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Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Crowd work · Almaty, Kazakhstan Dosmukhamed Ali He performs stand-up in three languages and is learning a fourth. He took a Kazakh act to a Chicago open mic, came home to a city that had just discovered a feeling of freedom, and built an English-language comedy scene in Almaty out…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Festival Director · Club Owner Diogo Portugal He is Brazilian, despite the surname. He started when there were no comedy clubs in Brazil, went on when the jazz band took its break, and had to explain to audiences what stand-up comedy even was.BasedCuritiba, Brazil Works…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Podcast Host · Storyteller Corinne Fisher She wrote and performed a one-woman show at 24, before she had even started stand-up — not because she was fearless, but because she did not yet know enough to be scared. She has been doing the hard thing first ever since.BasedNew…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · One-liners · Clown CeeKay Brown A one-liner comic who did 180 shows in her first year and 260 in her second — then took a head injury in a car crash and had to learn her own jokes again.Works inStand-up · Roast battle · Clown · Theatre Known…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Character Comic · Street Performer Byron Bertram Twenty years a working comic in Canada, and it was a tracksuited Russian called Sergey Potensky — born out of a break-up — that finally made people remember his name.BasedVancouver, Canada Works inStand-up &middot…

Hop For Pop Press Kit Stand-up · Crowd work · Almaty, Kazakhstan Alisher Six years of Russian stand-up without ever doing crowd work, because he never wanted to — until he worked out it was the only thing that pays. He is the quiet half of Almaty’s English comedy double act, and the one thinking two…