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Send us Fan Mail Kasey Nicholson is a Harrisburg comedian who got her start on stage after Shane Gillis put her name on the list. Since then, she worked in the United Arad Emirates with the Air Force and had a daughter before jumping back into the Harrisburg scene in 2019. She features regularly at the Church of Satire Comedy Club in Hanover, Pa., and is working with the Laughing Stock Comedy Club...

Send us Fan Mail Alex Bozinovic started doing stand-up in Detroit back in 2014. He was one of the founders of the Independent Comedy Club, from which he stepped away recently to focus more on his stand-up. He's been in several festivals, including Limestone and Middle Ground in Indianapolis, Fountain City in Kansas City and Gilda's Laugh Fest in Grand Rapids, Mich. He acted in college an...

Send us Fan Mail John Grier was sitting at a bar one night after his divorce and decided he needed to do something to help people remember him. So at 39 years old, he started doing stand-up. One of the few comedians in the Stroudsburg, Pa., area, Grier began producing shows five months into his young career under the Grierfest Comedy moniker. He books some of the best shows in Northeastern Pennsyl...

Send us Fan Mail Demi Chang started doing stand-up in Fairfax, Va., back in 2021 as a way to feel productive after her time in the Marine Corps. She's been able to find her footing in the Washington, D.C., scene and is planning a move to Austin, Texas. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she's loosely using her journalism degree while working with Robin Phoenix in the Best Medicine...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Frank was working for the NBA in China when he decided to give stand-up a try. Eight years later, he's living in New York City and competing well in the World Series of Comedy all across the country. A lot of things have changed since he decided not to take the initial real estate job. He became one of the better ex-pat comedians in China before moving back to the United...

Send us Fan Mail Corey Alexander has been a stand-up comic for the last two decades. He's a Philadelphia guy from the start. He's worked all over the country with pit stops in Los Angeles and New York City, but he's at home in Philly. He's got the Inside Jokes Podcast and the 4-for-4 podcast, where he talks about the 76ers, Flyers, Eagles and Phillies, and he's on stages a...

Send us Fan Mail Tyler Ross is a Chicago comedian who got his start in the Akron scene while going to Kent State University. He grew up playing hockey and had dreams of going pro pro. He got all the way to his college team before stand-up felt like the better way to go. He's traveled the country, headlining shows all over the place, and recorded his first album in May. He's in the editin...

Send us Fan Mail Clay Newman is a super funny comedian in Los Angeles. He started doing stand-up in San Francisco in 2012. He's worked with Shane Torres, Kelsey Cook, Jenny Slate, Eric Andre, TJ Miller and Darrell Hammond and is a regular on the festival circuit all over the West Coast. He's also an actor and a big baseball fan. He even did a commercial with Giants catch Buster Posey rig...

Send us Fan Mail Lennon Free started doing stand-up as a freshman at Shippensburg University back in 2010. From Biglerville, Pa., outside of Gettysburg, he knows his apples. He latched ono the Harrisburg comedy scene while in college and moved to Austin, Texas, for a few years before coming back in April 2022. He streams video games and tells jokes. He's living the life. But he can't hea...

Send us Fan Mail Reed Sedgwick has been doing stand-up for 12 years. He moved to Argentina in his 30s and joined a story-telling group before taking a shot at comedy and moving back to Louisville, Ky. Sedgwick has been able to find a home as a gay trans man in the comedy scene and opened for Jackie Kashan, Beth Stelling and Kyle Kinane and been at the Limestone and Cape Fear Comedy Festivals.  Fol...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Furr is a comedian in Baltimore and the booking manager, producer, host, busser, etc., of the Lou Costello Room. He’s been doing stand-up for 10 years and has two specials – Straight Acting and I Didn’t Die – on Amazon Prime and Spotify and he’s working on a third. He’s one of the hardest working comedians in the area and is way too busy to waste his time with guys from Wa...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Hasenauer is a comedian, producer and musician in Rochester. He was in bands for most of his life before finding himself on the stand-up stage at 29 years old. He's only looking forward now. He hosts a monthly show at Go Art! in Batavia, N.Y., and performs all over the state.  Follow Chris Hasenauer:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hazcomedy/ Intagram: https://www.i...

Send us Fan Mail Brooklyn comedian Josh Alba started doing stand-up back in 2011. It didn't go well. But he came back -- a couple times -- thanks to the encouragement from the Brooklyn Underground Comedy. Now he's producing his own show at the Pine Box Rock Shop called Putting it Out There. He hosts the Monday Nitro Party podcast and is set to do color commentary with the Shadow Wrestlin...

Send us Fan Mail Hannah Belmont started doing stand-up once she got to Oberlin College in Ohio and already has a full schedule. She's using her theater background to her advantage and has already performed at several festivals -- Rubber City, Flagship, Sixth City. She also survived a wild night in Canton.  Follow Hannah Belmot:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannahb.elmont/ Twitter: ht...

Send us Fan Mail Dave Yates started doing stand-up back in 2011 a couple hours outside of Chicago. He got sober in 2012 and is at the top of his game -- so far -- while making it work as a full-time comedian. He's been all over the country and he brings his HaHa Hot Sauce with him. Yates released his album, One Long Merch Pitch, in 2019 and should be teaching a business course for stand-ups....

Send us Fan Mail John Lockwood is a stand-up comedian out of Buffalo. He's been working in the scene for the last eight years and gets out of town whenever he can. He'll be at the Rubber City Comedy Festival in Akron, Ohio, from May 3 to May 6. Oh, yeah. He's also been shot. Lockwood told the story about how a bullet went through his stomach four times and he was able to get a great...

Send us Fan Mail Kyle Haunhorst is a comedian and producer in the Cleveland and Akron areas. He's in charge of the Cleveland Comedy Festival and the Rubber City Comedy Festival, which begins on May 3 at the Funny Stop in Akron and ends on May 6. He wants to do everything he can to show everybody how strong the comedy in Ohio is. Haunhorst talked about his penchant for roast battles and why he...

Send us Fan Mail Alisha Rayne began her comedy career as a byproduct from her Bzzzline blog. She started doing stand-up while living in Los Angeles and is now keeping busy in Sioux Falls, S.D. She ran the successful Wish You Were Here series of shows over Zoom during the pandemic and helped create the Morning Bzzz, a hybrid morning show done over Zoom. She also runs an open mic on Monday at Lucky&...

Send us Fan Mail Philadelphia comedian Jay Yoder only started doing stand-up in 2020, when he was 38 years old. He'd watched enough people do comedy that he figured he could do it, too. And he can. He's already doing theater shows with the Bad Teachers tour and he's a regular at the Helium and Punchline comedy clubs. Yoder coached baseball for 18 years and teaches Latin, Spanish and...

Send us Fan Mail Greg Behrens, a Buffalo native, is an excellent writer and comedian in Atlanta. His wife convinced him to give sketch comedy a try and he transitioned into stand-up in 2010. He used his time at Sketchworks to learn how to host and he's developed into one of the best comedians around. He decided to pursue stand-up full-time -- a week before the pandemic. Behrens was a semifina...

Send us Fan Mail Erin Depke grew up as a very shy child, hiding behind her mom whenever she could. Now the junior at Indiana University is in her third year as a stand-up and commands the attention from audiences all over Bloomington. She's a regular at the Comedy Attic, where she opened for Beth Stelling last fall, and will be performing at the Middle Ground and Limestone Comedy Festivals th...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Glessner is one of the best comedians in the Harrisburg area. He did his first open mic when he was 25 years old and it went so well that he took five years off. After meeting his future wife, Glessner decided to get back at it and he's been performing all over Pennsylvania and Maryland over the last six years. He co-produces the open mic at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone...

Send us Fan Mail Ella Fritts got her start in comedy by going to Second City to take improv classes. She took the stand-up classes the next year and is still going. Now in her eighth year and growing in St. Louis' deep scene, she released her YouTube Special, "We Should Write Together," on Wednesday, March 15. She's traveling the country -- on small tours and participating in c...

Send us Fan Mail Anthony Morelli has only been doing stand-up for about five years, but he's put the spotlight on the Erie, Pa., comedy scene. He runs the open mic in town and was in the Sixth City Comedy Festival in Cleveland. Morelli and Dan Brady founded the Flagship City Comedy Fest, which debuts this year between April 27 and April 30. They had 240 submissions for their first-year festiv...

Send us Fan Mail Prateek Srivastava has been doing stand-up for the last 13 years. He started his career in Chicago, taking the train in and out of the city, and he wound up moving to Los Angeles in 2021. He released his debut album, Nick and Sheila's Kid in 2020. Prateek has been in festivals all over the country and he co-hosts the Gimmick Street Wrestling Podcast. He's got enough idea...