Comedians
Raised in a conservative Asian and Muslim family, Sarah is a no-holds-barred comic committed to challenging anti-Muslim biases and stereotypes through joke-telling. In addition, she also tackles taboo topics often found in race, politics, and sexuality. As a Moroccan-Japanese woman, Sarah’s comedic stylings offer a one-of-a-kind perspective on society, while her worldly upbringing allows her material to be universally funny.
Some of her comedic accomplishments include being selected New York Comedy Festival's "Best New Comic” showcase, as well as being selected into HBO's Women in Comedy Festival in 2019. Sarah was also a quarterfinalist for Stand Up NBC, won second place in the New Faces in Comedy contest in October 2019, and won several comedy competitions throughout NYC. She was also selected for the Asian-American Comedy Festival, Arab-American Comedy Festival, and Detroit’s 10001 Laughs Festival. She has also performed in several major comedy clubs and venues internationally in Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington, and even the United Nations.
Ryan O'Toole is a comedian & actor from Boston, Mass, now performing all over New York City. He yells about sports & life on The Ryan O'Toole Podcast. He's starred in many classical theatrical plays, as well as being seen on his hero Jerry Springer's final tv show "Judge Jerry" where he successfully sued other people for taking his ideas.
Nikki MacCallum is a New York based comic, actress, and musician. As a performer she's been seen at Lincoln Center, Birdland, 54 Below, and has been featured on CBS and VH1. She's a regular comic at The Grisly Pear.
Bronx born and Hoboken bred, Amanda Gail has worked at the top comedy clubs across the country, working with top headliners such as Gilbert Gottfried. Currently, she’s headlining around the East Coast and produces her own weekly podcast and charity comedy show “The Audacity”. Her writing can be seen all over the internet (Reductress, Some E-cards, E-Baum’s World, Girl with No Job, Fck Jerry) and her “brilliant” thoughts can also be heard regularly on Sirius XM. Her style has been best described as funny and worst described as observational, energetic, witty and a bit edgy.
Alex is a comic from Chicago who is a paid regular at the Laugh Factory, Zanies and clubs across the Midwest. You’ve seen him on the Netflix series “Easy” and places that have poutine
Leland Long is a stand up comedian from Arizona with a background in improv. He performs at comedy clubs all over New York and is one of the cohosts of The Idiots Catalog; a comedy podcast all about silly inventions. He has been featured in the New York Post. When he is not in New York he is doing various shows and festivals around the country including; The Memphis Comedy Festival, Tucson Comedy Arts Festival, The North Carolina Comedy Festival, and The New York Comedy Festival. If you have a dog he will instantly be friends with you. His favorite drink is lemonade, gift accordingly.
Luke Mones is a comedian. He wrote and starred in the Comedy Central digital series Genies. In 2019 he was named an Up Next comedian by Comedy Central, and he hosted a comedy news show for Inside Edition called The Breakdown. Luke appears on the current season of Insecure on HBO and has appeared on Conan.
Ryo Hayashi is the first Buddha Battle champion held at the New York Comedy Club, and won the 3rd place at the Comedy MOB Festival 2019. As an immigrant and divorced single father raising two young children in New York City, Ryo covers a wide range of topics called ‘life’ with aplomb sarcasm.
Carolyn Riley is a New York based comedian buy way of Boston, where she was named Laugh Boston’s “Funniest Person in Massachusetts.” She has opened for headliners including David Cross, Melissa Villaseñor, Alex Moffat, and Laurie Kilmartin. She has performed in festivals across the country including the Big Sky, Limestone, and Boston comedy festivals.
"Karthik Lavangu is an Indian-born NYC based stand-up comedian, storyteller, and a functioning germaphobe (he was a natural at social distancing and Purelling before it was trending). Karthik's Mom describes him as ""the funniest person I know who also happens to be my son,"" while his Dad can't wrap his head around why his son talks about his ""feelings"" and ""emotions"" in front of strangers in the name of comedy instead of putting his engineering and Masters degrees to use.
As a tax-paying resident alien living and working in NYC, he has a lot of opinions and a unique perspective on everyday things people take for granted in the first world. Karthik's clean, nuanced, layered and at times dark(ish) observational comedy is inspired from his life experiences in India and the US. He performs all over NYC, at comedy festivals throughout the US, at corporate events, was selected for a residency at Broadway Comedy Club in NYC and produces comedy shows in NYC. Follow him on Instagram @karthiklavangucomic to give his millennial brain an ego boost."
Bassam Shawl is an NYC based stand-up comedian, writer, and actor.
He performs regularly at The Stand Comedy Club, Williamsburg Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, has appeared on Amazon Prime, and was selected in 2023 as a “Comic to Watch” at the New York Comedy Festival.
Wendy Steiner is a Brooklyn-based Jewpanese comic. While the Los Angeles suburbs raised her, living in San Francisco and New York really aged her. She’s a set-up-punchline kind of gal with a Berkeley-educated sense of privilege and half-white guilt.
Mike Lee is a standup comic who performs all over New York. He recently performed in the Burbank Comedy Festival and produces the bimonthly show Nice One! Comedy currently in Queens, NY.
Ben Frank is a New York-based stand-up comedian, who began his comedy career in Shanghai, China. He has performed all around the world and headlined comedy clubs in more than 10 different countries. In April 2022, Ben’s hour-long comedy album “Goodbye Shanghai” debuted at #3 on Itunes, and he also finished runner-up in the stand-up competition at the Baton Rouge Improv Festival. Ben was also a finalist in the 2022 Connecticut Comedy Contest.
Peter Wong is an NYC comedian and YouTuber who’s channel has over 4 million views. He has been featured on Tosh.0 and FunnyOrDie and was recently selected as one of New York Comedy Festival’s Comics to Watch.
Born in the mean streets of Venezuela and raised in a swamp in South Florida, Igor Martinez is a stand up comedian based in New York City. He blends his physicality, Hispanic background, and embarrassing anecdotes together to create a brand of comedy that brings shame to his traditional Latin mother. If he's not eating Nutella or loitering at the dog park, he can be seen performing at clubs all around New York City.
Alex is an up and coming NYC based comedian and native of Raleigh, North Carolina. Formerly an ESPN affiliate writer covering the Philadelphia 76ers, Alex can be seen performing nightly in New York.
Yemi Afolabi is a New York born comic who's famous in Sweden. As a first generation Nigerian, Harlem native and Swedish citizen. He pulls jokes from his experiences abroad and as a New New Yorker. He has been featured on Comedy Central (EU), New York Comedy Festival and South Land Comedy Festival. His act is defined by his charm, story telling, characters and larger than life act outs, painting punchlines throughout.
Julio Diaz is a stand-up comedian, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Julio has performed at legendary NY clubs like New York Comedy Club, Gotham , the stand and more, but his raw, witty, and charismatic style has been a hit in the underground comedy scene for half a decade. Stand-up has afforded Julio the opportunity to perform and produce shows all over New York City. Currently, he has three successful live comedy experiences: Comedy at The Cooper, Gimmie a Break Comedy Show, and Hoodie Season Comedy Show. Comedy is more than just getting on stage and making people laugh—it’s about making light of day-to-day experiences. His material stems from overcoming adversity, moving from job to job, financial struggles, and of course navigating dating challenges. Comedy has given him the strength to become confident and pass that on to others. Be sure to listen to his podcast ‘TJ Squared’ (streaming on all major platforms) and catch him at a comedy show near you.
GADIEL is a Dominican-American stand-up comedian born and raised in New York. He reached new heights producing/writing for BuzzFeed, he’s known for his trailblazing work as an online content creator for the ‘Pero Like’ channel. You’ve also seen him in Ashly Perez’ web-series “Unfortunately Ashly.” Currently, he’s on tour with Aida Rodriguez (“Fighting Words” on HBOMax).
