Caitlin Cook

Caitlin Cook is a LA-born, NYC-based, Oxford-educated, hyphen-addicted comedian. She has taken the stage all across the world at top-tier theaters, comedy clubs, festivals, strangers' living rooms, and even a houseboat once.

A fierce champion of mixed media and genre-bending works of art, Cook has carved out a space for herself smack-dab in the center of the Venn diagram between comedy, music, and theater. Her one-woman bathroom graffiti musical The Writing on the Stall sold out its off-Broadway debut at Soho Playhouse, and its accompanying studio album has hit over 25M streams across all platforms.

Cook has released three successful musical comedy albums, which are regularly featured on SiriusXM:

Zinger-Songwriter, which she recorded at 12 different venues while touring across the US and UK

Betty Pitch, which she recorded after writing 250 songs a day during the pandemic

The Writing on the Stall, the official studio album of her hit one-woman bathroom graffiti musical

Aside from her work as a performer, Cook served as a creative consultant for Sean Patton’s Number One on Peacock, as the producer for Gabe Mollica’s hit show Solo that was featured on This American Life, and as the director of A.J. Holmes’ critically-acclaimed Yeah, But Not Right Now. Cook also produces live comedy events, like the stand-up show Good God with Shane Torres, Brittany Carney, and Naomi Karavani and the variety show 2/3rds of a Threesome (and Friends) with A.J. Holmes.

CAITLIN SHOW: The Writing on the Stall

INSTAGRAM: @thecaitlincook

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Daniel Van Kirk

Daniel Van Kirk is a stand-up comedian from Rochelle, IL that you may recognize from The Bear (FX), Bob’s Burgers (FOX), The Morning Show (Apple TV+), Ballard (Amazon Prime). His 2019 debut comedy album “Thanks Diane” debuted at  #1 on Apple Music and his most recent comedy special, “Rose Gold” is now available on YouTube. Daniel can also be heard every week on the hit comedy podcasts, "Pen Pals" and "Dumb People Town” and in addition to headlining around the country he has performed at the top comedy festivals in North America such as The Moontower Comedy Festival, 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival, JFL 42, JFL Montreal, and Netflix is a Joke.

Writing-wise, Daniel got his training as a sketch writer/performer at the UCB and used his skills as a writer on Attention Deficit Theater for the CW, his own sketch show DVK on the Nerdist Channel. In 2021, the animated version of his podcast Dumb People Town was picked up for 6 episodes by Amazon and Daniel was showrunner/EP.  Most recently he completed a role as writer/performer on the new Sklar Brothers UFC Channel show Nosebleeds. Daniel’s feature credits include Beer Fest 2 for Warner Brothers and the independent film Wine Club in which he also stars.

VAN KIRK: Standup, Website, IG, Reel

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Dave Holmes

Dave Holmes is a columnist and editor at large for Esquire, a SIRIUS satellite radio and podcast personality, a host of shows for CBS, MTV (former VJ!), Bravo, E!, FX, Comedy Central, and History, a pop-culture talking head and the author of the memoir Party Of One. Of his recent limited-run podcast Who Killed The Video Star: The Story of MTV (which reached #1 on Apple Podcasts’ TV/Film chart), NPR said “The great and good Dave Holmes just understands pop culture in a way that very few people do.”

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HOLMES: IG

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Elizabeth Guest

Elizabeth Guest was born ‘on location’ in Eugene, Oregon, thus a movie-rain-loving baby was born. For many years her favorite day of the week was the dress rehearsal day of her father’s sitcom where she first observed the process of directing television and developed a love of crafty and free gum. She studied and performed at the Lee Strasberg Institute, the Second City in Los Angeles and eventually the Upright Citizens Brigade. She attended USC’s film school. Her first short after graduation, in which she starred, garnered her the jury award for "Acting the Part" at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Her first feature script made it to one of the final rounds of the Sundance Lab. She has written, directed, and starred in several long-running stage plays at the Upright Citizens Brigade one of which became a mini-series produced by Funny or Die. She directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the first season of “Guest Appearances” which won “Best Scripted Digital Series” at the Austin Film Festival and “Best Short Form” at the Nashville Film Festival. A short she co-directed and starred in, “The First of Many,” won the Best Dramatic Short at the Cinequest Film Festival. She has spent the last few years shadowing directors, has appeared on NBC’s “Superstore” and completed a very fun comedic role in the high school comedy “Sid is Dead” produced by American High. She played the lead in the Christmas Rom Com "See You Next Christmas" now available on Apple/Itunes and Amazon and her most recent TV credits include Fox's "9-1-1" and HBO's "Barry.” She recently wrote, directed and starred in her debut holiday feature, “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off”.

GUEST: Reel

GUEST: Web Series

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Inessa Frantowski

Inessa Frantowski is a Los Angeles based comedian and friend to all. She is a Canadian Screen Award  winner and a Canadian Comedy Award winner and  is one of Just For Laughs’ 2022 New Faces  Character. An alumni of The Second City  Mainstage, she wrote and starred in four record  breaking revues and also performed on UCB’s  Maude Night for four years. She was a writer/ performer on the Canadian sketch series This Hour  has 22 Minutes and plays Renee on the  International Emmy nominated series, The  Amazing Gayl Pile on Amazon Prime, for which  she won an Indie Series Award. You might also  recognize her from American Princess, The Kids in  the Hall: Death comes to town and the Avicii video  I could be the one, which has over 300 million  views on Youtube. Her stand up comedy album,  Help me, help ME is available on itunes/Spotify  though Howl and Roar records. Inessa appears regularly at UCB in Los Angeles and hosts a weekly stand up show at The Elysian Theater.

FRANTOWSKI: JFL 2022

Twitter: @inessacomedy Instagram: @inessacomedy

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Justin Martindale

Justin Martindale is an LA based comedian, writer, producer, and actor. He was the last hand picked paid regular at The World Famous Comedy Store by the madame of comedy herself, Mitzi Shore. Justin hosted the popular E! Entertainment bi-weekly digital series, “What the Fashion.” He was recently a regular guest host on “Jeff Lewis Live” on Sirius XM’s Radio Andy, and is the host of his own weekly charting podcast “Just Sayin’ with Justin Martindale.” When he’s not in demand on multiple platforms, Justin performs stand-up all over the country.

MARTINDALE: IG, Reel, Stand-Up

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Jeffrey Jay

Jeffrey Jay is a Los Angeles-based, transgender stand-up comedian born and raised in a town that is so Texas it’s called Texas City, Texas. With a Republican judge as a mother and a father who works on oil tankers, he didn’t think life was tough enough and ventured into a life of stand-up. Since 2011 Jeffrey has made his living touring the NACA college circuit and to date has done hundreds of shows that combine stand-up with a comedy Q&A. 

As a writer, Jay was shortlisted by the BBC Writers’ Room, the comedy writer for Feast of Fun, a second-rounder in the Warner Bros Writing Fellowship, Austin Film Festival, & Sundance in 2021 & 2022, support staff on Season 6 & 7 of The CW’s Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars on HBO Max.

In 2022, the popularity of the BEING Trans podcast swept iTunes and Jay found himself featured in the New York Times.

He has been seen on HULU, the CW’s The Eye Opener, The Guardian, in The Advocate as one of  “The top 7 Transgender Comedians” and “7 LGBT Comics You Shouldn’t Have Missed”, and headlines national and international comedy festivals. When not doing stand-up Jeffrey teaches ally training and speaks at colleges and high schools sharing his story to educate others about trans issues.

Jeffrey recently filmed his new special, I Love A ******And So Can You for a sold out room at Dynasty Typewriter.

JAY: Stand-up Clip

Instagram: @heyjeffreyjay

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J.B. Ball

J.B. Ball is proving himself to be quite the jack of all trades in comedy. He’s found success as a stand-up comedian, tv writer, sketch writer, performer, director, and producer.

He masks being deceptively edgy and intelligent with playful charm. His ability to bring the funny out of controversial topics for people on both sides of an issue brings audiences together with humor.  

His work can be seen on Comedy Central, MTV,  PEACOCK, NBC, CBS, COMCAST, SIRIUS/XM Satellite Radio, Kevin Hart's LOL Network, and as a Segment Producer of the hit show Ridiculousness.

He’s also making waves as a writer after the success of Olympic Highlights w/ Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg along with his sketch on Comedy Central Digital “Who’s the GOAT: MJ or Lebron”.

As a stand-up comedian he was selected for the prestigious "New Faces" at the 2016 Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, was the winner of the 2014 Trial By Laughter Comedy Festival, was named 2014's "Florida's Funniest Comedian”, performed at FunnyOrDie’s 2015 Oddball Comedy Festival, and was a finalist at the 2016 Laughing Skull Festival.

In 2023, he released his first stand-up special with 800lb Gorilla Records titled It’s My Privilege and followed it up in 2025 with his latest special Jesus In The Crackhouse.

BALL: Stand-up

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Kate Zasowski

Kate Zasowski is a writer and stand-up comedian whose work centers on the LGBTQ community, flawed but loveable female characters, and mental illness.

Most recently, she was in the writers’ room for the 2025 LAS CULTURISTAS CULTURE AWARDS with Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. The award show premiered for Bravo on August 5th and is now streaming on Peacock.

Previously, she worked on I LOVE THAT FOR YOU (Showtime) and prior to that co-wrote an episode on BIG SHOT (Disney+). She previously worked on ATYPICAL, BUSY TONIGHT, and SPITTING IMAGE.

Kate wrote for YZ Productions, a popular YouTube channel with over 16 million subscribers. She previously wrote jokes for NBC Olympics ICYMI, a daily Olympics recap show on Snapchat. You may have read her satirical humor pieces on Reductress and CollegeHumor, or seen her digital content via TXT Stories and Brother HQ videos.

In stand-up, Kate has performed at the Bergamot Comedy Fest, Portland Queer Comedy Festival, and is a regular at The Crow in Santa Monica. Kate also toured with Jenny Yang on the hit monthly stage show SELF HELP ME, a competitive self-care comedy show. It featured comics like Margaret Cho, Amber Ruffin, and Chelsea Handler and was showcased at festivals such as Netflix is a Joke, SF Sketchfest, and the New York Comedy Festival. Kate recently recorded her debut comedy album GARBAGE PLATE with ASpecialThing Records which will come out Spring 2026. 

ZASOWSKI: Stand-Up Clip & Podcast

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Kenny Stevenson

Kenny Stevenson has been doing comedy in LA for 20 years, and has been performing at the UCB for over 10.  He has had recurring parts on "Parks and Recreation”, “Comedy Bang Bang”, and "Brooklyn 99". He has also been on the shows “This is Us”, “Hawaii Five-0", "Preppy Little Teen$", and “The UCB Show”.  His impressions can be heard on the podcasts "Cheap Seats", "Improv 4 Humans", and "Dumb People Town". He voiced and puppeteered the character "Edgar" on "Duff's Happy Fun Bake Time", and he worked as an additional puppeteer on the Netflix show "Julie's Greenroom" starring Julie Andrews.  As a writer, he wrote and starred in the award winning independent film "Love, Sex, and Missed Connections," which won 11 awards at 16 film festivals.  His script, "How To Be A Canadian," won the Grand Prize at the New Hampshire Film Festival, the Royal Reel Award at the Canada International Film Festival, and Feature Comedy at the Woods Hole Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Recently he teamed with fellow Groundlings alum Jon Huertas (This is Us), forming the writing/producing team behind the production shingle WestSide Stories where they have several TV/Film projects in various stages of development. They were selected for the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival for their comedy short, Two Jacked, written by and starring Kenny and directed by Jon. Kenny has a won the Moth and other storytelling competitions. He has a quarterly storytelling show “Battle Of The Shares” at The Elysian Theater.

KENNY STEVENSON: Reel, WEBSITE

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Kojo Anim

Kojo Anim has fast become one of the funniest talents to come out of the UK comedy circuit in the last 10 years. Kojo has toured with Chris Rock, Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle and was the first international cast member on Nick Cannon’s hit comedy improv show Wild N Out for 3 seasons on MTV. In the UK, Kojo has presented on radio stations BBC 1xtra & Hosted the breakfast show on Capital Xtra. His career reach an even higher level in 2019 when he received Simon Cowell’s Golden Buzzer on Britain’s Got Talent. His audition has currently received over 50 million views worldwide. He then completed his first 30 date UK tour in 2020 with Live Nation.  Kojo has written movies, TV Shows and has an exciting autobiography entitled “All Jokes Aside” where he recounts his journey through the foster care system and starting his comedy career. Kojo took part in the inaugural Netflix Is A Joke Festival and was a hit performing with Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. He also opened for Dave Chapelle and Chris Rock at the O2 stadium in London.

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Kojo Anim: IG, Stand-Up

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Matt O'Brien

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Matt O’Brien has been featured on America’s Got Talent (battling his own comedian wife, Julia Hladkowicz), Comedy Central, Conan, Fox Sports, CBC, and Odd Squad on PBS. He wrote and performed his own special on The Comedy Network in Canada and recently performed his 5th televised gala at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. Matt and his wife headlined the Netflix Is a Joke Festival and will be returning this year. He is the winner of Sirius XM Radio’s Top Comic and Time Out Magazine named him one of their "Top 10 Comics to Watch".

Matt O’Brien: Stand-up, Socials

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Nnamdi Ngwe

Nnamdi Ngwe is a writer and performer who grew up moving between Texas, England and Nigeria. He played collegiate soccer at the University of Alabama/Birmingham (he was recruited to join the US National Team but refuses to brag about it) before deciding to pursue comedy. Together, he and his twin brother Amechi wrote the acclaimed web series JULIUS, which earned them a trip to the New York Television Festival and a nomination for Best Screenplay at the Best of The Midwest Film Awards. Nnamdi & Amechi made subsequent trips to NYTVF for their shot pilot Rap Skool and their pilot script Oak Ridge Patrol. Nnamdi also studied and taught at Second City and the iO theater in Chicago where he was awarded teacher of the year. He is now a regular at UCB in Los Angeles and has his own live and livestreamed improv show, BEST TIME WITH NNAMDI. Along with the rest of his sketch group 3Peat, he wrote and starred in THE BLACKENING on Comedy Central, which currently has over 15 million views and was adapted into a feature film. He's also written content for TikTok, Comedy Central Digital, Sony and The Ringer. Recently, Nnamdi wrote on YouTube’s TAB TIME and was a writer on THE AMBER RUFFIN SHOW (Peacock). His daily comedy videos have over 700k followers on TIKTOK and 185k on Instagram!

NGWE: Tik Tok, IG, REEL

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