a degree from Syracuse and finding a spot in the writers room at NBC, on a show called Scrubs. He spent five years there as a production assistant, writer's assistant, etc. and even wrote an episode in Season 8 called My Comedy Show. He was in the room when Bill Lawrence wrote the finale, too. Mahoney also worked on Better Off Ted, Outsourced and the Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. He moved back to Utica, N.Y., in 2018 and founded the Uptown Theatre for Creative Arts, which has given a stage to local talent -- for improv and stand-up. The Uptown Comedy Festival, which runs from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8, is the latest project. It combines improv, stand-up and sketch and will feature 60 performances from all across the United States, Canada and London. | |||
| 27 Oct 2023 | Andrew Yang and the Church Burrito | 01:15:05 | |
Andrew Yang started doing stand-up seven years ago in Ann Arbor, Mich. He watched sets on Conan to get the feel of stand-up and decided to give it a try after his late-night packet wasn't selected. The host of the Blind Pig open mic, Yang founded the Tree Town Comedy Festival in March before deciding to let go of it. He's a husband and has a 3-year-old daughter, so he's busy enough. | |||
| 28 Jul 2023 | Demi Chang and the Wrong Thing to Say to the VA | 01:17:58 | |
Demi Chang started doing stand-up in Fairfax, Va., back in 2021 as a way to feel productive after her time in the Marine Corps. She's been able to find her footing in the Washington, D.C., scene and is planning a move to Austin, Texas. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she's loosely using her journalism degree while working with Robin Phoenix in the Best Medicine Brigade and the HEAL*ARIOUS programs. | |||
| 25 Aug 2023 | Cody Cannon and the Importance of Reading Labels | 01:18:18 | |
Cody Cannon moved to West Virginia in high school and fell in love with it. He moved to Brooklyn to start stand-up in 2010, but decided to come back. He got back int omedy in 2017 and began Red Eye Comedy. He just finished the second Red Eye Comedy Festival and continues to be the main show producer in Morgantown, W. Va. He's got a podcast, Comics and Chronic, that comes out every Thursday. | |||
| 06 Oct 2023 | Rebecca Jaffe and the Missouri Tree Frogs | 01:19:07 | |
Rebecca Jaffe started doing stand-up in the St. Louis scene. After graduating from Milikin University, she moved to Chicago with Hannah Magy to do stand-up and sketch comedy. Rebecca, who took classes at Second City, comes from a musical family -- her mom loves Broadway -- and was in a Jewish bluegrass band with her father and sibling called the Missouri Tree Frogs. She's been able to disarm audiences with her ukelele during her stand-up career, too. | |||
| 26 May 2023 | Josh Alba and the Drive to Create | 01:17:14 | |
Brooklyn comedian Josh Alba started doing stand-up back in 2011. It didn't go well. But he came back -- a couple times -- thanks to the encouragement from the Brooklyn Underground Comedy. Now he's producing his own show at the Pine Box Rock Shop called Putting it Out There. He hosts the Monday Nitro Party podcast and is set to do color commentary with the Shadow Wrestling Alliance in Ridgefield Park, N.J., on May 28. | |||
| 19 May 2023 | Hannah Belmont and the Long Night in Canton | 01:09:41 | |
Hannah Belmont started doing stand-up once she got to Oberlin College in Ohio and already has a full schedule. She's using her theater background to her advantage and has already performed at several festivals -- Rubber City, Flagship, Sixth City. She also survived a wild night in Canton. | |||
| 02 Jun 2023 | Chris Hasenauer and the Much-Needed Purpose | 01:17:15 | |
Chris Hasenauer is a comedian, producer and musician in Rochester. He was in bands for most of his life before finding himself on the stand-up stage at 29 years old. He's only looking forward now. He hosts a monthly show at Go Art! in Batavia, N.Y., and performs all over the state. | |||
| 09 Jun 2023 | Michael Furr and the Good Parts of Baltimore | 01:19:04 | |
Michael Furr is a comedian in Baltimore and the booking manager, producer, host, busser, etc., of the Lou Costello Room. He’s been doing stand-up for 10 years and has two specials – Straight Acting and I Didn’t Die – on Amazon Prime and Spotify and he’s working on a third. He’s one of the hardest working comedians in the area and is way too busy to waste his time with guys from Washington, D.C. | |||
| 16 Jun 2023 | Reed Sedgwick and the Move to Argentina and Back | 01:15:04 | |
Reed Sedgwick has been doing stand-up for 12 years. He moved to Argentina in his 30s and joined a story-telling group before taking a shot at comedy and moving back to Louisville, Ky. Sedgwick has been able to find a home as a gay trans man in the comedy scene and opened for Jackie Kashan, Beth Stelling and Kyle Kinane and been at the Limestone and Cape Fear Comedy Festivals. | |||
| 23 Jun 2023 | Lennon Free and the My Sharona from Hell | 01:19:32 | |
Lennon Free started doing stand-up as a freshman at Shippensburg University back in 2010. From Biglerville, Pa., outside of Gettysburg, he knows his apples. He latched ono the Harrisburg comedy scene while in college and moved to Austin, Texas, for a few years before coming back in April 2022. He streams video games and tells jokes. He's living the life. But he can't hear My Sharona the same ever again. | |||
| 30 Jun 2023 | Clay Newman and the Funeral Comedy Jam | 01:22:54 | |
Clay Newman is a super funny comedian in Los Angeles. He started doing stand-up in San Francisco in 2012. He's worked with Shane Torres, Kelsey Cook, Jenny Slate, Eric Andre, TJ Miller and Darrell Hammond and is a regular on the festival circuit all over the West Coast. He's also an actor and a big baseball fan. He even did a commercial with Giants catch Buster Posey right before he moved to Los Angeles -- four days before the pandemic began. He also knows when not to do stand-up. | |||
| 22 Sep 2023 | Max Fine and the Cheap Shot From a Meth Head | 01:22:37 | |
Max Fine started doing stand-up in Atlanta, a few minutes from Turner Field, so he had to be a Braves fan. He started doing stand-up in Atlanta and worked the road before moving to New York. He's been all over the country, working out the material for his debut album, "I Like His Style," which comes out on Oct. 13. The pre-orders begin on Sept. 22, though, so get your copy. He's a hilarious comedian and has a podcast with his childhood best fried, Michael Rowland, called In the Minivan. | |||
| 04 Aug 2023 | John Grier and the Birth of Grierfest | 01:12:21 | |
John Grier was sitting at a bar one night after his divorce and decided he needed to do something to help people remember him. So at 39 years old, he started doing stand-up. One of the few comedians in the Stroudsburg, Pa., area, Grier began producing shows five months into his young career under the Grierfest Comedy moniker. He books some of the best shows in Northeastern Pennsylvania and plans to record an album in 2024. | |||
| 14 Jul 2023 | Corey Alexander and the 17 Slowest Minutes | 01:28:08 | |
Corey Alexander has been a stand-up comic for the last two decades. He's a Philadelphia guy from the start. He's worked all over the country with pit stops in Los Angeles and New York City, but he's at home in Philly. He's got the Inside Jokes Podcast and the 4-for-4 podcast, where he talks about the 76ers, Flyers, Eagles and Phillies, and he's on stages all over Pennsylvania. | |||
| 11 Aug 2023 | Alex Bozinovic and the Time Free Weed Was a Bad Thing | 01:17:43 | |
Alex Bozinovic started doing stand-up in Detroit back in 2014. He was one of the founders of the Independent Comedy Club, from which he stepped away recently to focus more on his stand-up. He's been in several festivals, including Limestone and Middle Ground in Indianapolis, Fountain City in Kansas City and Gilda's Laugh Fest in Grand Rapids, Mich. He acted in college and did community theater before switching the stand-up and hosts the T.R.U.T.H. Cast and the Burt Selleck Podcast. He also knows the value of being sober enough to do stand-up coherently. | |||
| 18 Aug 2023 | Kasey Nicholson and the Small Favor for Shane Gillis | 01:21:29 | |
Kasey Nicholson is a Harrisburg comedian who got her start on stage after Shane Gillis put her name on the list. Since then, she worked in the United Arad Emirates with the Air Force and had a daughter before jumping back into the Harrisburg scene in 2019. She features regularly at the Church of Satire Comedy Club in Hanover, Pa., and is working with the Laughing Stock Comedy Club in Grantville, Pa. She's running an open mic there with Sara Cartwright. | |||
| 08 Sep 2023 | Tori Kilkenny and the Funny Ways to Build a Resume | 01:14:00 | |
Tori Kilkenny moved to Chicago in 2018 and started doing stand-up a month later. She did it as a way to improve her skillset as an actor and ended up finding a couple comedic homes -- in stand-up and sketch. She's splitting her time between both, running sketches with End of the Worm As We Know It at the Annoyance Theater, and doing stand-up all over Chicago. A Kansas City native, she's heading back there to the Fountain City Comedy Festival on Oct. 5-7. Kilkenny is running her half-hour at the Lincoln Lodge on Oct. 27. | |||
| 15 Sep 2023 | Delisia Nicholas and the Pig Named Hambo | 01:05:39 | |
Delisia Nicholas is a super funny comedian in Pensacola, Fla., who grew up with a ferret and 76 rabbits. She named them and everything. She started doing stand-up in 2019 and has already been at the Altercation Festival in Austin, Texas, the B4UDie Fest in Anchorage, Alaska, and Middle Ground Comedy Festival in Indianapolis. She's staying busy because she's got to support her cat, her dog and her pig, Hambo. She wants more, too, and she's determined to make enough money to support her four-legged habit. | |||
| 03 Nov 2023 | Ronnie Fleming and the Chase Freely Experience | 01:11:29 | |
Ronnie Fleming grew up doing improv in Havre de Grace, Md., and moved to New York City to pursue film school. He began doing stand-up when he got there and really improved when he started working the road. That's where he found his alter-ego, Chase Freely, too. He's working with Steve Hofstetter's Steel City Arts Foundation in Pittsburgh and runs Don't Tell Comedy shows. Fleming's special, "The Second Funniest Kid in School," debuted on YouTune in August. | |||
| 17 Nov 2023 | Gabbie Watts and the Uranus Tattoo | 01:26:16 | |
Gabbie Watts started doing stand-up in Atlanta about six years ago. She grew up playing the upright bass in orchestra and picked up the electric bass and guitar. She played in a punk band and recently decided to add a music element to her comedy repertoire, leading her to create the monthly show, Comedy Bandstand, at the Dynamic El Dorado in Atlanta. Gabbie works for IHeart Radio, too, where she's co-hosting the podcast, American Filth, which centers around the unseemly parts of the country's history. | |||
| 24 Nov 2023 | Jared Hazen and the Bathroom Search Party | 01:12:53 | |
Jared Hazen is four years into his stand-up career and just moved to Bristol, Tenn., in May. He spent eight years in the Air Force, working in the medical unit as a surgical technition and trying to relive what he saw on M*A*S*H. He got drunk at his first open mic at Chilkoot Charlie's in Anchorage, Alaska, and things have gotten better from there. He's learning the Tennessee scene now and just returned from the Lookout Comedy Festival in Chattanooga. | |||
| 01 Dec 2023 | Ray Roberts and the Big Bomb's Birthday | 01:28:17 | |
Ray Roberts grew up in Ohio and started doing stand-up while at Kent State back in 2014. He's worked all over the Midwest and is based in Milwaukee, Wisc., for now. Chicago is in his future. He features for Zoltan Kaszas and released his first album, "B-Sides All That," in 2020. He also hosts the Comedy and Mushroom Cult podcast. | |||
| 05 Jan 2024 | Gary Sharp, Jr. and the Brisk Walk Out | 01:15:46 | |
Gary Sharp, Jr. grew up playing football and basketball and running track in south New Jersey. He played college football at Johns Hopkins and began doing stand-up when his mom gave him the information for a comedy class at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia. Since starting in August of 2019, he's been working hard and is starting to stand out in the scene. He's been at clubs around Pennsylvania and just began the Gray Area Comedy Podcast with Jim K. Plus he's got a 3-month-old daughter, so the jokes are coming along nicely. | |||
| 12 Jan 2024 | Uzair Malik and the Bilingual Bomb | 01:10:13 | |
Uzair Malik is a graduate student at Northeastern in Boston and only 15 months into his stand-up career. But he's already made some impressive strides. After growing up in India, he started doing comedy in San Francisco before moving to the East Coast. He finished second at the New England's Funniest Comedian competition in 2023 and participated in the World Series of Comedy. He's opened for Dusty Slay, Shafi Hossain, Benny Feldman, Jaspreet Singh and Anthony DeVito. | |||
| 29 Dec 2023 | Holly Johnston and the Well-Intentioned Venmo | 01:01:14 | |
Holly Johnston graduated from Hofstra with a psychology major and radio, TV and film minor and then started doing stand-up in 2019 -- following in her dad’s footsteps. She grew up in Hopedale, Mass., and moved to Austin, Texas, where she was able to get plenty of time on stage. Holly moved back to Hopedale in the fall and is producing shows, too. She’s co-producing the Wooster Roast Battle at the Hotel Vernon on Friday, Dec. 29. | |||
| 02 Feb 2024 | Anna Huntley and the Hyaluronic Acid Supplements | 01:17:56 | |
Anna Huntley is a very funny comedian in Washington, D.C. She moved from South Carolina for a job and decided to get on stage five years ago at 36. A lifelong learning, she took improv, acting and stand-up classes and writes and performs on a sketch team. She also got permission from her landlord to get a cat, which might have a deeper, sadder meaning. | |||
| 09 Feb 2024 | Steve Vanderploeg and the Salty Nut | 01:14:18 | |
Steve Vanderploeg started doing stand-up in Denver, his hometown, 11 years ago. All he wanted to do back then was get a five-minute booking at the Comedy Works open mic. Now he's headlining there. Vanderploeg is touring the country and founded Roatating Tap Comedy back in 2019. He's putting that English degree to work. He's performed at the High Plains, 10,000 Laughs and Limestone Comedy Festivals and the SF Sketchfest. He's seen Denver become one of the best comedy scenes in the country and reveals the secret to why. | |||
| 16 Feb 2024 | Brian Enck and the Rise of a Third-String Lacrosse Goalie | 01:22:23 | |
Brian Enck got a laugh in an English class in middle school and turned it into a career as a stand-up comedian. He grew up in Rochester and got his start in comedy as a freshman at Keuka College. After doing open mics and a few shows, he transfered to film school in New York City, where he got good at stand-up. Enck moved up to Syracuse during the pandemic with his now-wife and is doing shows all over New York. He's working on his second half-hour special now. Not bad for a back-up lacrosse goalie. | |||
| 15 Mar 2024 | Alan Massenburg and the Action He's Got | 01:08:18 | |
Alan Massenburg started doing stand-up in Lancaster, Pa., in 2015. Already with two daughters, he decided to take his funny social-media persona onto the stage and it's paid off. He splits time between Lancaster with his kids and New York City and he recorded his debut album, "We Got Action," in November. It's available on March 22, so make sure to order it. He hosts the Proper Ebonics podcast with Kirk Griffiths and produces shows in Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, Delaware and South Carolina. All of that to avoid having a real job. | |||
| 12 Apr 2024 | Charlie Nadler and the Nature or Nurture of Comedy | 01:16:07 | |
Charlie Nadler is a stand-up comedian living in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. His parents, Marty and Holly Nadler, met while working on Laverne & Shirley, and Charlie was able to be on the sets of The Princess Bride and Pretty Woman and got to know Garry and Penny Marshall. Charlie wanted to be a screenwriter and worked in Los Angeles, where he started doing stand-up in 2010. He spent four years in New York City before moving to Massachusetts with his wife. Now he produces shows with Laugh Dealers and lives the life he wants. | |||
| 05 Apr 2024 | Jake Silberman and the Mmhmm Moment | 01:20:45 | |
Jake Silberman started doing stand-up in Minneapolis in 2013 before moving to Portland and beginning a serious run. He was one of Potland's best comedians, putting out "The Crowd Work Album" in 2020, and moved to New York City in 2022. He's toured the country in a van and worked with Norm Macdonald, Nate Bartgaze, Kyle Kinane and Nick Mullen. Jake's going to be recording a special in April and hopes to release it in the summer. He also hosts the Jake Silberman Show and the Hard Man Soft Boy podcasts. | |||
| 13 Oct 2023 | Aamir Arshad and the Failed Getaway Attempt | 01:14:54 | |
Aamir Arshad started doing stand-up a couple years ago in Rochester and he's already made some pretty big strides. He's a regular at the Comedy at the Carlson, works all over upstate New York and finished second at the Rochester's Funniest Person contest in 2023. He started his radio career while attending RIT and has a show, Only the Important Things, with Chris Hasenauer on WITR 89.7 FM. Aamir's planning a move to New York City in December. | |||
| 20 Oct 2023 | Maxwell Shultz and the Mysterious Mike and Ikes | 01:14:34 | |
Maxwell Shultz is a comedian, producer and author from Haverhill, Mass. He's extremely well-traveled, having been behind the mic in 40 states over his nine-year stand-up career, and he just released his second hour, "Just Another Beautiful Day," on YouTube. He's one of the comedians behind Malice Comedy, which produces shows in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. His book, "This is Why You Know Me," came out in 2017. A former musician, Shultz is working on his next two hours simultaneously and is working on scheduling a tour for 2024. | |||