LIT FEST @ Bier Baron
1523 22nd St NW * Dupont Circle * June 1st & 9th
Friday, June 1st @ 8 pm
Jarret Berenstein
New York City, Magnet Theater
Stand-Up
"Improviser and comic Jarret Berenstein shows us what kind of sharp, observant joke writer he is..."
- Matthew Love, TimeOut NY
Jarret Berenstein is a writer, comedian, and film producer based in New York City. For over ten years he has performed and developed comedy in a variety of mediums, focusing at times on either improv, sketch or stand up.
As an improviser he has performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, the People’s Improv Theater, and the Magnet Theater where he is currently on one of the city's most popular house teams, Junior Varsity.
As a sketch writer he was awarded a TimeOut NY Critics’ Pick and won Best Solo Show at the LA Comedy Festival. His online sketches include the viral sensations Sex and the City for Dudes, WhiteFriend, Norn, and Sponsor a Comedian. His comedy-news show, Current Events, ran uninterrupted for over two years in New York City.
As a stand up comedian he performs all over the country. He has been featured on the Fox TV show Laughs and was TimeOut's Joke of the Week three times. He most recently performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland OR, the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in Austin TX, the Young Guns of Comedy Competition, and the NC Comedy Arts Festival.
Friends w/ 401(k) Benefits
Chicago, Zanies & Riddles Comedy Clubs
Stand-Up
Friends With 401(k) Benefits combines the unique voices of three Chicago comedians, each sharing their own take on topics like dating, religion and life in the corporate world to create one unforgettable show with something for everyone.
The comics are: Meghana Indurti, chosen as one of 9 finalists for StandUp NBC in Chicago by NBCUniversal in 2017, Vik Pandya, who’s opened for Roy Wood Jr., and Tyler Fowler, a regular feature and host at Chicago's Zanies Comedy Club.
Julian M. Stern
Los Angeles
Stand-Up
Julian is a comedian and writer who will regale you with personal stories, well-researched arguments about things he loves, and sometimes songs(!). His work can be found in McSweeney's, Maxim, Cosmopolitan, Brut Force, and other media outlets that are dead or will be soon!
New York, NY
Friday, June 1st @ 10 pm
Champagne Jerry
New York City, Joe's Pub
Musical Sketch
Champagne Jerry is a great rap band with a wild stage show that veers between comedic sexuality, tales of being an East Texas fuck-up, and weird-as-hell skits -- like a silly David Bowie or freaky Beastie Boys, or like Kanye West if Kanye rapped about driving a Chevette and taking lamaze.
Champagne Jerry, "New York's finest underground rapper," was named one of the best performers in New York by Time Out, profiled in Rolling Stone, Brooklyn Vegan and Interview magazine and been a musical guest on The Chris Gethard Show on Fusion TV. He is a music and performance project of Neal Medlyn alongside collaborators Max Tannone, Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz and his onstage entourage of Tannone, Sophia Cleary, Farris Craddock and the Ghost of Champagne Past. Champagne Jerry continues Medlyn's prior work with pop stars in his Pop Star Series. The aim is to continuously create and provide the most significant moments in everyone's lives. He has routinely sold out shows at Joe's Pub in New York City where he had a year long residency and has played the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, Union Pool, Pianos, and various rock clubs, parties, Walmart parking lots, art venues and theaters on tour across the U.S. His album and videos for his albums “For Real, You Guys” and “The Champagne Room” are available now everywhere.
Saturday, June 9th @ 10 pm
Marlénas McMahon-Purk
Philadelphia, PA Laugh Index Theatre
June 09, 2018
Stand-Up
Absurdist nonfiction in your ear. Marlénas McMahon-Purk is a native New Yorker whose focus is absurdist nonfiction. She has performed standup comedy (as well as sketch, improv, and variety) in festivals around the country and at various venues on the East Coast, including winning a roast battle round in NYC. She produces "Most Likely To: The Yearbook Photo Roast!" and is also a contributing writer for Funny or Die; Pitch; and Gomerblog, a medical satire site.
She is currently a House Comic at Laugh Index Theatre.
Most Likely To...A Yearbook Photo Roast
NY, Philly, DC
June 09, 2018
Variety
Clapback to the future with the yearbook photo roast! Watch childhood memoriesl disintegrate as participants rip into their younger selves. Real photos. Real awful. Real awful hair. Witness the rare opportunity to see comedians be self-deprecating!
CAST: Marlénas McMahon-Purk, David Rey Martinez
