Andrew Kennedy was born in Bogota, Colombia, has lived in Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Hong Kong, United States and is completely fluent in Spanish. He got into comedy in Norwalk Connecticut, and quickly became a headliner around the country. After being invited to perform as a "Master" at the Montreal Comedy Festival in 2002, he made a deal with CBS television to develop, produce and star in his own sitcom called “Related by Marriage” which was shot at the Sony Studios, Los Angeles and based on his comedy.
He is a storyteller who weaves the characters from his life throughout his entire performance. Each performance is electric, inspiring and unique, with his material growing and evolving as does his life. His half-hour special is currently airing on Comedy Central and with that chapter of his career behind him, he is concentrating on translating his entire act into Spanish. He has already begun performing completely in Spanish in the New York City area and the reaction has been amazing. A true Hispanic performer, Andrew's greatest accomplishments are yet to come.
At 27, Matt Kirshen's precision wit has already earned
him an impressive reputation on the UK comedy circuit.
His engagingly impish style is shot through with an intelligent
and skillful talent that belies his youthful appearance,
making him a firm favourite with audiences and fellow
comedians alike. With an impressive array of awards and
press accolades under his belt, Matt stormed the Edinburgh
Festival with his first solo show. Most recently his appearances
as a finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing
have earned him a whole new host of fans in America, Canada
and Australia. After a triumphant win at the 2003 Hackney
Empire New Act of the Year competition, Matt became an
instant success on the prestigious London and UK comedy
circuit. His many international appearances include The
Laughter Lounge, Dublin, and gigs for both English-speaking
and local audiences in Dubai, Oman, Singapore, Malta,
Holland, France, Austria and Germany, and, most recently,
The USA. "A rollercoaster of comedy genius… Hugely
impressive." The Scotsman.
Loni Love played Viola aka “Vi,” the hilariously outspoken
member in Mary and Jen's weight-loss group on NBC's
mid-season comedy Thick and Thin. A Detroit native, Loni
has been working the comedy scene for eight years. She
was awarded the Jury Prize for best stand up from the
2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and voted one of
Variety's 2003 10 Comics to Watch. A former engineer by
day and comic by night, Loni's credits include The Late
Late Show with Craig Kilborn, The Tonight Show w/ Jay
Leno, Comedy Central's Premium Blend
and The Best Damn Sports Show Period, in which she is
a recurring sketch player. She was also a finalist on
the first season of CBS' new Star Search.
Recently, Loni has been a star on VH-1's hit shows I Love
the 70's/80's/90's with guest starring roles on UPN
Girlfriends and Cuts. Loni is also the recurring character
“Lunch Lady Rose” on the Nickelodeon show Ned's Declassified
School Survival Guide. Most recently, Loni’s half hour
Comedy Central Presents debuted in February 2007.
In just a few years, this young Canadian comedian has burst
onto the International comedy scene since winning the homegrown
comedy competition at the prestigious Montreal Just For
Laughs comedy festival. He starred in his own CTV / Comedy
Network special called Comedy Now! – Nigel Lawrence
and has been seen on STAR-TV’s (Canada)
We’re in the Funny and Special: “10 Canadians to Watch”.
In addition to Montreal, he’s also done the Vancouver Comedy
Festival and was the winner for Canada’s Funniest
New Comic and Western Canada’s Funniest Comic.
Besides being a regular at all the Yuk Yuks across Canada,
he‘s also a regular performer at The Improv and The Laugh
Factory in Los Angeles where he’s relocated. Most recently,
he performed at Comedy For A Cure, a benefit for Tuberous
Sclerosis hosted by Calista Flockhart, Teri Hatcher and
Julianne Moore.
Unabashedly smart and wickedly funny, Leighann's on-stage
charisma, topics and punch lines get you laughing and thinking
at the same time! She's appeared on numerous stand-up comedy
shows, including Lifetime's Girls' Night Out, VH-1's Stand
Up Spotlight, HBO's Def Comedy All-Star Jam, Comedy Central's
Premium Blend 2 and NBC's Comedy Showcase. She represented
the United States in Trinidad's International Laugh Festival
and in England , she appeared on the BBC's wildly popular
television show Blouse and Skirt. On the big screen, she
appeared in the George Lucas film Radioland Murders with
Robert Klein and Bobcat Goldthwaithe. Most recently, Leighann
was seen on the Metro Channel's New Joke City. A native
New Yorker, Leighann was born and raised in Queens. She's
a graduate of Baruch College where she majored in Journalism
and Creative Writing.
Who can turn the world on with her smile? Mary Tyler Moore.
But who can turn the world on with her hysterical stories,
original humor, and boisterous characters? Kerri Louise.
High-energy, commanding and versatile--but enough about
her sex life-- Kerri can entertain any audience with her
warmth and razor-edge wit. So it’s no wonder that NBC took
Kerri all the way to the finals in the show Last
Comic Standing with Jay Mohr. Kerri may not have
gotten in the house on the hit reality show, but she impressed
The Women’s Entertainment network for them
to make her the star of their new reality show call “TWO
FUNNY”. You will surely get a laugh while watching
Kerri along with her husband and her twin baby boys this
spring on the WE Network. Kerri’s broad
appeal has made her a natural on television appearances
like NBC’s Access Hollywood, The
Apprentice, ABC’s The View, Comedy
Central, VH1, 20/20,
and New Joke City. Part Generation-X, part
Girl-Next-Door, Kerri Louise is a pleasure to watch. Her
movie debut in The Next Karate Kid addicted
her to show-biz, hence her move from her hometown of Boston
to New York City, where she quickly established herself
as a player in the top comedy clubs. These credits plus
her appearance in the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival
and the Montreal Comedy Festival has made
Kerri and attraction.
Brad Lowery has long been a favorite at Colleges and Universities
across the country. He averages over 200 College performances
per year and was nominated for Comedian of the Year 4 times
in a row. He's been seen on A & E 's Caroline's Comedy Hour,
Star Search and twice on NBC's Showtime at the Apollo. He's
opened for acts such as Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Tommy
Davidson. This past year he's been doing the audience warm
up for The Queen Latifah Show on Fox and can be seen on
the Fox Television special entitled Comedy Flava which first
aired in November. Brad currently resides in the New York
City area and has a black belt in karate.
Matarese grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ and at the age of nineteen moved his standup act from his parent¹s basement to the local Philadelphia clubs. Three years after breaking into the Philly comedy scene, he moved to New York City to pursue his life long dream. He soon became a regular at all the A-list comedy clubs and was paving his path in show business. Joe's completely autobiographical act pokes fun at his subtly dysfunctional Italian family, his own neuroses, life with a newborn baby boy, and his marriage to a psychologist (his perfect match). After years of failed relationships, his main objective is fixing Joe he has to if he wants this relationship to work. Joe’s talent for turning real life struggles into comedic gems quickly landed him appearances on the most sought after TV and radio shows including The Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents (his very own 1/2 hour special), The Howard Stern Show and Breuer Unleashed on Sirius Satellite Radio, Howard On Demand, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, and NBC's Last Comic Standing. You may also recognize him from Bravo’s reality series Better Half where he teaches his wife to perform standup and she brings home the $20,000 prize. Joe has also hit the stage four times at the prestigious Montreal Comedy Festival, leading to two development deals with major television networks. He now tours regularly with Artie Lange from the Howard Stern Show at world famous venues such as Carnegie Hall. Check him out - within minutes you’ll feel like your life is perfect! Joematarese.com
Born and raised
on the rough streets of Brooklyn, New York. Realizing early
that he'd better work hard or wind up in the projects, which
were directly across the street, he decided to pursue comedy.
After paying many dues, Reggie soon became a top favorite
in The Big Apple. His big break surfaced when the producers
of HBO's Def Comedy Jam, booked him on their show. He was
an instant success. Upon moving to LA, Reggie landed a role
on the FOX network hit show Martin and soon after that he
became the newest member on the FOX hit sketch comedy show
In Living Color. Reggie has been seen on the following television
shows: The Chappelle Show, (pilot); Curb Your Enthusiasm,
"Officer Burt" (recur);In Living Color, Cast Member; Getting
Personal, "Eric" (recur); Gun,"Reese"; Moesha, Guest Star;
Coach, Guest Star; Martin, "Pretty Ricky"; Hanging with
Mr. Cooper, "Dwayne"; What Goes Around, Co-star; Scooter,
Co-star. He's been seen on the following shows performing
his stand up comedy: Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy
Central Presents-Reggie McFadden ˝ hour special, Late Night
w Conan O'Brien, Colin Quinn's Tough Crowd, Politically
Incorrect with Bill Maher and Russell Simmons' HBO Def Comedy
Jam All-Stars to name just a few.
Alexandra McHale was thrilled to make her
network debut on NBC’s The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno. She’s also been seen on CBS’s
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Comedy Central’s
Premium Blend and New Joke City with Robert Klein on the
Metro Channel. After her appearance at
the prestigious Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival,
The Hollywood Reporter cited Alexandra
as one to watch “who scored points with quick barbs.” Alexandra
grew up in Connecticut before relocating to New York City,
where she became a lifetime member of the prestigious Actors’
Studio and studied with acting greats such as Paul Newman,
Sally Field and Ellen Burstyn. She is a frequent commentator
on VH1’s I Love The 80’s, Supersecret TV
Formulas and The 100 Most Cheesetastic Video Countdown.
In addition to appearances on network television, Alexandra
has headlined at over 300 colleges and was voted 2002 and
2003 Female Entertainer of the Year by the readers of Campus
Activities Magazine, been nominated for 2005 Female
Entertainer of the Year and was nominated Performer of the
Year by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities.
No comedian has a more celebrated career than Jim Mendrinos.
This comedy powerhouse has brought his observations, opinions
and inspired lunacy to hundreds of campuses to overwhelming
praise. His one-man concert is a spiraling stream of consciousness
that goes beyond your average stand-up. It is as if Jim
carries on an hour-long conversation with the audience.
But don’t let his effortless style fool you; his material
is the type that you will quote for months after the show.
Jim has been seen on HBO’s Comic Relief,
on Comedy Central, NBC
and the BBC. He was featured on AOL
Comedy. He has written for Saturday Night Live,
Letterman, and is also the author of The Complete Idiot’s
Guide to Comedy Writing. “Awesome, just awesome!” University
of Delaware, “One of the best shows here, ever!” University
of West Virginia and “Standing O! Funny! Funny! Funny!”
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Megan learned crowd-pleasing skills early. On the day her
fourth grade teacher was collecting spelling workbooks to
be graded for the semester, Megan threw up on a whole pile
of them - giving everyone automatic As. Megan learned to
deal with disappointment at an early age. In high school,
she led the campaign to have Davy Jones sing at her Senior
Prom. Davy never showed up. And more tragically, only a
few days later Megan's brothers were throwing a football
in the backyard when it accidentally hit her in the face,
breaking her nose, and making her realize that now she'll
never be a teen model. Since her modeling days were over,
Megan drowned herself in a four year drinking binge called
college. After graduating cum laude from John Carroll University,
Megan moved to Austin, Texas and began her rise in comedy
at the local comedy club.
Megan’s relaxed and approachable comedy style gains her
instant approval with audiences. The Indianapolis Star describes
her as a “sarcastic, smart-ass extraordinaire with a myriad
of truly original topics.” Megan has performed in the prestigious
HBO US Comedy Arts Festival a well as the
Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival
in Montreal. She has been seen on Comedy Central’s
Premium Blend , the E Network and can be heard
on XM Satellite Radio. In March of 2006,
Megan stared in her very own comedy special entitled Comedy
Central Presents, Megan Mooney. Megan now resides
in Los Angeles with her husband.
John Mulaney was discovered sitting at a soda fountain on Sunset Blvd in the 1940s and now has some big-shot contract with RKO. He is also a comedian who appears every week on VH1's BEST WEEK EVER and has performed on LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN and Comedy Central's LIVE AT GOTHAM. In 2006 he co-created I LOVE THE 30s and All-Access Middle Ages for Comedy Central's MOTHERLOAD channel. Mulaney has spent the last year touring with Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn and more on the 2007 COMEDIAN'S OF COMEDY tour as well as with Mike Birbiglia on his SECRET PUBLIC JOURNAL LIVE TOUR. Now living in New York City, Mulaney appears in clubs, theaters and colleges around the country. He is nice, kind of tall, whatever.
Kumail spent the first 18 years of his life in Karachi, Pakistan, then made the natural transition to Iowa. He was so excited to leave Iowa four years later that he started performing comedy immediately. If you think that you know everything a Pakistani-Iowan might have to say, think again. Kumail's comedy covers a broad range of topics, from giant squids to units of measurement, from men on the moon to his love of chocolate. He leaves audiences gasping for air and has been featured on Fox News and was a finalist for the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festivals.Beyond being a hugely funny “alt” comedian, Kumail has also been commissioned by the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago to create a one-man show – Unpronounceable- directed by renown comedy helmer Paul Provenza (of The Aristocrats). Kumail has also played clubs throughout the US, and has featured in theaters for talent including Zack Galifianakis and Arj Barker. He is also a writer and performer with stand-up/short film comedy collective Blerds and has been featured prominently on websites including Super Deluxe, YouTube, My Space Comedy, and many others.
Dan Naturman began performing stand-up comedy while a student at Fordham University School of Law. After graduating, he decided to let $80,000 worth of education go to waste and devote himself to comedy full time. Dan’s charming self-deprecating style has since made him a hit with comedy club audiences from coast to coast. He was the favorite of celebrity judges Drew Carey and Brett Butler on NBC’s Last Comic Standing 2 and has made several appearances on Late Show with David Letterman and Late Nite with Conan O’Brien. He can also be seen on his own Comedy Central Presents half-hour special.
NBC's Stand-Up for Diversity College Tour
In its fourth consecutive year, NBC is proud to present another groundbreaking year of Stand-Up for
Diversity. Through this initiative comedians of diverse backgrounds have been launched to new career
milestones. Each year NBC selects 3-5 cities across the country and holds both auditions and live
showcases of the top diverse talent from that area. At the end of the search a handful of comedians are
brought back to Los Angeles to showcase for key industry players at NBC and industry-wide. Many of the
comics from last year's Best of Stand-Up for Diversity showcase signed with top Hollywood agents and met
with the entertainment industry's leading casting directors and executives. Three of the performers were
among the 20 comics selected to participate in the prestigious Aspen U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
Additionally, two of the three comics were sent by NBC to the NACA (National Association of Campus
Activities) National Convention where they booked a record number of nearly 60 college appearances
between them for the coming year and one lucky comic was signed to a talent holding deal with NBC
Universal. Due to the success and broad appeal of this initiative, NBC Universal is currently launching
a Stand-Up for Diversity nationwide college tour for 2008.
J. Chris Newberg’s refreshingly smart and edgy humor, delivered with a streetwise sense of philosophic cool, has propelled the guitarist/songwriter-cum-comedian to the forefront of the Michigan comedy scene. Just five months after Newberg’s debut, a Detroit Free Press story on metro Detroit comedy cited him as one of five local comics most likely to break out into the national spotlight. A guitarist and songwriter for veteran Detroit rock band, the Vudu Hippies, Newberg’s standup comedy cleverly combines his hilarious and off-beat observations on life with original, acoustic guitar melodies. His improvisational, acoustic interludes led him to enroll at the nationally renowned Second City Comedy Troupe, where he studied improv humor for two years. As a comic, he has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) Comedy Central's Premium Blend (Comedy Central) The World Stands Up (BBC) Last Comic Standing 4 (NBC) and The Sports List (Fox Sports). One of the most original talents to burst upon the Midwest comedy scene in years, J. Chris Newberg is a talent destined for national exposure. Currently, he’s in production on his own reality show.
New
York Underground Comedy Festival College Tour
For the past 5 years the biggest and most influential
comedy festival in America has been the NYC Underground
Comedy Festival. Each fall over 300 emerging and established
comedy performers descend on NYC for a ten-day celebration
of comedy as an art form. Core to the festival is its
reputation of finding the next generation of comedy stars
years before anybody else. The NYC Underground Comedy
Festival College Tour brings the festival to your campus.
The roster of talent is comprised of a dozen of the best
of the festival’s performers, and each show features 3
of these rising stars on your stage for 90 minutes of
the newest cutting edge comedy! So if you happen to be
in NYC you’re more than welcome to come to the festival,
but why not have the NYC Underground Comedy Festival come
to you? More information and performers bios are available
at www.nycundergroundcomedyfestival.com.
Tom Papa is one of the rising comedians on the scene today,
bringing a refreshing style of comedy that looks at our
everyday life in this fast changing world. He has appeared
on NBC's Friday Night Videos, Comedy Central 's Premium
Blend and CBS's Late Show w/ David Letterman. He's opened
for Kenny Loggins and Jerry Seinfeld. On the corporate scene
he's worked for MCI/Worldcom, JP Morgan and Dewar's Scotch.
He performs at comedy clubs across the country, from Nick's
in Boston to the Comedy Stop in Las Vegas. Currently, he
can be seen on his own ˝ hour comedy special, Comedy Central
Present's.Tom Papa. Tom's a graduate of Rider College in
New Jersey and makes his home in New York City where he
is a regular at Caroline's Comedy Club.
Chelsea Peretti is a stand-up comic, writer, and actor based in New York. Chelsea has created
two original series for Turner's SuperDeluxe.com including "All My
Exes," which New York Magazine named as one of 20 Funniest Web Videos of
2007. It was staged live in 2007 at The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. Chelsea
is co-creator of the New York City Rejection Line:
(212) 479-7990 and of the web satire BlackPeopleLoveUs.com,
which brought her to HBO Aspen Comedy Festival's "Off the Web" in
2006. Chelsea was a regular on VH1's "Awesomely Bad" series. She recently filmed
"Live at Gotham" and was featured in the
pilot, "Search and Destroy" for Comedy Central. Her voice is featured in Grand Theft Auto IV. She has written for
MTV, Playgirl, the VillageVoice, Details, SuperEgo Games, and the Gawker book. Chelsea performs regularly in New York at various comedy clubs and
theaters.
Brooklyn native, Dwayne Perkins is a young vet in the comedy
game. With appearances on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien,
CBS's The Late Late Show w/ Craig Kilborn, and Comedy Central's
Premium Blend Dwayne has earned a spot in today's class
of elite stand-up comics. Dwayne is a regular crowd pleaser
in New York, Boston and Los Angeles. The recent culmination
of Dwayne's talent and work has resulted in his very own
Comedy Central Presents half hour special which was ranked
in the top 25 of all time by viewers. The very well received
special showcases Dwayne's unique way of looking at life
and unparalleled ability to convey it in a hilarious manner.
Look for Dwayne in the HBO movie The Gristle, on The Learning
Channel teaching a Seattle fireman a thing or two about
comedy on the show Faking It or in the soon to be released
independent film Target Audience 9.1. In a movie rich with
talent, where Breakfast Club meets Night of the Last Comet,
Dwayne's offers much comic relief as the funny likeable
geek. Lastly, don't Tivo out those commercials as you never
know when Dwayne will pop up in an ad pushing products for
The Man.
