DALLAS COMEDY CLUB - Key Persons
Andrea Jin is a stand-up comedian and writer born in Shanghai, relocated to Canada, and is currently based in Los Angeles. She gained recognition in the comedy scene after winning Comedy Album of the Year in 2021 at the Juno Awards from the Canadian Academy of Recording Artists for her solo album ‘Grandma's Girl'. She recently made her first late night TV debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden, was selected as a New Face at the Just for Laugh's Montreal Festival in 2021, and has performed at several festivals like JFL Northwest, SiriusXM's Top Comic, Seattle International Comedy Competition, CBC's The Debaters, and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Her writing has been featured on Vice, CBC Comedy, and the Vancouver Sun among other publications.
Erica Rhodes has appeared on ABC's Modern Family, HBO's Veep, Fox's New Girl, and IFC's Comedy Bang Bang. She was a regular panelist on Comedy Central's @midnight and Fox's Punchline. Her standup TV appearances include NBC's Bring the Funny and Last Call with Carson Daly, the CW's Howie Mandel Comedy Extravaganza, SeeSo's The Guest List, Hulu's Coming to the Stage, and AXS' Live at Gotham. Erica was chosen as a New Face for the 2018 Just for Laughs Festival (Montreal) and also performed at the San Francisco Sketchfest, the Moontower Comedy Festival (Austin, TX), the Blue Whale Comedy Festival (Tulsa, OK), the Boston Comedy Festival and RIOT L.A. Fest.
Erica starred in the ABC Digital series The Off-Season, was a semi-regular performer/writer on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion, and a recurring character on the Audible series, Dr. Katz: The Audiobook. Her first album Sad Lemon hit #1 on the iTunes comedy charts and her first one-hour comedy special La Vie en Rhodes was shot as part of the Tribeca Drive-In Fest (at Pasadena's famous Rose Bowl) and can now be viewed on Amazon Prime. Erica currently voices the scene-stealing character of "Dotty" in the hit Netflix animation series, A Tale Dark and Grimm.
Francisco Ramos can be seen on Netflix's "Gentefied" and Hulu's "This Fool" and wrapped his first feature film "The Unexpecteds" along Matt Walsh from "Veep" coming out later this year. He directed, co-wrote and starred in his debut comedy short "Zoo Animals", which was acquired by MAX to stream on their platform. He also shot a standup special "EntreNos" for MAX. He was part of the first ever Netflix is a Joke Festival held in Los Angeles. He was a top-ten finalist on Last Comic Standing and has appeared in Show-time's "Shameless," as well other appearances in "Angie Tribeca" from Steve Carell, Netflix"s "Lady Dynamite", and voicing the role of Marmoset in the animated film "RIO" and part of Cartoon Network show "Victor and Valentino". He has also appeared on the hilarious @midnight on Comedy Central and several times on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Francisco was part of Lorne Michael"s "Mas Mejor", where he has written, directed and performed several sketches for them. His debut album "Vayalo" has been exclusively playing on Sirius XM and has been a top 5 album on the Billboard Comedy Charts.
Early in his career, Francisco was selected to perform in the CBS Multicultural Diversity Showcase, where he was one of 12 selected from a pool of 5,000 applicants. Having won first place in the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival sponsored by NBC/COZI TV, American Latino produced a documentary on Francisco about his rise as a comic for Latino Out Loud (LOL).
Joey Avery is BLOWING UP! His first comedy album debuted at #1 on iTunes, and his Don't Tell Comedy "Batting Cage" series and clips from Comedy Central's Featuring have propelled him to viral fame. Joey was twice featured in the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the Bay Area's top comics. He's worked with Andrew Schulz, Mark Normand, Trevor Wallace, Shane Gillis and other staples of the comedy scene. With almost 5 million likes on tiktok (@joeyaverycomedy), he's soon to be a household name. See more of Joey on IG @joeyavery, then see him LIVE at Dallas Comedy Club!
Katherine Blanford has brought her human Golden Retriever presence across the country and internationally, sharing confessions of her southern family secrets and awkward adolescent years.
Maija DiGiorgio is a comedian, filmmaker, and NY-to-LA transplant. In her first year doing stand- up, Maija took the comedy world by storm taping five national TV appearances, receiving a standing ovation at NBC's Live from the Apollo, and performing at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. Her hour show IncogNegro was part of the summer series at the prestigious Here theater in SOHO. Maija's Dry Bar Special "Maija Pinion" is available now with several of the clips reaching over 1 million views. She is in the process of recording her first comedy album with 800 PoundGorilla Records.
Since her impressive start in comedy, Maija has taken her talents to countless prestigious venues worldwide-including the Beacon Theater, the New Orleans Essence Festival, and Scotland's Edinburgh Festival-as well as TV performances across most major networks-including HBO's Def Comedy Jam, NBC's comics unleashed, Fox's Laughs, Uncontrolled Comedy Hour, Bet's Comic View, and Showtime's Michael Vick Comedy Explosion. Through her work, she has had the opportunity to perform alongside many industry standouts-including Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Dane Cook, Wanda Sykes, Louis CK, Mike Epps, and Tracy Morgan. Maija has been described as "Fantastic" by Dave Chappelle and been referred to as "A f**king star!" by Bill Burr.
Matthew Broussard is a disgraced financial analyst forced into stand up comedy. The byproduct of a Cajun chemist and Jewish microbiologist, he holds a degree in computational mathematics he always manages to bring up (just did it!) and is fully aware of how douchey he looks. His comedy is heady, self-effacing, and weirdly… educational? He's performed on the Tonight Show, Conan, Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle, the Comedy Central Half Hour, and some stuff with MTV2 he doesn't like to talk about. You can catch him in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The League, The Mindy Project, and alongside Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in the film Here Today. He is the creator of the webcomic and puzzle app, Monday Punday.
Michael Longfellow is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live! He joined as one of the new featured players of the show's current 48th season. Prior to SNL, Michael was one of eight comedians chosen for the inaugural "Netflix Introducing…" showcase at the Netflix is a Joke Festival in 2022, and made his late night debut on CONAN in 2018.
Nick Griffin can be seen on Comedy Central, David Letterman, The Late Late Show & more!
Nick was a staff writer on the Keenen Ivory Wayans Show in 1996 and later a head writer for the Bobby Slayton/Sue Murphy radio show, but his first love was always stand-up comedy.
In 1998 he was invited to take part in the New Faces show at The HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. That same year he made his network television debut on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, as well as Comedy Central's Premium Blend.
Nick has made 8 appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman. Following his first appearance on the Late Show, Worldwide Pants signed Nick to a development deal that was set up at ABC. Nick has also appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, as well as having his own Comedy Central half hour special. He now headlines America's best comedy clubs and is a regular guest on nationally syndicated radio's The Bob and Tom Show.
Opeyemi (Opey) Olagbaju is a Nigerian American stand-up comedian and writer that currently is staffed on CBS' BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA. Previously, Opey wrote and starred in BAMMAS, a half hour pilot that was produced for Hulu. He also has written for CLOSE ENOUGH at HBO Max and was Story Editor on BETTY for HBO. Other writing credits include UNRELATED for Freeform, I LOVE YOU AMERICA WITH SARAH SILVERMAN for Hulu, THE NEW NEGROES for Comedy Central, and Phoebe Robinson's DOING THE MOST. Opey is also a Fellow of the Sundance Institute's Episodic Lab from 2019. As a stand-up, Opey was a "New Face" at Just For Laughs in Montreal as well as the Moontower Festival in Austin (Summer 2024), and was named one of the "Comics You Should and Will Know in 2023" by New York Magazine.