Comedians


Lindsey Jennings is a bicoastal comedian and artist from New York. She’s also an active model for the company SuicideGirls. You can catch her opening their burlesque show with her standup all over the globe this year!
In a city known for its fast-pace and high-tension, Petey DeAbreu is a fresh breath of seriously cool air. The Bronx native has been around for a few years, performing at comedy festivals, on popular stages around the city and on your favorite podcasts and albums, many of which we’ve reviewed here. He’s calm, he’s cool and he’s definitely going to make you laugh.
Joe Vecsey is a comedian, producer, writer, and actor. Most recently, he acted and co-produced "Hustle," starring Adam Sandler, on Netflix. He was also a producer on Kevin James's "Home Team" and played The Announcer. Joseph has been co-producing, acting, and punching up scripts for many movies with Happy Madison such as "Hubie Halloween," The Wrong Missy," "Father of The Year," "The Week Of," "Sandy Wexler," and "Murder Mystery" starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston which was one of Netflix's biggest hits. More on screen, Joseph was in the hit commercials and web series "The Unmovers." Vecsey also wrote, directed, starred in, and produced the parody sketch "Stud Walk" for Charlamagne The God's MTV2 show "Uncommon Sense." Joseph made his TV stand-up debut in 2015 on "Gotham Comedy Live" on AXS TV and was named one of Comedy Central's Top Ten Comics To Watch the following year. Shortly after, Vecsey opened and toured with Adam Sandler, David Spade, Norm Macdonald, Nick Swardson, and Rob Schneider in arenas and theaters all across the country. Joseph also served as a co-producer on Adam Sandler's first stand-up comedy special on Netflix, 100 % Fresh." Upcoming on Netflix soon as a producer/on set writer/actor is You're So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and Murder Mystery 2." The Call Back Podcast is also something audiences can still listen to that features comedic legends Garry Shandling, Chris Rock, Aziz Ansari, Romany Malco, Neal Brennan, Tom Green, Gary Gulman, and more who talk about their process, craft, and big break moments. OTHER CREDITS: Toured with Adam Sandler for over 40 dates. On set writer for Neal Brennan's Jordan campaign with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin. Opened for David Spade at The Comedy Store, West Palm Beach Improv, & Levity Live. Opened for Rob Schiender at West Palm Beach Improv, Ontario Improv, Flappers Comedy Club, The Comic Strip Live, Tempe Improv, Suffolk Theater, & The Wilbur Theater.
Ron Nobles is a New York City-based stand-up comedian. He is a regular in the New York City comedy scene and performs at colleges, clubs, and theatres all over the country. He is a founding member of the Escape From NY Comedy Tour, that brings NYC comics all over the US. He's been featured on Yahoo Sports Radio and in the New York Comedy Festival. He’s a clean-cut every man with a knack for storytelling. Ron Grew up in a small town south of Buffalo called Gerry, NY but, he currently resides in New York City with his boxer Tony.
Molly Ruben-Long is a comedian/actress/writer/woman with great bangs. She was a New Face at Just for Laughs in Montreal and has been featured on Viceland, Fuse and the BBC. She is the co-host of Well Behaved, a weekly podcast that tells you about women from history you probably have never heard of. She is also a regular contributor to Someecards.com.
Neil Rubenstein doesn’t do drugs. He’s never had a sip of alcohol. So it may come as a bit of a surprise when the Long Island comedian references past occupations like owning a brothel or running an illegal poker room. It’s a dynamic that makes Neil both incredibly interesting and incredibly funny – something that served him well when his role on a Spike TV show as a gambling expert introduced him to the world of stand-up comedy. Stand up was more than an outlet – it straightened out his life. “I accidentally became a good role model,” Neil Rubenstein says. Neil doesn’t shy away from discussing his former life of crime. Though he credits comedy with in some ways saving his life, his past experiences inform his understanding and his art. They also inform his work ethic. “I can’t just play cards, I had to run a poker room,” Neil says, by way of explanation. It’s an ethic he brings to his comedy: a dedication to doing something to the utmost degree. “I couldn’t just do stand up, I had to quit my job and focus everything on the craft.” His dedication and humor have earned him accolades including runner up in 2017 Long Island Laugh Off and the Main Event of The World Series of Comedy. “Neil’s a burly, tattooed guy who plays against type; kind, cerebral, but still casually mentions past illegal activities the way I might reference a Renaissance Lit course I took in college,” Joe Devito, famous comedian, said about Neil’s show. It’s a show you won’t want to miss.
Lucas Connolly has been seen on Seeso's New York's Funniest Comedians (2016), Comedy Central's New York and South Beach Comedy Festivals (online/2012 - 2014), and won the National Lampoon Joke Off (2011). He has been featured in a national commercial for Joe's Crab Shack and was featured on the front page of Reddit countless times.
Brian Scolaro was born in a log cabin in Eggplant, West Virginia in 1876. And was visited during the night by Three Shephards. They beat the shit out of him for six hours. His mother was a ghost pimp and his father was a washing machine. Brian went to High school in the Philipines, where he spent four years learning to become an asshole. He received notoriety when he discovered a cure for “sight” by poking people in the eyes. Brian was killed by a large bear when he was sixteen, but he did not let that stop his acting dreams. He moved to Hollywood in 1872 and now sells garbage under a bridge.
Comedian, podcast host and Alzheimer’s advocate, Jessimae Peluso, appeared on MTV’s “Girl Code” and “Safe Word”, The Joe Rogan Experience, TBS’s “Deal With It”, NBC’s “Last Call w/Carson Daly”, E!’s “Chelsea Lately”, FOX’s “World’s Funniest Fails”, VH1’s “Hip Hop Squares”, AXS’ “Gotham Live”, and multiple appearances on Comedy Central’s, “@Midnight and TruTV’s “Comedy Knockout”, David Spade’s Lights Out, and your local news. Jessimae Peluso, most known from MTV’s “Girl Code”, can be heard weekly hosting The Sharp Tongue Podcast. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, Sound Cloud and Google Play. You can watch her LIVE every Wednesday on her IG and FB Live show “Weedsday”, an interactive broadcast for her fans that raises awareness and charity for the Alzheimer’s Disease. An important cause for Jessimae as her father passed away from Alzheimer’s in October 2018. Jessimae was featured in the Just For Laughs festival, Joe Rogan Experience, Moontower Comedy Festival, Kid Rock’s Chillin’ The Most cruise, New York Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, and featured on Kevin Hart’s LOL Live network. She has contributed to Cosmopolitan Magazine, High Times Magazine, DOPE Magazine, Self Magazine, GQ.Com, Playboy.com, MadeMen.com, and was highlighted in Huffington Post as ‘one of the funniest comics to follow on Twitter’. And also highlighted by her stalker as “an easy person to follow on the street.” Peluso also recently has started to tour with the USO, bringing her high energy and fun comedy to our troops stationed in Japan, Iraq, Bahrain, and Afghanistan. John Stamos has also tweeted, “Who are you?” in response to Jessimae’s numerous online marriage proposals. For all things Jessimae go to: www.Jessimae.com
Jessica is a comedian originally from Long Island, although she prefers to say New York. After spending her entire childhood at Orthodox Jewish schools, Jessica loves to talk onstage about religion, sex, and anything else that makes her parents uncomfortable. When she’s not performing at or hosting shows around the city, Jessica is writing a PhD dissertation on 19th century British prostitution.
Kira Soltanovich grew up in San Francisco during a time when there were bad neighborhoods, cheap coffee and it wasn’t ironic to ride the cable cars. She began her comedy career back in 1998 after asking her Russian immigrant parents if they would support her dream to become a stand up. After her mother and father confessed “It’s not like you’re smart enough to be a doctor…” Kira took that as their blessing to pursue her dreams and she’s never looked back. She was a series regular on How To Be A Grownup for TruTV, the hidden camera show Girls Behaving Badly and was a correspondent on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for over 8 years. Recently, Kira co-hosted the game show Winsanity with Donald Faison for the Game Show Network. One of Kira’s greatest achievements is shooting her latest 1 Hour Stand Up Special,You Did This To Me, which was completely self-produced and she shot it while over 7 months pregnant. The first stand up comedian to shoot a special pregnant! Kira has appeared on The Jay Leno Show, Hello Ross! with Ross Mathews, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Hell’s Kitchen, Last Comic Standing, Set List TV, and The World Stands Up on Comedy Central. She has written for Joan Rivers, Scott Baio, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. And here’s an interesting fact, three of those people have dated each other. Kira’s pilot Weren’t You Scott Baio? was optioned by New Line Television, her hidden camera dating show Who’s Got Game? was optioned by MTV and her feature film What’s Your Sign? was optioned by Terra Firma at Universal. For a while there, she and her writing partner were only developing projects that asked a question. Genius, right? She’s been a writer on Easiest Game Show Ever, How’d You Get So Rich? for TV Land, Warning: Men Thinking, Raising Whitley and Prankstars on Disney.
Will Lopez is a stand up comic from Miami Florida, by way of Cliffside Park, New Jersey. He is of Cuban American decent. Will is the father of three. Will got his start in entertainment as the lead singer of the Cuban Punk Rock band Guajiro. Pronounced (No One You Would Know). He has toured extensively through the United States, Puerto Rico and many parts of South America. Guajiro starred on an MTV reality show called "Road Rally" and opened for many prominent bands such as Pennywise, Flogging Molly, Lil Wayne and Rancid. Will began his foray into comedy 9 years ago and in that short time has amassed quite a list of credits from runner up in the Boston leg of the World Series of Comedy in 2014, Finalist at Ultimate Miami Comedian 2016 and 2017, to appearances on hit TV shows like Glades. He is a regular at the Florida Improvs and has performed with many national headliners like Brett Ernst, Tom Cotter, and Jimmy Shubert. Because of his music background Will is most likely being the only human being on this planet to have the distinction on his resume of opening for both The Ramones and Carlos Mencia in the same life time. His material covers his heritage, being raised by a Cuban mom, to his recent divorce, and of course, being a dad, father of three insane children. He also touches on the differences between being a musician and a stand up. Will Lopez's life is exactly like a comedy club. Everyday he requires TWO drinks. Minimum.
The founder of the Fresh Drunk Stoned Tour. Growing up in South Florida to immigrant parents, Franco is a storyteller who weaves in between past and present. One minute you're laughing and then next minute you're leaning in to hear a life lesson.
Matt Bellak is a Chicago based comedian, but started his comedy career in South Florida. There he was the house Emcee for both the Ft Lauderdale and West Palm Beach Improv's. He has worked with such comedy greats as Tom Segura, Chris D’Elia and David Spade. Now in Chicago Matt tours the country co-headlining the Fresh Drunk Stoned Comedy Tour, which performed in over 50 cities last year! Don't miss him when he comes to your town.
Tim Hanlon is originally from Youngstown Ohio. He started his comedy career in Ft. Lauderdale Florida in 2010 and is now based in Los Angeles CA. He has toured in over 30 states and performed with comics such as Dom Irrera and Jeffery Ross. His clever social commentary, witty delivery and acclaimed joke writing has earned him invitations to many national comedy festivals such as The Cleveland Comedy Festival, Laugh Fest and The World Series of Comedy in Las Vegas. He can be seen on Hulu, Amazon Prime and Comedy.TV.
Adel Alizadeh is an Iranian comedian with some Caucasian persuasion. Originally from New Orleans, Adel has been in the NYC comedy scene for over four years. He has a freelance column called “Hype or HighQ” for High Times Magazine. He placed 3rd in the “Trial by Laughter” comedy festival on NBC’s Comcast in 2015 and performs regularly at clubs in NYC, and now he feels like he’s bragging, so he will stop. No one is more ashamed of his “career” in comedy than his father, and Adel considers that to be his greatest achievement.
Shauna Lane is a New York City-based actor and comedian. She has been in many comedy festivals including The Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and The New York Comedy Festival. She also co-hosted The Gone Girls podcast (free on iTunes) from 2016-2020. Go see her work at www.shaunalane.com.
Caitlin Ruppert is a New York City based comedian originally from Paterson N.J. Mainly doing standup she dables in acting, especially when it’s a parody music video. Former projects include “The She Woman Lady Lovers”, an all female comedy show and workshop as well as “Comic Karaoke”, a show in which comics begrudgingly did both standup and karaoke. Soon “Is It In”, will be launching, a podcast where men ask sex questions with no filter, she will be joined by her co-host, former Americas Next Top Model contestant Sarah Hartshorne.
Jonas Barnes was the product of a drug fueled romp in early 1982 and then grew up homeless in the doorway of Jake's Famous Seafood Restaurant in Portland, OR. Lucky for him, life got a little better after that.   He is the wise ass son of a hippie mother and police officer father that has the ability to find humor in both the dark & light sides of his life. He has been married, divorced, wealthy, poor, physically fit, morbidly obese, well off, homeless, sober, drunk, independent and codependent...so he’s lived almost every aspect of life allowable by law. After realizing he didn't look good in cardigans and couldn't play an instrument, he decided to do comedy the old fashioned way: Be honest and let the audience into his life so they can laugh at his pain right along with him.   In 2013 and 2014, he was a featured performer at the Bumbershoot Comedy & Arts Festival in Seattle, WA alongside such acts as Marc Maron, Natasha Leggero, Jerrod Carmichael, Pete Holmes, The Wu-Tang Clan and Judah Freidlander.   When he is not making people laugh all over the country, he produces the wildly popular R-Rated, monthly "SMUT Presents" comedy show series throughout the country (based in Portland, OR), along with his co-producer Lauryn Petrie, that has featured such acts as Laurie Kilmartin, Auggie Smith, Sean Rouse, Kristine Levine and Chris Neff to name just a few.   Here is what people are saying about Jonas Barnes   "I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me." - Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family, Breaking Bonaduce, The Soup)   "This kid is funny, works hard and cares about comedy. I worked with Jonas for a weekend at Tacoma Comedy Club in Tacoma, WA and he did different sets all week. And he had big laughs every show." - Tom Simmons (BET's "ComicView", Comedy Central's "Live At Gotham")   "Jonas is a very funny guy, that performs with an edge and an amazing truthfulness all while never losing his likability on stage." - Tom Clark (NBC's "Last Comic Standing")   "What do I think of Jonas Barnes? Well, honestly, I frickin' love him! Funny, witty...and brandishing a mouth so soft & insatiable...well, let's just say I didn't want to come home. And we were in Tacoma! Get this guy on your show!" - Ben Roy (The Grawlix, MTV, Montreal "Just For Laughs Festival")
Pauline Murphy is a New York City based comedian born and raised in Staten Island. She got her start during her time as an intern for Spike TV at Viacom Networks, joining stand-up comedy student organization Ha-Ha-Hofstra while finishing her Master's degree in Speech Communication, Rhetoric, and Performance at Hofstra University in Long Island. From there, she went on to perform charity fundraisers at her undergraduate school, St. John's University, took part in various comedy festivals, and began doing shows on the NYC club circuit. She has since then featured and headlined clubs in both NYC and on the road, produced shows, and has been seen on MTV's "Girl Get Your Mind Right" and CBS' "The Talk." She now serves as a committee member for the 5th Borough Comedy Festival."
He has been featured on 2 nationally released roast dvds entitled Ring Roasts, which honors professional wrestling superstars. He has also been featured on SiriusXM Satellite Radio and just released his first dvd called Don't Judge Me. He’s breaking out and can be seen at all of the big club scenes from Catch A Rising Star, Bananas Comedy Club, Comedy Cove, The Looney Bin and The Borgata in Atlantic City. He has also recently worked The Friars Club in NYC on the dais of The Roast Of Gary Busey as well as their New Talent Showcase
Donna Vee (Vaicels) has been cracking people up since she was a kid. She is a salon owner by day, and comedian by night. She’s super excited to be hosting and coproducing “We Share a Void” with Shauna Lane. Other credits include Caroline’s on Broadway, The Wellmont Theatre, Catch a Rising Star. Donna Vee produces a monthly show “Donna Vee and Friends" and is the co-host of a weekly podcast “Girls Gone Green”, watch on Facebook or listen for free on iTunes.