Jackie Joy moved from Brazil to Vancouver with almost no English. Across from her office was a club called Comedy Dark. Bring three people and you got four minutes on stage. She told her friends she was going to do it. Nobody believed her, on the grounds that her English was broken. She had already handed in a letter saying she…
Aarushi Agni was born in India and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She moved to New York in 2016 for an MFA in writing. She has been doing standup for about eleven years. None of the jokes from her first open mic survived. She started in sketch, pulled onto an all-Asian team because they needed a singer. Improv came last, which…
The Cat Was Raised in a Box: An Interview With Tom Nemec
August 7, 2026
Tom Nemec is sixty years old. He has been doing standup for about thirty-five years. He has been sober for thirty-six, since 1990. He was twenty-four when he stopped drinking, and started performing shortly after. By forty he had held a hundred and seventy-five different jobs.
A Cat in a Box is his first one-man play, directed…
Brendon Lemon has been telling jokes for twenty-five years. The last three and a half he has spent learning how to fail at them properly. Born in Detroit, now based in New York, he first took a microphone in 2002. The room was Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, the oldest club in America still run by its original owner. He arrived…
Corinne Fisher Is Not Interested in Being Humbled
August 6, 2026
Twelve years into Guys We Fked and Corinne Fisher still insists she and Krystyna Hutchinson don’t write stand-up together, they just happen to have built an entire empire side by side. “That’s our baby,” she says of the show, before drawing a hard line: her stand-up is hers alone, thank you very…
If you’ve ever wondered what performing on OnlyFans, voicing Judy Carter in Portuguese and defending Mercury in retrograde have in common, the answer is Manu Maciel.The Brazilian comedian has built a career that happily ignores borders, bouncing between English and Portuguese, internet sketches and international…
“Don’t get mad, get funny.” That’s more or less Judy Carter’s whole philosophy, and after decades of teaching comedy to comics, CEOs, and at least one Harvard Medical School dean prepping for a TED Talk, she’s earned the right to say it simply.She didn’t just write a book about…
Krystyna Hutchinson has been asking strangers about their worst sexual decisions on a podcast for twelve years, so we figured turning the mic around on her was the least we could do. Turns out she’s just as unfiltered about her own life as everyone else’s.Twelve years of Guys We Fked. Countless rooms that wanted…
Paul Elia traded a near-finished English degree and a path to law school for a microphone — and turned out to be very good at it. The Iraqi-Assyrian comic from Detroit has racked up over 250 million views online, more than a dozen sketch appearances on Conan, and a debut special, Detroit Player, that he dropped on YouTube on…
Meet Stephan Dyer — the Costa Rican-Canadian stand-up comedian, keynote speaker, and comedy coach redefining what it means to take a leap of faith. ✨Born in Costa Rica and based in Toronto, Stephan was climbing fast in the corporate world, becoming one of the youngest senior managers at Scotiabank. The corner office, the…