FEATURING:

Janelle James
JanelleJamesComedy.com




Janelle is a New York based comedian that can be seen on Night Train with Wyatt Cenac (NBC/Seeso), @midnight (Comedy Central), Uproarious (Fuse) and Crashing (HBO). She was included in the Just For Laughs Montreal's New Faces category for 2016, named one of The 50 Most Funny People in Brooklyn 2016 and has been featured for her outstanding performance ability in The New York Times, Portland Tribune and Time Out Magazine. Janelle’s debut comedy album, Black and Mild was released on September 29th, 2017 on Audible, iTunes, SiriusXM, Pandora, Spotify and anywhere else the finest comedy is sold and streamed. Janelle recently wrapped as a staff writer on The Rundown (BET) after touring with Chris Rock on his Total Blackout tour and will soon be featured in a series of 15-minutes stand-up specials released by Netflix.



William Stephenson


Born March 11, 1957 at the University of Michigan hospital, William was raised mostly in Detroit until he moved to Washington D.C. in 1980. Two years later, after driving cabs, delivering flowers and bartending, he began his career in standup in 1982. He would move to NYC a few short years later and has lived in the Apple since. William is a favorite host at many major city clubs and a preferred audience warmup act. His latest movie appearance is I AM Comic and most recent TV spot is the Louie show on FX.


Rallo Boykins


Born and raised in Hyattsville, Maryland Rallo has always been the funniest and blackest person in his class. After graduating from high school, Rallo relocated to Washington D.C. to further his education at the illustrious Howard University. The summer of 2008, Rallo was dared by a good friend of his to use his comedic gift to make a modest group of 50 people laugh at a Fourth of July dinner party. He did, and the rest is history.

Rallo has been touring at major comedy clubs across the nation performing with everyone from Donnell Rawlings from the Chappelle's Show to Nikki Glaser from Not Safe with Nikki Glaser.


Chris Redd


Chris Redd is a currently a cast member on "Saturday Night Live". Considering himself a Chicago Native, Chris embraced his musical roots and sought to become Chicago’s next great Hip Hop artist. However, it was Chicago’s vibrant comedy scene that influenced Chris and called him into comedy. While performing stand up around the city, Chris began training with the historic Second City Chicago and iO Theater Chicago. It was with that training that Chris created and produced his own stage production at the well-known Southside Chicago comedy club Jokes & Notes. Chris refined his character and sketch writing while touring with the illustrious Second City and had a brief stint on their E.T.C stage before venturing on to work at NBC on an Untitled Sketch Comedy Pilot. Chris has worked on projects including the Tina Fey produced ABC Comedy ‘Family Fortune’, recurring role on FOX’S show EMPIRE, and as Hunter the Hungry in the Lonely Island movie "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" produced by Judd Apatow. Chris was deemed a New Face in the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal last year and can be seen traveling all over the world with his stand up comedy.


Hosted by Aminah Imani
www.aminahimani.com



Born in Providence, RI raised in Atlanta, GA; Aminah Imani is a stand up comedian living in New York City. In simple words, she is funny. Her career was triggered by an incident on the DC metro after speaking of her aspirations to be a comedian, when a random local challenged her demanding, “Show me some funny!”

Since then Aminah has set out on the comedy circuit performing at clubs, theatres, and hosting events for all occasions. Highlights includes her performance at her alma mater, Howard University’s Homecoming Comedy Show, she was a semi finalist in the Miller Lite Stand Up Competition, was featured in DC Comedy Festival, Essence’s girlfriend adventures web series, Parents.com, Blavity, and BRIC TV. Aminah currently co-produces her own podcast, Wine Before Nine, available on sound cloud and iTunes.

Aminah is a hardworking individual whose comedy is best described as storytelling using wit and sarcasm. She lives by the affirmation, “I will be a better person today than yesterday” with hopes to spread laughter and show the people some funny!