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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!

Dwight's debut comedy special, "Who's The Master" debuted on YouTube on July of 2023. In that same year, he was selected to the 10,000 Laughs, Milwaukee, Flyover and West-End Comedy Festivals. His self-produced album "Sip and Pass" reached #1 on the iTunes comedy charts, making it his second release to do so. He was listed as Indiana’s selection for Thrillist’s 50 Best Undiscovered Comics in the country. Dwight’s comedy has been featured on Kevin Hart’s LOL on Sirius XM and on the Bob and Tom show for which he is also a writer. He is a co-director of the Limestone Comedy Festival and the creator and host of the web series BrewTube Comedy. Be sure to check out his podcast Mat and Dwight Just might wherever music is available.

Tom Thakkar is a comedian you’ve seen on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," “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.

Gina Brillon was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. The Puerto Rican actress, comedian, writer (and new mom!) has been a standup comic since she was 17 years old. Her 1-hour special Gina Brillon: The Floor is Lava won a Gracie Award and is available on Amazon Prime Video, along with her first special, Pacifically Speaking. Her 1/2 hour special Easily Offended was one of the top shows from the Entre Nos franchise on HBO Latino, and streams on all HBO Digital Platforms. She’s made appearances on HBO Max’s HA Festival: The Art of Comedy, Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, E!’s Chelsea Lately, The View, Late Night with Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel Live. You have seen her on Kevin Can Wait on CBS and The Conners on ABC. In 2012, she became the first (and only) Latina winner of NBC’s Stand up for Diversity Showcase. The following year, she was a “New Face” at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival. Gina is a singer, published writer, and poet. Her pieces have appeared in the New York Post and Daily News, among others. In 2019, she was featured on Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias’ “Beyond the Fluffy Tour” - hitting 46 cities around the US. Currently, Gina and co-host Katherine G. Mendoza dole out advice on their podcast Mess In Progress: The Homegirls Guide to Self-Help.

Shanda Sung is a comedian, woman, mother, wife, and human being and she has opinions about all of it. Shanda is a Bloomington, IN favorite and regular at the renowned Comedy Attic. Her first special, Pickles is now available on youtube and the album version can be found on itunes, bandcamp and all streaming platforms. Her stand up has been enjoyed throughout the midwest at all manner of club, theater, bar, winery and waffle restaurant.  She was featured on the album On Tour Live from Bloomington and the premiere episode of the Vice network show Hunters. 

Mike Finoia is a Comedian based out of NYC. Recently, Mike became an on-air voice for The Grateful Dead Channel on Sirius XM. He is also a producer for TruTV's hit show Impractical Jokers, and tours regularly with the guys on their national tour. Mike is also the host of the podcasts Dented Cans and Comes a Time, which he co-hosts with Dead & Company bassist Oteil Burbridge. Mike's debut special, "Don't Let Me Down" was met with glowing reviews in 2023, and when Mike isn't on the road he can be found nightly at NYC premiere comedy clubs, and heard regularly on Sirius XM's The Bonfire.

Gianmarco Soresi is a New York–based stand-up comedian, actor, and creator known for his sharp societal observations and spry, energetic stage presence. He effortlessly commands a room with an animated performance style that blends upbeat candor with darker comedic beats, creating stand-up that is both intelligent and emotionally resonant. Gianmarco’s work has earned critical acclaim from The New York Times, NPR, Esquire, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, ABC News, Billboard, and many others. He has performed stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central, and Don’t Tell, and was selected as a Just For Laughs New Face in 2022. With a dedicated following of millions across social media platforms, Gianmarco has become a prominent voice in modern comedy. He is also the host of the popular podcast The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi. His debut hour-long special, Thief of Joy, surpassed one million views in its first week and continues to grow, further solidifying his place as one of today’s most exciting stand-up performers.

CO-CREATOR AND STAR OF HBOMAX'S HIT SHOW THOSE WHO CAN'T

COMEDY CENTRAL. TRUTV. VARIETY'S TOP 10 COMICS TO WATCH

If you aren't familiar with Ben Roy, he's been taking comedy audiences by storm since 2004, bringing an unparalleled energy and unique voice to the stage. Often compared to Lewis Black or Bill Hicks due to his passionate, ranting approach, Roy has a style that is definitively his own. 

Roy cut his comedic teeth in Denver at the world famous Comedy Works. Since then, he has been selected to perform at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs Toronto, Just For Laughs Chicago, The New York Comedy Festival, Austin’s South by Southwest festival, San Francisco SketchFest, and many more. Roy has been featured on HBO's Funny as Hell series; as well as on the Comedy Central shows Adam DeVine's House Party, Corporate, @midnight, and This Is Not Happening. Ben has also released four stand-up comedy albums and was listed as one of Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch.

Along with fellow Denver Comedians Adam Cayton-Holland and Andrew Orvedahl (who collectively perform as The Grawlix), Ben created, wrote, and starred in TruTV’s original comedy series Those Who Can’t, which now has all three seasons available for streaming on HBOMax. In addition to stand-up comedy, Roy is a prolific musician, currently the lead singer of pop punk outfit SPELLS.

Ryan Singer, "Comedy's Crown Prince of Weird" is a cosmic comedian who electrifies mainstream audiences with material that is both uncompromising and unpretentious. He recently released his first one-hour special The Supernatural, filmed in a haunted school. He's been seen on Maron (IFC), The Movie Show (ScFy) and has released 4 full-length comedy albums, Free Love (2018), Immortal For Now (2015), Comedy Wonder Town (2012) and How To Get High Without Drugs (2010), 3 of which were chosen as Top Comedy Album of the Year. He is the creator and host of the popular Me & Paranormal You podcast in which he has in-depth interviews with paranormal investigators, experiencers of the supernatural and explores all things esoteric. He has been selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as "A Comic Who Should Be Big," LA Weekly as one of "10 LA Comics to Watch", mentioned in NY Magazine as a "Comic to Watch," was one of 4 finalists in the original CMT's Next Big Comic Contest, is a frequent guest on the WTF Podcast w/Marc Maron and the Bob & Tom Show, and his joke "United Snacks of America" has nearly 11 million listens on Pandora.

Malik Elassal is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp, heartfelt comedy. His Lebanese-Canadian roots bring depth and perspective to his storytelling, earning him a spot on Vulture’s 2024 “Comedians You Should and Will Know” list. Named a New Face at JFL Montreal 2022, he went on to tour nationally and earned viral acclaim with one of Don’t Tell Comedy’s most-watched sets, racking up over 3.5 million views. He returned to Just For Laughs in 2023 to perform at a Gala and as a part of the "Just For The Culture" Show, where he was a stand out. On screen, Elassal stars in the FX/Hulu series Adults, playing Samir, an earnest over-thinker navigating life, love, and unemployment in New York City. Before this, Malik won Top Comic in his home city of Calgary, recorded sets for television at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and CBC's New Wave of Standup, and performed the titular track of the Just For Laughs originals album ‘Yeehaw Hell Yeah’. He currently resides in Brooklyn and performs regularly around the city and in clubs across the continent.

Geoff Tate is most likely watching "Cheers" right now. A Cincinnati-based comedian, he has appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and regularly tours with Doug Benson and Doug Stanhope. He made his television debut on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, and is a regular on Doug Loves Movies, as well as Getting Doug with High. He has performed at music and comedy festivals like Bonnaroo, South by Southwest, Limestone and he has two albums available at the Doug Stanhope store and he's the host of the popular geofftate's MSHD PODCASTO, in which he discusses topical Cheers-related issues, gets his dad to try things, talks to people he graduated with, forces Emma Arnold to host her own show and just has a good time.

Laurie Kilmartin is stand up comedian and an Emmy-nominated, WGA award-winning comedy writer. She was a staff writer for all 11 years of CONAN on TBS, and has performed standup on CONAN, Late Late Show w/James Corden, and Comedy Central. She was a Top 10 finalist on season 9 of NBC's Last Comic Standing, and has been a guest on Marc Maron's WTF 3 times. She is the author of Dead People Sck, a comedic memoir about grief, and Shitty Mom- NY Times bestselling comedy about parenting. Her special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, was named Vulture 's Top Ten Comedy Specials of 2016. In 2022, she was a guest in the “Comedy” episdoe of Hillary Clinton’s 2022 Apple TV series Gutsy. Her new special “Cis Woke Grief Slut,” taped at Hollywood’s El Portal Theater, will be available on all platforms in January, 2024.

After a successful first time onstage, Laurie moved back in with her parents, bought a Chevy Blazer and started driving to gigs over the West. By the time she donated the Blazer to KCRW, there were over 500,000 miles on the odometer. She has worked one nighters, comedy clubs, casinos and wars. In fact, she performed for troops in both Iraq wars, including a New Year’s Eve show at one of Saddam Hussein’s occupied palaces. After ten years of basing herself inNorCal, she relocated to New York City in 1999. In 2003, she added TV writing to her resume, with her first staff job on Comedy Central’s Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. She moved onto “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” tried her hand at daytime on “The Bonnie Hunt Show” before being hired as a monologue writer on “CONAN,” for its entire 11 year run on TBS. 

In 2006, she became a mom, and in 2009, a single mom.In 2014, she famously (or infamously) live-tweeted jokes her father’s hospice passing from lung cancer, and in 2020, she did the same after her mother was hospitalized with COVID. From these literal cremated ashes came her comedy special and second book (“45 Jokes About My Dead Dad” and “Dead People Suck”), and the 3rd titular element of her 2024 comedy special, “Cis Woke Grief Slut.”

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Laurie became interested in trying standup after seeing one too male comics talk about women. Even in San Francisco, the early 90s lineups were stacked with men lazily stereotyping approximately half the people in the audience. Laurie distinctly remembers sitting through a comedy showcase, thinking, “I don’t like shopping, and I don’t go to the bathroom in pairs.” Her need to try standup came from an intense desire to tell her own story, instead of hearing it being told to her by a dude. 

Maria Bamford is revered for her deeply personal and experimental comedy about

mental illness. She’s the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Sure,

I’ll Join Your Cult and is the star of four hour-long standup specials (Local Act,

Weakness is the Brand, Old Baby and Maria Bamford: the special, special,

special!) and the surreal, semi-autobiographical Netflix comedy series Lady

Dynamite, about a comedian who suffers a nervous breakdown. Maria was the first

female comic to have two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials and starred

alongside Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis and Brian Posehn in The Comedians of

Comedy. She also created and starred in the cult hit web series The Maria Bamford

Show, in which she plays all the characters.

Maria is often recognized for her prolific voiceover work, including characters on

Big Mouth and its spinoff Human Resources, HouseBroken, Teenage Euthanasia,

Santa, Inc., Bob’s Burgers, Bojack Horseman, Summer Camp Island, Adventure

Time, Talking Tom and Friends, Legend of Korra, Puss in Boots, CatDog and

PBS’s Emmy-winning series Word Girl. She played DeBrie Bardeaux on Netflix’s

Arrested Development and recurred on the ABC hit series Fresh off the Boat. Other

TV guest roles include Night Court, Life & Beth, Portlandia, Kenan, Mr. Mayor,

and large recurring roles on Hulu’s Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, and Showtime’s

Flatbush Misdeameanors. Maria was also Emmy-nominated for her guest

appearance on the Netflix children’s series Ask the StoryBots.

Maria’s late-night appearances include The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late

Night with Seth Meyers, CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden and

The Tonight Show. Her interview series What’s Your Ailment? deals with the

various mental struggles of celebrities and is available on the Topic streaming

service. Her Audible Original You Are (A Comedy) Special is a semi-mock

instructional book for both standup and life.

"Gabriel Rutledge is a quick thinking, fast talking, hard working badass."
-- Louisville Weekly

A past winner of both the Seattle International Comedy Competition and The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in Atlanta, Gabriel has made numerous television appearances including Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, Nickelodeon's Nickmom Night Out, Laughs on FOX, and Inside Joke streaming on Amazon Prime Video. His Dry Bar Comedy special "A Third of the Room," as well as his YouTube special "Nectarine" have garnered millions of views online.

He is also the author of the book "Happiness Isn't Funny: True Stories of a Road Comic."

Cliff Cash hit his first open mic in 2011 at the age of 31. He didn’t miss a Thursday open mic after that for about a year. Within 2 years Cliff won Port City’s Top Comic, Comedy Central’s UpNext Regionals, Comedy Zone’s Almost Famous and landed himself on Sirius XM. In the years that followed, Cash racked up an impressive list of comedy credits and life scars. The highs and lows ranged from a divorce to a number one comedy album, from the death of his father to a Dry Bar Comedy special. 

Despite accolades like being a finalist for Standup NBC, having two albums reach number one, being on Laughs TV, Rooftop Comedy and more, Cliff was toiling away in the shadows of obscurity reluctant to take the traditional path of moving to New York or Los Angeles. Cash focused instead on honing his craft and building connections nationwide performing in nearly every state in the lower 48, touring for months at a time, living in a station wagon, camping, hiking and exploring between gigs. Many years he slept more nights under the stars than under a roof. He saw 45 of the nations 62 national parks and stumbled upon the passion of nature photography that he now sells as merch at his shows. Cliff lived in his old sprinter van for months at a time all over the U.S. and México. 

Finally Cliff gave in to the pressure of the social media path. He decided that 2025 would be the year he finally put his energy into his long neglected online presence. In less than 6 months, he’s grown his YouTube following from 280 subscribers to over 300,000 and the other apps have exploded in the same way. His first *real* comedy special THE LONG ROAD debuted to high praise from fans around the world, reached #1 on the iTunes comedy chart and has been viewed nearly 50 million times across clips and platforms. It is now available on apple, Amazon, tubi, Roku and more.

Kyle Kinane is a comedian from Addison, Illinois. According to Wikipedia, he is a notable person from that town. Other notable residents of Addison have been the boxer Leon Spinks and a woman who wrote poetry about Beanie Babies. 

Raised in such a cultural fondue pot as this, it was natural for Kyle to find his way from warehouse work into show business. As a comedian, he has been seen on The Tonight Show, Netflix’s “The Standups,” and 5 of his own hour-length specials . As an actor, he’s been in the Judd Apatow series “Love” and truTV’s “Those Who Can’t.” He was also on “Drunk History,” where he unfortunately wasn’t acting. As a voice over actor, he was the former voice of Comedy Central for 8 years and currently plays Bullet on the Netflix series “Paradise PD.” He is also co-host of the No Accounting for Taste podcast along with Shane Torres. As a musician, he has done nothing, as he is not a musician. 

Kyle’s most recent standup work, “Dirt Nap,” was recorded at Acme Comedy Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was released in April of 2024.