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Comedian Tom Segura is incapable of doing an Asian accent. He can't dazzle you with puppets or an acoustic guitar. What Tom Segura can do is tell jokes. Jokes about black people, Mexican people, homeless people, little people, and, yes, his balls. But he’s light enough, endearing enough and downright wacky enough to tackle these topics without sounding like a fulminating Tea Party candidate or a Ragin' Palin apostle on his delightfully deranged and dippy debut album.

As a stay at home mother of three, Leanne was looking for a way to get some grown up time without interfering with her children or her husband’s career. She turned to selling jewelry at in home parties. Word of her wonderful sense of humor and intoxicating southern charm spread like wildfire and she was staying booked months in advance. From here, she was asked to entertain several local corporate events and a professional comedy career was born.

Whether he's lamenting the fact that he doesn't have any clever, rhyming pick-up lines, telling you which reality shows he loves and which ones he hates, or giving the ultimate proof of why his arms really are short, Williams is a passionate comedian with some truly funny observations whose spark is fueled by what he witnesses around him.

Christina Pazsitzky (pronounced puh-jshit-ski) is a comedian with spunk. Please don't call her a "girl comic" - Christina's comedy ignores easy labels and covers all sorts of topics. Her comedy effortlessly coasts from topic to topic, always with a heavy dose of wit and charm. Smart, irreverent and funny, Christina has it all in one spunky Pazsitzky package.

Jesse Joyce doesn't do cocaine. It's not his fault that he has 'a look and demeanor that seems to imply I do a lot of blow.' But his jittery, rapid-fire delivery, coupled with a keen pair of 'enormous coke eyes,' helps Joyce deliver big on his debut album, Pro Joyce. Joyce, a well-established roast writer who frequently opened for Greg Giraldo, pairs a sharp wit with precisely the right amount of self-deprecation.

Known for his no-holds-barred style, Kevin Brennan is one of the top standup comedians in the country. Brennan started his comedy career in Chicago but soon relocated to New York City to pursue his dream of being on the Late Show With David Letterman. He shined on his first Letterman appearance which then led to subsequent memorable appearances on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Last Call With Carson Daly. I Said It is Kevin's first album.

W. Kamau Bell is one of the most important entertainers and racial commentators performing comedy today. Face Full of Flour does not disappoint. With a blistering wit and a willingness to approach the most delicate of political topics, Bell’s act is nothing less than a tightrope walk of weighty issues and hilarious material.

Before his 1-hour Netflix special and autobiographical book, Moshe Kasher was just an Oakland, CA comic who was getting roasted and toasted by the internet - and returning the favor. Kasher delves into the dark world of YouTube comments and offers the unique perspective of a Jewish kid raised by deaf parents in crack-ridden Oakland, CA. The results are both unique and astonishing.

Kate Willet levels the playing field by shining a light on another side of the restrictions of sexism. She covers topics ranging from her history in HR, to having to date this new generation of men in the modern world. 

Greg Behrendt, author of best-selling relationship books He’s Just Not That Into You, It’s Just a F***ing Date and How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking, is back with over an hour of top notch comedy recorded live at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis. Behrendt brings his hilarious stories and observations to the stage explaining why sobriety isn’t for everyone, what makes parenting so different in the 21st Century, and how to handle a friend that you hate. Why Are You In Here? offers reassurance for those imperfect parenting moments and hearty laughs even Behrendt’s teenage daughters would appreciate.

Drawing from his experiences as a preschool teacher and a pretty good guy, Josh Gondelman charms audiences with his good-natured storytelling and cracks them up with his sharp, pointy wit. Josh's comedy touches on topics from rainbows to gangsta rap and makes them all equally hilarious thanks to his terrific writing and performing.

With a name like Isaac Witty, you'd have, no, you'd better be funny, especially when telling not one, not two, but three consecutive cell phone jokes, the 21st century equivalent of the 20th century stand-up standby: the airline-food lament. It sounds like an improbable way to hook a likely cell-absorbed crowd, but Witty (his given name, incidentally, not a gimmicky stage name) lands three successive punch lines at Go Bananas Comedy Club in Cincinnati on his way to a knockout performance on Zero Balance.

Sweet Beth is the debut album from Beth Stelling and it’s a perfect storm of stand-up comedy. Everything you hope to find in a comedian is present and accounted for: Spot-on timing, one hilarious story after the next, an odd relationship with one’s dad, and your mom’s dog humping the guy you bring home to meet the family.

Jamie Lissow's first full-length live comedy album takes on college life, drinking, and working out. Recorded live at Go Bananas Comedy Club in Cincinnati. Check out Jamie Lissow on Season 7 of NBC's Last Comic Standing.

Cameron Esposito hasn’t had a Comedy Central special and she doesn’t frequent the hip indie New York City comedy clubs, but this art-house comic has some unique talent that’s made her a favorite among hometown Chicago audiences. Her raspy, excitable delivery is clean and intelligent, and one would imagine her improv performances (her true comedy background) to be enjoyable as well.

Dan Gabriel got bit by the comedy bug early in life. Dan grew up immersed in the world-famous San Francisco comedy scene where his mom took him to comedy shows when he was just in grade school. While other kids were trading Garbage Pail Kids, Dan was trying to make his friends listen to Steve Martin albums on his travel-case record player. In college, he stepped up on stage for the first time and was instantly hooked. Since then Dan has worked his way from opening act to nationally touring headliner.

Mike is a former police officer from Louisville, Kentucky. He's a regular guest on The Bob and Tom show, with TV credits ranging from Oprah to CBS Morning News to Good Morning America. His album, Comedy Police, is a mainstay for comedy fans and offers some home-bred insight on avoiding traffic violations, staying in the good graces of your spouse, and raising a house full of children.

Although less incendiary than the explosive Lenny Bruce and more homespun than the irascible Bill Hicks, Ryan Singer nonetheless shares DNA with those great comic commandos, each of whom shot from the lip with howitzers. On How to Get High Without Drugs, Singer seemingly lobs softballs instead of hand grenades when deftly and cleverly deriding hypocrites, homophobes and bigots. But just because he camouflages his contempt in sarcasm does not make him any less of a prickly provocateur than his predecessors.

Tabari McCoy returns for his sophomore album with enough of the cunning wit and nerdy humor to go around to a packed audience live at Go Bananas on February 8, 2018. 

Recorded at Go Bananas in Cincinnati, “Think Fast” is a traditional jokes-in-a-nightclub album, focusing on Chalifoux’s experience as a father raising young kids and includes stories ranging from his disastrous marriage proposal, the time his response to a wrong-number text went viral, the joys of social media, squaring off with Xbox cyberbullies, his failures as a preschool parent, a bizarre first date, and 21st-century marriage problems.