New York City’s number one comedian. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Wali was and still is an accomplished drummer. Not only currently being a member of the Central Park Djembe drummers. Wali has played in R&B, Pop, Funk and Jazz bands. Wali toured with the award winning Lawrence Bagwell Gospel Choral before graduating High School. And he was the youngest to ever join the New England Jazz Society. After College, Wali was working on being the best Architect New England has ever known. But the calling for show business was too strong. He played in bands, did session work, but that wasn’t enough. He needed more. read more

Veronica Mosey is a New York City comedian. She has appeared on Comedy Central, NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Dr. Phil Show, Oprah, and the FOX News hit, Huckabee. A festival favorite, Veronica has performed at the TBS Las Vegas Comedy Festival as well as Aspen’s HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Veronica has also made appearances on Martha Stewart Radio on Sirius XM and The Strategy Room on FOX News. She appears regularly at New York City’s top comedy clubs, including Caroline’s on Broadway and Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Abroad, Veronica has performed in Montreal, Canada as well as in Sweden at the prestigious Stockholm Comedy Festival. Veronica’s energetic, smart comedy has earned her fans across the world. Rolling Stone Magazine took notice, naming her one of their “Five Comics To Watch.” Recently, Veronica was featured in the acclaimed stand up comedy documentary I Am Comic.  read more

Streeter Seidel is one of the most prolific comedy writers and comedians in the country. In 2005, Streeter joined College Humor to help the site’s creators writer their first book, The Humor Guide To College. Since that time, Streeter has written and acted in countless CollegeHumor.com Original sketches. He also co-starred with Amir Blumenfeld in MTV’s Pranked. An accomplished writer, Streeter has been published on College Humor, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, Metro New York, Men’s Fitness, Mental Floss, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. As a stand up comedian, Streeter appears regularly at Stand Up NY and Comic Strip Live. In 2011, he was selected as part of the New Faces Showcase at Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs Festival. He was also a part of the College Humor Live tour in 2009 and 2010. Not to mention, he has appeared on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, PRI’s The Sound of Young America, NBC’s The Today Show, CNN’s The Situation Room, The San Francisco Chronicle, Glenn Beck, and Reader’s Digest. read more

Whirlwind, likable, funny, passionate, versatile, talented, and a solid actor with an infectious smile.  In a name Steve White. Think Morgan Freeman, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Jim Carrey, and Denzel Washington, all rolled into one!  And yes, throw in a little Meryl Streep Don‘t believe?  Go and see one of his hilarious stand-up shows, and then watch him do a monologue from Shakespeare‘s Othello.  Read the review in the Jerusalem Post for a performance he did there as part of his stand-up tour of Israel, or read his review in the L.A. Times for his award-winning performance as Clay in LeRoi Jones‘ award-winning play “Dutchman“.  See his short film “Love Anyone?“ that he wrote, produced, directed and starred in.  He can do it all. read more

Ross Bennett is one of the best kept secrets in show business. He dropped out of West Point, United States Military Academy, to pursue a career as a stand up comedian. Since that time, Ross has become one of the staples of the New York stand up comedy scene. For more than three decades, Ross has been making audiences laugh all across New York and Los Angeles, with stops along the way as well. He performs regularly at all of the top comedy clubs, including the Comedy Cellar, Stand Up NY, Gotham, Comic Strip Live, and Caroline’s on Broadway. Ross has received rave reviews in countless publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, The Examiner, and The Oakland Tribune. Ross Bennett’s comedy album New York Country is available on iTunes, where it has become a top-selling comedy album. On television, Ross has been featured on all of the major television networks, including regular appearances on Comedy Central’s Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, where his incisive and topical humor endeared him to fans and fellow comedians alike. read more

Rory Albanese is a stand up comedian, comedy writer, and producer. Rory is an Emmy award-winning executive producer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has been with the show since 1999, helping form the voice of the show that has made it one of the most successful shows in the history of late-night television. As a stand up comedian, Rory has performed on comedian Lewis Black’s Red, White and Screwed national tour. Plus he has toured with Daily Show correspondent Jon Oliver at comedy clubs and colleges across the country. Rory and Jon Oliver recently signed a major film development deal with Paramount Studios. Rory was also selected as part of the New Faces Showcase at Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. Not to mention, Rory just landed his own half-hour special as part of the Comedy Central famed series, The Half Hour. Rory performs at clubs all over New York City, including Caroline’s on Broadway and Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. read more

Comedian Rob Cantrell has been seen on several TV networks, he has made appearances most recently (2013) performing sketches on Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert” and FX’s “Totally Biased with W Kamau Bell”.   Cantrell wrote and stared in his own web-series titled “Universally Speaking with Rob Cantrell” made exclusively for the Bonnaroo music festival’s video channel, directed by Dan Powell (Ugly Americans, Inside Amy Schumer).  Cantrell acted in a video promo for HBO’s “Flight Of The Concords” and was a cast member of the hit “Off Broadway” play “The Marijuana-logues”. Rob was a top ten finalist on the very first season of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing”. He has performed ‘Stand-Up’ comedy at Bonnaroo and the SXSW music/arts festivals.  Rob has released a popular Stand-Up album (2009’s – Keep On The Grass) and a comedy music album (2013’s – Dreams Never Die), both albums can be heard in heavy rotation on ‘Sirius XM Satellite’ radio.  Rob is based in Brooklyn, New York. read more

Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, filmmaker, actor, and writer. He has earned fans across the world for his one-man show Sleepwalk with Me, which tells the story of Mike’s sleep disorder and relationship with his longtime girlfriend. The show is adapted from a story Mike originally told on NPR’s This American Life. The highly successful off-Broadway show was presented by Broadway legend Nathan Lane, who became a huge fan of Birbiglia after seeing his stand-up act. In 2011, Comedy Central Records released Sleepwalk With Me, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. Mike also released a book version of Sleepwalk with Me, which became a national bestseller. In 2012, Mike and radio host Ira Glass co-wrote a film adaptation of Sleepwalk with Me, which Mike directed and starred in. The film received glowing reviews and an enthusiastic Twitter campaign from fans helped bring Sleepwalk to hundreds of additional movie theaters around the country. Prior to Sleepwalk, Mike had appeared on more than 40 talk-shows, including Letterman, Conan, Fallon, Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, and Carson Daly. In 2007, Mike released My Secret Public Journal Live, which was named one of the “Best Comedy Albums of the Decade” by both USA Today and The Onion’s A.V. Club. Mike has had three Comedy Central specials, including the one-hour What I Should Have Said Was Nothing. Mike’s storytelling skills have been praised in countless publications, including The New York Times, Associated Press, and Time Magazine. Mike recently debuted his new one-man show, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, which he has performed off-Broadway and across the country, to rave reviews from critics. Mike is currently working on a film adaptation of the show. read more

A Brooklyn native, Marc Theobald is becoming one of the hottest acts in the stand up scene. Marc used to make jokes as he worked as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company. He made doctors laugh constantly, so he decided to take his act to other people as well. Marc entered the stand up comedy scene and never looked back. He tours nationally, performing at clubs and colleges all over the country. Marc has landed featured spots on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, and Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed. Marc has also appeared in Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show, BET’s Comic View and even Showtime at the Apollo, earning fans across the U.S. with his energy and sharp joke writing skills. He recently brought his act across the pond, appearing in the international World Stands Up special, filmed in London, England. In New York, Marc appears regularly at the top clubs in New York, including Stand Up NY, Laughing Devil Comedy Club, Gotham, and Caroline’s on Broadway. A respected writer, Marc co-wrote the films One Mic and Comic Groove for comedian and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan. Marc lives in New York City. read more

Louis C.K. is one of the most influential comedians of all-time. His FX series, Louie, is one of the most beloved shows in the recent history of television. Louis serves as the sole actor, writer, director, and co-editor of the series, which has earned widespread praise from critics and fans. For the second season of Louie, Louis won an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.” Previously, Louis served on the inaugural writing staff for Late Night with Conan O’Brien, served as head writer for The Dana Carvey Show, and wrote for The Chris Rock Show, for which he won an Emmy Award for writing. Louis’s first series, Lucky Louie, ran for one season on HBO prior to its cancellation. Louis followed this series up with his first HBO one-hour special entitled Shameless, which earned him tremendous praise from comedy fans. Louis then quickly released his second one-hour special Chewed Up, which aired on Showtime. While continuing to tour nationally, Louis released his third one-hour special Hilarious, as a concert film, which became the first stand up comedy performance to be accepted to the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Louis forever changed the distribution of stand up comedy specials when he self-released his latest stand up special, Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theater on his website for only $5. Many comedians have followed suit, as Louis paved the way for comedians to circumvent general distribution in order to provide fans with better prices and artists with a greater share of their profits. Louis released an entirely different hour on a digital album entitled Louis CK: Word, which features material from his sold-out Carnegie Hall performance. He has appeared on Letterman, Leno, Conan, Fallon, Kimmel, Lopez, and countless other talk shows.He currently resides in New York City.
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