Rebecca Jaffe and the Missouri Tree Frogs

Chris Jones started doing stand-up in the Poconos when he was 15 years old. He started doing bar shows and open mics when he was 19. He's 28 now and after a few years away from the stage, he's back and being productive. He's emerged as one of the stand-outs in the Northeast Pennsylvania scene and has big plans for 2024. 

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/i_gotadumper/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Chrisjonescomedy
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisjonescomedy

Paul Clemente started doing stand-up when he was 36 years old and is doing all he can to keep comedy alive in Jamestown, N.Y. Always a performer at heart, he did improv at the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival and is trying as hard as he can to get local comedy into the National Comedy Center. The only constant member of the Jamestown comedy scene and the founder of Crescent City Creative and Karate Sleepover, he's been bringing in talented comedians from Buffalo, Rochester, Erie, Pa., and Pittsburgh for years. He's also a life-long Pittsburgh Penguins fan and used to run a successful blog. 

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_boopaul/
Karate Sleepover: https://www.facebook.com/karatesleepover
Crescent City Creative: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552211034875

Dan Alten started doing stand-up in Louisville, Ky., back in 2012. He studied journalism at Indiana University, but was told by a professor he should be writing comedy. A sitcom guy growing up, he decided to move to Louisville and get good at stand-up. He co-hosts the Funny Dinner podcast and travels all over the country -- even in Cookeville, Tenn. Try the doughnuts. 

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danalten69/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoofyDanAlten
Funny Dinner: https://www.youtube.com/@funnydinner5798

Brian Enck got a laugh in an English class in middle school and turned it into a career as a stand-up comedian. He grew up in Rochester and got his start in comedy as a freshman at Keuka College. After doing open mics and a few shows, he transfered to film school in New York City, where he got good at stand-up. Enck moved up to Syracuse during the pandemic with his now-wife and is doing shows all over New York. He's working on his second half-hour special now. Not bad for a back-up lacrosse goalie.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enckcomedy/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brianenck
Firstest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPaBg4KXAU&t=9s

Steve Vanderploeg started doing stand-up in Denver, his hometown, 11 years ago. All he wanted to do back then was get a five-minute booking at the Comedy Works open mic. Now he's headlining there. Vanderploeg is touring the country and founded Roatating Tap Comedy back in 2019. He's putting that English degree to work. He's performed at the High Plains, 10,000 Laughs and Limestone Comedy Festivals and the SF Sketchfest. He's seen Denver become one of the best comedy scenes in the country and reveals the secret to why. 

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slumdogchillionaire/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarthVaderploeg
Website: https://www.ploegcomedy.com/
Rotating Tap Comedy: https://www.facebook.com/rotatingtapcomedy

Anna Huntley is a very funny comedian in Washington, D.C. She moved from South Carolina for a job and decided to get on stage five years ago at 36. A lifelong learning, she took improv, acting and stand-up classes and writes and performs on a sketch team. She also got permission from her landlord to get a cat, which might have a deeper, sadder meaning.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bananahuntley/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/annacate

Dan Clark has been doing stand-up in Philadelphia since 2016. He gave it a try following a divorce and discovered he was pretty good at it. A graduate of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, Dan worked as a journalist until 2021. He also played rugby and played bass in a punk band. Now he's working on getting booked and starting the Idiot Bridge podcast. 

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talldinklage/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dclar456

Uzair Malik is a graduate student at Northeastern in Boston and only 15 months into his stand-up career. But he's already made some impressive strides. After growing up in India, he started doing comedy in San Francisco before moving to the East Coast. He finished second at the New England's Funniest Comedian competition in 2023 and participated in the World Series of Comedy. He's opened for Dusty Slay, Shafi Hossain, Benny Feldman, Jaspreet Singh and Anthony DeVito.

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uzair.comedy/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uzair.comedian

Gary Sharp, Jr. grew up playing football and basketball and running track in south New Jersey. He played college football at Johns Hopkins and began doing stand-up when his mom gave him the information for a comedy class at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia. Since starting in August of 2019, he's been working hard and is starting to stand out in the scene. He's been at clubs around Pennsylvania and just began the Gray Area Comedy Podcast with Jim K. Plus he's got a 3-month-old daughter, so the jokes are coming along nicely. 

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garysharpcomedy/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/garysharpcomedy
Website: https://garysharpcomedy.com/