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OK, We did this over Zoom (what a crap product) so the audio is spotty in a few spots but what a lovely chat with a lovely fellow. Catch the episode and then catch a show as Joe does a tour (details below).
Joe Esch is a sweet candy boy and professional homosexual from Pittsburgh PA. Being America's premier gay comic, his engaging storytelling and out-of-no-where punchlines are on par with that of the average lesbian comic. Joe has performed at numerous festivals throughout the nation including Motorcity Comedy Fest, AlsakaB4UDIE, and Burning Bridges Comedy Festival to name a few. He also makes it a point to stay humble and live and die at the blade's serendipitously placed edge.
9/2, 9 pm Wheelfish, Pittsburgh, PA
9/3, 7:30pm, The Comet, Helltown, Cincinnati Ohio
9/4, 8pm, Black Circle Brewing, Sunday Show, Indianapolis, IN
9/5, TBA Chicago IL
9/6, 9pm, Beat Kitchen, Chicago Underground Comedy, Chicago IL
9/7, Time TBA, 123 Pleasant Street, Kate Willet, Morgantown, WV -
I met Ryan when he was producing a charity event for Lost-N-Found Youth, an LGBTQIA organization in Atlanta with a focus on helping queer youth without housing to get them housed, providing essentials from health and hygiene items, clothing, and transit cards, job training, and more. Ryan and his partner love Rupaul's Drag Race and that prompted Ryan to start an annual fundraiser through his production company Flying Banzai (https://www.flyingbanzai.com/) called Super Nova which was a mix of drag and stand-up comedy and they have raised over $12k for Lost-N-Found in the last year.
We talk all things str8 and more!
Follow Ryan on insta at https://www.instagram.com/jyroman/
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Drew Lausch is a Brooklyn-Based comedian, writer, actor, producer, and an “oversharing flirt” (NY Press) originally from Fargo, ND. He recently filmed a Showtime Special hosted by Alan Cumming and his show “Haus Party,” which he host’s and produces w/ Zach Teague, has been featured in the NY Times, Gothamist, and Time Out NY. Drew Performs Regularly at New York Venues such as Chelsea Music Hall, Public Hotel, Bell House, Union Hall, Stand Up NY, West Side Comedy Club, and more. Drew’s “Easy Confidence and Stage Presence” has been linked to a “Dinner date that’s going really well,” (Theatre Jones) and he has a “Strong, Hilarious, and Provocative point of view,” (Dallas comedy House.) Drew’s debut web series “Sugar Baby” is out on Youtube and you should absolutely watch it if you love fun.
IF YOU ARE IN NYC, catch Drew 8/18 at Joe's Pubhttps://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2022/z/zach-and-drew/
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Gabe Haynes is a real funny fellow and we chat about str8 ppl pretty hardt
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Minori Hinds is a musical goofball forged in the mountains of Japan, southern California and western North Carolina. Minori mixes silly, smart, dark, and absurd sensibilities that delight audiences all over the country. Minori has shared the stage with Janeane Garofalo, who deemed them "almost too funny." Todd Barry called Minori "funny" in his book. Bobcat Goldthwait thanked them for not being terrible and gave permission to put this here. Minori has been a featured festival performer at various comedy festivals including Limestone, Cape Fear, Asheville and Red Clay. These days you can find Minori most nights on a stage in and around Atlanta.
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Justin McCollum is a professional kickboxer, fighting out of Atlanta Georgia who I met at a drag/comedy charity event, which is a very Atlanta way to meet. He was volunteering and working the door and I was doing a set on the show but showed way too early and hung out by the door until it was my time and he laughed at all my jokes, so naturally he has to do the podcast. Justin is a very sweet fella who could most definitely kick your butt a few times over. We talk about how he identifies and why it doesn't matter because he is putting his fighting career over his romantic life, or his he?
If you are in Atlanta you can catch him fighting at District Atlanta on July 16th at 8 pm!
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Will Foskey is a 27 year old stand-up comedian based in Atlanta, GA. After being named one of Just For Laughs' "New Faces of Comedy" he recorded his debut album/special "All Things Sacred" which was released this summer. He can currently be found touring the country in preparation of his next project. While back in Atlanta, he can be found regularly performing at The Laughing Skull Lounge or playing bass for "Square Pizza" a band comprised of fellow comedians. After a good set in Chattanooga, an Angry Karen took to facebook and described his comedy as "Depressing," "Judgmental," and "Not Funny!" Will is very proud of this and to this day, has the review as his phone background.
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As seen on Just For Laughs, Hulu, Apple TV & more! Cara Connors is an LA-based comedian, actor, wrier and multifaceted homosexual with an ass that won’t quit. Cara stars on Dating #NoFilter on E! and her feminist investigative comedy series, Cara Takes Up Space, is now streaming on OUTtv. In 2018, she performed at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and in 2019 debuted her hour long stand up show at the New York Comedy Festival as a part of the Upright Citizens Brigade series. A headliner at comedy shows across Los Angeles, Cara has quickly developed a cult following after her first national stand up tour, Straight for Pay.
After a successful 15 city run of sold out and standing room only shows at some of the most highly regarded indie comedy venues in North America (The Hideout Chicago, Union Hall NYC, PianoFight San Francisco, Fallout Theater Austin, Comedy Bar Toronto, Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth) Connors is taking her hour back on the road for an expanded summer tour. Her solo show, Straight for Pay, will bring her unique brand of high energy, self-effacing and unapologetically feminist and queer comedy to an additional 15 cities throughout the U.S and Europe.
Connors is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory in Toronto and has trained extensively with the The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade. She is the creator, writer and star of two original series for CBC Comedy, the comedic voice behind the social media for Workin’ Moms and a writer for Brat TV. Cara is also the creator and star of a 90 Day fiancé impersonation series on Instagram with nearly half a million views. Cara is a fearless weirdo and enthusiastic creator of chaos known for her physical performances, earnest yet unhinged original characters, and absurdist takes on the struggles of modern life.
Additional credits: Put Your Hands Together with Cameron Esposito (UCB), Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen (The Virgil), JFL42, NACA National Showcase, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Siriusxm Top Comic, Hollywood Improv Main Room, Kevin Nealon Show (Laugh Factory), Chicago Funny Women’s Festival, Toronto Sketchfest and CBC.
Follow her @caraconnscomedy
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Zahid Dewji is a Texas favorite that can most recently be seen touring with comedy icon Whitney Cumings on the "Touch Me Tour" & with Noel Miller on "My Darkest Hour" Tour. He has also opened for other killer acts like Mark Normand, Mo Amer & Dusty Slay. Zahid has placed in more than a handful of national comedy competitions, toured internationally and featured on over a dozen comedy festivals including Oddball Comedy Fest, Come & Take It Comedy Takeover and Desi Comedy Fest. Want to learn nothing at a comedy show? Need a break from extracting meaning out of every dying second? Don't miss the chance to see him now!
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Comedian. Writer. Retired Gogo Dancer.
Teresa Lee is a stand-up comedian and comedy writer. She was formerly a senior creative producer at the digital comedy giant Cracked before the great media-pocalypse, and has written for staples such as Reductress and College Humor. Her solo videos have surpassed 1+ million views on social media and have nabbed features on Mic.com, Buzzfeed, and Vulture (FKA Splitsider).
In March, 2020, she created the show Comedy Quarantine on Instagram Live, which ran over 200 shows in 10 months, raised over $20,000 for mutual aid and charitable organizations, and was voted #1 Social Distance Comedy Show on Time Out LA. She co-penned and co-stars in the short film, “I Think She Likes You”, which played at Tribeca Film Festival and was featured in Out Magazine as a Queer Film to watch at the festival, and went on to receive international distribution with the premiere queer streaming platform in Asia, GagaOOLala. Teresa Lee has appeared on shows such as NBC’s A Little Late with Lilly Singh, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, and ABC’s To Tell the Truth. She hosts the podcast You Can Tell Me Anything on the WhoHaha network and released her debut album “We’re Still Doing This” in April, recorded live on Zoom of all the jokes she wrote in 2020’s quarantine.
She has been described by others as sweet, thought provoking, smart, and way too into the musical Cats.
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Dave Ross makes dumb comedy about his emotions. His comedy is so dumb that it is sometimes called “smart“, and it is so emotional that it is sometimes called "brave". It isn't brave, though. It's dumb.
Dave started doing standup in Los Angeles in 2009 and quickly established himself as a staple of the LA comedy scene. He created the live comedy institution HOLY F*CK that became a compilation album known to comedy fans everywhere in 2012. Around the same time, his sketch group WOMEN reached acclaim making sketches for IFC and Comedy Central, and by 2013 he was touring the country, doing festivals like SXSW, Fest, The Bridgetown Comedy Festival and Warped Tour. In 2016 he was a New Face at Just For Laughs in Montreal, and in 2019 he did standup on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Drunk History, Corporate, This is Not Happening, The Moth, Risk! and WTF with Marc Maron have all featured him over the years.
But Dave might most be known as a podcaster. His shows Terrified (Nerdist), Good Heroin (Starburns Audio) and Suicide Buddies (Starburns Audio) all garnered hefty cult followings, and he was also co-host of Nerdist's Sex Nerd Sandra podcast for a time.
At the current moment, Dave lives in beautiful Glendale, California with his very old cat. His first album The Only Man Who Has Ever Had Sex is out now on Aspecialthing Records and Little Dipper. -
Samm Severin is a comedian and nude model from Atlanta. Her comedy has been featured in Paste Magazine and on Viceland, and her 2018 debut comedy EP, “Stoned and Sad”, is available on all streaming platforms. She currently fronts the band SMALL, whose first album will be released this winter.
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Originally from the D.C. Metropolitan area, Damian Turner began his comedy career in Atlanta, GA, where he is currently based. He quickly established a home at the Laughing Skull Lounge where he performs most weekends, as well as at venues all over Greater Atlanta. With an identity and perspective that are truly unique, Damian is best known for his radical and unapologetic social commentary — no subject is safe. Damian has opened for such comedians as Jared Freid, Dana Gould, Matt Braunger, and Mark Normand; and in 2019, performed in Atlanta’s Laughing Skull, and Red Clay Comedy Festivals.
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I don't normally describe str8 ppl as delightful but Jay Light fits the bill. Follow him on insta at dietjay and listen to his hilarious pod, Blockbusting.
Here is his bio in its entirety
Growing up outside of conservative Dallas, Texas, Jay Light had to sneak late-night viewings of Comedy Central and Adult Swim with the volume turned low. His parents wouldn’t have approved. Today things have come full circle: He’s appeared on both seasons of Comedy Central insult competition Roast Battle, been named a “local eclectic noise maker” by L.A. Weekly, and praised as “one of the best Roasters in Los Angeles” by no less than Comedy Central mainstay Jeff Ross.
Self-deprecating, slyly dark, and always eager to subvert audience expectations, Jay began his stand-up career as a freshman at North Carolina’s Elon University. As an undergrad he hosted frenetic student TV gameshow Win Stuff and wrote/directed 2011’s Shock Jock, which screened at the Cannes Festival’s Short Film Corner. Follow-up effort Rocketeer received the Sprite Films Competition’s national Viewers Choice Award the following year. Jay’s Media Arts & Entertainment degree came with the Communications department’s high-profile A.J. Fletcher Award, granted annually to “an outstanding graduate…who reflects wide-ranging interest in the field.”
Now a regular performer at famed Sunset Strip institution the Comedy Store, Jay co-produces weekly live editions of Roast Battle. He credits the latter with helping him tap into his true comedic voice, become a better joke-writer, and elevate his confidence as a performer...not to mention score the opportunity to open for Dave Chappelle. Onstage Jay may look like the clean-cut, naïve boy next door and readily admit, “I suffer from camp-counselor face!” But as crowds quickly learn, he doesn’t shy from discussing his sheltered religious upbringing or the formative lessons learned along his path to sobriety.
In addition to making the finals of Comedy Central’s Roast Battle II: War of the Words, Jay has appeared on the network’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser and HBO’s Project Greenlight. Most recently he’s honed his improv skills at emerging L.A. venue The Pack Theater, and in 2018 became both a contributing writer for Pete Holmes’ HBO series Crashing and staff writer for the Discovery Channel’s BattleBots reboot.
Aside from touring clubs, music venues and colleges across the country, other stand-up credits include the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Motor City Comedy Festival, the Golden Spike Comedy Festival, the Blue Whale Comedy Festival, and South by Southwest.
In the podcasting realm, Jay puts his film degree to use every Monday morning on Blockbusting with Jay Light. The show first invites top comics and filmmakers to discuss industry news and the latest box-office results. Guests then dissect a successful mainstream movie they don’t consider a personal favorite – no gimmicks, no remorse, no punches pulled. Everything may be subjective in comedy, but on Blockbusting unpopular opinion rules.
As for Jay’s parents? Though his mom may have disowned his earliest career choices, it’s safe to say she’s coming around. They’re admittedly still not his target demographic, but Comedy Central now plays loud and proud in the Light household whenever he’s on.
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Part 2 with Jayce. We talk Atlanta comedy beef and the open letter calling out the Atlanta Comedy Jayce wrote as "mustardboi" on Reddit and resulting fall out and how it shaped the kind of comedian he is today. This is the full unedited conversation, enjoy!
A copy of the open letter can be found here :
https://www.reddit.com/r/Standup/comments/anr3ln/open_letter_to_the_atlanta_comedy_scene/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body
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JEFF GREENSPAN
Jeff Greenspan is a Chattanooga/NYC-based comedian, activist, and artist. Since Jeff also enjoys eating and having nice things, he freelances as an advertising writer and creative director. Basically, Jeff helps brands talk to people without seeming like jerks. Jeff was BuzzFeed’s first chief creative officer, worked closely with “Zuck” at Facebook to launch Timeline, and wrote for filmmaker Michael Moore. Currently, Jeff is focusing more on being happy than on being right. It’s making him miserable.
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Growing up on the other side of the world during a civil war is not something you expect out of a stand up comic, but KC Shornima has not had the life of a typical stand up comic. When she moved to the US, she quickly found out that the best way to make new friends is by making them laugh. KC has written and performed on “You Look Like,” an original show on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network. She is a regular at The Comedy Bar and Zanies in Nashville, where she has shared the stage with Nate Bargatze, Dusty Slay, Theo Von, Steve Byrne, and John Crist, among others. She was named Nashville’s best up-and-coming comic of 2020 by the magazine Nashville Scene in their “Best of Nashville” issue.
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Pat Barker is a stand-up comedian and writer who lives in Los Angeles. He originally hails from Philadelphia and struggles to adjust to the nicer people and weather on the West Coast. Pat has written for Comedy Central, HBO, and Discovery, and appeared on seasons two and three of Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle on Comedy Central.
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