Tushar Singh was raised in Huntsville, Alabama with a strict Indian upbringing, a contradiction that set him up for years of awkwardness and an arsenal of stand-up comedy material. As a chubby kid and the only Indian in his grade in elementary school, Tushar recalls sticking out “like a big brown thumb.” Still, he tried hard to fit in and eventually made friends with both rednecks and other “Desis” in his community. It wasn’t until Tushar went to college that he began to question some of the contradictions he’d been raised with. Aspects of Indian culture like the caste system, arranged marriage, sexism, and corruption didn’t bode well with the progressive American ideology he’d come to embrace. These conflicts, as well as the death of his father, led Tushar to stand-up comedy, which he used to explore these issues on stage in a format he’s always been comfortable with: making people laugh.

Reggie Conquest hails from West Philadelphia where he started his comedy career at the legendary Laff House. Since moving to New York City in 2013, Reggie has featured in some of the city’s best bar shows and comedy clubs. His writing credits include Tru TV’s Impractical Jokers, and he’s performed his standup on Fuse TV as well as a number of comedy festivals.

I've been on the scene for about four years now. Done some real road work (as far as Tennessee) and colleges as well. I'm at the point where I'd like to be "seen" or at least "noticed" by the "industry." I'm constantly honing my act, and I'm inspired and humbled by the talent and dedication of my fellow NYC comedians.

You’ve heard the saying, “If looks could kill…” Well, when it comes to Bronx-bred comedian/actor Jatty Robinson, they routinely do. He captivates audiences both on and off the stage with his glaring facial expressions and spirited demeanor. Jatty has been featured in comedy festivals and competitions such as NBC’s Standup For Diversity (semi-finalist), New York Comedy Festival and Laughing Devil Festival. With appearances in film, digital series ‘AKA Wyatt Cenac’. In April 2022, Jatty released his 1st stand-up special “Odds Are Even”, which is now streaming on YouTube. Additionally, you can download and listen to the comedy album on all platforms. Robinson’s self-produced 3-part docu-series “Locumentary”, where he discusses the journey of having locs, while exploring the different perceptions and loc culture in the black community is available now on YouTube. --

Ryan has performed at a wide range of international comedy festivals, including the New York Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, NXNE, Limestone, Bentzen Ball, Laugh Your Asheville Off, Cape Fear, and the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival. He has opened for comics like Dave Attell, Pete Holmes, Wyatt Cenac, Dan Soder, Godfrey, Beth Stelling, Roy Wood, Jr., Michelle Wolf, Nate Bargatze, Tiffany Haddish, Sam Morril, Joe List, and Mark Normand at venues across the country. He has also made appearances on WNYC's "2 Dope Queens," the Nerdists's "Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction," "Gotham Comedy Live" on AXS TV, "Laughs" on Fox Network, "The Alyona Show" on Russia Today, and "The Stream" on Al Jazeera. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Ryan now lives in New York City where he regularly performs standup, sketch, and improv comedy.

Justin Smith is a NYC based comedian from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. On paper he is the definition of an Oklahoma stereotype. He was raised in a religious household, went to a conservative Christian college, worked in the oilfield, loves BBQ and the phrase "fixen to". But it doesn't take long after meeting Justin to realize that he is farthest thing from a stereotype. He is quick-witted, brutally honest, and incredibly engaging, which is the main reason his resume is so diverse. Ranging from making fun of high school proms on MTV to talking about the intricate details of comedy on PBS, to performing at the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, not to mention participating in the notorious Hell Yes Fest in New Orleans and has performed at the underground comedy fest and the district of comedy festival at Kennedy Center in D.C. Justin has no limits. Justin currently resides in NYC where he lives in a Hispanic neighborhood, rides crowded trains everyday, and performs nightly all over the city. And loves every second

Caitlin Reese is a Queens-based comedian and writer not pulling any punches about her mental health, disabilities, or chronic gay condition. She once published and sold out a comedy zine through Tower Records by accident. Notably, Caitlin was a Finalist on Amazon Prime’s Comics Watching Comics where a couch of judgy judges laughed really hard at her jokes and couldn’t come up with anything but nice things to say. Her album will be released on Helium Comedy Records this year, and she was featured on their Best of Helium Records Volume 2 on Spotify. She has been published in The Onion and has a queer comedy podcast called Straight Guys. She regularly performs at New York Comedy Club and has been in a million festivals including the HBO Women in Comedy Fest, Limestone, & Laughing Skull. She once opened for Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall, and he followed her backstage to compliment her performance while he was supposed to be on stage. In her former life, she was a social worker and ran a rape crisis center until they fired her after a video circulated of her stand-up. The premise of the joke was about feeling terrible for unsubscribing to amber alerts. Stand-up jokes are not meant to be told in boardrooms. She also used to do undercover animal rights investigations, which was likely due to the guilt of putting her childhood cat in bonnets. --

Freddy G is a standup comic and podcaster who has appeared on Sirius XM and NPR. He regularly performs at StandupNY and The Greenwich Village Comedy Club. He opened for Michael Harrison (Queer as folk) at Caroline's on Broadway. Fred recently was part of the Sweet Sixteen in the Stress Factory March Madness Tournament. Every week he hosts Last Stop Laughs at QED in Astoria. Freddy G has two weekly podcasts: “Model and The Mensch” and “The Love Gurus” which are both available on Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.

Lindsay is a New York City based comedian originally from the deep depths of Greenville, South Carolina. She is probably best known for her blond hear, bangs, distinct voice, blacking out, and possibly jokes. Most recently, Lindsay was featured in the 2017 Laughing Skull Comedy Festival and was a runner up in the 2016 Make Me Laugh Albany Comedy Festival. When Lindsay is not performing stand up all over the city, you can find her (unenthusiastically) teaching Pilates at an Equinox near you.

Jeff Scheen has recently been seen on The Late Late Show with James Corden and released a Drybar Special on YouTube. You can also hear Jeff album “JEFF” on XM radio and iTunes.

Abby Rosenquist is a New York based comedian whose dark, fast paced material has gotten her invited to perform at various prestigious festivals including Just for Laughs in Montreal, Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival, and the Oddball Comedy Festival. She made her television debut on Fuse’s Uproarious and won the title of Philly’s Phunniest Person for 2017.

J-L Cauvin was born in New York City to an Irish-American mother and a Haitian father. The second of two children (he has an older brother), J-L’s parents decided he was enough, probably because he weighed 10 lbs, 7 oz at birth. While in school J-L cultivated a reputation as a joker with a wide array of impersonations of teachers and fellow students. He can be found in the center of the back row of every class photo because he was always the tallest kid in class. Among the highlights of his elementary school career were being taller than his third grade teacher (he was 5’2″ in 3rd grade and his teacher was 5’1″) and developing his Jean-Claude Van Damme impression in 5th grade. After such an impressive record of elementary school accomplishments, high school could have been a letdown, but it was not. Being named Editor-in-Chief of his high school newspaper and giving the middle finger to an opposing crowd during a senior year basketball game were just two of his highlights. After high school J-L went on to attend Williams College. While there he played on the varsity basketball team and continued to hone his impressions of people no one has ever heard of. He also hosted a radio/comedy show for two years in college, during which he did many impressions and only received one racist phone call on air. Upon graduating Williams in 2001, J-L went on to attend Georgetown University Law Center. It was also during his time in Washington, D.C. that he began to perform standup comedy. In February 2003, J-L went to a bar near his apartment and watched an amateur showcase of comedians. J-L began inquiring how he could get some stage time and after following some leads he began performing at open mics at the end of that academic year. Quickly developing a knack for it, J-L was named Washington D.C.’s funniest college student, despite not really being a college student, in March 2004 at a sold out show at the D.C. Improv. After moving back to New York upon graduation from GULC in May 2004, J-L continued to work harder and harder as a comic, all while working as an Assistant District Attorney during the day in the Bronx. After leaving the DA’s office, but before pursuing comedy full time, J-L was an associate at a large law firm where he learned two things: having money is great and he was actually the office “black guy,” despite looking Egyptian at best. He has been featured on The Late Late Show, NESN Comedy All Stars, Comics Unleashed, ESPN’s The Dan Lebatard Show and is a regular on The Adam Carolla Show. J-L now travels the country performing in America’s most prestigious (and non-prestigious) comedy clubs. He has made a name for himself within comedy for his blog which offers a one-of-a-kind insider honesty about the business and his sketch/impression videos. J-L’s act is incredibly diverse and has led to five stand up albums: 2006′s Racial Chameleon, 2008′s Diamond Maker, 2012′s Too Big To Fail and 2013′s Keep My Enemies Closer, and 2016’s Israeli Tortoise, which hit #1 on the iTunes comedy chart. He also released 2017’s Fireside Craps, an entire album as Donald Trump which hit #3 on the iTunes comedy chart.

Doug Uram is a comedian from Northern New Jersey. Doug has been writing and performing stand-up comedy all along the Northeast coast since the age of 23 making a name for himself throughout the New York City circuit.His witty and unapologetic style of comedy has, and will continue to, set him apart from the next generation of up-and-coming comedians.

Wilfred Padua is a comedian in New York who has an MFA in Writing from some place in Chicago. He was the winner of the 2019 Boston Comedy Festival, and a finalist of the Big Sky Comedy Festival. He has also performed at Bumbershoot, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs, and SF Sketchfest. He was featured on NPR and Sirius XM, and was named one of the 50 Best Undiscovered Comedians in America by Thrillist where they said his comedy was “impish” for some reason.

Dara Jemmott is a Brooklyn based comedian, host, voice over artist and actress. Dara has been entertaining audiences on stages since she was three years old. She performs all around the country, and has even taken her talents to the UK and Spain. Dara was most recently featured in the 2022 Katra Film Series for "Hysterical Justice" (Series Winnner) Her performance in the short, "Where's My White Privilege?" landed her in Just For Laughs - Eat My Shorts (2021).The short was also featured in the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival (2022), Toronto Black Film Festival (2021), Houston Comedy Film Festival, Hip Hop Film Festival (2021). Dara won Best Actor- Gold Category, in the 2021 Best Actors Awards New York. Dara has also been featured in the Black Women in Comedy Festival and BET. When not performing, Dara trains young students and performers in stand up, acting and improv, in numerous NYC schools through Stand Up Girls and Little Humans/Big Dreams! You can also catch her podcast, she co-hosts, Comedians for Hire, which was inspired by her personal journey of ditching the corporate cubicle for the crazy world of comedy and entertainment.

Jen is a Manhattan based comic originally from Long Island. Her comedy has been described as “drenched in similes that gives way to ah-ha moments”. She’s also been praised for her well-timed delivery and brilliant joke construction. She’s the Senior Creative Manager at Comedywire and produces two monthly shows, Sit, Stay Comedy and The Jen and Jimmy Show. She has a Master’s Degree in Forensic Psychology which doesn’t really help her stand up but has proven useful in her dating life.

Stephen Bolles (pronouns Long Hair Don’t Care/No Weave Just Steve) is a comedian originally from Virginia. Starting at Cozzys Comedy Club he became a regular at the Funny Bones in Richmond & VA Beach after winning their Clash of the Comics Competition four times. He dropped out of college to move to NYC in 2014, and was named “Funniest Under 25” at the Manhattan Comedy Festival in 2016. Unfortunately he’s now 29. Fortunately in the outdoor-shows era of 2020 he won the “Plug Award (Best Stoner Comic)” at the Bomby’s - a fake award show for NYC Comedians, put together & voted for by NYC comedians. Besides the hair, Stephen’s known as a high energy host, often described as a “golden retriever in a human’s body.” A self proclaimed party scientist & hype man, if you’re not having fun at his show you didn’t want to, or you’re experiencing severe acid flashblacks brought on by his material.

A New York based comedian by way of Atlanta, Mike can be seen as a recurring character on BET’s hit show, “The Game” as well as in 2016 feature film “American Dirtbags” (watch for FREE on Amazon. Mike finds his humor from his everyday life experiences mixed with his internal struggle with health, crippling paranoia and his longing for that perfect girl who he will inevitably blow it with. ​ ​ Mike produces the "Red Clay Comedy Festival" annually in Atlanta, GA and several showcases in New York City where he currently resides ​Catch Mike weekly as he and fellow comedian Alexis Gurreros eat their way through the country finding the best undiscovered food spots and go on wild adventures...

Piers is a British Comedian and Writer from London, living in New York. He has performed regularly at The Comedy Store, The Hollywood Improv, Carolines, Laugh Factory, Zanies The Stand, The Comic Strip, and many more. He was a finalist in the World Series of Comedy, in Las Vegas, and headlined a showcase at Laughfest in 2018. Piers is also a voiceover artist and is currently developing an illustrated children's book with Scholastic.

Ankara has been entertaining people with her quick wit and charismatic personality her entire life. She decided to translate her gift for performing it into a career devoted to the arts by moving from Florida to New York City in 2006 and enrolling at the New York Film Academy for the 1 year intensive acting program. After gaining knowledge and experience from multiple facets of the craft, she was drawn into a comedic direction and took classes at Upright Citizens Brigade to dive more into the improvisation world where she felt most comfortable. Since Ankara has been creating laughter all her life, she has taken a leap into the Stand Up Comedy world hitting clubs all around New York City to further her love for laughter and performance. Ankara will continue to work in the entertainment industry where she can work with fellow performers who want to create laughter together.

Shari Díaz. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, she switched up her stomping grounds for Raleigh, NC bringing the Nasty North to the Dirty South to show them what they've been missing. As the only Latina Comic in North Carolina, her crossover appeal, crowd working skills, and clever style has quickly built a platform and a diverse following ranging from Hipsters to moms screaming for a night out. With all the positive feedback, she founded Boogie Down South Productions as an avenue for local comedians to collaborate and bring forth gut wrenching shows. Her accolades include opening for one of the original Latin Kings of Comedy, Joey Medina, in Raleigh and NYC. In addition, she has set the stage for BET Comic View comedians Kenny Williams and Anthony “AD” Demmer, MTV’s Wild N Out- Shawty the Comedian, Reginald "Bruh Man" Ballard from the hit TV Series "Martin", and Def Comedy Jam's Tony Woods.​She is also the founder, creator, and co-host of her podcast, UN_FILTERED, on SoundCloud. Shari believes in paying it forward and mentors youth-at-risk kids in the foster care system who have an interest in comedy.

Tommy McNamara is a New York comedian. He is a contributor for Onion Sports and hosts the popular podcast Stand By Your Band. Tommy is a regular at Caroline's on Broadway, where he hosts a monthly a show and recently headlined. He began doing comedy in Chicago, where he was a cast member at the prestigious Lincoln Lodge and a regular at the Laugh Factory. Tommy has performed at San Francisco Sketchfest, Oddball Comedy Festival (Chicago winner of Funny Or Die's Road 2 Oddball Tour), the 26th Annual Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival and many other festivals. His music/comedy shows Tommy McNamara Unplugged, Tommy McNamara's Beach Bash (featured in the New York Times), and Biosong have sold out venues in both Chicago and New York

IAN IS A NOCTURNAL, NEW YORK BASED COMIC ORIGINALLY FROM MICHIGAN. IAN'S JOKES ARE PLAYFUL WITH A DARK, SARDONIC TWIST. HE IS THE WINNER OF THE 2017 STAND UP NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL AND CREATOR THE POPULAR BROOKLYN BASED BAR SHOW "GOOD FOR YOU." IAN IS A MAD MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTOR AND A MEMBER OF THE SKETCH GROUP "SICKNIKS," WHICH WON THE CHANNEL 101 "BEST SHOW" AWARD FOR THEIR WEB SERIES "INSTA BOYZ."