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Send us Fan Mail Dan Bublitz, Jr. spent the first six months of his 11-year stand-up career in South Dakota before moving to San Diego. After helping start the San Diego Comedy Festival, he came back to South Dakota and is now in Saint Paul, Minn. Bublitz has interviewed comedians from across the country on his podcast, The Art of Bombing, and filmed a Dry Bar Comedy special in October 2020. He&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Williamsport comedian Yeti Kiersnowski got his start in stand-up after hosting a burlesque show. Four years later, he's one of the most established comedians in central Pennsylvania. He grew up near Baltimore in the punk rock scene and uses his skills as a bartender to improve on the stage. He also helped his step-mom discover what a gloryhole is at a Jim Breuer show. You kno...

Send us Fan Mail Betty Smithsonian found stand-up comedy through her success in the Philadelphia improv scene and she's become one of the best in the area. Philadelphia Magazine's 2019 Best Up-and-Coming Comedian, Smithsonian has been able to transition from the traditional stage to Zoom, which has inspired her one-woman show, Ants Ants Underpants. Plus she's got a megaphone. How ca...

Send us Fan Mail E.J. Masicampo is a father and a successful psychology professor at Wake Forest with a Ph. D., but decided to give stand-up a shot. Turns out, he's pretty good at that, too. Masicampo's already a big part of the Winston-Salem comedy scene. He's a regular host at the Idiot Box Comedy Club and has been working out material regularly on Zoom throughout the pandemic. Bu...

Send us Fan Mail Emma Paxton grew up in Montclair, N.J., and has been doing stand-up for three years. After a couple years going between New Jersey and New York City, she decided to move to Rochester -- and then a pandemic happened. Since then, she's been keeping busy doing Zoom shows and waiting to get acclimated to a new comedy scene. Oh. She's also watched a lot of sitcoms. Full House...

Send us Fan Mail Dan Hoppel is a very funny comedian from Scranton. He's fresh out of the hospital with kidney issues and might still be alive by the time of this episode's release. Who knows? He's one of the greats. Hoppel doesn't take any garbage on stage, but he's one of the funniest orphans you'll ever meet. Follow Dan Hoppel: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ho...

Send us Fan Mail Ithaca comedian Kenneth McLaurin got his start in North Carolina, where he received some advice he'll never forget. One of the funniest people in Upstate New York, McLaurin hasn't met a small town he doesn't like -- at least for the night. He's been telling jokes for 10 years and is always bringing something interesting to Ithaca. Follow Kenneth McLaurin: Faceb...

Send us Fan Mail Niko Lukoff is a comedian in Nampa, , Idaho, but he's made his name by starting a Facebook group page, Displaced Comedians, which has become a great resource for thousands of jokesters without a home during the pandemic. Created in mid-April, Displaced Comedians has about 4,000 members and has become a database for open mics and online shows all over the world. A traveling sa...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Schiavone started out serving chicken wings at the Richmond Funny Bone and moved to New York City in 2013 to start comedy. A co-host of the Panic Attacking podcast with Steven Rogers, Schiavone has been able to combine his anxiety and obsession with comedy into a promising future. Schiavone is a regular in the New York scene and has been doing his best to keep growing durin...

Send us Fan Mail Jimmy Moynihan is a comedian living in Melbourne, Fla. He got sick of Binghamton and moved closer to the alligators and learned to love it. He's been stuck at home during the pandemic, but he runs one of the best Zoom open mics going with comedians checking in from all over the country. Moynihan did his first set as a junior in high school, booked shows at SUNY Oneonta and ha...

Send us Fan Mail Zach Dresch started his stand-up career seven years ago in Sioux Falls and now he's one of the best comedians in South Dakota. A life-long punk rock fan and a drummer in a dueling piano group, Dresh is able to combine his passions for music and comedy while still being able to work through the pandemic.  He saw Motion City Soundtrack twice in 2020, so maybe the year wasn&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Chris "Chimmer" Chmielewski has been doing stand-up for about three years in the Lewisburg/Williamsport, Pa., areas. The founder and editor of Foster Focus magazine, Chimmer grew up in the system and he's grown to become an award-winning journalist and frequent guest at the White House. Of course, he could be lying. Who knows? He used to work at the Williamsport Sun...

Send us Fan Mail Christophe Jean is a really funny comedian from Orlando, Fla., who's been doing stand-up for four years. A coronavirus survivor, he's already back on stage because Florida has no rules. Jean left a job at Universal Studios to take a spot at a weed dispensary and he's never been happier. Now he's buried in producing comedy -- through Instagram, TikTok, stand-up...

Send us Fan Mail It didn’t take long for Shirelle “Gator” Kinder to be noticed in the Rochester comedy scene. Constantly writing while living her life, Kinder has been able to translate working as a bartender to being a ball-buster on stage. After advancing to the finals of the Funniest Person in Rochester twice, there’s no denying Kinder is one of the best. Even her grandma thinks so. She’s also...

Send us Fan Mail Binghamton comedian Hal Stewart grew up in Syracuse and started doing stand-up in 2018. He's been all over the East Coast telling jokes about his family -- with their consent. Stewart discussed his time in the navy, how being a salesman has helped his comedy career and why you should never trust him when he's got a roll of quarters in his hand. Follow Hal Stewart: Facebo...

Send us Fan Mail Nick Hopping got his start in comedy in high school in Richmond, Va., and moved to New York City from Washington, D.C., a couple years ago. Now he's got a half-hour special, Giraffe in the Shed, out on YouTube. Hopping and his girlfriend, Samantha Freeman, run multiple comedy shows under Stand Up a La Mode throughout the city -- including one on their apartment patio. They al...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Cyr has been doing comedy across the Midwest for the last eight years. A St. Louis native, Cyr works at the Helium and Funny Bone comedy clubs in the city along with producing his own shows and running an open mic. Busy guy. The host of the Impolite Company podcast and a feature at Helium, Cyr has opened for Mark Normand, JB Smoove, Kyle Kinane and Christopher Titus -- even...

Send us Fan Mail Bret Raybould started doing stand-up when he was at Wake Forest University, moved to New York City after graduating and has been there ever since. A Kansas City native, Raybould and his brother, Jordan, have toured the country together telling jokes in all sorts of rooms. Bret Raybould released his debut comedy special, Bret Raybould Retires from Comedy, on YouTube on Nov. 23 -- j...

Send us Fan Mail Already five years into his comedy career, David Feinberg has become a Philadelphia regular at 24 years old. Feinberg got his start at Temple University and has taken a lifetime of comedy learning from his parents, Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor and used it to co-host the So Tell Us ... Podcast with Jarrod Micale. Feinberg is active in the improv and stand-up scenes and just wants p...

Send us Fan Mail Kurt Ryan is a comedian from Germantown, Md., armed with a dark and hilarious sense of humor. He's a really funny stand-up and a meme factory. He got into comedy six years ago and has performed all over Maryland, Virginia and tipped his toes into the Phoenix scene before moving back home to wait out the pandemic. He shared the secrets behind his meme-writing process and what...

Send us Fan Mail Phil Farda has been telling jokes since 2002 and he's been running shows in the Utica scene for more than a decade. The owner of Comedy CNY and Stage Time Trivia, Farda has worked with hundreds of comedians and has putting on a great show down to a science. From Fat Cat Comedy Club to creating his own business, we cover it all. Follow Phil Farda: Instagram: https://www.instag...

Send us Fan Mail Los Angeles comedian Jen Liv spent 12 years as a theatre and commercial actress before moving to the West Coast. After taking improv classes at the Upright Citizen's Brigade, Liv took a shot at stand-up during the pandemic and is already finding success. A New Mexico native, Liv plays 16 instruments -- even if she struggles to name them all -- and is marrying her biggest fan....

Send us Fan Mail For more than 10 years, Justin Jackson has been making audiences laughing from the stage. A Detroit kid at heart, Jackson moved to Syracuse and has become one of the best comedians in the scene. He used to watch Def Comedy Jam with his mom and now he’s a regular at the Syracuse Funny Bone and hosts the Play With Yourself podcast. All that to talk with Mike Peters? Hardly seems wor...

Send us Fan Mail Winston Hodges survived his time at Virginia Tech and started his stand-up career in Richmond, Va., five years ago. He moved to Washington, D.C., during the pandemic and is releasing a half-hour special, inspired by his dad's death, called Grieving Productively. It comes out at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, so watch it after you listen to this. He's a funny guy who's b...

Send us Fan Mail One of the funniest people in New York, Justin Brown has become a must-see comedian in Rochester. Brown went from a funny guy working in a factory to a regular at the Comedy at the Carlson, who also works in a factory. One of the brains behind Hate This Podcast, Brown has big plans for his future. And they all involve some sort anarchy, I’m sure. Follow Justin Brown: Instagram: ht...