Comedy & Humor

Pete Davidson is a comedian and actor. He is a cast member on Saturday Night Live.  

Tatanka Means is an award-winning actor, stand-up comedian and motivational speaker from Chinle, Arizona.

Lena Waithe is one of Hollywood’s most promising up-and-coming talents, who continues to grow her body of work with diversity, charisma, and comedy. One of Hollywood Reporter’s “TV Breakouts”, Waithe…

Kat Evasco is best known for her national touring autobiographical one-woman show, Mommy Queerest, co-written and directed by John Caldon. She has performed at venues including the Haha Cafe, San…

John Cleese is both a versatile comedic actor and a leading business motivator. With the legendary Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda, he created a…

Kevin Shea is a Los Angeles based comedian and actor who is a staple of the LA comedy scene. After college, Kevin moved to San Francisco and started a career…

Ken Jeong has been blending comedy and medicine all his life.

Los Angeles-based comedian Jo Koy has come a long way from his modest beginnings performing stand-up comedy at a Las Vegas coffee house, to a hugely successful career selling out…

Atsuko Okatsuka is a standup comedian, actor, and writer.

Helen Hong is a comedian, TV personality, actor and dating expert. Helen’s adorable stage presence and mischievous point of view have landed her on The Huffington Post’s Favorite Female Comedians…

It all started in the summer of 2000. A couple of friends dared Danny Cho to try stand-up. Just out of high school, Danny agreed and his friends entered him…

Awkwafina is an award-winning Asian-American writer, actress and rapper. Her “government name” is Nora Lum. Most recently, Lum earned rave reviews for her performance in Lulu Wang’s The Farewell. Before…

Jenny Yang is a Los Angeles-based writer, actor and stand up comedian who produces the first-ever, mostly female, Asian American standup comedy tour, Disoriented Comedy, and The Comedy Comedy Festival:…

Niecy Nash was sitting in her grandmother’s living room at the tender age of five when she first witnessed an elegant Black actress grace her television screen. From the sight…

Clean and sober since 1988, Mark Lundholm is a former criminal, mental patient, homeless wino, resident in a halfway house who started poking fun at the insanity his life had…

Patch Adams, M.D, is a physician who is the founder and director of Gesundheit Institute, a free health facility in operation for the past 22 years. It is the only…

Jenni Pulos, an Emmy nominated producer, is best known for her role on Bravo's hit show Flipping Out, where she serves as an Executive Assistant to Jeff Lewis and for…

Suzanne Whang is a multi-talented entertainer with a career spanning two decades as an actor, television host, and stand-up comedian. Since 1999, Whang has been hosting House Hunters, the #1…

Jerrod Carmichael is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is currently the executive producer, writer, and star of the NBC comedy The Carmichael Show. In…

Chelsea Handler is one of the most exciting and successful figures in the entertainment industry. Chelsea has built a multi-platform media empire as a best-selling author, talk show host, stand-up…

Tanisha Long is a West Philadelphia born and raised actor, writer, and comedian. Tanisha is currently a cast member of MTV’s Girl Code & Guy Code and has also appeared…

A correspondent on The Daily Show since 2011, Al Madrigal has been named Best Stand-Up Comedian by the HBO/U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and his material dubbed “dynamic” by The New…

Called "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years" by The New York Times, socio-political comedian

Trevor Noah made his debut as host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show on Comedy Centra.

Sheryl Underwood is a savvy businesswoman, philanthropist and a multi-faceted, multi-media entrepreneur who is recognized as one of the most articulate, well informed women of our time. She is a…

Jon Lovett is co-founder of Crooked Media, where he co-hosts the podcast “Pod Save America” and hosts “Lovett or Leave It.” Prior to this, he was the co-creator, executive producer,…

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the stars of Key & Peele, Now Comes To Your SCHOOL, a show that examines life in a distinctively provocative and irreverent way. Whether…

A beloved television icon and entertainment pioneer, comedian Ellen DeGeneres has a distinctive comic voice that has charmed audiences worldwide from her first stand-up comedy appearances through her recent work…

Harvard Sailing Team is the NYC-based sketch comedy group that has been featured on CBS, VH1's Best Week Ever, Comedy Central.com, College Humor, New York Magazine's Vulture blog, Funny or…

Keynotes by Ricky Van Veen provide insightful information about the relationship of people and the type of content they consume online. Van Veen's interest in comedy led him to co-found…

When New York Magazine tapped Reese Waters as one of the city’s Ten Comedians To Watch in March of 2009, few realized just how quickly his star would rise. First…

As host and executive producer of the late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" for the ABC, Jimmy Kimmel is a busy man.

Actor Nick Offerman, best  known for his role as Ron Swanson on NBC's “Parks and Recreation” Offerman is also a humorist, woodworker and the author of the New York Times…

For over twenty years, Marc Maron has been writing and performing raw, honest and thought-provoking comedy for print, stage, radio, online and television.  A legend in the stand-up community, Maron…

Since starting out on the NY comedy-club scene, the Brooklyn native's dry, off-kilter sensibility has been found in his writing as well as his (more infrequent) acting. In 1999 Larry…

Alexandra McHale made her network television debut on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." She has appeared on CBS's "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn," Comedy Central's "Premium…

Actress and comedian Maya Rudolph, who rose to fame as a cast member of “Saturday Night Live” and went on to star in films such as Bridesmaids, The Way Way…

Tom Cotter's high energy, rapid fire comedic style leaves audiences clutching their sides and rolling in the aisles. He became the first comedian to reach the finals of NBC’s America’s…

Adam Ferrara is a stand-up comedian and actor who proudly played Chief Needles Nelson on the Emmy nominated FX drama series, Rescue Me.  Ferrara has also costarred alongside Kevin James…

Alan Zweibel delivers a charming and candid look at his career journey as a comedy writer. He describes the experience of writing for some of television’s most beloved comedies—from Saturday…

Here you will find performers from the Def Comedy Jam show. Click on the individual performer and read more about them and their performance. You are also welcome to call…

Lenny Clarke was born in Cambridge, Mass., one of eight children. He decided to pursue stand-up comedy one night when he was working as a janitor, putting himself through college…

Currently a correspondent on The Daily Show w/ Trevor Noah, Roy Wood Jr. has been described by the Hollywood Reporter as “A Standout”, and Entertainment Weekly called his brand of…

Steven Wright - - the man with the monotone. A prototype comedian that others are sure to follow. His delivery is deadpan, his manner stoic, and he's the hottest act…

Tim Young headlines clubs all over North America, has performed on over 500 college campuses as well as comedy festivals in New York, Montreal, and Seattle, and he’s a fixture…

Comedian and Actor Harland Williams is known the world over for his hilarious movie roles and outlandish stand up and sketch comedy routines. From his unforgettable roles in films such…

Comedian Katt Williams is often compared to iconic comedian Richard Pryor because of his troubled and tragicomic life. The Ohio native, known for his routines on pimp philosophies, the perils…

Comedian Ron "Tater Salad" White is best known as the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman from the "Blue Collar Comedy" phenomenon. But with two Grammy nominations, a gold record, two of the…

Kym Whitley is a funny, talented and driven quadruple-threat; actress, producer, director and stand-up comedienne. Kym Whitley is a staple on television, guest-starring on popular shows such as ABC’s “Grey’s…

Shawn Wayans is the second youngest of the 10 Wayans siblings, a close-knit family of actors, screenwriters and directors best known for comic spoofs such as "Don't Be a Menace…