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Ben began doing stand-up comedy in a small back room bar packed with drunk college students right here in Bloomington, and became the first professional comedian in our city's history.

He's gone on to become a favorite on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Radio Show and continues to endlessly tour the nations finest comedy clubs. He was a finalist in The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival and The Funniest Person in Cincinnati contest and won The Funniest Person in Lexington. He has been featured on the WGN network and tbs.com. Recently, his first CD, "Never Coming Back", debuted in the top of the charts on iTunes and Marc Maron, on the WTF Podcast called him a "very funny" and "talented joke-writer." We think you'll agree.

Sofiya is a writer and comedian who grew up in Odessa, Ukraine, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 11. You might have seen her on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening talking about her grandpa’s dick surgery while using some colorful Russian. Sofiya’s written on Amazon’s Danger & Eggs, an Emmy-winning animated series starring SNL’s Aidy Bryant. She’s been featured as a standup at Limestone, Laughing Skull, Women in Comedy, Out of Bounds, and many other comedy festivals.

Sofiya was named one of The Fifty Funniest Women on Twitter by Playboy and one of 18 Funny Women You Should Be Following by Huffington Post. Her tweets regularly appear on Mandatory, Buzzfeed, Splitsider, Funny or Die, and HuffPo. Her mystery-lineup comedy variety show SURPRISE! was featured in LAist, LA Weekly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, OneThingLA, and WeLikeLA.

She currently co-hosts Private Parts Unknown, a comedy-travel podcast that uncovers stories about love and sexuality around the world. It’s dope.

AND she beat breast cancer, but if cancer is listening, THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE.

Emma Arnold has been on a tear as of late, releasing a new hour of material in each of the last three calendar years. On this, her newest hour, she puts together a wonderful set, drawing on personal life events, regaling the crowd with misadventures of clothes shopping and playing with friends as a child. As benign as those two subjects may seem, the payoffs are unreal and offer some lighthearted moments to counter the hilarious and heavy chunk of material dealing with abortion and women’s reproductive rights that anchors the hour. Emma is electric as she confronts one of this era’s most touchy subjects with a confidence, tact and perspective rarely touched by comics - or anyone, when dealing with such heavy subject matter.

“One of the most hardworking comics in the industry.” -Forbes
“Emma Arnold proves vulnerability is hilarious.” -Paste
“The Boise-bred comic has confidently and unapologetically reached new heights” -Vanyaland
“Her material is often personal and intimate, and it seems that nothing is off-limits...” -Idaho Statesman

Join us for an evening of comedy as Jonah Ray (MST3K, The Nerdist, The Meltdown) treats us to a stand up set followed by a live feature length movie riff featuring Big Howell + Possum and more special guests!

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!

Is Tom Thakkar...a criminal? A liar? A...killer? Hot off taping his first special for Comedy Central, due late 2019, Tom Thakkar is a comedian living in Brooklyn by way of Indiana and Chicago...or so he says. He claims that he grew up the son of a deadbeat Indian dad, and a hardworking, Red Lobster managing mom. Do we believe him...? We're not so sure. Sure, Tom brought these things up when he made his late night debut on Conan, but he also called himself a "HotGuy03" in a singles chatroom in middle school, and his story just isn't adding up, according to the picture he posted of himself on HotorNot.com in 9th grade. Some of his alibis include co-hosting Comedy Central Radio/SiriusXM's You Up with Nikki Glaser, creating and hosting Stand By Your Band alongside friend and co-host Tommy McNamara, attending Just for Laughs in Montreal, Bridgetown, Limestone, and many more comedy festivals. We've been following Tom's every move...when he was chosen to be a finalist for NBC Stand Up for Diversity, on Doug Loves Movies, in Vice Magazine, on The Todd Glass Show...the evidence is everywhere...Tom Thakkar really seems to be getting around quite a bit...but we want to know...has he ever killed? And if he's so smart...why did his father leave? Next time...on Tom's bio.

Beth Stelling is a stand-up comedian, writer and actress. She's a product of the Chicago stand-up scene and studied improv at The Annoyance Theater. Beth's background is in theatre; she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University and interned for The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago before graduation.

Starting stand-up in Chicago, Stelling became a member of Chicago Underground Comedy and hosted a Sunday night variety show in Boystown with her best friends, The Puterbaugh Sisters, for many years called Entertaining Julia (Julia was the bartender). They brought the show to Los Angeles with them and host it monthly (1st Sunday of the month) at AKBAR in Silver Lake.

Beth was named "Best Stand-up Comedian in Chicago" by The Chicago Reader in 2010. Soon after she was a New Face of Comedy in Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival and re-located to Los Angeles in 2011. Within her first year in L.A., Beth made her late night television debut on Conan and released her debut album "Sweet Beth" on Rooftop Comedy Records. Beth then appeared on Comedy Central's @midnight, Chelsea Lately and The Pete Holmes Show.

Beth was asked to perform stand-up on Jimmy Kimmel Live after Jimmy saw her perform at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. That year Beth filmed her Comedy Central half hour stand-up special in Boston (now available on iTunes), and Vulture named it one of the "Best Stand-up Specials of 2015."

In conjunction with her Comedy Central special, Stelling released her second comedy album "Simply the Beth."

The Interrobang and Splitsider named it one of the top ten albums of 2015. Her latest half hour stand-up special was filmed in L.A. and is now streaming on Netflix. It was released July 4, 2017 in a Netflix original series called The Standups (Beth is episode 5 of the first season).

Other places to look for Beth: Showtime's Comedy of SXSW, the indie movie This Isn't Funny on Netflix, The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail, The High Court and season 2 of Amazon's series Red Oaks opposite Jennifer Grey. She's also guest stars on Comedy Central's new hit series Corporate.

Beth tours her stand-up year-round in comedy clubs, colleges and festivals (SXSW, Bumbershoot, Warped Tour, NYCF, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Sasquatch) around the U.S. She's also toured abroad in Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Beth is a writer who contributed to I Love You America with Sarah Silverman on Hulu. She previously wrote for season 1 and 2 of Judd Apatow's HBO series Crashing starring Pete Holmes. She also wrote on the feature film Good Boys coming to theaters in August 2019, season 3 of Another Period starring Natasha Leggero & Riki Lindhome on Comedy Central, Verified with David Spade and Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity now streaming on Netflix. Prior she'd been a consulting producer for MTV's Ridiculousness.

And of course you can find her guesting on lots of podcasts (Getting Doug with High, Spontaneanation, 2 Dope Queens). And now has her own podcast with her mom Diane called We Called Your Mom on Earwolf and Stitcher Premium.

Moses is a talented comedian and actor who can be seen on the NBC comedy SUNNYSIDE, from Mike Schur and Kal Penn. On television, you may have seen him in I’M DYING UP HERE on Showtime, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT for Netflix and THIS IS US on NBC. Film credits include the 2015 high-concept Universal horror film UNFRIENDED, and the Adam Sandler Netflix film FATHER OF THE YEAR. In late night, he has appeared twice as a performer on CONAN, including one visit where he was the performer and only guest for the evening. He hosts Conan O'Brien's live variety show 'Team Coco’s Up & Up' at the Dynasty Typewriter Theater in LA and joined Conan for his first multi city live tour in 8 years in late 2018 titled the “Team Coco Presents Conan & Friends: An Evening of Stand-Up and Investment Tips.” In 2015, he had the prestigious honor of being chosen as a “New Face” at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal.

Raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts, Dana began performing comedy onstage at age 17. After high school, he studied communications and theatre at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but after a year moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in comedy. It was there he, along with fellow comedian Alex Reid, founded the San Francisco Comedy Condo in 1986.

Gould wrote and performed on The Ben Stiller Show; one such sketch features Gould as Otto, Cupid's twisted brother, whose arrows convince a young man to fall madly in love with an elderly woman. Another series of sketches features a heavily disguised Gould as Wilford Brimley advertising "Grady's Oats" (a parody of Brimley's Quaker Oatsadvertisements). In one, he speaks of his Uncle Ray's hobby of dressing in a pink taffeta gown and filling his panties with oatmeal; in another, he brandishes a revolver through the window at children. He also appeared in an episode of MADtvas Newt Gingrich and on one episode of Seinfeld ("The Junk Mail") as "Fragile" Frankie Merman, Jerry's childhood friend (aka "The Summer George"). He co-created and was executive producer on the MTV series Super Adventure Team. In addition Gould's stand up material was featured in Comedy Central's animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties.[2]

In 1998, Gould appeared in the episode "Supermarket Story" of the sitcom The King of Queens. For seven years he wrote for The Simpsons, one episode of which he provided the voice of Don Knotts as Barney Fife (an impression that originated in his standup routine). He left the show in late 2006 in order to focus on his own screenwriting, though he served as co-executive producer on seasons 14 through 18.

Gould had a featured cameo in the 2003 film Girls Will Be Girls, in which he played a hit-and-run victim who admits to his alcohol problem after having a desperate one-night stand with aging C-list actress Evie Harris, the other driver in the car accident. He was also featured in the film The Aristocrats, where, among other commentary, he presents an Amish version of the eponymous joke. His short films, Last Man On Earth, Break On Through With J.F.K., A Night On Java Island, and Soul Mates are also available for download on his site. Except for the latter, all feature Gould in acting roles. 2009 saw the release of his new stand up special, "Let Me Put My Thoughts In You" on Shout Factory.

Gould provided the voice for the title character in the U.S. versions of the Gex video game series and the UK version of the first game. Gould, with his frequent writing partner Rob Cohen, wrote the majority of the jokes for the games.

He was a regular contributor to the Adam Carolla radio show where he did impressions of Huell Howser. He appears occasionally on The Adam Carolla Show podcast. The first episode of Gould's own podcast, The Dana Gould Hour [3], was made available on iTunes on January 31, 2012. Recurring guests include comedians like Eddie Pepitone, and each episode revolves around a singular theme. Currently, a new episode of The Dana Gould Hour is released about every two months.

In 2010, he appeared in live action on the Family Guy episode, "Brian Writes a Bestseller".

In 2013, Gould appeared with Melinda Hill and Scott Shriner[4] in an episode of the web series Romantic Encounters.[5] He also frequently performs live shows with comedian Arden Myrin as "The Tinkle Twins."

In 2014, Gould participated as a comedian on Playboy's "Foursome: Walk of Shame" where he joined other comedians in making fun of the program's contestants.