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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!

Sophie Buddle is a stand-up, a TV writer, and a podcaster. She has appeared on “The Tonight Show”, “The Late Late Show with James Corden”, and on CBC’s “This Hour Has 22 Minutes as a correspondent and staff writer. She's also been featured on CTV’s "Roast Battle", JFL All Access, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and the Halifax Comedy Festival. She was a featured performer at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and in 2022 had the esteemed privilege of delivering the Canadian Keynote Address on Comedy. Sophie released her first album in 2019, "Lil Bit Of Buddle," which won the 2020 Juno Award for Best Comedy Album of the Year, making her the first female comic to win that award. She released the album herself so you can find it on iTunes in the genre "easy listening", which was a mistake, but it is easy to listen to, so it's OK. Her podcast "Obsessed with Sophie Buddle", which tackles people’s obsessions (from Beyoncé to American politics to checking if the door is locked to revenge) is currently available on Apple Podcasts. She is a three-time runner up (but fourth time’s the charm!) for Canada's biggest stand-up contest, SiriusXM Top Comic, and can currently be seen headlining across the country.

Join us for an incredible evening of laughs that benefit Monroe County CASA! 

Monroe County CASA, Inc. is a non-profit organization that recruits, trains and supervises court appointed advocates to advocate for children who are involved in juvenile court due to abuse or neglect. Volunteer advocacy is based on the belief that all children are entitled to a safe and permanent home.

Monroe County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), Inc. advocates for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court. CASA promotes and supports unbiased advocacy representation for all children to ensure that each child has a safe, permanent home as quickly as possible.

The success of our agency’s goals relies on the active involvement of the community. Monroe County CASA welcomes and encourages advocates to participate at all levels and in all relevant programs and activities. All staff and agency members are invited to help create meaningful roles for advocates and assist in recruiting new advocates from the community.

Kelly is a standup comedian, writer, and storyteller who began her career in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has since become a beloved fixture on the national comedy scene. She has been featured on Sirius XM, NPR, and has a DryBar Comedy Special called I made you this. Her clips have gained millions of views on social media. 

She was also a finalist on CMT’s Next Big Comic and toured with "The Nobodies of Comedy," a hand-picked roster of some of the best unknown comedic talent in the country. In 2020, she was named Cincinnati Citybeat’s Best Comedian, and in 2022, she became the first standup comedian ever to be an Artist In Residence at Acadia National Park, making history in the National Parks.

Kelly’s festival credits are extensive, having performed at the prestigious Limestone Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, Gilda’s Laughfest (Best of the Midwest showcase), and The Lucille Ball Comedy Festival. She also performed at the Big Sky Comedy Festival, one of the top festivals in the industry. Kelly headlined the Super Dope Comedy Festival in 2019 and returned to headline the Limestone Comedy Festival in 2023.

Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, podcaster and actor. His popular podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, which has been downloaded over 25 million times, is known for its blend of humor, fringe ideas, eclectic guests, and great interviews. 

Duncan has performed stand-up at the famed Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and the Austin, TX Moontower Comedy Festival. He wrote and performed on Fuel TV’s sketch show Stupidface, guest starred on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiam, Showtime’s LA LA Land, Fox’s MADTV, and Comedy Central’s Nick Swardson's Pretend Time. Duncan also told a true story of a crazy acid trip on Comedy Central’s This is not Happeningand he has appeared in five episodes of Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated Drunk History and Cartoon Network’s Emmy-winning Adventure Time.

His podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour has nearly 400 episodes and averages 1,000,000 downloads per month. The show features Duncan and comedians, outsiders, spiritual healers, and seekers discussing such topics as spirituality, consciousness, psychedelics, fringe theories, existentialism, and comedy. This podcast and the recordings within are the foundation of Duncan’s Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel, which he co-created with Pendleton Ward, the Emmy-winning creator of Adventure Time.

DAN DONOHUE is a comedian, actor, and writer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He cut his teeth as a stand up in Boston before moving to Los Angeles where he regularly performs at the city’s iconic comedy venues. He can be seen throughout the rest of the country, headlining clubs, seminal indie rooms, and occasionally featuring for comedian and actor Jon Rudnitsky. He has also opened for Ryan Hamilton and late legend Norm MacDonald, among other names. 

Dan hosts the podcast Danswers, formerly co-hosted Basket of Cats (with comedian Benton Ray), and is a frequent guest on Soberish with Jessa Reed. He can also be heard on A Closer Look, The Todd Glass Show, Cutting Weight, and more. 

In 2020, Dan began to amass a major following on Tik Tok and Instagram by telling jokes while washing dishes. He continues to develop his comedy in various formats for his rapidly growing fanbase. 

Before becoming a full-time comic, Dan worked as a night club security guard, construction worker, carpenter, physical therapy aid, restaurant runner, bike shop repairman, graveyard worker, tech assemblyman, and in waste management. Naturally, his hobbies now include yoga, meditating, and hiking. He still dabbles as a personal fitness and boxing trainer in his spare time and can sometimes be seen yelling at his famous clientele at an outdoor gym in Hollywood.

“Watching him do crowd work is like seeing Springsteen at the Meadowlands.  The other comics on the bill sneak back in and stare in awe.”

--ESQUIRE, September 2025

Jimmy Pardo, known as “The Fastest Mind in Comedy,” is a seasoned stand-up comedian and host of the award-winning podcast Never Not Funny. Jimmy has made over one hundred television appearances, including seminal shows like The Tonight Show, Conan, and The Late Late Show. 

A lifelong dream of hosting a radio show similar to the ones he grew up listening to in Chicago is the inspiration behind his success as host of his long-running podcast Never Not Funny, as well as hosting TV shows such as Science Channel’s critically acclaimed Race to Escape, National Lampoon’s Funny Money on Game Show Network, five seasons of AMC’s Movies At Our House and episodes of NBC’s Late Friday, VH1’s The Surreal Life & The Playboy Morning Show.

Pardo’s love of music (he has attended close to 500 rock concerts) and many years in the music business are useful for his web series Jimmy’s Records & Tapes, currently in its fourth season on YouTube.

Renowned for his quick-witted improvisation style, Pardo uses his material as a jumping-off point for his act, with the ultimate goal of having a conversation with the audience. This makes his performances a whirlwind of crowd work, top-of-mind references, stories, and asides, with each show being a one-of-a-kind, inimitable experience.

His three comedy albums, UNO, Pompous Clown & Sprezzatura, have all topped the comedy album chart and many critic’s best of lists.

He can be seen entertaining crowds across the country when not hosting the Never Not Funny podcast & Jimmy’s Records & Tapes from the cozy confines of his Sherman Oaks studio.

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT JIMMY PARDO

“What I love about Jimmy is that he lives by his wits – his mind is so quick and facile that he gets the audience laughing, but they’re listening as well.”

 –CONAN O’BRIEN

“Jimmy may be the funniest man adverse to jokes. He doesn’t write them; he rarely tells them. And that translates as hilarious to the audience. Call him the crowd whisperer.”

 –LA TIMES

“The funniest host in podcasting.” 

-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

It’s clear Pardo’s one small step ahead of the audience, one giant leap beyond the comedy industry as a whole.”

 –LA WEEKLY

“Pardo has the ability to do crowd-work like no other comedian today that I am aware of – a quality that echoes and even rivals that of Don Rickles.” 

–POPSTRIKE.COM

“Never Not Funny was one of the first, and it remains one of the best.”

 –THE AV CLUB

“The undisputed king of onstage riffing and crowd-work.”

 –NERDIST NEWS

“Onstage, Pardo is as free-form as Ross Noble, as biting as Greg Proops, and as formal as Johnny Carson. Perhaps the best comparison, if one can truly be made, is to Groucho Marx, encapsulating all the manic energy and just a hint of the irreverence that made Groucho a legend.”

– OTWO MAGAZINE (Ireland)

Michael Longfellow is a comedian and stepson from Phoenix who completed three seasons as a cast member on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Prior to SNL, Michael was just one of eight comedians chosen for the inaugural “Netflix Introducing…” next stars of comedy showcase at the Netflix is a Joke Festival. He was also selected as one of TBS's “Comics To Watch” at the New York Comedy Festival, and went on to make his late night debut on CONAN. He was a favorite on NBC’s comedy talent series Bring The Funny. Michael also regularly tours festivals and clubs around the country

Guy Branum is an Emmy Award, WGA and Golden Globe-Winning writer/producer who has worked on Hacks, The Mindy Project, The Other Two, A League of their Own, Billy on the Street, Fashion Police, Awkward. and many other tv comedies. He created and hosted truTV’s Talk Show The Game Show, a hilarious mashup of two beloved television formats that pits comedians and celebrities against each other for the title of “Best Guest of the Night.” As an actor you can catch him on the Apple series Platonic with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan, he co-starred and co-produced the Billy Eichner Rom-Com Bros, and co-starred with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in No Strings attached. As a comedian he’s been featured on Netflix’s Stand Out, Conan and @fter Midnight. His book My Life As A Goddess was called “Wickedly smart, funny and witty” by Kirkus Reviews and made NPR’s 2018 Good Reads List and Entertainment Weekly’s Must List. 

Kevin Ryan and H. Foley bring you a night of Are You Garbage? featuring stand-up comedy and a chance for you to ask your Garbage questions! Come join us and find out if you'e trash!

A mere 30 seconds on her Instagram channel is enough to fall in love with Gauri and her comedy! Her clips have amassed more than 100 million views on social media and gained her a global following. She has headlined top tier comedy clubs and festivals around the world, from Leicester Square Theater in London to WUK in Vienna, to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia.
Gauri enjoys tackling morbid subjects and infusing them with strong punchlines, which she delivers with a natural charisma. Fearless and unabashed, Gauri draws endless material from her cultural background, as well as politics, society, and everyday chaos, crafting sharp jokes into her pointed stand-up routines. And when it comes to crowd work and interacting with the audience, she is undoubtedly in a league of her own. This show is for fans of stand-up that goes beyond the trivial.

Bluebird is a collective of some of the best improvisers on the planet.

The show is inspired by a short conversation with audience members and what follows is an evening of never before (and never again) scenes and characters that cascade into a hilarious and original freewheeling show.

Scheduled to appear: 

Matt Walsh (Co-founder of UCB, Veep)

Marc Evan Jackson (The Good Place, Brooklyn 99)

Brad Morris (Cougar Town, Second City National Touring)

Joe Canale (Mindy Project, Second City MainStage)

Matt Walsh is a two-time Emmy-nominated actor from HBO’s award-winning comedy series Veep, and cast member of Apple TV’s acclaimed limited series Manhunt. He is also a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. 

Walsh will next be seen in Paramount Pictures Novocaine starring Jack Quaid, Maybe We Should starring Heather Graham, Little Lorraine starring Stephen Amell, and Utopia’s Not An Artist where he co-stars opposite Rza from the Wu Tang Clan. 

Recently, he appeared in Hulu’s Unplugging, which he co-wrote, and starred alongside Eva Longoria. He can also be seen in The Good Half starring Nick Jonas. 

Walsh has appeared in memorable roles in several popular comedy films including Life of the Party, Old School, Starsky and Hutch, Ted, and Keeping Up With The Joneses. Other credits include the CBS series Ghosts, Fox Searchlight’s Flamin’ Hot, and the recent Father of the Bride film. 

Marc Evan Jackson is an comedian, writer, improvisor and actor best known for his work on NBC's The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and as Sparks Nevada in the live stage show The Thrilling Adventure Hour. His recent film credits include Jumanji, Kong: Skull Island, and 22 Jump Street.

In 2011 he co-founded The Detroit Creativity Project with several Los Angeles-based performers whose careers began in Detroit.

He moved from the Second City Detroit to Los Angeles in 2001. He has taught improv at Second City Hollywood and in 2003 formed a long-form improv group of other Second City alumni called The 313, an homage to Detroit. He is also a contributor to the after-school literacy program 826 LA.

Brad Morris is a veteran tv and film writer, producer, actor, director and improviser. An alum of four of Chicago’s Second City’s Mainstage revues, the iO Theatre and The Annoyance, Brad is a member of the renowned long form improvisational groups, The Reckoning and Uncle’s Brother with Tim Meadows. Brad has improvised around the world with the Second City National Touring company and Matt Walsh and Friends for the USO.

As a TV writer, Brad spent three seasons as a producer on the TBS comedy, Cougar Town, was a producer on the Showtime series, Dice, and was co-ep and head writer for seasons 1 and 2 of the critically acclaimed series for Paramount and Seeso, Bajillion Dollar Properties. Brad has sold original scripts and development to ABC, TBS, Sony and Warner Brothers.

On the film side, Brad co-wrote and produced the independent film, Unplugging, starring Matt Walsh and Eva Longoria. He is also producing the independent film, Stoners and Saints, starring Dylan Gelula and Matt Berry. Brad also recently co-wrote Family Squares, and a movie for Paramount, Rear Naked Choke, produced by Margot Robbie.

Joe Canale has been improvising around the world for the past 30 years, including stints at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam and The Second City Mainstage in Chicago amongst many others. While he’s not made appearances in film and television his greatest pleasure is derived from performing live improv for an audience.

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.

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.