Best known as “Bud” in Grace & Frankie, Baron Vaughn has been a comedian this entire time! He’s been featured on 2 Dope Queens, Conan, and co-created “The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn & Open Mike Eagle” for Comedy Central. You can also hear his silky voice as “Tom Servo” in Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Scott Crisp is a writer and comedian from Dallas, Texas. He’s worked with Brian Posehn, Jenny Zigrino, and Jim Norton and is a two-time Funniest Comic in Texas semi-finalist.

Dusti Rhodes uses her experience as a former ugly kid, journalist, awkward adult, and teacher to bring a unique and highly personal comedic performance to the stage. She has done stand-up throughout the country, including being featured on Comedy at the Knitting Factory, Come and Take It Comedy Take Over, and Free Press Summer Fest.

She has opened for big names like Micheal Che, Demetri Martin, Maria Bamford, Janeane Garofalo, and Anthony Jeselnik. Dusti hosts the Houston Moth StorySLAM, Rudyard’s Comedy Open Mic (named the best weekly comedy show in Houston by various publications), Wheelhouse: a Stand Up Comedy Game Show, and Hot Brunch: Comedy & Drag! Occasionally, she sleeps

KeLanna Spiller is a stand-up comedian originally from Pine Bluff, AR, who currently lives in Dallas, TX. Within just a few years, Spiller has featured at the Addison and Arlington Improv with national headliners (John Henton and Robert Powell, just to name a few) and was a finalist in the Funniest Comic in Texas competition hosted by the Improv Comedy Club. Spiller’s high-energy storytelling and observational humor have coined her as one of Dallas’ local favorites, but she made her mark on the world in her Comedy Central television debut on Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City. Since her television debut, Spiller can be seen performing at clubs all over the world.

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Comedy Credits:
2017 Funniest Comic in Texas Finalist
2018 Women in Comedy Festival (Boston)
K. Hart Presents: Hart of the City (Comedy Central)

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Shahyan is a Dallas-based comedian hitting stages all around these great United States for the past 7 years. He’s performed in festivals and clubs across the country and even one dive bar in Marfa, TX where an ex-Marine playfully threatened his life (they ended up getting along pretty well). In Dallas, he’s opened for some amazing headliners such as Emily Heller, Helen Hong, Paul Hooper, Dean Edwards, Jessica Kirson, and a buncha other ones! He is super nice, always.

BK Sharad is an up-and-coming comedian from the mean streets of Boulder, Colorado. You of course know him from his work as Jay Chandrasekhar’s body double in an as-of-yet unaired TV Pilot, but he is also making a name for himself in standup. He has been selected for a dozen festivals across the country including the High Plains Comedy Festival, Cloudtop Comedy Festival, and the Burning Bridges Comedy Festival all in just the last year. His positive outlook shines through his jokes about the world and his experiences in it as a former emo, hockey playing, first generation, Indian millennial.

She performs in clubs all over DFW. Featured on JLTV

Dusti Rhodes uses her experience as a former ugly kid, journalist, awkward adult, and teacher to bring a unique and highly personal comedic performance to the stage. She has done stand-up throughout the country, including being featured on Comedy at the Knitting Factory, Come and Take It Comedy Take Over, and Free Press Summer Fest.

She has opened for big names like Micheal Che, Demetri Martin, Maria Bamford, Janeane Garofalo, and Anthony Jeselnik. Dusti hosts the Houston Moth StorySLAM, Rudyard’s Comedy Open Mic (named the best weekly comedy show in Houston by various publications), Wheelhouse: a Stand Up Comedy Game Show, and Hot Brunch: Comedy & Drag! Occasionally, she sleeps

Chris Laker is a New York City-based stand-up who just made his television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Named a New Face at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in 2011, Chris’s sharp and edgy comedy has earned him a loyal following in New York’s alternative scene, where he’s hosted a variety of shows (The Show at The Creek and the Cave, The Laker Awards) and podcasts: This Week in Jackin’, Heteronormative, and Overslept. This past year Chris has been opening for Mike Birbiglia on his Working It Out and The New One tours. Chris’s debut stand-up album, “Moments of Greatness”(Comedy Dynamics) is available everywhere that sells music. Chris writes and acts too.

Scott Crisp is a writer and comedian from Dallas, Texas. He’s worked with Brian Posehn, Jenny Zigrino, and Jim Norton and is a two-time Funniest Comic in Texas semi-finalist.

The youngest child of immigrants, Dante grew up stomping around in the suburbs of Dallas. Growing up and never fitting in, Martinez’s story finger-paints a picture of a young man trying to find himself while always disappointing his parents. Starting from going to college to learn how to become an actor to waiting tables deep into his adulthood, he tells the story of a first-generation working-class Latino artist trying to figure out why people are laughing at him?

Lilli Lopez is a stand-up comedian, producer, writer, and actor.

She appeared as the taco game show host on United Tacos of America (El Rey

Network) and has performed in comedy festivals including the L.A. Diversity in Comedy Festival by Second City, Out Of Bounds Comedy Festival and SXSWedu. Lilli has opened for notable headliners including Sofía Niño de Rivera and Marcella Arguello and hosts Big Sexy Texas, a comedy show featuring the lone start state’s finest comics and music. You can follow or give her money via the internet ONLY: @comboloca