Comedy

Nuraskhan Baskozhaev is a stand-up comedian and producer in Almaty, Kazakhstan, who runs Almaty Central Stand Up with his wife. He started performing in February 2020, a month before lockdown. The couple opened their first club in October 2022 and moved into the current 800-square-metre venue on 8 March 2023. The club also runs…

Maija DiGiorgio is a stand-up comedian and filmmaker from New York who now works between New York and Los Angeles. In her first year of stand-up she taped five national television appearances and performed at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival. She wrote, directed and stars in the 2003 documentary Bitter Jester, which features George…

Simon King is a stand-up comedian and actor, born in England and based in Vancouver, Canada, where he has lived since the age of five. He did his first open mic on 8 February 2000 and has been a full-time comedian since August 2002. His specials include Furious (2016) and As Good As Or Better Than (2023), directed by Rory…

Good Night Comedy is an English-language stand-up outfit in Almaty, Kazakhstan, founded in 2023 and run by two comedians, Dosmukhamed Ali and Alisher. Dosmukhamed performs in Kazakh, Russian and English, organises the English-language programme of the city's annual comedy festival and has opened on tour for the Romanian comedian…

Paul Farahvar is a Chicago stand-up comedian and podcast host, and a former trial lawyer. He has two specials, the Dry Bar hour Always a Groomsman and Middlewestern, Middle Eastern for Helium, and has opened on tour for Jen Kirkman and Demetri Martin. His podcast Singles Only ran for 400 episodes, and he now hosts Why Are You…

Jack Grady is a comedy magician from Cleveland, Ohio. He did his first show at eight years old, for the Ronald McDonald House, and has been doing magic for 19 years. His America's Got Talent audition is billed as the shortest in the show's history, and he is billed as the first magician to fight a professional boxing match. In…

Liz Miele is a stand-up comedian and writer from Pennington, New Jersey, who first performed at sixteen at the Comedy Cellar in New York. She has self-produced a run of hour-long specials for YouTube, including Self Help Me, The Ghost of Academic Future, Murder Sheets and her newest, Space Camp. She has appeared on Comedy…

Greg Stone is a New York stand-up comedian known for true stories told at full volume. He started performing in 2001 and moved to New York to do it seriously in 2008. He has performed on The Late Late Show with James Corden, NBC's America's Got Talent, truTV's Friends of the People and AXS TV's Gotham Comedy Live. His first…