Send us a text 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. Follow Rebecca Jaffe: Instagra...
Oct 06, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 205
Send us a text 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....
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Send us a text 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 Mi...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 203
Send us a text 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...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 202
Send us a text 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 ha...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 201
Send us a text 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. Follow Shaun Murphy: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamshaunmurphy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamShau...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 200
Send us a text 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. Follow Cody Cannon: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walaka_cannon/ Twitter: https://tw...
Aug 25, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Send us a text 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. Follow Kasey Nicholson: Inst...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 198
Send us a text 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...
Aug 11, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 197
Send us a text 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. Follow John Grier: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grie...
Aug 04, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 196
Send us a text 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. Follow Demi Chang: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedemichang/ Sup...
Jul 28, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 195
Send us a text 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 Festiv...
Jul 21, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Send us a text 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. Follow Corey Alexander: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreycomedy/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Co...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Send us a text 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. Follow Tyler Ross: Instagram: https://www.instagra...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 192
Send us a text 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....
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Send us a text 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. Follow Lennon Free: Twitter: https://twitter.com/LennonFree Twitch: https://ww...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 190
Send us a text 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. Follow Reed Sedgwick: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reed.sedgwick/ Website: http://www.reedsedgwick...
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 189
Send us a text 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. Follow Michael Furr: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelfurrcomedy/ Twitter: h...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Send us a text 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. Follow Chris Hasenauer: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hazcomedy/ Intagram: https://www.instagram.com/hazcomedy/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hazcomedy?ug_source=op.auth&ug_term=Linktr.ee&...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 187
Send us a text 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. Follow Josh Alba: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjoshal...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 186
Send us a text 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. Follow Hannah Belmot: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahb.elmont/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HannahEBelmont Support the show...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 185
Send us a text 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. Follow Dave Yates: Instagram: https://ww...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 184
Send us a text 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. Follow John Lockwood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnl0ck...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 183
Send us a text 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. Follow Kyle Haunhost: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hahahauny/ Ru...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 182
Send us a text 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. Follow Alish...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 181
Send us a text 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. Follow Jay Yoder: Twitter: https:/...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 180
Send us a text 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 D...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 179
Send us a text 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. Follow Erin Depke: Instagram: https://www.instag...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 178
Send us a text 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. Follow Andrew Glessner: Instagram: https...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 177
Send us a text 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,...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 176
