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The winner of the 5th Annual Bloomington Comedy Festival, Jon Hancuff has been a mainstay of the midwest comedy scene for nearly a decade. He also won the Bob & Tom All-Star Comedy Competition and has performed in Arch City and Limestone Comedy Festivals. Jon actually started comedy in the early 1990's and won the Indiana University Comedy Competition while attending IU.

The winner of the 5th Annual Bloomington Comedy Festival, Jon Hancuff has been a mainstay of the midwest comedy scene for nearly a decade. He also won the Bob & Tom All-Star Comedy Competition and has performed in Arch City and Limestone Comedy Festivals. Jon actually started comedy in the early 1990's and won the Indiana University Comedy Competition while attending IU.

About IU Wheelchair Basketball Club: Our program is aimed at providing the opportunity for individuals of all ability to participate in a truly inclusive environment here at Indiana University.

We will not only offer individuals the opportunity to learn and play the sport of wheelchair basketball, but we will also create awareness of accessibility to the public through community outreach and demo-days.

Players will have access to advanced and professional strength training to improve their overall health and athletic performance.

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Guy Branum is the creator and host of truTV’s Talk Show The Game Show, a hilarious mashup of two beloved television formats that pits comedians and celebrities against each other for the title of “Best Guest of the Night.” You may also know him from his recurring segment “No More Mr. Nice Gay” on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, serving as “Staff Homosexual” on Chelsea Lately and his performance as Natalie Portman’s sassy gay friend in the feature film No Strings Attached. Noticing a trend? Branum has also appeared on @Midnight, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Road to Roast and Debate Wars. As a TV writer, Branum spent three seasons writing for Hulu’s The Mindy Project and was a producer during the show’s last season. Other TV writing credits include Punk’d and Awkward on MTV, Billy on the Street on truTV and Fashion Police on E! That means he’s watched the Grammys at Joan Rivers’ house. Jealous?

Branum has also written culture and political commentary for Slate.com, The New York Times and Vulture, and his pop culture roundtable podcast Pop Rocket was named one of the best new podcasts of 2015 by iTunes. Branum’s debut comedy album, Effable, was #1 on iTunes and Billboard charts, and The New York Times called it “a contender for the best comedy special of 2015.”

Described by Jay Leno as "the best joke writer in America," by British comedian Gary Delaney as the best joke writer in the world, and by "Weird Al" Yankovic as one of the funniest people on the planet, Emo Philips has performed over 6000 times throughout the English-speaking world, including a multi-week run at the Playhouse Theater in London's West End. Since starting out in Chicago in 1976 at the age of twenty, Emo has had award-winning comedy albums, several cable specials (including an hour-long one on HBO), and many appearances on network television, both in America and in the UK. He has appeared in films (most notably, as the table-saw demonstrator in UHF) and has lent his distinctive voice to animated TV shows (such as Slacker Cats, Doctor Katz, Adventure Time, and Home Movies), but his first love, stand-up, remains his true one.

Matt Braunger grew up in Portland, Oregon and has been professionally hilarious since 2007. The year after that he won “Best of the Fest” at the Aspen Comedy Festival. He’s done two comedy specials: “Shovel Fighter” (Comedy Central), and “Big Dumb Animal” (Netflix). Braunger’s done stand-up on Letterman, The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Conan, SXSW Comedy on Showtime, The Meltdown, Live at Gotham, and many more, and is a regular on @Midnight. He’s also an actor, most recently on Marvel’s Agent Carter, Disjointed, The New VIPs, Take My Wife, Bojack Horseman, Up All Night, The Michael J Fox show, Family Tree, Mad TV and many, many more. He recently taped a new hour special in Portland and can be heard weekly on his acclaimed podcast “Ding-Donger with Matt Braunger.” He lives in Los Angeles with his fiancé and 1,000 funky record albums.

Carmen Lynch is based in NYC and has been featured on a string of late night shows including The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Carmen has appeared in numerous prime time shows including The Good Wife, Inside Amy Schumer, and This Week at the Comedy Cellar. In 2017 Carmen performed a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her show “Lynched” and has also traveled extensively performing for the troops throughout the Middle East and Africa. Carmen also works in Spanish-speaking countries doing standup in Spanish. Her comedy album “Dance Like You Don’t Need the Money” was reviewed by The New York Times as “one of five to stream” and was voted the #1 comedy album in 2017 by SiriusXM.

Jackie Kashian's standup ...

"is like listening to a really racy episode of All Things Considered." Her current hour standup special "This Will Make an Excellent Horcrux" was one of the top five comedy specials of 2014 on vulture.com. In the last year, she's been on the Conan O'Brien show, @midnight and has done some !acting! on Netflix's Lady Dynamite and IFC's Maron.

Jackie hosts The Dork Forest. For over 10 years, with more than 3 million downloads; the show is a safe space for dork on dork dialog with Jackie interviewing anyone and everyone about what they LOVE to talk and think about.

She is also a co-host to a NEW comedy podcast on the Nerdist Network called The Jackie and Laurie Show.