Featuring comedians who have been given top scores by audience and industry during the festival, you won't want to miss 2020's funniest talent from all over the world!
Let's do some funny business at the Burbank Comedy Festival! Every year, top celebrity headlining comedians, and over 200 of the hottest new talent from around the world, converge in Burbank, California for a full week of shows, industry panels, afterparties, classes, and more! Past performers have included Adam Carolla, Jeff Garlin, Jimmy Dore, Tom Segura, Christopher Titus, Carol Leifer, Kevin Pollak, and many more. The Burbank Comedy Festival offers the next generation of talent the opportunity to perform and connect with top entertainment professionals, to encourage the expansion live comedy into the community, and to do some funny business in Downtown Burbank!
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Host/MC Thom Tran NETFLIX, BLACK-ISH, BOSCH: LEGACY, SEAL TEAM, THE GIS OF COMEDY
Thom Tran is a US Army combat veteran turned professional touring stand up comedian. He created the All-Veteran stand up comedy group The GIs of Comedy and the team has performed to thousands of service members and veterans is 19 countries and dozens of states since 2012. WEBSITE |
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Comedian Courtney Haynes FLAPPERS, THE COMEDY STORE, THE SECOND CITY
Hailing from a small town in Oklahoma, Courtney Haynes is a Los Angeles based stand up comedian charms audiences with her energetic and witty personality. Her storytelling and observational comedic style follows her journey through modern womanhood as a career woman and being raised in the culturally southern midwest. WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Jeff Zenisek 2019 LAUGHING SKULL FEST, 200K TIK TOK, TOO WOKE BOYS PODCAST
Despite his laid back chill look, Jeff Zenisek has no chill when it comes to comedy, Jeff has been in over 20 comedy festivals since 2016 and has entertained the troops overseas! Jeff has been growing his following on TikTok from posting short comedy clips that many have gone viral. Jeff hosts a satirical podcast called Too Woke Boys that has been blowing up since it started in 2020 WEBSITE | |
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Alexander Malt is trouble in a cardigan. He may look like Waldo, but he’s survived PTSD, a police beating, rehab and a life of severe social anxiety. Alexander Malt is not the outlaw we expected, but he is the outlaw we didn't know we needed. Originally from Boston, MA, Malt has been working in Los Angeles for over a decade. “What doesn’t kill you” may not have made him stronger, but it did give him unhealthy coping mechanisms and a unique sense of humor. WEBSITE | |
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Danna Kiel is a comedian, actress, writer, and mother who is a renaissance woman having taught everything from math to chess . Danna grew up a nerd and was always the kid who talked too much. A Southern girl born in Alabama and raised in Louisiana, now ‘Adulting’ in Los Angeles, she brings southern wit and big city wisdom to each set. On a stage with a mic is the best place for Danna and everything she has to say. Danna Kiel is the mother of one Ah-mazing son, Ali Kiel-Rutledge. You can catch Danna at Tao Comedy Studio, UCB Showcases, and Zoom Comedy Shows online everywhere. WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Bob Ooten FLAPPERS COMEDY CLUB, THE ICE HOUSE, EL CAMINO REAL PLAYHOUSE
At FLAPPERS Comedy clubs, The Burbank Comedy Festival, Uncle Clyde´s Comedy Competition, Orange County Comedy Clubs, Michigan and Iowa. Bob has a lifetime of trying to entertain his friends and family–just ask his wife of 53 years. A Midwesterner, civil/sanitary engineer, and politician, Bob needs the lightness of comedy to balance it all out. WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Lauren Harding BCF BEST FEST 22, THE LAUGH FACTORY , THE COMEDY STORE, ICE HOUSE,
Lauren Harding is a registered nurse who graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She works at one of the best hospitals in LA but she won’t mention their name here. For some reason they don’t want to be affiliated with her comedy. Lauren resides in her Los Angeles apartment with her loving self after divorcing a now gay man. Yep. So the natural next step was to become a comedian! She can be seen at The Laugh Factory in Hollywood, The Comedy Store and Flappers in Burbank. She’s been featured on OWN’s All The Single Ladies. Awarded Best of the Fest at the Burbank Comedy festival the last 2 years. Lauren is inappropriate, goofy and unapologetically confident with a southern heart. WEBSITE | |
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Sean is a writer in LA, who spends his free time baking cookies and crying into soup. Last year, he released a web series called "Ricky Makes a Web Series!" which was an official selection of the Venice Shorts Film Festival in January 2021. Also, the screenplay for his pilot "Party Lines" placed in the semi-finals of the 2021 Screencraft Fellowship. He has been performing stand up around town as an outlet for his writing and will happily accept any and all constructive criticism. (Seeking representation) WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Mudit Verma STAND UP HONOLULU, EAST AUSTIN CC RESIDENT,
Mudit Verma is a comedian originally from the DC/Maryland area & he is an IVF conceived only-child from an Indian Hindu household. Ultimately, Mudit wows audiences with dynamic material to provide a memorable and unique experience for everyone! WEBSITE | |
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You may have seen Kacey on GLEE, ScreenRant, or What's Trending She is a comedian, actor, and host. You can follow her @kacey.spivey on socials. TWITTER |
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Comedian Rory Meagher THE COMEDY STORE, LAUGH FACTORY, BURBANK COMEDY FESTIVAL
Rory Meagher grew up in Allentown, PA and he earned his BA in Creative Writing at Susquehanna University. He has studied at the Second City, the Peoples Improv Theater, and UCB. His short stories have been featured in Fourteen Hills, Westwind, and Oatmeal Magazine, among others. His debut short film, "Orientation," was nominated for best performance at the Houston Comedy Film Festival in 2021. He performs stand-up all over LA and was named "Best of the Fest" at the 2022 Burbank Comedy Festival. WEBSITE | |
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Schwartz is a stand-up comedian, writer, actor, producer, and radio host. She is an alumni of The Second City, a Zanies regular, and hosted & produced shows at The Laugh Factory. She can be seen performing all over North America. WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Eryn McBride HOLLYWOOD IMPROV, THE ICE HOUSE, COMEDY STORE, FLAPPERS, THE COMEDY CHATEAU
Eryn McBride is a stand-up, improv comic, actress and writer who specializes in deadpan, dry, understated comedy and accent work. She also produces her own stand-up show called "The Deadpan Show" in Studio City. Eryn performs all over LA and has shared the stage with Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart and Whitney Cummings. She has performed out of state in Texas, Nevada, and South Carolina. With a degree in Communication and Psychology, she believes that comedy is the most powerful communication tool able to connect people of different backgrounds and perspectives, breaking down barriers and creating a space of understanding in a society of increasing polarization. Eryn loves comedy for its ability to connect people that may not have anything in common except a shared comedic moment. BOOK
Kristina grew up as a child of so, so many divorces and sisters in small-town Texas before coming to New York City to become the best redheaded lesbian high school teacher the South Bronx had ever seen. Her comedy is the result of a life bifurcated by the cultural and political extremes of small town rural America and NYC’s LGTBQ+ community. She’s a wholesome, down-home, storyteller coming to stage with the heartfelt, eldest sister/teacher energy that immediately collides with the outrageous delivery of her shameless and unabashed jokes. Her material draws on her outsider experiences as a gay ‘90s kid from an unconventional rural family with a wild coming-of-age story as a NYC transplant. WEBSITE | |
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Comedian The Tothero Twins THE COMEDY STORE , PSICF: AUDIENCE FAVORITE , STANDEMIC: RUNNERS-UP, BURBANK COMEDY FESTIVAL, INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY
The Tothero Twins (Lauren and Sierra Tothero) are Austin natives and proud Burbank residents. The only children of two science teachers, they could name every bone in the human body by the time they were 3 years old. So naturally, they went into comedy. After receiving their BFAs from NYU and Rutgers (respectively), they moved to LA and have since performed at The Comedy Store, The Haha Cafe, Flappers Comedy Club, and more, in addition to appearing in the occasional True Crime Reenactment Drama and Software Commercial. They recently won the Audience Favorite Award at the 2020 Palm Springs International Comedy Festival and were the first runners-up at the Standemic National Comedy Competition. WEBSITE | |
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