Comedians
Kelly Ryan started stand up at the age of 17 in NYC. While getting her B.S. in Communication Studies from Texas Christian University, she performed improv for four years and taught the art form for three. At TCU, she got to open for SNL’s Vanessa Bayer and Aidy Bryant, as well as NBC’s Retta and BJ Novak.
Since moving to LA in 2016, Kelly can now be seen performing on any given night. Her “home club” is the iconic Hollywood Improv and she is a Paid Regular at The Comedy Store.
During the pandemic, Kelly moved to Portland where she continued standup when possible. In August of 2021 she was named the winner of the Portland’s Funniest Person competition at Helium Comedy Club. (Watch the winning set here)
This summer in July of 2023, Kelly was also selected for Just For Laugh’s New Faces in Montreal.
This year, she can be seen headlining and featuring for acts like Anthony Jeselnik, Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings and more.
Milo McCabe is a character comedian with over ten years experience on the circuit. He has twice been nominated for the Amused Moose Best Edinburgh show award and was listed as GQ's Top Ten comedy shows of the festival. TV credits include ITV'S Benidorm, BBC3's Live at the Electric and various hidden camera and talking heads projects on Channel 4 and 5. As himself, he is shortly to appear in US documentary 'Everyone has an Andy Dick story'. As Troy is currently touring comedy clubs and festivals across the UK and beyond.
Troy Hawke is an erudite homeschooled 1930's throwback...the Errol Flynn of the high street. Educated, sophisticated, but utterly clueless. He tackles modern issues head on in his uniquely untimely manner. 'undeniably funny' (Chortle) 'mad comic genius' (The Scotsman) 'Near perfect character comedy' (The New Current)
Francesco De Carlo is an Italian stand-up comedian, radio host and TV writer from Rome. His Netflix one-hour stand-up special, “Cose di questo mondo,” aired in 2019 and it is available in 190 countries worldwide.
In Italy, in the last three years he hosted “Pour Parler” and “Data Comedy Show”, two panel shows on Rai2, “The Roast of Italy” on Comedy Central and appeared in many TV shows (Rai/Sky/La7/Discovery Channel). He dubbed the character “Mr. Shark” in the DreamWorks film “Bad Guys.” Francesco is also a radio personality on RaiRadio2. His TV show, “Tutta colpa della Brexit” (starred, written and directed by him,) was aired on Rai Tre during the last winter. His book, “La mia Brexit,” has been published by Bompiani. He regularly performs in theatres throughout Italy: “Limbo” and “Bocca mia taci” have been his last sold out tours. Abroad Francesco made his Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut in 2014 and firmly set his sights on his international career when he performed as part of the Comedy Sans Frontieres project alongside Eddie Izzard and Dylan Moran, produced by Mick Perrin Worldwide.
His international career has since taken him across the world, performing in English in 16 countries, including taking part in the Comedy Central International Showcase at JFL in Montreal and the Johannesburg International Comedy Festival. He appeared on Unspun with Matt Forde (Dave), Paul Hollywood’s Big Continental Road Trip (BBC 2), and The Arts Hour on Tour (BBC World Service). Recently Francesco appeared as the Italian correspondent on Comedy Central's "Channel Hopping with Jon Richardson" and "The Mash Report” (BBC2). He opened for Matteo Lane at the Carnegie Hall in New York and in some major theatres all over Europe and the States. Today Francesco is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in New York.
“If I was an Italian comedian performing in English, I would want to be as funny as Francesco De Carlo.” – Eddie Izzard
Cynthia Kaplan is a NYC based writer, musician and actress. She is the author of two acclaimed collections of comic essays, "Why I’m Like This: True Stories" (a Barnes & Nobel Discover book) and "Leave the Building Quickly." Her work has appeared in many newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, as well as in theaters and on TV and film. She plays regularly with her award-winning band, "The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal," and her comedy rock show, "Cindy of Arc," was a finalist for the 2023 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, has toured regionally and plays regularly in NYC. She has never appeared on "Law & Order." More about Cindy at www.cynthiakaplan.com
Cole Cosby is a comedian from Philadelphia (raised in South Jersey), now residing in New York. Cole’s interest in stand up comedy began in middle school from watching the performances of legends such as Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart and the sitcoms of Jerry Seinfeld and Kevin James. Cole’s first time performing stand-up comedy came during his junior year of college at an open mic on Temple University’s campus. Since that day, and after graduation, Cole Cosby went on to rise in the Philadelphia comedy circuit, becoming a regular host (and feature act) at Helium and Punchline comedy clubs, and working with headliners such as Sam Jay, Josh Johnson, and Tony Rock. Cole Cosby has also opened on the road for comedy legends Sinbad, Caroline Rhea and Tammy Pescatelli. Since moving to New York City in 2023, Cole has passed at Stand Up NY, earned a residency at Broadway Comedy Club, and is on a mission to create his own Cosby legacy.
As Seen on BBC's Mock The Week
UK Comics’ Comic 2022 - Best Act
DAVE’s Top 10 Jokes at The Edinburgh Fringe (2017, 2019 & 2022)
'One of the UK's preeminent pun merchants...the quickest quipster in show business' Evening Standard
Mark is “The UK’s pre-eminent pun merchant” (Evening Standard). His debut tour, Quip Off the Mark has sold over 16,000 tickets at 100+ dates across the country including sold out dates at the Leicester Square Theatre five times, Lowry Quays Theatre, Leeds City Varieties, and Bristol Tobacco Factory Theatre twice, The Stand Newcastle and Canterbury's Gulbenkian. Mark has placed in Dave’s prestigious Best Joke of The Fringe in Edinburgh 2017, 2019, & 2022. He was nominated for Best Show by the Amused Moose Comedy Award Fringe Show 2017. Mark has become a social media sensation for his quick responses on stage with over 115k followers on Facebook and 90k followers on Instagram. He has starred in two episodes of Mock The Week, appeared on BBC Radio Four multiple times and on ITV’s Out There.
Mark has a podcast Jokes With Mark. In each episode, Mark invites a fellow comic such as Sarah Millican, Rob Beckett and Rhys James to discuss their dropped material and why it didn’t work. All episodes are now available on Apple, Spotify and Acast.
Aaron Chen is an Australian comedian living in NYC. He is on Netflix on the sit-com “Fisk”. He has opened for Ronny Chieng and Nate Bargatze. His special “If Weren’t Filmed Nobody Would Believe” has over 1 million views. Every night he dreams about that microphone and how loud it makes the voice sound.
Alex Duong is an LA-based comedian/actor/writer originally from Dallas, Texas. His most recent credits include Historical Roast on Netflix, Bluebloods, and The Onlyfans Roast of Whitney Cummings. You can see him performing every week at The Comedy Store where he works as a Door Guy.
Matt O’Brien has been featured on MTV, Variety, Comedy Network, CBC, Odd Squad on PBS, MuchMusic, and San Francisco Sketchfest.
He wrote and performed his own hour long special on The Comedy Network in Canada and in 2017 he performed his third TV gala at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.
He is the winner of Sirius XM Radio’s Top Comic, and was recently nominated for Best Break Out Artist at the Canadian Comedy Awards and Best Comedian by COCA (Canadian Organization of Campus Activities).
His debut album “Live in a basement in front of 20 people” hit #1 on the iTunes Comedy charts.
He also hosts and films his own YouTube late night talk show “Late Night Talk Show on a Subway” that recently featured Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall.
Critically acclaimed comic, internationally famed meme & wonderfully nice gentleman, Nish Kumar is a comedian, and a bloody good one at that (Time Out). Nish has achieved huge success on the stand-up circuit with five rave reviewed solo stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, two of which have been nominated for the prestigious Comedy Award for Best Show in both 2015 & 2016.
Alongside stand-up Nish is a frequent voice and face across both television and radio, following a successful pilot in 2016, Nish completed two series of his own topical show for BBC Radio 4, SPOTLIGHT TONIGHT, which he also hosts as well as hosting both THE NEWS QUIZ and NEWSJACK. On screen you can catch up with Nish on the likes of Q.I., MOCK THE WEEK & LIVE AT THE APOLLO both as a stand-up guest and host (all BBC Two), HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU & THE JOHN BISHOP SHOW (BBC One), 8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN (Channel 4), RUSSELL HOWARD’S STAND-UP FOR CENTRAL, DRUNK HISTORY, THE ALTERNATIVE COMEDY EXPERIENCE & LIVE AT THE COMEDY STORE (all Comedy Central), ALAN DAVIES AS YET UNTITLED (Dave) and TASKMASTER (Dave). Nish starred alongside fellow comic Joel Dommett in a 6-part travelogue for Comedy Central, JOEL AND NISH VS THE WORLD and hosts his own satirical, spoof, news series, THE MASH REPORT, for BBC Two.
During the Coronavirus pandemic Nish created and starred in a new series HELLO AMERICA for the short lived American streaming platform Quibi and hosted the LATE NIGHT MASH on Dave. Nish is now currently on tour in the UK with his new show 'Your Power, Your Control.'
Zach Brazão was named a 2023 New Face of Comedy at the Just For Laughs comedy festival. He has performed in the Southland Comedy Festival sponsored by Fox, Limestone Comedy Festival, was a finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival, and was named Best of the Fest at Minneapolis’s 10,000 Laughs Festival. In 2021, New York Comedy Festival named him a Comic to Watch.
Kristen Toomey’s standup career began in 2008. Since then she has headlined comedy clubs all over North America and the UK.
Her recent Micro Special,
produced by Zanies Chicago, was well received with over 300K views. Currently, with back to back viral reels amassing 20M+ views, her follower count continues to skyrocket.
Kristen's comedy style is unapologetically truthful and energetic, earning her the title of "Chicago Original" by The A.V. Club. Her debut album, "Mother. Fucker," hit #1 on iTunes, cementing her status as a force to be reckoned with.
She can be seen regularly at the top clubs in New York and Chicago like The Stand, New York Comedy Club, Zanies and Laugh Factory.
Kristen has performed at numerous festivals such as the prestigious Just For Laughs in Montreal, 312 Comedy Festival, Oddball Festival, Flyover in St. Louis and more.
She has opened for Chris Redd, Janelle James, Kyle Kinane, Natasha Leggero, Kevin Nealon, April Macie.
You can currently see her standup on Kevin Hart’s LOL! Network and Comedy In Color streaming on Peacock.
Andrew Mensah is a stand-up comedian, presenter and actor from London
Having only begun his comedy career in 2018, Andrew has quickly gained plaudits and was recently crowned winner of The Cavendish Arms Summer Competition 2019.
His relatable style and ability to speak on his life experience in an unapologetic manner has established him as one of the most exciting emerging comedians on the circuit today. Mensah is also regular on London’s up-and-coming comedy circuit, regularly playing venues such as the Top Secret Comedy Club.
Alongside his fledgling stand-up career, Andrew is also the host of BT Sport’s hit show ‘What I Wore’ where he interviews footballer’s based on their lives and careers. Andrew was originally hired at BT Sport as an apprentice and worked his way up to the digital team where he was instrumental in creating and pitching the format of ‘What I Wore’. Having impressed so much in the development process, he was given the opportunity to present the pilot, an opportunity with which he has grabbed and has not looked back from. Andrew has interviewed many high profile footballers including: Steven Gerrard; Gareth Bale; Rio Ferdinand; Robin Van Persie; Pep Guardiola and many more. Accumulating a total of 10 Million views across all social media platforms.
Through ‘What I Wore’, Andrew has gone on to become a highly sought after and knowledgeable sports presenter. He has conducted sit down interviews with emerging stars like Callum Hudson Odoi, Tammy Abraham, James Maddison and his ground breaking interview with his cousin Ebere Eze on the estate they grew up on did huge numbers on social media with over a million views across YouTube and Twitter.
Andrew Mensah has joined the new series of Fantasy Football League – just four years into his comedy career. Where he’ll be the third presenter on the show accompanying Ellis James and Matt Lucas in the 16-episode revival of Fantasy Football League, overseeing the celebrity league and sharing weekly comedy highlights from the world of football.
Jack Assadourian is a comedian of Armenian and Mexican descent who has gained popularity for his unique perspective and hilarious observations on life. He often incorporates his multicultural background into his stand-up routine, sharing stories and experiences that resonate with audiences from different backgrounds. With his energetic stage presence and witty sense of humor, Jack has become a well-known name in the world of comedy and has been seen on Netlfix Is A Joke, New York Comedy festival, laugh after dark and has been heard on His podcast comedy club confessions.
He’s toured in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and his TV credits include The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS), I Think You Should Leave (Netflix), King of The Hill, Live at The Comedy Store (Comedy Central), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, and ITVs Horrible Science.
