Comedians
Matthew Friend is an old soul living inside a 23-year-old comedian/actor/impressionist's body. Matthew graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School in 2020, but his love of comedy and entertainment was sparked when he was four years old. He had watched Austin Powers (yes, as a four-year-old) and started mimicking the characters’ voices—and the rest was history. To date, Matthew has over 420K followers on TikTok. He has appeared on the Today Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, NBC’s New York Live TV, Good Day LA, Good Day NY, Good Morning Washington, and WGN. In 2019, Matthew won Kenan Thompson’s Ultimate Comedy Experience at Carolines on Broadway. His professional experience includes hosting HQ Trivia, performing at corporate events, and doing stand-up comedy throughout the country. Matthew’s repertoire includes more than 250 impressions ranging from Rami Malek to Timothee Chalamet. His favorite impression at the moment is Jennifer Coolidge. Matt recently headlined a sold out crowd at Carolines on Broadway as part of Carolines' Breakout Artist Series.
Alex English is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Alex has written for such shows as The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET and The Fix with Jimmy Carr on Netflix. He has made appearances on Night Train with Wyatt Cenac on STARZ and Funny How? on Viceland.
Tu Rae is two words:
Exceptional.
Comedian.
Tu Rae is a stand up comedy artist and a veteran of the stage. Beginning at Philadelphia’s famed Laff House Comedy Club, Tu Rae is an accomplished comedian & writer. A Stand Up NBC Finalist & HBO’s Comedy Wings Champion, with numerous television appearances including Comics Unleashed, “Gotham Live” on Comedy Central, HBO’s “All Def Comedy” Starz “First Amendment Standup” & Fox’s “Laughs Tv”.
Tu Rae’s performances expanded to the realm of streaming with appearances on Tidal’s “No Small Talk”, Kev’s On Stage’s “Keep Your Distance Comedy ” , & Laughs TV’s “Comedy After Dark”,
The Sommore produced, “All The Queen’s Men” introduced
Tu Rae to the worldwide streaming platform of Netflix.
TuRae has been selected to entertain crowds annually on numerous comedy festivals including the Atlantic City Comedy Festival & the Martha’s Vineyard Comedy Fest. Also appearing on celebrity cruises such as the “Soul Train Cruise” and Tom Joyner’s “Fantastic Voyage” cruise.
ComedyByTuRae Events; his production company, created a record label and produced two live comedy albums
-Tu Rae “Live at the Atlanta Comedy Theater”
-Tu Rae “A Comedy Album”.
ComedyByTuRae produces the successful weekly comedy showcase @SoulComedy; & the Throwback Comedy Jam.
Tu Rae is the lead instructor of Philadelphia Comedy College.
Tu Rae’s quick wit and sharp point of view makes him a favorite on television shows like Fox’s “The Q” Podcasts like “Dope Dealers” “Music Is The Love Language” “Talk Heavy Podcast” and his comedy is heard on SiriusXM and Tidal, Pandora & the LOL Network daily.
Comedian Chastity Washington has a performance history over twenty years.
In that time she has performed in clubs &college across the nation, worked
In radio and has been a middle high school teacher. She has appeared on BET Comic
View and Coming to the Stage. Chastity has also been featured at
The TBS Just for Laughs festival 2009-12 and was the only female finalist of
The 2011 Bay Area Comedy competition. She has been featured at Jokes & Notes
In Chicago, Milwaukee's Comedy Cafe', Madison Comedy Week the Helium in Philadelphia, the
Shaq Comedy All-Stars tour. Through2013-14 She was named one of the 50 Hot Women of Comedy by
AfterEllen.com, featured at the Montreal' Just For Laughs Festival, appeared on a new season of BET's
Comic View, was NBC Diversity Finalist and a participant in the NBC college tour. 2015 brought an
appearance on the Urban Movie channels Comedy Underground and a first place win at the ABFF HBO
comedy wings competition. Most recently Chastity has taken part in the Tom Joyner Fantastic
Voyage,was the 2018 Last Comic Sailing winner on Festival at Sea cruise and has 2 apprences at the
Martha's Vineyard Comedy Fest.
Preston Gitlin is a New York-based stand-up comic who dreamed of being a comedian since early childhood. At age 19, he opened for Dane Cook. In his 20s, he built multiple international businesses. His first venture was in Costa Rica, where he became fluent in Spanish. The bilingual comedian also founded comedywire.com, the world’s largest comedy writing site. He has written jokes for some of the biggest celebrities, CEOs and politicians, and was honored to contribute to the 2020 Gridiron Club Dinner. He has been featured multiple times on SiriusXM, Fox Business and Bloomberg. Preston is open about his life-long struggle with anxiety and uses his comedy to help support mental health initiatives. In 2019, he launched The Mental Health Comedy Tour in partnership with TWLOHA (To Write Love on Her Arms), one of the country’s most influential suicide prevention nonprofits.
Zarna Garg is “One in a Billion”, and that's not the just name of her first comedy special. She’s also the only Indian mom comedian taking on her mother-in-law. She was recently profiled as one of the gutsiest women in comedy on Apple TV’s new “Gutsy Women” series and featured on “This American Life” with Ira Glass. When she’s not doing 15 shows a week at Comedy Cellar in New York City, she is touring the world with her show. She is the winner of Kevin Hart's Lyft Comics, the winner of the 2021 Ladies of Laughter Award, and has over a million followers across social media platforms. Her debut feature screenplay, ‘Rearranged’ won Top Comedy Feature award at Austin Film Festival in 2019 and was a 2019 Nicholl Fellowships Semi-Finalist.
Sup? I’m Christina Walkinshaw. I do comedy. Or did. I moved to New York March 1st. Is it always like this?
This is my comedy album I don’t know if the jokes hold up, but the title does. I hope you buy it, then leave your music on shuffle, and randomly hear one of my jokes between Taylor Swift songs. My old roommate Melissa had Tony Robbins on her iPod and it would pop up as she tried to DJ between karaoke singers. I’m sure that’s what inspired everyone in Barney’s Beanery to sing “Who Let the Dogs Out.”
Christina Walkinshaw is a Canadian stand up comic now living in New York. Her half hour comedy special often repeats in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping. You’ve seen her on Just For Laughs, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and she’s done multiple tours for the troops overseas. She’s been on CBC’s “The Debaters,” and she also makes (sporadic) appearances in the shower. Check out her podcast “Jillin Off” with Jen Murphy and her very popular blog, “Becoming Poly.” If you find any typos on this website, be sure to contact us, and you will receive a FREE BEER! In general, Walkinshaw chooses to avoid mushrooms and marriage. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @walkinsauce.
