Alaina Bamfield is a Brooklyn-based stand-up comedian from Lansing, Michigan. She self-financed and filmed her debut comedy special, Untouchable, at The Independent Comedy Club just north of Detroit. Untouchable, which debuted on YouTube on June 7, 202…
Continue ReadingBlink and you might’ve missed Damien Warren-Smith’s Netflix debut, making a brief cameo onstage during the Stamptown variety comedy special. But New Yorkers can see all of him in the fall of 2026 as he has made his Off-Broadway debut with Garry Starr: …
Continue ReadingElf Lyons is a British comedian and writer who performs in both the worlds of stand-up and clown, having studied in France with the late Phillippe Goulier. Her 2017 show, Swan, received a nomination for Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe, while her 2024…
Continue ReadingStuart Goldsmith is a British stand-up comedian who has performed on BBC’s Live At The Apollo (BBC), Conan, and Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central. He began his career as a street performer at age 17, and over the course of 32 years at the Edinburgh Fri…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ “My position on Bristol is clear: I love multiculturalism and hate air balloons.” A Bristol native and host of The Comedian’s Comedian podcast (no relation), Goldsmith notes how seeing England for above takes the …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Tom Cashman asks for audience prompts beforehand to offer encouraging words, but the truth is, the Australian comedian and co-host of that nation’s Down Under edition of Taskmaster doesn’t need any hyping. …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ “Either magic is real, or free will isn’t,” Chelsea Birkby says, “and that’s what we’ll be tackling tonight.” Does Birkby exert full control, or does she merely want us to know what lengths she will or will not go to to keep …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amelia Hamilton unintentionally may get a bad rap for being known as a rapper. Hamilton serves up rhymes to beats, certainly, but looking around at the audience, it’s difficult to get past the notion that more tha…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Grinding is my love language.” She’s joking about growing up a Jersey girl, but Jenny Gorelick could just as easily be describing how hard she hustles, personally and professionally, in her attempts to find love …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ For a show built around the love letters of his deceased parents, Milo Edwards opens his latest hour with quite the shocker having nothing to do with them but everything to do with the way we’re warped by modern c…
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