The Kerri Edelman Show

Lindsay Manfredi is an international best-selling author, musician, speaker, and self-worth coach, best known as the bassist for the two-time Gold-certified alternative rock band Cold. She is also the author of Unf*ckwithable: A Guide to Inspired Badassery and the international bestselling memoir The Girl Who Cried Love: A Pivot to Self-Worth.  Beyond her creative work, Lindsay is a co-founder of...

David Degrand is the illustrator of the kids graphic novel Snot Goblins & Other Tasteless Tales and of the gross tongue-twister book Twisted Tongues. He has also written and illustrated for Garfield, SpongeBob Comics, Simpsons Comics and MAD magazine. In 2024, he created designs for the ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic video ‘Polkamania.’ He recently released his new graphic novel, ‘I AM NOT OKAY’ publishe...

James Yang is an award-winning illustrator who has won over 250 awards for design and illustration. His work has appeared in prestigious trade publications, such as Communications Arts, 3x3 Magazine, Graphis, Print and The Art Directors Club of New York. His illustrations and designs have also appeared in Business Week, ESPN, Golf Digest, Forbes, Fortune, Nabisco, Sony Records, New York Times, Wir...

Rob Kutner has won 5 Emmys, a Peabody, a TCA, and a Grammy writing for such shows as TBS’ “CONAN” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.’ He co-created the fact-based comedy TV show “Gander.” Rob’s other TV writing includes “Teen Titans Go!” “Ben10” “Angry Birds: Summer Madness” and HBO’s “Dennis Miller Live.” He has also written material for the Oscars, Emmys, Writers’ Guild Awards, MTV Movie Awar...

Phil Witte is a cartoonist and author. His cartoons have been published in dozens of publications in the U.S. and U.K., including The Wall Street Journal, The Times (of London) and Reader’s Digest, to name a few. His humor writing has appeared in American Bystander, Slackjaw, and many other print and digital publications. He has written 2 prior books including a joke book titled “What You Don’t Kn...

David Weill is the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the Principal of the Weill Consulting Group which focuses on improving the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care. David’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the...

I’m an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, and snowman expert. I’ve done cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. I wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores  (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. My work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco,...

David Sipress graduated from Williams College and went on to a master’s program in Russian History at Harvard before leaving to pursue a career as a cartoonist. His first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1998. Since then, he has published over seven hundred cartoons in the magazine. During the presidential election in 2012, he became the first Daily Cartoonist on the New Yorker website, and h...

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's writing takes readers behind the scense of major moment in pop culture history and examines the lasting impact that our favorite TV shows, music, and movies have on our society and psyches. She investigates why pop culture matters deeply, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Seinfeld, to Sex and the City and Mean Girls, to Beyonce, Taylor, and Barbie. She had written eig...

Jim Wilson could have simply dismissed himself as a competent piano tuner-technician, even an exceptional one. But he was and is so much more, and it took the sudden death of a dear friend and the encouragement of a legendary singer/songwriter to prove it to him. From a broken home in Amarillo, Texas to a multi-award-winning recording artist, Jim Wilson’s journey is a captivating tale of showbiz g...

Jim Benton is an award winning cartoonist and author that regularly posts new comics across multiple platforms including GoComics, Instagram, Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, Facebook and his own website. Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants says: “Jim Benton is a comic genius and a brilliant cartoonist.” And beloved MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragonés says: “Humor in print has many forms, what is...

Bart Edelman was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and spent his childhood in Teaneck. He earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hofstra University. He has taught at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Santa Monica College, West Los Angeles College, Long Beach City College, UCLA, and Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, A Literary Journal. Most rec...

Dan Misdea is a cartoonist for The New Yorker. He spent several years in finance before drawing funny pictures for a living. His work has also appeared in Air Mail, Narrative, The Times Luxury, and elsewhere. His first children's book, The Light Inside, is available now. He lives and draws in New Jersey. For more information, visit www.danmisdea.com and follow @danmisdea

An Award-Winning Stand-Up Comic and Cartoonist, Teresa Roberts Logan has appeared on HBO, A&E and The Comedy Channel. She has worked at some of the best clubs in the country, including Comedy Works, Catch A Rising Star, Flapper’s Burbank, and even The Comedy Cellar in Dublin, Ireland. She has opened for Maria Bamford, Paula Poundstone and Ardal O’Hanlon. As a cartoonist, her cartoons and comic...

As one of the country's top comedians, Cathy Ladman presents herself as the self-probing, anxiety-venting person that she is. She has appeared on "The Tonight Show" ten times and was also featured on the last two of Johnny Carson’s "Tonight Show Anniversary" shows. She’s been on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” five times, has had her own HBO "One Night Stand" comedy special, and was awar...

Claudia Stavola began her career as a stand-up comedian when she realized the office thing wasn’t for her (she hates casual Friday, and chipping in for gifts for people who grunt when she says “hello” in the hallway.). She is also a writer for the satirical rock and roll website, Madhouse Magazine, and the host of the hard rock/heavy metal morning show on Monsters of Rock on Dash Radio—a station t...

Brett Neveu is an Award-Winning Playwright. His Film/TV productions include Eric LaRue (dir. Michael Shannon) with Big Indie Pictures, Brace Cove Productions and CaliWood Pictures, Night’s End (dir. Jennifer Reeder) with Shudder/AMC, the short Convo with Breakwall Pictures and the feature The Earl with Intermission Productions. Recent theatre productions include The Malignant Ampersands with A Red...

Rich Sparks is a cartoonist/illustrator living in Chicago. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Air Mail Weekly, Weekly Humorist,The American Bystander, Barron's,The Wall Street Journal, SpongeBob Comics, Narrative Magazine, and probably other places. He released a NY Times bestselling book of humorous drawings called Love and Other Weird Things. (The bestselling part is a lie.) For more infor...

David DeGrand is a cartoonist from Texas that enjoys drawing pictures that make people laugh or barf (preferably both). He used to draw comics for his high school and college newspapers but since then has written and drawn for MAD Magazine, SpongeBob Comics, The Simpsons, Garfield, and Uncle Grandpa among others. He has also illustrated numerous children's books including The Zombie Chasers and Wo...

The life of Jeffrey Biegel takes its roots from age three, when Mr. Biegel could neither hear nor speak, until corrected by surgery. The 'reverse Beethoven' phenomenon explains his life's commitment to music, having heard only vibrations in his formative years. The year of 2020 focused on composition and commissioning projects: original "Waltzes of Hope", "Sonatina", and "Three Reflections: JFK, R...

As American went into coronavirus lockdown, Madeleine seized the stuck-at-home opportunity and cooked up the idea for a hilariously delicious YouTube cooking show, MAD IN THE KITCHEN – which instantly became must-watch TV for the quarantined cook! Foodies and friends, old and new, fell in love with Madeleine’s offbeat, silly approach to cooking. So much so, she is now a regular guest on several mo...

Adam Mamawala is a stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster based out of New York City. He has appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, BET, and SiriusXM, and his debut album ‘One of the Good Ones' debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and Someecards. He currently co-hosts podcasts ‘Away Games’ and ‘HORSE,’ as recently featur...

John Matta is a TV writer best known for his work on The Martin Short Show, Steve Harvey’s Big Time, Kid President: Declaration of Awesome, The Epic Adventures of Captain Underpants and the creator of Matta Napkin. It all started when his wife Rose Abdoo was going through cancer treatment, and drawing a comic on a napkin was a silly way to make her laugh every day. It both delighted and exhausted...

Wisconsin native Ed Steckley is a humorous illustrator living in New York City.  Beginning as a theme park caricature artist at multiple parks around the Midwest and the country, he’s navigated an illustration career ranging from comic books and magazine illustration, newspaper and advertising, and children's book illustration. Currently he’s the illustrator of two different series of Rube Goldber...

Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, cartoonist, writer and snowman expert. He creates cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. Eckstein wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. His work has been exhibited in: The Car...