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Originally hailing from San Francisco, CA, Caitlin Peluffo is a comedian currently living in Brooklyn, NY who just made her late nigh television debut with a breakout performance on Colbert. Peluffo has opened for comedians like Gilbert Gottfried, Gary Gulman, Colin Quinn, and the late Kevin Meany. She’s been featured everywhere from New York Comedy Club in the Big Apple to clubs nationwide talking about how she came to be such a lovable loose cannon. She recently participated in The Breakout Artist Series for Carolines on Broadway.

CBS “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” - 2018

NBC Seeso’s “New York’s Funniest!” - 2016

Comcast Network “Trial By Laughter” Season 2 - 2017

Red Clay Comedy Festival (2018), Brooklyn Comedy Festival (2018), Skankfest (2018), San Francisco SketchFest (2018 + 2019), San Diego Comedy Festival - Runner Up (2018), Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival (2017 + 2018), Westside Comedy Showdown - Finalist (2018), North Carolina Comedy Festival (2018), All Jane Comedy Festival (2017), Accidental Comedy Festival (2017), Maine Comedy Festival (2017), Cinderblock Comedy Festival (2017), Limestone Comedy Festival (2017 + 2019), Laughing Skull Festival - Quarterfinalist (2017, 2018 + 2019), Stand Up New York Comedy Competition - Runner Up (2017), Trial By Laughter Festival - Finalist (2016), Finger Lakes Comedy Festival - Runner Up (2016), Women in Comedy Festival (2015, 2017 + 2018)

It's that time again, friends! 11 Weeks, 40 Comedians, 39 Frowny Emoticons, ONE Champion. With almost all sold out shows, the best audiences of the year, and the ability to decide the winner, The Bloomington Comedy Festival returns for it's 11th year. Join us Wednesdays ALL SUMMER LONG as we crown The Funniest Person in Bloomington!

First Round

June 19th

June 26th

July 3rd

July 10th

Second Round

July 17th

July 24th

Quarterfinals

July 31st

August 7th

Semifinals

August 14th

August 21st

THE FINALS

August 28th

Mekki Leeper is a comedian and writer from Philadelphia now living in Los Angeles. His Comedy Central digital special Control Room is streaming now. His standup has been featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Just For Laughs: New Faces, Comedy Central’s Up Next, and he was named a Comedian You Should Know by Vulture in 2018. He wrote for the 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner, and Crooked Media’s Lovett or Leave It. He wrote and directed the digital series Resolutions on Comedy Central. He’s performed at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and headlines clubs around the country.

Mat Alano-Martin comes to comedy from the world of rock and roll, where he spent 10 years touring North America as a member of several unknown bands and as a tour manager for much more successful, well known bands. With a comedic style that bridges the social and political views of his indie-rock background with the attitude and sensibilities of his rural and blue collar youth, Alano-Martin has appeared at comedy clubs, theaters, punk rock dives, redneck roadhouses, casinos, colleges, living rooms and everywhere in between.

Alano-Martin’s debut album “Profiled as Such” can be heard on the Sirius/XM Raw Dog comedy channel and he has appeared on the nationally syndicated The Bob & Tom Show. He has worked with such notable acts as Patton Oswalt, Tig Notaro and Marc Maron.

He is also the co-founder of the Limestone Comedy Festival and the Arch City Comedy Festival and the host of the Strangers On This Road podcast. His jokes have also been used for the Frank and Funny greeting card line.

Andy Kindler is an American comedian from Queens, New York. He played the character "Andy", a fellow sportswriter and friend of sportswriter "Ray Barone" (Ray Romano) on the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, was a regular guest on Late Show with David Letterman, contributor to The Daily Show and has performed on HBO. As a voice actor, Kindler has made numerous appearances on Dr. Katz and Home Movies from producer Loren Bouchard. He regularly voices the character of Mort, a mortician and the Belchers' neighbor, on Bouchard's show Bob's Burgers and appeared on the episode Burger War.

Cristela Alonzo is a stand-up comedian that made TV history in 2014 by becoming the first Latina to create, write and star in a network TV sitcom named “Cristela”. Cristela was also the first Latina to star in a Disney Pixar movie when she starred as Cruz Ramirez in “Cars 3.”

Cristela also served as one of ABC’s “The View’s” most popular guest hosts and has a one-hour stand-up special (“Lower Classy”) currently streaming on Netflix. Aside from comedy, Cristela focuses on advocacy work, fighting for issues that range from immigration, universal healthcare and lower income communities with numerous organizations including Special Olympics Texas, People for the United Way, Planned Parenthood, LUPE (La Union del Pueblo Entero) and serves as advisory board member for Define American.

Cristela is based in LA and will have her first book to be released in 2019 by Atria Books under Simon & Schuster.

Adam Cayton-Holland is a national touring headliner who was named one of 25 “Comics to Watch” by Esquire magazine and one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety. Along with his co-horts in the The Grawlix comedy troupe, Adam created, wrote and starred in truTV’s “Those Who Can’t,” which ran for three seasons on truTV.

He has appeared on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Happy Endings, Deadbeat, Flophouse, Hidden America and @midnight. He has also been featured on WTF with Marc Maron, Nerdist, Comedy Bang Bang and Sklarbro County podcasts. Cayton-Holland has performed at the Montreal Just For Laughs, SXSW, and Bridgetown Comedy festivals, and helms his own comedy extravaganza in Denver, the High Plains Comedy Festival. He has also performed at The Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.

Adam has three albums, “I Don’t Know If I Happy,” “Backyards,” and “Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Signature Bits,” all available on iTunes, and his first book, Tragedy Plus Time, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2018. Adam lives with his wife Katie, his son Malcolm, and a purebred Chesapeake Retriever named Annabel Lee. He once threw out the opening pitch at a Colorado Rockies game and people have described him as “genial,” and “with decent teeth.”

Esther Lauren Povitsky, also known as "Little Esther," is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer living in Los Angeles, California. She is the co-creator and star of the comedy series Alone Together.

Povitsky moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up comedy and acting full-time after attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studied comedy at iO Chicago, The Second City, and The Groundlings. She frequently performs stand-up comedy at venues throughout Los Angeles, California, including The Comedy Store, The Ice House, and The Improv.

She plays Maya on the critically acclaimed series Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Other recent television appearances include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Love, and Parks and Recreation. Povitsky also survived several rounds of 2015's Last Comic Standing (season 9), drawing praise from judge Roseanne Barr in particular.