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Featuring both professional comedians from the midwest's best Comedy scene right here in Bloomington as well as brand new folks trying out their 5 minutes for the first time- you never know what you're going to get or who you'll see!

Sabrina Wu is a Brooklyn based actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. They recently made their feature film debut in the Lionsgate comedy JOY RIDE, from executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and director Adele Lim. Variety Magazine recently named Wu one of the 10 Comics to Watch for 2023.

Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, they found their love for stand-up at 16 years old and began performing sets at their high school talent shows. In 2022, Just for Laughs Comedy Festival selected Wu as one of their New Faces of Comedy. In October that year, they went on to make their late-night stand -up debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Sabrina regularly performs at venues like Union Hall and the Bell House in New York City, where they’ve been featured as part of the New York Comedy Festival.

Wu served as a staff writer on the Disney+ series Doogie Kameāloha M.D., and is currently a staff writer on an unannounced series for Netflix with Mike Schur executive producing. They recently sold their pilot 20th Century Studios.

Hari Kondabolu is a comedian, writer and podcaster based in Brooklyn. The NY Times called him “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today” and described his 2018 Netflix special Warn Your Relatives as “an incisively funny and formally adventurous hour that reveals a comic in command of his powers.” The special was named on many “Best of” lists, including for Time, Paste Magazine, Cosmopolitan, E! Online, and Mashable. He was also named one of 2018’s “Comics To Watch” by Variety. Hari currently hosts the new Netflix food competition series Snack vs Chef along with Megan Stalter.

In 2017, his truTV documentary The Problem with Apu was released to critical acclaim and spurred a global conversation about race and representation. The Nation called it “a devastating critique of the ultimate comedic sacred cow: The Simpsons.” It is now used in high school, college and grad school curriculums around the US.

Hari has also released two comedy albums, Waiting for 2042 & Mainstream American Comic with legendary indie rock label Kill Rock Stars. Additionally, he has performed on such shows as Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late Show with David Letterman among many others. He is also a former writer & correspondent on the much loved, Chris Rock produced FX show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.

A regular on the public radio, Hari is a panelist on the NPR game show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. As a podcaster, he co-hosted the popular Politically Reactive with dear friend W. Kamau Bell. Additionally, he also co-hosts what he politely describes as a “pop up podcast,” The Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Podcast with his younger brother Ashok (“Dap” from HBO’s Chillin’ Island and defunct rap group Das Racist.)

Hari attended both Bowdoin College and Wesleyan University, graduating from the former institution with a B.A. in Comparative Politics. A former immigrant rights organizer in Seattle who worked under the leadership of now-Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Hari also earned a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008. He was the “Artist In Residence” at NYU’s APA Institute for the 2014-2015 Academic Year and at Shangri La Museum in Honolulu in 2018.

Andrea Jin is a stand-up comedian and writer born in Shanghai, relocated to Canada, and is currently based in Los Angeles. She gained recognition in the comedy scene after winning Comedy Album of the Year in 2021 at the Juno Awards from the Canadian Academy of Recording Artists for her solo album 'Grandma's Girl'. She recently made her first late night TV debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden, was selected as a New Face at the Just for Laugh’s Montreal Festival in 2021, and has performed at several festivals like JFL Northwest, SiriusXM’s Top Comic, Seattle International Comedy Competition, CBC’s The Debaters, and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Her writing has been featured on Vice, CBC Comedy, and the Vancouver Sun among other publications.

Mo Welch is an LA based comedian, actress, writer and cartoonist. Mo’s book How To Die Alone: The Foolproof Guide To Not Helping Yourself Featuring Blair was released in 2019 by Workman Publishing and is based on her Instagram comic strip Blair which has over 115k followers (link below). She sold and developed a TV pilot version of BLAIR at HBO Max with Chelsea Handler producing. She is also developing a show with Joey Soloway (Transparent) producing and another live-action show at HBO Max with Blake Griffin producing. Mo has performed on Conan (twice), and she wrote on staff for Good Talk With Anthony Jeselnik (Comedy Central). Mo’s podcast Come Out, Come Out [nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com] was released through Audible in December. Her comics have been published in The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Vice and elsewhere and her other on screen credits include Corporate (Comedy Central), Life In Pieces (CBS) and Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street (Amazon).

Come celebrate our 15th Anniversary with one of the hottest comedians working today- the fantastic Pete Holmes! Since 2008, we've raised over $60,000 for local charities & non-profits via our Anniversary benefit shows. This year, we're ecstatic to partner with Cancer Support Community of South Central Indiana!

Cancer Support Community South Central Indiana is a non-profit organization located in Bloomington at 1719 W 3rd Street that provides FREE cancer support programs to anyone impacted by cancer. Programs are available to cancer patients and survivors, family members, friends, and caregivers. Examples of the programs available include: individual counseling, support groups, art and music therapy, nutrition and exercise classes, cancer education, social connections with other survivors and families, financial assistance with food and transportation, a wig boutique, and more. To learn more about Cancer Support Community visit cancersupportscin.org.

In celebration of our 15th Anniversary, please consider making a donation to Cancer Support Community South Central Indiana at the check-out page. 

​Pete Holmes is the creator and star of HBO's Crashing (produced by Judd Apatow) and TBS' The Pete Holmes Show (produced by Conan O'Brien).

He's also the star of CBS' How We Roll as well as two HBO stand-up comedy specials. Pete's also the voice of the e*trade baby and was a guest writer/star on multiple episodes of The Simpsons. He's also proud to be the dumbest Batman on YouTube (Badman), the host of the wildly popular You Made It Weird podcast, and the author of Comedy Sex God.

He wrote this bio in the third person. He napped shortly thereafter.

Tina Friml is a NY based standup comedian. Using animated optimism on her own physical disability, yet fearless honesty about the social assumptions that come with living with cerebral palsy, Tina has cultivated a strong following with over 193K followers on Instagram and over 140K on Tiktok. She made her late night debut on the Comedy Central series Featuring. Her set will debut later this year. She was a 2019 New Face in the acclaimed Just For Laughs Festival, has performed in the Limestone Comedy Festival in Bloomington, Indiana and appeared in the 2018 NBC Comedy Spotlight Series at Boston's Women in Comedy Festival. In her home state, she was crowned the 2018 winner of ‘Vermont’s Funniest Comedian’ at the Vermont Comedy Club and has since begun infiltrating stages in Boston, New York, Montreal, and London.

Carmen Christopher is an LA based comedian, actor, and writer, who currently is a recurring character on the FX show, THE BEAR, and writes and acts on KILLING IT for Peacock. He can be seen in his original special CARMEN CHRISTOPHER: STREET SPECIAL, airing now on Peacock. He can also be seen on JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU (Adult Swim),SEARCH PARTY (HBO MAX), HIGH MAINTENANCE (HBO) and in the Netflix feature OTHERHOOD opposite Angela Bassett. He previously wrote on A24/Showtime’s upcoming series THE CURSE, created by The Safdie Brothers and Nathan Fielder and to star Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone. Carmen wrote and appeared on THE CHRIS GETHARD SHOW for truTV and he created and starred in digital content for IFC, ComedyCentral, and Super Deluxe. In 2017, he was named one of Comedy Central’s "Comics to Watch” and he started at Chicago's famed IMPROV OLYMPIC, SECOND CITY, and ANNOYANCE THEATER. While living in New York The New York Times said he was, "A stand out in New York's weird comedy scene..."

Zarna Garg is “One in a Billion”, and that's not the just name of her first comedy special. She’s also the only Indian mom comedian taking on her mother-in-law. She was recently profiled as one of the gutsiest women in comedy on Apple TV’s new “Gutsy Women” series, and featured on “This American Life” with Ira Glass. When she’s not doing 15 shows a week at Comedy Cellar in New York City, she is touring the world with her show. She is the winner of Kevin Hart's Lyft Comics, the winner of the 2021 Ladies of Laughter Award, and has over a million followers across social media platforms. Her debut feature screenplay, ‘Rearranged’ won Top Comedy Feature award at Austin Film Festival in 2019 and was a 2019 Nicholl Fellowships Semi-Finalist.