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*PLEASE NOTE! Proof of vaccination or a negative covid 19 test within 72 hours of the show is required to attend this event!*

Original vaxx card, a photocopy or screenshot of the front & back of the card or a screenshot of your state administered vaccination are all acceptable.

Chris Gethard is a comedian, actor and author. He's the host of the Beautiful/ Anonymous podcast, which was recently adapted into a 4-part series streaming on Topic, the former host of The Chris Gethard Show, and wrote and starred in the HBO special Career Suicide. He also hosts the podcast New Jersey Is The World, a celebration of his home state.

In June 2021, Comedy Dynamics released Chris' new comedy special, Chris Gethard: Half My Life, which is a hybrid tour documentary and stand-up special shot in a variety of DIY spaces and independent venues all over the country in 2019.

Chris has been seen on television shows such as Space Force, The Office, Broad City, Parks and Recreation, and Inside Amy Schumer. He’s also been seen in films such as The Other Guys, The Heat, Ghostbusters, Anchorman 2, and was one of the stars of Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice. Chris can most recently be seen in the HBO Max documentary Class Action Park.

Chris is also the author of the books Weird NY, A Bad Idea I’m About to Do, and Lose Well, and and the founder of Planet Scum, an online comedy venue for the country’s best underground comedians.

Come spend the SPOOKIEST weekend with Bob & Tom co-host Josh Arnold!

Josh is part of the nationally-syndicated radio program The Bob & Tom Show. He's also a comedian, actor, and writer. He's been coming to Bloomington for years, entertaining audiences all throughout our 8-year history. Shortly after Bob Kevoyan retired from The Bob & Tom Show, Josh became a regular studio fill-in. Shortly thereafter, Josh was hired as a permanent host alongside Tom Griswold, Chick McGee and Kristi Lee!

Tom Thakkar is a comedian you’ve seen on “Comedy Central’s Stand Up Presents,” “This Week at the Comedy Cellar,” “CONAN,” and as the host of Comedy Central’s “Stand Up with Tom Thakkar.” He spent the first half of 2020 writing sketches and jokes for SyFy’s “The Movie Show,” and before that he was the co-host of “You Up with Nikki Glaser” on SiriusXM. Currently, he hosts the podcast “Stand By Your Band,” and when the world isn’t shut down by a pandemic, he does stand up all around country and all around New York as a regular at The Comedy Cellar, Caroline’s on Broadway, New York Comedy Club, Stand Up New York, and more. Other credits include: Just For Laughs, Doug Loves Movies, This Might Help with Matt Braunger, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The Stand Up Show with Jon Dore, and First Nations Comedy Experience.

Join us for a special "Battle of the Bands" head to head style fight to the death podcast recording of the award-winning podcast Stand By Your Band! Tom Thakkar and Tommy McNamara talk about the bands and artists that Pitchfork attacks and your friends make fun of. The comics have on guests who love a band or artist that everyone seems to hate, and together they give that band a fair chance. Tom & Tommy will be joined by comedians from New York, Chicago & Bloomington. This is going to be so much fun!

Ashley Gavin is a comedian, actor, and writer. Ashley’s stand up has been featured on AXS TV Live at Gotham, Laughs on Hulu, and SiriusXM channels including Comedy Central, Netflix is a Joke, and Raw Dog.

Ashley is best known for her top charting podcast We’re Having Gay Sex. Her viral comedy and sketch videos on TikTok have earned her 500k followers, over 30 million views, and the occasional free smoothie. Ashley and her podcast have been mentioned in People, Forbes, Us Weekly, Out, and was named a 2020 best comedy podcast by Paste Magazine. Ashley’s stand up has been featured on AXS TV Live at Gotham, Laughs on Hulu, and SiriusXM channels including Comedy Central, Netflix is a Joke, and Raw Dog.

Ashley is known for her confidence, social commentary and unrelenting energy on stage. She is the only angry lesbian beloved by all, including old, straight, white guys. If you don’t believe it, she was Carnival Cruiseline’s first openly gay comedian. She exploded on the internet this year by showcasing her rare ability to authentically engage and improvise with guests on her podcast and audience members while on stage.

Stand-up comic and Emmy-nominated writer (“Saturday Night Live”) SAM JAY can currently be seen on HBO’s “Pause with Sam Jay,” a weekly late-night series on which she serves as Host and Executive Producer. Last Summer, she debuted her first one-hour stand up special “Sam Jay: 3 in the Morning” on Netflix.

In 2019, Sam made her Netflix debut on The Comedy Lineup and released her album “Donna’s Daughter” through Comedy Central Records. “Donna's Daughter” was produced by Coach Tea and contains sporadic beats and "skit-like" interludes that make it sound as much like a hip-hop mixtape as it does a standup record. Also in 2018, Sam wrote for The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards and the MTV Movie & TV Awards. Sam’s 2018 TV credits include a recurring role on TV Land’s “Nobodies” and a guest star in Season 5 of Comedy Central’s “Broad City.”

In 2017, Sam was a standout of the Just For Laughs: New Faces. She was the host of “Ricking Morty,” the Rick and Morty post-show on Adult Swim and she was a cast member of MTV’s “SafeWord.” Sam made her late-night television debut on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and her half-hour stand-up Comedy Central Presents premiered in 2017 to rave reviews.

Sam was named as one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch for 2018 and Comedy Central Comics to Watch in 2015 and has performed internationally at comedy clubs and festivals including the Vodafone Dublin Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot Festival, 208 Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Portland’s Bridgetown Festival, The Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival, Boston’s Women In Comedy Festival, among others.

Sam’s television credits also include a part in the award-winning film “Pinsky,” Starz’s “Take My Wife,” Comedy Central’s “White Flight,” Comedy Central’s “The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail,” as well as Viceland’s“Party Legends” and “Flophouse.”

Sam is originally from Boston and currently resides in New York.

*PLEASE NOTE! Proof of vaccination or a negative covid 19 test within 72 hours of the show is required to attend this event!*

Original vaxx card, a photocopy or screenshot of the front & back of the card or a screenshot of your state administered vaccination are all acceptable.

Stephen Colbert called Maria his “favorite comedian on earth” and Judd Apatow said she is “the funniest woman in the world.” Maria agrees that she is very talented and may, in fact, have a gift. (As do we all. AS DO WE ALL!) Maria is the first female comic to have two half-hour “Comedy Central Presents” specials. And now, two well-received specials on Netflix called “The Special Special Special” and “Old Baby.”

Awarded Best Club Comic at the American Comedy Awards and Breakout Comedy Star at the Montreal Comedy Festival, her critically acclaimed work includes her web series “The Maria Bamford Show” (featured at MOMA NY), “Ask My Mom” (recommended by The New Yorker), and her Netflix series “Lady Dynamite” (2 seasons).

Maria’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, LA Weekly and The Onion. She has 5 hours of stand-up available on iTunes that includes her latest recording “20%.” 20 percent is the amount of effort Maria puts into Everything She Does, if not five.

Maria has contributed comedic voice overs for such animations as Netflix’s “Big Mouth” and “BoJack Horseman,” Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time,” PBS’s Emmy-winning series “Word Girl,” Nickelodeon’s “Kung Fu Panda” and “Legend of Korra,” and the international hit “Talking Tom and Friends.” She can do about 11 voices, not including her own, but just a little higher and faster.

For her mental health advocacy, she’s been presented with The OCD Foundation’s Illumination Award and featured at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, The Chautauqua Institution and the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy and Ethics Symposium. She's not always right for these rooms, but she's on time and pleasant.

In terms of showbiz, Maria has enough work and has made it and is swimming in a gravy boat, filled with scrumptious gravy. The goal for Bamfooco, Inc. is to give 11% of net profits to charity, and she is working towards that goal with a calculator. She loves trees, comedians, people, the world, personal finance and reality shows and lives in Altadena with her husband, artist Scott Marvel Cassidy and their dog Jackie Onassis.

From MARIA:

This was all in the third person, though I wrote it myself, which is slightly creepy. My apologies.

If you need help, dial 911. I know. Health care can be super shitty. Go get yourself that shitty-ass help! I love you and think you deserve it.