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Send us Fan Mail Cody Montanye started doing stand-up in Albany seven years ago and has performed all over the Northeast. He's a regular at the clubs in Albany and Comix at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and just started to headline local shows. He's working on sketches, too, and plans to release them on YouTube soon. He's definitely making the most out of his art degree. Follow Cod...

Send us Fan Mail Mike Celona got his start in stand-up in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania before moving to New York City. He's in Nutley, N.J., now and is performing all over the country. Celona started out as a musician, playing in punk bands, and is always busy. He's working on a project with Hidden in Plain View, a punk band on the Drive-Thru label in the early 2000s, and plans on r...

Send us Fan Mail Aaron Naylor began doing stand-up in Tucson, Ariz., in 2013 before coming home to Kansas City, Mo., to help create the independent comedy scene. He spent nine years there running shows and building his set and decided to move to Chicago. Naylor co-founded the Fountain City Comedy Festival, which debuted in October of 2022 and has traveled all over the country telling jokes. He was...

Send us Fan Mail Jacob Morrison started doing stand-up off and on in Buffalo when he was 17. Since the pandemic, he's become a big part of the comedy scene. A musician when he was a kid, he found a way to combine the two. He began producing the Comedy Jam last year and is bringing it back to Buffalo on Saturday, Feb. 4 and then taking it to the Comedy at the Carlson in Rochester on Friday, Fe...

Send us Fan Mail Tim Rager grew up in New Jersey and started doing stand-up on Dec. 13, 2019. Four months later, he had to pause. But he's made up for lost time and is one of the best up-and-coming comedians in Jersey. He gave up drinking and doing cocaine at 28 and is solely focused on writing the best jokes he possibly can. He's a regular at Uncle Vinnie's Comedy Club.  Follow Tim...

Send us Fan Mail Rose Vineshank is a hilarious comedian from Baltimore. She started on her birthday in 2018 and has already become a standout in one of the best comedy scenes in the Mid-Atlantic. She opens for Matt Braunger and works regularly all over Baltimore, D.C., and Virginia. She's a great joke writer and a must-follow on social media. Raised on cartoons and Jim Henson creations, she w...

Send us Fan Mail Damon Millard has done stand-up all over the country over the last 13 years, but he's based in Brooklyn. A Binghamton native, Millard worked for a TV station in Milwaukee when he tried to impress a woman by telling her he was a comedian. He went to his first open mic after that and hasn't looked back. He tours the country, runs Punching Bag Comedy and stars in and produc...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Malafarina went to Kutztown University and started his stand-up career in the Allentown area. He's in New Jersey now and co-hosts Panties in the Mouth with LeMaire Lee and Nate Marshall and Drag the Lake with Pat George. He also hosts No More Heroes. He just performed at Skankfest in Las Vegas. He's got opinions on everything, from stand-up to sandwiches.  Follow An...

Send us Fan Mail Hedi Sandberg is a hilarious comedian in Bethesda, Md. A Silver Spring native, she got her start in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia comedy scene back in 2015 with a strong first open mic. She's been a mainstay in the DMV over the last eight years and she's working to become a regular feature on the road. Sandberg's been at comedy clubs in the area, festivals all over the...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Zongrone saw the Uptown Theater in Utica was coming back and decided to give improv a try. A few months later, he started doing stand-up. Now he's a member of the Bus Stop Robot improv troupe and does stand-up all over New York and making a name for himself in the comedy scene. He's going to do everything it takes to be the next Joey Gladstone. Jason's taking...

Send us Fan Mail Ryan Garcia started doing stand-up while he was a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. After joining the improv group at school, he decided to dive into stand-up. Since then, he's become one of the stronger, young comedians in Rochester's scene. He just did his first weekend at the Comedy at the Carlson club, hosting for Ian Lara, and he's been able to turn...

Send us Fan Mail Zack Lyman started doing stand-up in Phoenix, Ariz., when he was 18 years old. He hosted fire-breathers for an outdoor open mic until he was old enough to get into bars. Over the last 13 years, Lyman has been working all over the West, from Texas to Seattle, teaching himself how to become a headliner. He hosts the Zack Lyman Podcast and is producing The Big Laugh, a stand-up serie...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Search grew up in Binghamton and moved to New York City after college. He’s been doing stand-up for more than a decade and recorded his first album, Upstate Understandings, in July. The album is out now, so go buy it and see Jim live. He’s all over New York City and runs a monthly show in Brooklyn. He’s got big plans for 2023, including recording a special, and he even got som...

Send us Fan Mail Luc Thiers started his stand-up career in Rochester after living in New Orleans and Boston. He saw an open mic in New Orleans, but didn't get on stage until 2017 after moving back home. Thiers works at the Comedy at the Carlson in Rochester and is launching a new podcast, Sports Lobotomy, with comedian Andy Kuhn. Plus he once met Steve Zahn in a bathroom.  Follow Luc Thiers: ...

Send us Fan Mail Kirk Griffiths started doing stand-up while going to Kutztown University. He had a couple memorable performances in front of his fellow students before graduating and joining the comedy scenes in Lancaster and Philadelphia. Twelve years into his comedy career, he's incredibly balanced and happy with how things are going. He hosts the Proper Ebonics podcast with Alan Massenbur...

Send us Fan Mail Brian Beaudoin started his comedy career twice. The first time was a tribute to Eddie Murphy. When he began again in 2007, it was all Brian Beaudoin. Since then, he's become the talent coordinator at the Comedy Connection in East Providence, R.I., and has toured the country, telling jokes. He hosted a weekly hardcore show at the Connection to build his chops. Now he helps dev...

Send us Fan Mail Jesse Winterhalter started his stand-up career when he moved to Buffalo in 2014. He lived in Virginia, Philadelphia and New Mexico, but found himself a home in the Buffalo comedy scene. He's one of the best in the upstate area. He's a regular at the Helium Comedy Club and is on stage whenever he can be. He placed in a comedy contest by not saying a word. Plus, Doug Stanh...

Send us Fan Mail Danny Hucks has been doing stand-up all over Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania since 2014. He started out in Louisville before following his family to Hagerstown, Md., where he got to know the scenes in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pa. Hucks moved back to Louisville in July of 2022 and has been able to transition well into the mix.  Follow Danny Hucks:  Instagram...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Spratt's started doing stand-up in Scranton, Pa., when he was 25. After seven years in New York City, he moved back during the pandemic. Now at 39, he's set to record his second album on Oct. 26 at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia and first special Oct. 26 at Karl Hall in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He's been traveling all over the East Coast and Midwest over the last...

Send us Fan Mail Marc Hoover started doing stand-up in Binghamton in 2019. He was on stage a few months before the pandemic. He's got great timing. Hoover is a former police officer and an active military member. He's also eight months' sober and is using his newfound outlook to his advantage. Hoover has become a student of the craft and plans to put down the pizza and make a career...

Send us Fan Mail Brian Netzel started doing comedy in Buffalo back in 2014. He's spent this summer driving across the country, going from the Portland Comedy Festival in Maine to the North Carolina Comedy Festival and landing at the Savage Henry Comedy Festival in Eureka, Calif., where he'll be performing between Oct. 6 and Oct. 8. He's been living in his car and writing a book abou...

Send us Fan Mail Raj Suresh started his stand-up career in Arkansas before moving to Cleveland. After a brief stop in New York City -- he moved there in March 2020 -- Suresh moved back to Ohio to keep pushing. He's a regular feature for Nimesh Patel and Zarna Garg and recorded his first special in June. He's moving back to Arkansas with his girlfriend, but comedy is going to take him all...

Send us Fan Mail Tyler Rothrock lost two friends and a father in one year, so his mom had him talk to a therapist and a comedian was born. Rothrock spent six years in New York City, but he feels way better in Bethlehem, Pa. A co-host of the Night Moves podcast, Rothrock runs shows in Pennsylvania with Paul Spratt and Kris Fried and released his debut album, Tyler of Nazareth, in 2017. Follow Tyler...

Send us Fan Mail Korey David got his start in stand-up in the Albany area back in 2017. A couple years in, he decided to move to Denver and his career has been going in the right direction ever since. He got passed at the Comedy Works in Denver, tours the country and runs a weekly Friday show at Banded Oak Brewing Company in Denver called Late Night Comedy, featuring the best comedians in the area...

Send us Fan Mail Mat Alano-Martin began his stand-up career 13 years ago in Bloomington, Ind. He's got a home at the Comedy Attic and he teamed up with its owner, Jared Thompson, back in 2013 to create the Limestone Comedy Festival, which they now run with Dwight Simmons. Alano-Martin came from the punk scene, where he played in several bands -- as the singer, guitarist, bassist and drummer....