Scott Blakeman has performed his topical, political and Jewish comedy around the world, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, and the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. Scott is an original member of Laughing Liberally, New York’s longest running political comedy show. Blakeman has performed on numerous occasions with his comedy idol Robert Klein, most recently at the Tarrytown Music Hall. Scott was the resident comedian on MSNBC’s live coverage of the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner. He is also a respected comedy teacher, with workshops in White Plains and Manhattan, and among Scott’s former students is Jon Stewart.
Michele Balan is a brash, New York stand-up comedian whom you may have seen as a top 5 finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing 4! She has been headlining all over the country! Her career has taken her from the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival to The Improv in Los Angeles to Caroline’s on Broadway to headlining cruise ships all over the world! Look for her on other TV shows such as Comics Unleashed and Live at Gotham.
Stand-up comedian Shaun Eli has rightfully been called one of America’s smartest comics. Whether it’s a story about dining with a vegetarian or successfully fighting a parking ticket, master storyteller Shaun Eli shows you that there’s hilarity in the ordinary if you approach life with a comedic warp. Job interviews? Serving on a NYC criminal jury? How about the Ten Commandments? For just about anything he’s experienced Shaun has a hilarious story at the ready.
With a sense of humor that’s both cheerful and universal Shaun has headlined shows on five continents. His jokes have been quoted everywhere from the New York Post to Readers Digest to Healthcare Finance News. In both Reform Judaism magazine and the Christian Science Monitor, where he was the subject of the cover story.
He’s been featured on CareerBuilder.com and CNN, in local papers like the Scarsdale Inquirer and the Asbury Park Press and in the college papers the Yale Daily News and the Daily Pennsylvanian. Even in The Journal of Irreproducible Results, a scientific humor magazine. Yes, there is one. And his group The Ivy League of Comedysm was the subject of a front-page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer.