Comedians


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.
Jared Goldstein has been seen on Netflix's Black Mirror, CBS After Midnight and was one of JFL's New Faces 2022 and Vulture's Comedians You Should & Will Know 2021.
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.
Jordan Jensen started Comedy in upstate NY before moving to Nashville TN where she spent a year working for clubs and taking her comedy on the road in her pick up truck. She now lives in Brooklyn NY and has since been featured on Sirius XM, as a New Face at the prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival and is now a regular at the renowned Comedy Cellar. Her comedy consists of tales of her bizarre upbringing and highly unconventional family her own filterless confessions of her time on this filthy planet.
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.
Dan Ahdoot is a comedian (Tonight Show, Conan) and actor known best for his iconic roles as Anoush on Netflix’s Cobra Kai, and Falafel Phil on Disney’s Kickin’ It. He played Amir on NBC's Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Reggie on Showtime’s Shameless. Dan is currently the host of the Food Network’s Raid The Fridge. His food podcast, Green Eggs and Dan, is the #1 food podcast in the country, and his book Undercooked is the #1 selling food memoir on Amazon.
Angelo Colina es un comediante venezolano que emigró de Colombia a Estados Unidos en el 2018. Empezó a hacer stand up en Wiseguys Comedy Club (Salt Lake City, Utah) y ahora reside en Nueva York, donde fue co-fundador de Español Please (el cual fue parte del New York Comedy Festival 2021) y Gente Funny (el primer showcase en español en Washington DC). En el 2023 hizo su primer tour con su show ‘Solito’ y acaba de debutar como headliner en el New York Comedy Festival 2023 y en el Netflix is a Joke Festival en Los Ángeles en 2024. Angelo va a girar por todo Estados Unidos. En español.
The newest player on Saturday Night Live, Aristotle Athiras is a Middle Eastern-American comedian, actor, writer, director and podcaster based in Los Angeles. Shortly after getting his start in stand-up comedy, he began writing, performing and directing sketches with future collaborators Hasan Minhaj, Asif Ali and Fahim Anwar to form Goatface — the first and only sketch comedy show on Comedy Central to feature an all Muslim-American cast to date. He has since directed stand-up specials for Comedy Central, Showtime and NBC. In 2019, he was cast in HBO’s Silicon Valley as recurring character, Gabe. Currently he has a podcast called “This is Americans Live,” an improvised parody of “This American Life” on Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players podcast network, airing on iHeart Radio.
Lucie Pohl is a German-born-NYC-raised comedian, actor, voice actor and writer. She is the voice of Mercy on Blizzard's Overwatch, Rixxa Fluxflame in World of Warcraft, as well as voicing characters on Red Dead Redemption 2, Hearthstone and more. On screen she has appeared in Homeland, Red Dwarf XI and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and an epically terrible Turkish horror film starring Stephen Baldwin (she does not regret this). Lucie has created 4 critically acclaimed solo comedies that have toured internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London's West End, Germany, Romania, as well as across the US and OFF Broadway in NYC. Her solo comedy Hi, Hitler was nominated for a NY Innovative Theater Award. Her show Immigrant Jam has been featured in the NY Comedy Festival, The NY Times and on NPR.