Comedians
JJ Mattise is a writer/comedian/actress, born and raised in Queens, NY. Her style of comedy is unique, laid-back and has a diverse perspective on life.
She was the host/writer of Brooklyn's Best (Student Emmy Nominated Variety Series), and co-starred in the critically acclaimed movie, "Zero One" (Amazon Prime, the Jokerz Wild Comedy Series (Tubi) and headlined the 2022 Black Women in Comedy Festival. You can catch her regularly performing at clubs around the country.
Ron Josol is a Canadian-Filipino comedian who is well received in every corner of the world. Ron stirs up and samples the multicultural melting pot that mirrors life in most urban centers today. He presents hilarious scenarios and comments on our global society inherent contradictions by combining one-liner and storytelling styles. He has been regularly performing globally for almost 20 years, making him one of the most sought-after and vibrant comics working today. Most recently, Ron’s "Dry Bar Comedy" special clip went viral – increasing his followers by over 150k in just a few months. He now has over 4 million views on Facebook, 5.8 million views on Instagram, 3.8 million views on TikTok, and 1.7 million views on YouTube.
Ron was nominated for both “Best Male Comedian” and “Best Male Performance” in Canada, respectively. He has taped stand-up specials for “Comedy Now!,” Showtime, Showtime Arabia, and Comedy Central Asia, and he has appeared on “Gotham Comedy Live,” “Comics Unleashed,” “Last Call with Carson Daly,” and Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network. Currently, he can be seen in “Slanted” on Amazon Prime. Ron has performed in the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival 12 times, as well as in the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, LOL Comedy Festival in the Caribbean, Magners International Comedy Festival in Asia, Kings & Queens Festival in Malaysia and Singapore, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Maui and ALT Comedy Festival.
Alvin Kuai is a Nobel Prize-winning sex symbol who spends his free time curing impoverished children of their river blindness. When he's not giving away millions of dollars to charity, he can be found performing stand-up comedy.
Alvin is based in New York City where he is a regular at the Comedy Cellar, New York Comedy Club, and West Side Comedy Club. He was featured twice in the New York Comedy Festival, in 2021 as "Comic to Watch" and 2019 as "Best of New Talent." He was selected to perform at SF Sketchfest 2022 and the 2021 Red Clay Comedy Festival. He was also a finalist in the 2019 Devil Cup. He has over 200K followers across social media platforms and currently tours the country headlining various comedy venues
Skye Grayson began working in fashion and film in New York City as a teenager. She attended Columbia University, and started producing and performing stand-up comedy a year after college. She has performed at venues including Stand Up New York and Greenwich Village Comedy Club.
Pranav is a former writer for MAD Magazine and co-host of the popular Mango Bae Podcast. A favorite of festivals and clubs around the country, he was most recently featured in the 10k Laughs Festival (Best of the Fest), Rogue Island Comedy Festival, and headlined the 2018 Milwaukee Comedy Festival alongside Colin Quinn, Gina Yashere, and others. An up-and-coming actor, Pranav also has landed roles in forthcoming episodes of The Marvelous Ms. Maisel and HBO’s The Other Two, and has previously starred in Law & Order: SVU. He is also the writer and co-creator of the upcoming BRIC TV Web Series Problematic. You can find him across platforms @pranahaha
Charlie owes his existence to a TV show; his parents met while writing together on Laverne & Shirley. In 10+ years of performing standup, he has released two albums and told jokes around the world in clubs, colleges, festivals, bars, country clubs, teen centers, basements, attics, and one barber shop. He lives in New England where he also develops screenplays and with his wife raises their cat. He serves as co-founder of LaughDealers.com, a startup that produces custom comedy shows and content for companies.
Meka Mo is a Queens-born comedian, writer, and podcast host known for sharp wit, fearless honesty, and unfiltered storytelling. Seen on Don’t Tell Comedy, she’s performed worldwide, from top NYC clubs to the Edinburgh Fringe, and has been featured on HBO’s "Game Theory with Bomani Jones," the BBC, and major comedy festivals. Creator of the emotional wellness comedy podcast "We’re Done Here," Meka has been named a "Comic to Watch" by the New York Comedy Festival, won "Best of Fest" at the Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest, and was the final comic to perform at Carolines on Broadway.
Akeem Woods is the funny little brother you always (never) wanted — his comedy style will have you on the edge of your seat reeling from laughter! No topic is safe from discussion, whether it be the KKK or the hardships of growing up poor.
Akeem is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in NYC, was a semi-finalist on Stand Up NBC, has been seen on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network and just recently made his television debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden!
Currently you can find Akeem working on a new show for BET and at clubs and colleges all over the country.
Jiaoying Summers is a stand up comedian, Asian Hall of Fame inductee and social media comedy queen with over one billion online views and counting. She is a sold out national headliner. She recently starred in Netflix is a Joke Festival's Women in Comedy Show. Her 30-minute comedy special HOT GIRL SUMMERS is streaming on Peacock TV and Prime Video. Jiaoying is also an award-winning actress, CEO of Summers Group, and philanthropist empowering women and children and helping causes that touch Asian American communities. She was recently featured on BBC, CBS aNews, FOX News 5, NBC4, NBC Bay Area, KRON4, The LA Times, LA Confidential, San Francisco Chronicle, Yale Daily News, NHK World Japan and Vogue. She is the owner of The Hollywood Comedy in Los Angeles and focuses on producing shows that promote representation in comedy.
“A major voice on the national comedy scene.” - Vogue International
"Her name and survival story have one thing in common — a refusal to fade into the background."
- The LA Times
"[Summers is] amplifying the Asian American perspective through her work [with] uncensored, unapologetic comedic stylings."
- San Francisco Chronicle
Jiaoying Summers has been named one of “The Women Running The [Comedy] Scene in L.A.”
-The LA Times
Jimmy Cash is America’s Favorite Janitor. And yes, he prefers to be called a janitor and not a custodian. Jimmy is the father of a teenage daughter, an uncertain number of step-kids, and an elementary school janitor who’s been sober for 18+ years. His comedy draws from his many life experiences living and working on the mean streets of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Jimmy is known as the @janitorwithstamina on TikTok, where his hilarious videos have over 30 million views.
Jimmy stars as the Red Sox Groundskeeper in the Plymouth Rock Assurance ad series on NESN. He won the "Last Comix Standing Competition" at Mohegan Sun in 2021. He was the national touring opener for Comedian Bob Marley. He has also opened for Bobby Kelly, Rich Vos, Joe Dombrowski, and more.
Aaron Putnam is an American touring stand up comedian , currently based out of Chicago.
You can catch him at his home club. Laugh Factory , as well as many other comedy clubs like Zanies.
He is also the founder of Stand up in Recovery where he brings laughter to drug/ alcohol treatment centers across the country.
His comedy is said to be disarmingly funny and vulnerable.
Aaron feels blessed to have opened for some of the best comics working today. He says he gets these opportunities because he’s the best hang in the biz.
He also has a Podcast with his lovely wife called The Manchild &The Yogi .
Michael Palascak is a comedian who grew up in Indiana and now lives in LA. He performed on both The Late Late Show with James Corden and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the same year. He has over 1 million views on YouTube. In addition, his resume includes A Little Late with Lilly Singh, The Tonight Show, Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Conan, has a Comedy Central Half Hour special, and was a Top 5 Finalist on Last Comic Standing where one judge claimed, “My first impression of Michael was a great likability. This is a guy that could star in a sitcom.” Michael’s likability allows him to relate to his audiences in a real way which sets up the huge laughs he gets from his sharp, personal material. Consistently writing and performing, this summer Michael released both a new album— The Internet Live through 800 Pound Gorilla and a new stand-up special on the Dry Bar app— 1984. Available for free streaming. Drew Hunt of The Chicago Reader wrote about Michael, “In a lot of ways, he represents the ideal antidote to the sort of unbridled cynicism that pervades much of contemporary stand-up.” Michael’s optimism continues in the new National Lampoon series — The Bright Side where he takes a positive stance on a negative topic streaming on YouTube. www.michaelpalascak.com
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Max Antonucci is a stand up comedian born & raised in New Jersey, though he plans to die in another location. With his quick wit and gallows humor, he has made audiences across the country laugh at the absurdity of everyday life and thoughts. He has forgiven some of the people that led him to pursue a career in comedy and has already gained notice as a great performer with a bright future. He has written for Comedy Central's Roast of Alec Baldwin, performed on New York Comedy Festival, Jersey City Comedy Festival, Times Square Storytelling Festival, and can be seen regularly at New York Comedy Club.
Rafi Bastos - UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY TOUR Rafi Bastos is a 6’7” tall Jewish-Brazilian comedian with an accent like Dracula and a rapidly growing social media presence of stand up clips in English, mostly filmed from the prestigious Comedy Cellar in New York. In his home-country of Brazil, Rafi is a trailblazer of comedy, media and is one of the first comedians to pioneer the art of stand up comedy as we know it in Brazil. His17-year comedy and acting career before coming to the United States garnered many firsts and was covered in an interview on TheJoe Rogan Experience. Rafi set records, created controversy through freedom of speech and used the power of the internet to reach an astronomical social media following. Rafi’s videos with stage performances, music videos, interviews and sketches have now more than 370 million views on his Youtube channel alone. In 2011, he was considered by the NEW YORK TIMES as the Most Influential Man on Twitter, at the time with 7 million followers, now at 11.4 million. In 2013, Rafi won the SHORTY AWARDS, also known as the “Oscars of Social Media”, for Best Comedian. Both in English and Portuguese, Rafi continues to prove that he is among the most talented artists of Latin America - always setting the bar higher for innovation, quality and influence. Rafi’s quick-witted observational humor has made him a hit online and the first Brazilian comedian to become a regular at the most renowned comedy clubs globally, including COMEDY CELLAR in New York, LAUGH FACTORY, and THE HOLLYWOOD IMPROV in California. He is also the first Brazilian comedian to headline at JUST FOR LAUGHS, the largest comedy festival in the world, hosted in Montreal, Canada. Among his many credits, Rafi has three comedy specials on Netflix:, A Arte do Insulto, Péssima Influencia, and Ultimato. He has starred in movies, had his own controversial talk show, been an in-field journalist and hosted reality shows (Ultimate Beastmaster for Netflix). He is the Co-Founder and owner of Comedians, the largest comedy club in South America. Let’s just say Rafi has done almost everything in Brazil and now he’s in the USA to do it all with a fresh perspective - in UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY.
Talal Alyan is a stand-up comedian based in New York City. He is the co-producer of Under the Radar Comedy, a monthly comedy show at West Side Comedy Club. He's performed across the city and has been featured in Vice News, Huffington Post and elsewhere.
Levi White is a stand-up comedian based out of New York City by way of Cocoa, Florida. He is the co-producer of Under the Radar Comedy, a monthly comedy show at West Side Comedy Club and Tough Love Comedy at The Comedy Shop. Levi has been featured on Shudder, The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs, Salem Comedy Festival and Tower City Comedy Festival.