FRESH MEAT HOST AND PRODUCER - Catie Lazarus

Catie Lazarus is a comedian and writer. Emerging Comics of New York awarded her Best Comedy Writer and she has opened for Lewis Black to Colin Quinn and Judy Gold and at The Kennedy Center to Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has also appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central's Motherload, The CBS Evening News, AMC, and is The National Lampoon's New York Correspondent. Her drivel has been featured in Nobody Reins (Random House), Insomnia (Soft Skull Press), The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes (Penguin), The Jerusalem Report, Time Out New York, amNY, the Forward, Comedy Entertainment and Heeb Magazine. www.lazarusrising.com

8 pm, Thursday, October 11, 2007

Carolyn Castiglia is a comedian. She is a weekly contributor to Life & Style magazine and
has appeared on, amongst others, MTVU, MTV2, Vh1's The White Rapper Show, Vh1's Best
Night Ever podcast and on Nick-at-Nite as a regional finalist in the "Funniest Mom in America III" contest. Carolyn hosts the popular Chicks and Giggles show which has been featured in Bust Magazine. www.carolyncastiglia.com

Aasif Mandvi is an actor and writer. He wrote and starred in the Obie Award -winning One Man show, Sakina's Restaurant. Some of his other stage credits include; Trevor Nunn's 2002 Broadway revival of Oklahoma! , Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and the docudrama Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom . On screen he has been seen in Merchant-Ivory's The Mystic Masseur, Music and Lyrics, Analyze This, Freedomland, ABCD, American Chai, ER, Sleeper Cell, Sex in the City, and Oz.  Currently, Aasif appears as a regular correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and as the inebriated Dr Kenchy Dhuwalia on CBS's Jericho www.aasifmandvi.net

James Smith is a comedian. He is the winner of Australia's prestigious "Star Quest 2001" and the winner of "Triple M Parody Writing Competition 2001." James has appeared Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and in Australia, he regularly performs on all of the major television networks. www.jamessmith.com.au

Aron Kader is a comedian. He is currently touring in the popular stand-up comedy tour, Axis of Evil, which recently taped a Comedy Central special, has a DVD for sale "Axis of Evil Comedy Tour"and has been heralded by The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CNN and NPR. Aron has also appeared at the HBO's Aspen U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and performed sketch with the legendary "Groundlings." On television, he can be seen on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and the Television cop drama, "The Shield," and he recently filmed a TV pilot for NBC called "Beverly Hills SUV." www.aronkader.com

Frank Lesser is a director, and Frank Lesser is a writer. However, Frank Lesser did not write "Guys and Dolls," or any other musicals-- you are thinking of Frank Loesser, who is dead (which Frank Lesser is not). Frank Lesser is a German software programmer, but that's a different Frank Lesser (seriously, Google, be a little more discriminating).

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Jonathan Ames is the author of the novels I PASS THE NIGHT, THE EXTRA MAN, and WAKE UP, SIR!, and the essay collections WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? and MY LESS THAN SECRET LIFE. He is the editor of SEXUAL METAMORPHOSIS: AN ANTHOLOGY TRANSSEXUAL MEMORIES A new book of essays, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW, will be published in January 2006. He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press.

Mike Albo is a writer, actor and performer. His two novels are Hornito: My Lie Life (Harper Collins) and The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life (Bloomsbury), which he co-wrote with The New York Times critic Virginia Heffernan. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, Heeb Magazine, Blackbook, Out, Nerve, Details and multiple anthologies including, The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales "Christmas in Paris" (HarperCollins), The Revolution Will Be Accessorized "The Big Sell" (Blackbook) and Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade (Harper Collins). www.mikealbo.com

Ted Alexandro is a comedian, writer and actor. He has been a feature performer on HBO's Oz and had two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials. He has also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Last Call with Carson Daly, The View, Dr. Katz and at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and Amsterdam's Big Night Out Comedy Festival. www.tedalexandro.com

Leo Allen is a comedian and writer. As part of Slovin and Allen, Leo and Eric Slovin wrote for Comedy Central's Special "A Night of a Thousand Stars" and have written for Saturday Night Live. They have appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and NBC's Late Friday and Comedy Central's The Clip Joint and Invite Them Up CD. Leo has also toured with Demetri Martin, Michael Showalter and Eugene Mirman and co-hosted a comedy show with Tony Camin at UCB. www.leoallen.com

Kevin Allison is an actor, comedian and writer. He has been featured on VH1's Best Week Ever, Comedy Central's Stella, and was writing and performing in The State, which The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Details called the funniest sketch show on the air. He has appeared in the films Reno 911!: Miami, The Pleasure of Your Company and The Ten. Kevin teaches at New York University and The Peoples Improv Theater and his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Giant, Premiere and Film Journal International. www.editorialdepartment.com

Ben Bailey is an actor, comedian and writer. He is the host of The Discovery Channel's Cash Cab and starred in his own Comedy Central Presents ½ hour special. He has appeared regularly on "One Life To Live" and was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late show with Craig Kilborn, Last Call with Carson Daly, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, The World Stands Up, and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. He has performed at HBO's Aspen Comedy Arts Festival twice, Edinburgh Festival twice, and in the Masters show at the Montreal Just for Laughs festival. Bailey has guest starred on ABC's Hope & Faith on ABC, Law and Order SVU, NBC's Knights of the Roundtable, and MAD TV. www.therealbenbailey.com

Craig Baldo is a comedian. He has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien; Last Comic Standing where he was a finalist in Season 1; Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Jump Cuts & Comic Remix; NBC's Late Friday, VH1's All Access: Awesomely Bad Hair, Awesomely Oversexed, 100 Outrageous Celeb Moments and Wildest Stage Moments; Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies and 100 Scariest Movies; and Showtime. He has been featured in College Humor and The Onion and at the Montreal Comedy Festival.www.craigbaldo.com

Jane Borden is a comedy writer. She has contributed to Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, The New York Times Magazine, Time Out NY and The L Magazine. She has also appeared on Vh1 as a talking head and is the comedy editor at Time Out NY.

Patrick Borelli is a comedian, writer and actor. He has written for ESPN's Cold Pizza and appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, NBC's Late Friday, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, and Comedy Central's The Clip Joint. www.patrickborelli.com

Kurt Braunohler has been performing improv and sketch comedy in New York for the past seven years. He co-hosts the weekly variety show Hot Tub at Comix, which was voted “Best Variety Show of 2005” by Time-Out New York’s readers poll. His creations include: www.chengwin.com, which was voted by the Village Voice as "Best Hilarious Insane Guerilla Theatre" in 2003, and www.kurtbot.com which has served as a handy nickname. He teaches improv at New York Film Academy, the PIT, and runs corporate improv workshops; he improvises every Wednesday night in The Faculty with the PIT's other improv teachers.www.hottubvariety.com

Bill Burr performs over three hundred comedy shows annually, has two movies to be released in 2006, as well as a performance on The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2004, he began working on Chappelle's Show. In September 2005, Bill's HBO One Night Stand special aired. Along with many other projects, Bill has also been a guest comedian on the Opie and Anthony Show on XM Satellite Radio, sometimes sitting in when third member Jim Norton is away. He has also performed a Comedy Central Presents show which marked the recognition of his talent as a comedian by one of the leading networks in the entertainment business.

Tony Camin is a writer and a comedian. He has appeared on CBS' Late Night with Conan O' Brien, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and Comedy Central's Premium Blend, and as one of the lead actors and writers of the Marijuanalogues. He has also written for NBC, Vh1 and Comedy Central. Check out Tony's MySpace page

Anne Carr is a character actor. She has appeared on Comedy Central's Motherload and appears regularly on the live comedy show, Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions And Also There is a Game, and in her own show, The Winner's Circle. www.myspace.com/anncarr

Louis CK is one of the top stand-up comics working today. He has written and directed several films – including “Pootie Tang” & “Down to Earth” – and served as writer/producer/star of the HBO sitcom “Lucky Louie”. Louie won an Emmy for his writing duties on “The Chris Rock Show” and has appeared several times on the “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night with David Letterman” and has starred in his own HBO special.

Michelle Collins is a comedian and writer. She writes for BestWeekEverTv.com. www.youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com

Kambri Crews is a media maven and author. Her work has appeared in Fresh Yarn, Comedy Central Insider and her site "Love, Daddy: Letters and Stories from My Jailed Deaf Dad". She is the Director of Publicity at Comix and runs Ballyhoo Productions whose clients include comedian Christian Finnegan and author Edith Layton. In addition, Crews founded Tex in the City which produced a book launch party for Texas Governor Ann Richards, an off-Broadway cabaret featuring Andra Mitrovich (Love, Janis), and promotional events for Urinetown the Musical and 42nd Street. She has also consulted for Grand Central Marketing on, amongst others, Meow Mix House, NBC's live show Sob Stories, and International Film Festival. www.ballyhooproductions.net

Mike Daisey is a comedian and writer. Mike Daisey has been called "the master storyteller" by the New York Times for his monologues. He's been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, and his latest monologue, TRUTH, played last year at Ars Nova.www.mikedaisey.com

Eric Davis is a clown and director who will be performing as Red Bastard, a rueful bouffon clown that The New York Times, Backstage, Village Voice and Time Out New York have repeatedly given their highest praise. Eric is currently a co-director of the NY Clown Theatre Festival and trained in Pochinko and bouffon technique with masters Sue Morrison and Phillipe Gaulier. www.redbastard.com

Matthew Diffee is a cartoonist. He has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999 and has been featured in The New York Times for his prolific body of work. He is the editor of the new book, "The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw and Never Will See in The New Yorker" (Simon & Schuster).

Rebecca Drysdale is a comedian, actor and writer. Becky toured in "Two White Guys" with MADTV's Jordan Peele, and with Chicago's Second City National Touring Company, Improv Olympic Chicago and West, Amsterdam's Boom Chicago and often performs at Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in NY and LA.  At the 2005 HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Drysdale was award "Best Break-out Performer" for her one-woman show, "One Woman in Several Pieces." She was then named by Time Magazine as a "Comedy Innovators" and Variety selected her as a "Top ten to watch in comedy." She has a websieries on HBO "Time Traveling Lesbian" and writes for Logo's Big Gay Sketch Show.  www.beckdrys.com/

Eric Drysdale is a writer and actor on The Colbert Report. He was a writer on the Emmy and Peabody award winning "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and contributed to "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy" (Warner Books). He has produced, written and appeared in three sketch shows at UCB, the latest one, "The Chipperton Family Vocaltainers' Shooby Dooby Dooby Hour," was selected for HBO's Comedy Festival in Aspen, and has appeared on NBC's Late Friday and Comedy Central's Premium Blend. www.edrysdale.com

Christian Finnegan is a comedian, writer and actor. He is a panelist on VH1's hit series "Best Week Ever," host of TVLand's interstitial game show, "Game Time" and has had his own special "Comedy Central Presents: Christian Finnegan." Finnegan has also appeared on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," "The Today Show" and "The Chappelle's Show" and released his CD, "Two For Flinching" (Comedy Central Records). www.christianfinnegan.com

Andy Friedman is a cartoonist and musician. His songs and accompanying slideshow art have been captured in two CD's: "Andy Friedman and The Others Failures' Live At The Bowery Poetry Club" and "Taken Man." His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker.www.andyfriedman.net

With his trademark trucker's hat, oversized glasses and unkempt appearance, Judah Friedlander is becoming an increasing comic commodity, most often as a scene stealer in a variety of mainstream comedies like "Zoolander" and "Along Came Polly". His biggest role to date was as real life medical records clerk Toby Radloff in the critically acclaimed "American Splendor", as Harvey Pekar's unusual friend. He most often appears in Ben Stiller's films, usually in a small role, beginning with "Meet the Parents", making him a pledge of the Frat Pack. Friedlander also appeared as "The Hug Guy" in the Dave Matthews Band video "Everyday". He can also be seen in the Project Greenlight horror production "Feast", and in the camp movie spoof "Wet Hot American Summe"r. In 2006, he began appearing on the television show "30 Rock". He plays one of the writers of The Girlie Show, a spoof of Saturday Night Live.

Jon Friedman is a comedian, writer, producer and director. He produces and hosts the critically acclaimed show, The Rejection Show, among other productions. Emerging Comics of New York awarded him "Best Comedy Writer" and he has written for Comedy Central's "Odd Todd," PBS's America's Test Kitchen and McSweeney's. He served as a creative consultant on Comedy Centra's Odd Todd for Motherload.www.tremendousrabbit.com

Paula Froelich is a writer and editor of the New York Post's Page Six celebrity gossip section. Ms. Froelich is the author of "it!: 9 Secrets of the Rich and Famous That'll Take You to the Top".

Joe Garden is a writer. He is the Features Editor for The Onion and contributed to numerous books for them. www.theonion.com

God's Pottery is a Christian based musical duo that can be heard on Comedy Central's Invite Them Up CD and on K-Rock. www.godspottery.com

Elon Gold has brought his comedic chops to both the stage and television during his rising career as a solid stand-up comedian. Elon has been seen on VH1’s I Love the 70's, VH1’s I Love the 80's, Guest Host on Talk Soup (Comedy Central), the NBC sitcom “In Laws” & the FOX sitcom “Stacked” costarring with Pamela Anderson. Elon has made several appearances on “Late Night with Conan O'Brien” & “The Rosie O'Donnell Show”

Julie Goldman is a comedian and writer. She is currently appearing on Rosie O'Donnell's new sketch comedy for LOGO Network and has appeared on HBO's Sopranos and on Vh1's "My Coolest Years" and in multiple indie films. She has toured nationally as part of Laughing Liberally. www.julie-goldman.com

Sam Gross is a heralded cartoonist. He started cartooning in 1962 and first appeared in The New Yorker in 1969, where his cartoons appeared regularly ever sine. Gross is also the former Cartoon Editor of National Lampoon and Parent's Magazine. He has edited numerous cartoon collections and his own work has been published as well.

Annabelle Gurwitch is an actor, comedian and writer. She currently contributes to NPR's Day to Day and is best known for hosting the cult favorite Dinner and a Movie on TBS. She has appeared in numerous TV series and films, including Life With Mikey, Daddy Day Care, Seinfeld, Suddenly Susan, Charmed, The Shaggy Dog and her film Melvin Goes to Dinner (directed by Bob Odenkirk). Her most recent film Fired! will air on Showtime and is being released in theaters January 26th, 2007 and her book Fired! Tales of the Caned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed (Simon and Schuster) is available in paperback.

Matt Hall is a comedian. He performs in New York City and co-hosts with Patrick Borelli the Video Power Hour, which showcases music videos by bands such as Interpol and Amy Miles. www.videopowerhour.com

Hamell on Trial is a cult favorite singer and songwriter. He is currently touring with Ani DiFranco and has garnered attention from Rolling Stone Magazine. His multiple albums include Choochtown (Evangeline Records) and Ed´s Not Dead--Hamell Comes Alive (Such a Punch), which was recorded while on sold out US tour with Ani DiFranco. www.hammellontrial.com

The Hazzards - Sydney Maresca & Anne Harris are musicians who are best known known for their comedic music video "Gay Boyfriend" and "Shut Up & Make Out." The Hazzards have appeared on numerous Comedy Central programs including "Out on the Edge" and "World Stands Up" series.

Dave Hill is an actor, comedian and writer. He has appeared on VH1, TLC, Current TV, Court TV's Smoking Gun, and Spike TV and has written for The New York Times, HBO, Salon, Blender, and The Huffington Post. He also plays in the bands Valley Lodge and Children of the Unicorn. www.davehillonline.com

Pete Holmes is a comedian and writer. He studied improv at Boston's Improv Asylum and Chicago's Improv Olympic and Playground theaters. He has appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and is a regular cast member on VH1's Best Week Ever. www.peteholmes.com

Val Kappa is a comedian and actor. She has been featured on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and voice on the cult cartoon "Home Movies" on Adult Swim. She is a regular performer at comedy clubs and colleges around the country. www.valkappa.blogspot.com

Ben Karlin is a writer and producer. He is the Executive Producer of both the Emmy and Peabody award winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. For years, he was the head writer of The Daily Show and was a co-writer of the The Daily Show's AMERICA (THE BOOK): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner Books). He wrote several episodes for Cartoon Network's "Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast" and was the Editor of The Onion. www.comedycentral.com

Laurie Kilmartin is a comedian and actor. She can be seen every week on the hit VH1 show "Best Week Ever". She has performed on "The Today Show", "Jimmy Kimmel Live", "Premium Blend" and "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn" for which she also served as a staff writer. Laurie also wrote for CBS’s "The Late Late Show" and Comedy Central’s "Too Late with Adam Corolla". www.kilmartin.com/

Jessica Kirson is a comedian who has appeared on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Last Comic Standing 2, Showtime's White Boyz in the Hood, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Fresh Faces and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, as weel as numerous Vh1, Oxygen and Bravo shows and at the HBO Vegas Comedy Festival. Jessica headlines all over the country and writes for Daily Comedy www.dailycomedy.com. www.jessicakirson.com

Jessi Klein is an actor and comedian. She is currently a correspondent and writer for the Showbiz Show with David Spade on Comedy Central. Previosuly, she was a regular talking head on Vh1's Best Week Ever and appeared numerous times on CNN, NBC and Comedy Central, on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Premium Blend, and The Chappelle Show. She is also the lead voice in a pilot for Cartoon Network and served as a producer on "Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time", "Chappelle's Show" ,"Heroes of Jewish Comedy" and "Heroes of Comedy: Women on Top".

Lynne Koplitz is a comedian and actor. She was the host of "Change of Heart", has had her own half-hour comedy special on Comedy Central and was the co-host of the comedy cooking show "How to Boil Water" on the Food Network and a co-host of last year's "Shop & Style" on NBC. Lynne has appeared as a guest host of NBC's "Later", featured comedienne on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend", and guest starred on NBC's "Extra" and NBC's "The Other Half". She has had deals with NBC and Fox for her own sitcoms. www.funnylynne.com

Nick Kroll is an actor, comedian and writer. Nick is the co-creator of the book Bar Mitzvah Disco (Crown Publishing) and a regular on VH1's 'Best Week Ever'. He was a contributing writer to The Chappelle Show and is one the co-creator/director/stars of Comedy Central's Motherload show 'I Love the 30s' and 'All Access: Middle Ages', flagship shows for Comedy Central's Motherload. He won several Tellies and was named one of Timeout NY's "Favorite Comics."
www.nickkroll.com

Todd Levin is a writer and comedian. He appeared at the 2006 US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. He has written for Salon, McSweeney's, The Onion, Heeb Magazine and Cracked.www.toddlevin.com

Mark Malkoff is a comedian and writer. As a child, he was part of a Guns N'Roses kids tribute band featured in Rolling Stone, Esquire and on the VH-1 special, "Guns N'Roses A-Z." He was an on-air correspondent for Nick at Nite's "Road Crew" and a contributing writer to Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That on Television" and presently works for Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." www.markmalkoff.com

Marissa Acocella Marchetto is a writer and cartoonist. She is a popular cartoonist for The New Yorker and Glamour and her work has appeared in The New York Times and Modern Bride. She is also the author of the hit book "Just Who the Hell Is She, Anyway?"(Random House) and she just published Cancer Vixen (Knopf) which is getting rave reviews! www.cancervixen.com

Marc Maron is a standup comic, actor, and writer who has appeared in countless clubs, in film, and off-Broadway and is the author of The Jerusalem Syndrome (based on his one-man show). Marc has appeared on just about every TV show that will allow comics, from The Late Show with David Letterman to Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where he is a special favorite.www.marcmaron.com

Tom McCaffrey is a comedian and actor. He has appeared Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," "Laugh Riots," "Shorties Watching Shorties" and "Invite Them Up" Compilation CD. McCaffrey performs stand up across the country.

MEAT is a sketch comedy group featuring Elizabeth Ellis, Reggan Holland, Becky Poole, and Livia Scott that the Chicago Tribune described as a, "savvy, top-drawer sketch comedy innovators... razor sharp." Nominated for Emerging Comics of New York Awards for Best Sketch Group, MEAT has performed in the US and Canada. www.funnymeat.com

Michael Musto is writer. He writes the Village's Voice's weekly "La Dolce Musto" celebrity and gossip column and is the author of "Downtown", "Manhattan on the Rocks, and "La Dolce Musto." He appears on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" and others on the E! channel and as a drag queen in the music video for Cyndi Lauper's single "Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)."

Dan Naturman is a comedian and writer. He has had his own ½ hour Comedy Central Presents and been featured performing stand up on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Last Comic Standing and appeared at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival. He is a contributor to dailycomedy.com. www.dannaturman.com

Neal Pollack is a writer. He is the author of AlternaDad, Nevermind the Pollacks (Perennial), The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (Perennial), Chicago Noir (Akashic) and Beneath The Axis Of Evil: One Man's Journey Into The Horrors Of War (So New Media). He has appeared as a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and contributed to numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Nerve, Heeb Magazine, and Cracked, where he is also an editor. www.nealpollack.com

Colin Quinn is a veteran of the comedy circuit. In 1987 he started a three year stint as the Co-Host of MTV's popular game show "Remote Control." In addition to his television work, Colin has also appeared in movies, including “Who's the Man?”, “Married to the Mob”, “The Roxbury Guys” and most recently, “Comedian”. In September 1995 Colin was hired as a writer and feature player on NBC's sketch/comedy show, "Saturday Night Live." September 1997 he became a full-time cast member, showing up on Weekend Update as 'Lenny the Lion' and 'Joe Blow.' He also established the recurring characters 'The Thank you Guy' and himself in the skit 'Colin Quinn Explains the NY Times.' On 10 January, 1998 he debuted as the new Weekend Update anchor, succeeding Norm MacDonald. Colin Quinn's most recent work was on Comedy Central called "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn". An "in-your-face" discussion forum held with other stand-up comedians.

David Rakoff is the author of the books FRAUD and DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE. A regular contributor to Public Radio International's "This American Life," he has appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." He apopeared in the films "Capote" and "Strangers With Candy" and is the voice of Abraham Lincoln for the audio version of Jon Stewart and The Daily Show's best- seller America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner Books).

David Rees is a writer and comic strip artist. His critically acclaimed comics include "Get Your War On," which runs in Rolling Stone Magazine and "My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable," which runs in The Guardian. He has appeared at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival and illustrated Jonathon Hodgman's The Area of My Expertise. Check out David's work at www.getyourwaron.com

The Royal We is a critically-acclaimed sketch comedy group starring Lauren Antler, Becca Greene, Matt Johnson, Jerry Miller, Will Nunziata and co-writer/director Kevin Scott. They have appeared at the DC, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago sketch comedy festivals and recently signed their first deal with Nick at Nite's TV Land. www.theroyalwe.org

Kristen Schaal recently won "Best Alternative Comedian" at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. She is also the winner of the 2nd annual Andy Kaufman Award hosted by the New York Comedy Festival and the winner for Best Female Stand-up at the 2006 Nightlife Awards in New York. In October she was included in New York Magazine's Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of. She co-hosts the weekly variety show Hot Tub at Comix, which was voted “Best Variety Show of 2005” by Time-Out New York’s readers poll. She performs on the P.I.T.'s house team Big Black Car, that was awarded best improv troupe of 2005 at the Emerging Comics of New York awards. www.hottubvariety.com

Livia Scott is an actor and comedian. She has appeared on The Onion's Radio Network and National Lampoon's Radio and as a sketch player on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. She has written for Jest Magazine and attended NYU Tish School of the Arts and the Atlantic Theater, where she studied with David Mamet, William H. Macy and Joseph Chaikin. www.livialand.com

Debbie Shea is a comedian and actor. She was a semi-finalist in the Comedy Central's "Laugh Riots" and has been featured on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and in indie films, one which recently screened at Tribeca Film Festival. www.debbieshea.com

Tom Shillue is an actor, comedian and writer. He has appeared in his own Comedy Central Presents half-hour special, NBC's Late Friday, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as a correspondent. He has appeared in numerous television commercials and has his own CD coming out. www.tomshillue.com

Eric Slovin is a comedian and writer. As part of Slovin and Allen, Eric and Leo Allen are currently writing for Comedy Central's Special "A Night of a Thousand Stars" and have written for Saturday Night Live. They have appeared on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and NBC's Late Friday and Comedy Central's The Clip Joint and Invite Them Up CD. www.slovinandallen.com

Sherrod Small has been featured on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and NBC's Showtime at the Apollo. Sherrod also appeared in Jerry Seinfeld's Comedian. Sherrod has written for and performed on Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and in the past he has performed on the Emmy Award winning Chris Rock Show on HBO and starred in several prominent television commercials, including the well-known Southwest Airlines commercial "Concert." He has also made several appearances in segments on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Amy Sohn is a writer. She is a contributing editor at New York magazine and the author of Run Catch Kiss (Simon and Schuster), My Old Man (Simon and Schuster) and Sex in the City: Kiss and Tell (Pocket Books). She has also written for HBO, ABC, Lifetime and New York Press. She co-created "Avenue Amy" for Oxygen and appeared at HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and as a talking head on VH1, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS, and MTV. She has written two films, Spin the Bottle and Pagans, which premiered at the Hampton's Film Festival. www.amysohn.com

Elizabeth Spiers is the founder of Dead Horse Media, which produces DealBreaker.com and AboveTheLaw.com. She was previously the founding editor of Gawker.com, and her first novel, And They All Die in the End (Riverhead) will be published this year.

Victor Varnado is a director/actor and comedian who recently finished principle photography on his directorial debut for Warner Brother Pictures. He has appeared on Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central and HBO and is currently directing and writing a series of comedy shorts for HBO. www.bestalbino.com

Baron Vaughn is a comedian and actor. He has in numerous national commercials, as a talking head on Vh1, and at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival. As an actor, he has appeared at The Williamstown Theater Festival, Huntington Theater Festival and in Manhattan Theater Club's Drowing Crow at the Biltmore Theater and in numerous commercials. www.baronvaughn.com

Betsy Wise is a comedian, actor and writer. She appears regularly as a talking head on VH-1 and working with puppets on IFC's Greg the Bunny. She has written for Jest and Cracked magazine. www.betsywise.com

Daniel Wright is a writer and comedian. In addition to performing, he is the editor of patentlysilly.com and his book will be published in 2007. www.patentlysilly.com

Becky Yamamoto is a comedian and actor. In addition to standup and improv, she performs with the band Stickerbook. Most recently, she co-starred in Young Jean Lee's play, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, at Here Arts Center. yougottapayforthisshit.blogspot.com

Tony Zaret is an actor, director, producer and writer. He has produced films with Stephen and Joel Levinson that have been featured at Channel 101. www.supermasterpiece.com