Comedians
Ron Nobles is a New York City-based stand-up comedian. He is a regular in the New York City comedy scene and performs at colleges, clubs, and theatres all over the country. He is a founding member of the Escape From NY Comedy Tour, that brings NYC comics all over the US. He's been featured on Yahoo Sports Radio and in the New York Comedy Festival. He’s a clean-cut every man with a knack for storytelling. Ron Grew up in a small town south of Buffalo called Gerry, NY but, he currently resides in New York City with his boxer Tony.
Molly Ruben-Long is a comedian/actress/writer/woman with great bangs. She was a New Face at Just for Laughs in Montreal and has been featured on Viceland, Fuse and the BBC.
She is the co-host of Well Behaved, a weekly podcast that tells you about women from history you probably have never heard of. She is also a regular contributor to Someecards.com.
Neil Rubenstein doesn’t do drugs. He’s never had a sip of alcohol. So it may come as a bit of a surprise when the Long Island comedian references past occupations like owning a brothel or running an illegal poker room. It’s a dynamic that makes Neil both incredibly interesting and incredibly funny – something that served him well when his role on a Spike TV show as a gambling expert introduced him to the world of stand-up comedy. Stand up was more than an outlet – it straightened out his life.
“I accidentally became a good role model,” Neil Rubenstein says.
Neil doesn’t shy away from discussing his former life of crime. Though he credits comedy with in some ways saving his life, his past experiences inform his understanding and his art. They also inform his work ethic.
“I can’t just play cards, I had to run a poker room,” Neil says, by way of explanation. It’s an ethic he brings to his comedy: a dedication to doing something to the utmost degree. “I couldn’t just do stand up, I had to quit my job and focus everything on the craft.”
His dedication and humor have earned him accolades including runner up in 2017 Long Island Laugh Off and the Main Event of The World Series of Comedy.
“Neil’s a burly, tattooed guy who plays against type; kind, cerebral, but still casually mentions past illegal activities the way I might reference a Renaissance Lit course I took in college,” Joe Devito, famous comedian, said about Neil’s show. It’s a show you won’t want to miss.
Brian Scolaro was born in a log cabin in Eggplant, West Virginia in 1876. And was visited during the night by Three Shephards. They beat the shit out of him for six hours. His mother was a ghost pimp and his father was a washing machine. Brian went to High school in the Philipines, where he spent four years learning to become an asshole. He received notoriety when he discovered a cure for “sight” by poking people in the eyes. Brian was killed by a large bear when he was sixteen, but he did not let that stop his acting dreams. He moved to Hollywood in 1872 and now sells garbage under a bridge.
Jessica is a comedian originally from Long Island, although she prefers to say New York. After spending her entire childhood at Orthodox Jewish schools, Jessica loves to talk onstage about religion, sex, and anything else that makes her parents uncomfortable. When she’s not performing at or hosting shows around the city, Jessica is writing a PhD dissertation on 19th century British prostitution.
Kira Soltanovich grew up in San Francisco during a time when there were bad neighborhoods, cheap coffee and it wasn’t ironic to ride the cable cars. She began her comedy career back in 1998 after asking her Russian immigrant parents if they would support her dream to become a stand up. After her mother and father confessed “It’s not like you’re smart enough to be a doctor…” Kira took that as their blessing to pursue her dreams and she’s never looked back.
She was a series regular on How To Be A Grownup for TruTV, the hidden camera show Girls Behaving Badly and was a correspondent on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for over 8 years. Recently, Kira co-hosted the game show Winsanity with Donald Faison for the Game Show Network.
One of Kira’s greatest achievements is shooting her latest 1 Hour Stand Up Special,You Did This To Me, which was completely self-produced and she shot it while over 7 months pregnant. The first stand up comedian to shoot a special pregnant!
Kira has appeared on The Jay Leno Show, Hello Ross! with Ross Mathews, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Hell’s Kitchen, Last Comic Standing, Set List TV, and The World Stands Up on Comedy Central. She has written for Joan Rivers, Scott Baio, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. And here’s an interesting fact, three of those people have dated each other.
Kira’s pilot Weren’t You Scott Baio? was optioned by New Line Television, her hidden camera dating show Who’s Got Game? was optioned by MTV and her feature film What’s Your Sign? was optioned by Terra Firma at Universal. For a while there, she and her writing partner were only developing projects that asked a question. Genius, right?
She’s been a writer on Easiest Game Show Ever, How’d You Get So Rich? for TV Land, Warning: Men Thinking, Raising Whitley and Prankstars on Disney.
Will Lopez is a stand up comic from Miami Florida, by way of Cliffside Park,
New Jersey. He is of Cuban American decent. Will is the father of three.
Will got his start in entertainment as the lead singer of the Cuban Punk
Rock band Guajiro. Pronounced (No One You Would Know). He has toured
extensively through the United States, Puerto Rico and many parts of South
America. Guajiro starred on an MTV reality show called "Road Rally" and opened for many prominent bands such as Pennywise, Flogging Molly, Lil
Wayne and Rancid.
Will began his foray into comedy 9 years ago and in that short time has
amassed quite a list of credits from runner up in the Boston leg of the
World Series of Comedy in 2014, Finalist at Ultimate Miami Comedian 2016
and 2017, to appearances on hit TV shows like Glades. He is a regular at
the Florida Improvs and has performed with many national headliners like
Brett Ernst, Tom Cotter, and Jimmy Shubert.
Because of his music background Will is most likely being the only human
being on this planet to have the distinction on his resume of opening for
both The Ramones and Carlos Mencia in the same life time.
His material covers his heritage, being raised by a Cuban mom, to his recent
divorce, and of course, being a dad, father of three insane children. He
also touches on the differences between being a musician and a stand up.
Will Lopez's life is exactly like a comedy club. Everyday he requires TWO
drinks. Minimum.
The founder of the Fresh Drunk Stoned Tour. Growing up in South Florida to immigrant parents, Franco is a storyteller who weaves in between past and present. One minute you're laughing and then next minute you're leaning in to hear a life lesson.
Matt Bellak is a Chicago based comedian, but started his comedy career in South Florida. There he was the house Emcee for both the Ft Lauderdale and West Palm Beach Improv's. He has worked with such comedy greats as Tom Segura, Chris D’Elia and David Spade. Now in Chicago Matt tours the country co-headlining the Fresh Drunk Stoned Comedy Tour, which performed in over 50 cities last year! Don't miss him when he comes to your town.
Tim Hanlon is originally from Youngstown Ohio. He started his comedy career in Ft. Lauderdale Florida in 2010 and is now based in Los Angeles CA. He has toured in over 30 states and performed with comics such as Dom Irrera and Jeffery Ross. His clever social commentary, witty delivery and acclaimed joke writing has earned him invitations to many national comedy festivals such as The Cleveland Comedy Festival, Laugh Fest and The World Series of Comedy in Las Vegas. He can be seen on Hulu, Amazon Prime and Comedy.TV.
Shauna Lane is a New York City-based actor and comedian. She has been in many comedy festivals including The Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and The New York Comedy Festival. She also co-hosted The Gone Girls podcast (free on iTunes) from 2016-2020. Go see her work at www.shaunalane.com.
Rachel Green is a standup comic, actor, singer and violinist. She’s appeared on the CBS show Bull as well as Celebrity Ghost Stories. Rachel was the voice for Comcast for the 2018 Winter Olympics. She performs at clubs all over New York, spreading sexy, funny feminism. Rachel gives back to the community through motorboating.
Caitlin Ruppert is a New York City based comedian originally from Paterson N.J. Mainly doing standup she dables in acting, especially when it’s a parody music video. Former projects include “The She Woman Lady Lovers”, an all female comedy show and workshop as well as “Comic Karaoke”, a show in which comics begrudgingly did both standup and karaoke. Soon “Is It In”, will be launching, a podcast where men ask sex questions with no filter, she will be joined by her co-host, former Americas Next Top Model contestant Sarah Hartshorne.
Jonas Barnes was the product of a drug fueled romp in early 1982 and then grew up homeless in the doorway of Jake's Famous Seafood Restaurant in Portland, OR. Lucky for him, life got a little better after that. He is the wise ass son of a hippie mother and police officer father that has the ability to find humor in both the dark & light sides of his life. He has been married, divorced, wealthy, poor, physically fit, morbidly obese, well off, homeless, sober, drunk, independent and codependent...so he’s lived almost every aspect of life allowable by law. After realizing he didn't look good in cardigans and couldn't play an instrument, he decided to do comedy the old fashioned way: Be honest and let the audience into his life so they can laugh at his pain right along with him. In 2013 and 2014, he was a featured performer at the Bumbershoot Comedy & Arts Festival in Seattle, WA alongside such acts as Marc Maron, Natasha Leggero, Jerrod Carmichael, Pete Holmes, The Wu-Tang Clan and Judah Freidlander. When he is not making people laugh all over the country, he produces the wildly popular R-Rated, monthly "SMUT Presents" comedy show series throughout the country (based in Portland, OR), along with his co-producer Lauryn Petrie, that has featured such acts as Laurie Kilmartin, Auggie Smith, Sean Rouse, Kristine Levine and Chris Neff to name just a few. Here is what people are saying about Jonas Barnes "I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me." - Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family, Breaking Bonaduce, The Soup) "This kid is funny, works hard and cares about comedy. I worked with Jonas for a weekend at Tacoma Comedy Club in Tacoma, WA and he did different sets all week. And he had big laughs every show." - Tom Simmons (BET's "ComicView", Comedy Central's "Live At Gotham") "Jonas is a very funny guy, that performs with an edge and an amazing truthfulness all while never losing his likability on stage." - Tom Clark (NBC's "Last Comic Standing") "What do I think of Jonas Barnes? Well, honestly, I frickin' love him! Funny, witty...and brandishing a mouth so soft & insatiable...well, let's just say I didn't want to come home. And we were in Tacoma! Get this guy on your show!" - Ben Roy (The Grawlix, MTV, Montreal "Just For Laughs Festival")
Pauline Murphy is a New York City based comedian born and raised in Staten Island. She got her start during her time as an intern for Spike TV at Viacom Networks, joining stand-up comedy student organization Ha-Ha-Hofstra while finishing her Master's degree in Speech Communication, Rhetoric, and Performance at Hofstra University in Long Island. From there, she went on to perform charity fundraisers at her undergraduate school, St. John's University, took part in various comedy festivals, and began doing shows on the NYC club circuit. She has since then featured and headlined clubs in both NYC and on the road, produced shows, and has been seen on MTV's "Girl Get Your Mind Right" and CBS' "The Talk." She now serves as a committee member for the 5th Borough Comedy Festival."
He has been featured on 2 nationally released roast dvds entitled Ring Roasts, which honors professional wrestling superstars. He has also been featured on SiriusXM Satellite Radio and just released his first dvd called Don't Judge Me. He’s breaking out and can be seen at all of the big club scenes from Catch A Rising Star, Bananas Comedy Club, Comedy Cove, The Looney Bin and The Borgata in Atlantic City. He has also recently worked The Friars Club in NYC on the dais of The Roast Of Gary Busey as well as their New Talent Showcase
Donna Vee (Vaicels) has been cracking people up since she was a kid. She is a salon owner by day, and comedian by night. She’s super excited to be hosting and coproducing “We Share a Void” with Shauna Lane. Other credits include Caroline’s on Broadway, The Wellmont Theatre, Catch a Rising Star.
Donna Vee produces a monthly show “Donna Vee and Friends" and is the co-host of a weekly podcast “Girls Gone Green”, watch on Facebook or listen for free on iTunes.
Mia Faith Hammond is a young NYC based comic who performs all around the city. She recently won the “Make Me Laugh Albany” competition, and was the first teenager to do so. She just got back from being a part of the “Comedy’s Best Kept Secret” tour where she journeyed the country as a feature comedian for 30 days. She is also a reoccurring guest on Sirius XM’s “Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang”.