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| Shawn Barnes and the Upstairs Neighborly Advice | 14 Nov 2025 | 01:14:55 | |
Shawn Barnes did his first set while going to SUNY Oneonta back in the early 2010s and occasionally came back to stand-up. It wasn't until an established comedian moved upstairs that he decided to give it a real go. Now he's working all over New York and just won the Capital Region's Funniest Comic competition. He's getting work at the Albany Funny Bone and the Comedy Works in Saratoga. Follow Shawn Barnes: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shawnbarnes32/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnbarnes32 Twitter: https://x.com/ShawnBarnes32 | |||
| Matt Drufke and the 600 Silent Eagles Fans | 07 Nov 2025 | 01:28:07 | |
Matt Drufke has been doing stand-up in and around Chicago for about 20 years. He's one of a nine-person team behind the Still Not Friday show in Aurora, Ill., that just celebrated its 10th anniversary. He was able to book Kyle Kinane for that show and they're hoping to get comedians of a similar status for future shows. He's been able to watch some of the best comics in the country come through the Chicago scene and he's just trying to play his part in making the scene as strong as it can be. Follow Matt Drufke: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ihatemattdrufke/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/ihatemattdrufke.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mattdrufke TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ihatemattdrufke | |||
| Serena Thiel and the Kill Tony Backstage 11K | 05 Sep 2025 | 01:07:32 | |
Serena Thiel is has been letting life take her where she feels comfortable -- and it's working out for her. She started doing stand-up in Bozeman, Mont., in 2020 with her friend, Alex Kaufman. After a couple years off, she opted not to go to Mexico while traveling and stayed in Austin, Texas. She got back on stage and found herself doing really well on Kill Tony in March. They invited her to perform at their show in Madison Square Garden. That went well, too. She's approaching comedy like a job now in hopes that she can put off having to get a real one. Follow Serena Thiel: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shut.up.serena/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shut.up.serena Website: https://serenathiel.com/ Short Story Long Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shortstorylongpod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@shortstorylongpodcast | |||
| Zachary Wycuff and the Combination of Church and State | 15 Dec 2023 | 01:12:18 | |
Zachary Wycuff started doing stand-up at the University of Cincinnati when he was 21 years old and he stayed put. He's been at it for eight years and has established himself as a strong comedian in the Midwest. He was just at the Flyover Comedy Festival in St. Louis and has a Dry Bar Comedy special waiting to be released. He worked as a probation officer before taking a job as a social media director at his church, but he's happiest on stage. And he works clean, too, so he's mother-approved. | |||
| Andy McDermott and the Run-In with Pierre the Pirate | 08 Dec 2023 | 01:05:28 | |
Andy McDermott has been doing stand-up in the Husdon Valley and Albany areas for almost a decade. He's one of the strongest comedians in the upstate area and runs More Than Jokes, his production company, where he books talent across the Northeast. He works regularly at the Syracuse Funny Bone and the Laugh it Up Comedy Club in Poughkipsee, among others. He takes writing jokes very seriously and has opened for Kyle Kinane, Big Jay Oakerson and Eddie Brill. A father of a 1-year-old, McDermott has a wife, but he might actually like jokes more. | |||
| Ray Roberts and the Big Bomb's Birthday | 01 Dec 2023 | 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. | |||
| Jared Hazen and the Bathroom Search Party | 24 Nov 2023 | 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. | |||
| Gabbie Watts and the Uranus Tattoo | 17 Nov 2023 | 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. | |||
| Erin Lok and the Validated Parking Spots | 10 Nov 2023 | 01:29:37 | |
Erin Lok started doing stand-up in Madison, Wisc., after she promised her dad she'd give it a try. Four years later, she's running her own shows in Charleston, S.C. A track and field athlete and sociology student at SUNY Cortland, she began her comedy career by auditioning for an improv troupe. When her dad got sick, she came back to Long Island and changed paths right before the pandemic. She kept with stand-up and has been in the Vermont Comedy Festival, where she got an idea for her first comedy competion, which is happening at Two Blokes Brewing Co. in Charleston on Friday, Dec. 8. | |||
| Ronnie Fleming and the Chase Freely Experience | 03 Nov 2023 | 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. | |||
| Andrew Yang and the Church Burrito | 27 Oct 2023 | 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. | |||
| Maxwell Shultz and the Mysterious Mike and Ikes | 20 Oct 2023 | 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. | |||
| Aamir Arshad and the Failed Getaway Attempt | 13 Oct 2023 | 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. | |||
| David Kopp and the Man to Know in Kelowna | 29 Aug 2025 | 01:16:30 | |
David Kopp started doing stand-up in British Columbia, Canada, when he was 30 years old. In the 18 years since, he's become one of the premier producers in the province, written a book, "Kill Dave," and runs the successful Kelowna Comedy Club in Kelowna. He does about 270 shows a year at the club, so he's constantly in promotion mode, just trying not to fall behind. He should also be teaching a business class. Follow David Kopp: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelownacomedy/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.kopp.714 Twitter: https://x.com/davidbrycekopp Kelowna Comedy Club: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Davidkopppresents Website: https://kelownacomedy.ca/ | |||
| Rebecca Jaffe and the Missouri Tree Frogs | 06 Oct 2023 | 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. | |||
| Devin Mahoney and the Road from Scrubs to the Uptown Comedy Festival | 29 Sep 2023 | 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. | |||
| Max Fine and the Cheap Shot From a Meth Head | 22 Sep 2023 | 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. | |||
| Delisia Nicholas and the Pig Named Hambo | 15 Sep 2023 | 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. | |||
| Tori Kilkenny and the Funny Ways to Build a Resume | 08 Sep 2023 | 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. | |||
| Shaun Murphy and the Comedy Cellar | 01 Sep 2023 | 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. | |||
| Cody Cannon and the Importance of Reading Labels | 25 Aug 2023 | 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. | |||
| Kasey Nicholson and the Small Favor for Shane Gillis | 18 Aug 2023 | 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. | |||
| Alex Bozinovic and the Time Free Weed Was a Bad Thing | 11 Aug 2023 | 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. | |||
| John Grier and the Birth of Grierfest | 04 Aug 2023 | 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. | |||
| Jacob Parnell and the Many Sides of a Church Clown | 22 Aug 2025 | 01:23:51 | |
Jacob Parnell grew up in Seattle and played the drums and bass in punk bands. His band, Aria Decline, opened for Dashboard Confessional, Something Corporate and Switchfoot. He decided to study theology at Pepperdine University and is now a pastor in Livermore, Calif. He started doing stand-up in 2018 and got serious about it after the pandemic. A father of five daughters and a husband, he's happy at the church, so every show feels like a bonus. Follow Jacob Parnell: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobparnellcomedy/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6dbBZ8rpM0wviesqaA6aCg | |||
| Demi Chang and the Wrong Thing to Say to the VA | 28 Jul 2023 | 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. | |||
| Ben Frank and the Comedy Vigil | 21 Jul 2023 | 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. | |||
| Corey Alexander and the 17 Slowest Minutes | 14 Jul 2023 | 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. | |||
| Tyler Ross and the Switch from Skates to the Stage | 07 Jul 2023 | 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. | |||
| Clay Newman and the Funeral Comedy Jam | 30 Jun 2023 | 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. | |||
| Lennon Free and the My Sharona from Hell | 23 Jun 2023 | 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. | |||
| Reed Sedgwick and the Move to Argentina and Back | 16 Jun 2023 | 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. | |||
| Michael Furr and the Good Parts of Baltimore | 09 Jun 2023 | 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. | |||
| Chris Hasenauer and the Much-Needed Purpose | 02 Jun 2023 | 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. | |||
| Josh Alba and the Drive to Create | 26 May 2023 | 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. | |||
| AJ Foster and the Life-Changing Weekend in Buffalo | 15 Aug 2025 | 01:04:01 | |
AJ Foster is one of the best stand-ups to come out of upstate New York over the last two decades. He grew up in the Bronx, but started stand-up in 2010 while going to college in Utica. He was a big piece of the upstate scenes before moving to New York City in 2016. One weekend at the Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo in 2015 led to that decision along with a friendship and opening spot with Jay Pharoah. Foster is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas and is recruiting the rest of his family to make the trip. He tours the country and his special, "Pay It Forward," came out Follow AJ Foster: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajfostercomedy/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ajfostercomedy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juscallmeaj YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AJFosterComedy Pay It Forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjiqZuVMgs Laugh It Forward: https://lnk.to/LIFJayPharoah!AJF?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeHZzaOW9hWe1dnztFE2yx6QvjDqjW9APYGqjmRqlMv4IvR6yBif5LY-6csEA_aem_66Z5W43lM5JkldY8rRhYXw Lyft Comics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZbYAotYuXcM&feature=youtu.be Merch: https://ajfostercomedy.square.site/ | |||
| Hannah Belmont and the Long Night in Canton | 19 May 2023 | 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. | |||
| Dave Yates and the Business Side of Comedy | 12 May 2023 | 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. | |||
| John Lockwood and the Failed Robbery | 05 May 2023 | 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. | |||
| Kyle Haunhorst and the Rubber City Comedy Festival | 28 Apr 2023 | 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. | |||
| Alisha Rayne and the Busy Bzzzline | 21 Apr 2023 | 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. | |||
| Jay Yoder and the Lone Souvenir | 14 Apr 2023 | 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. | |||
| Greg Behrens and the Perfect Timing | 07 Apr 2023 | 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. | |||
| Erin Depke and the Comedy Student | 31 Mar 2023 | 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. | |||
| Andrew Glessner and the Potato Gun | 24 Mar 2023 | 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. | |||
| Ella Fritts and the YouTube Special | 17 Mar 2023 | 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? | |||
| Anthony Morelli and the Flagship City Comedy Fest | 10 Mar 2023 | 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. | |||
| Prateek Srivastava and the DePaul Debut | 03 Mar 2023 | 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. | |||
| Cody Montanye and the Open Mic Gunman | 24 Feb 2023 | 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. | |||
| Mike Celona and the Pop Punk Princess | 17 Feb 2023 | 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. | |||