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CATHY LADMAN, Her personal neuroses have featured in her HBO One Night Stand comedy special, and she’s currently one of Nick at Night’s Americas Funniest Moms. Cathy was the only female comic to appear on the last two Johnny Carson “Tonight Show” anniversary shows. Click here for Cathy's Website. |
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JESSICA KIRSON, Just made her debut on “The Tonight Show” as well as numerous other comedy shows including “Last Comic Standing,” “She’s So Funny” on the Women’s Television Network and the VH1 specials “Awesomely Bad Hair,” “Awesomely Bad Love Songs,” “Awesomely Bad #1 Songs” and “Awesomely Bad Breakup Songs. Click here to visit Jessica's Website. |
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CORY KAHANEY Creator of The J.A.P. Show, she was voted Best Comedian in New York City by Backstage magazine and has been seen nationally as one of the stars of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and in her own comedy specials on HBO and Comedy Central. Click here to visit Cory's Website. |
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SHERRY DAVEY Was seen most recently on Nick At Nite's “Search For America's Funniest Mom II, and has regularly appeared on Comedy Central’s “Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn” and “Premium Blend.” She plays colleges, casinos and comedy clubs all around the country, has been honored as one of the Hollywood Reporter’s “Magnificent Seven” and was recently named one of the "Top 10 Comedians in NYC" by Improper Magazine. She appears regularly in NYC at The Comic Strip, The New York Improv, The New York Comedy Club and Carolines. Click here to visit Sherry's website.
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JULIE GOLDMAN Has been called a “kick ass comedian” (NY Press) and “charmingly deviant” (The Village Voice). She performs stand up comedy all over the country, has toured with the Australian smash hit, Puppetry of The Penis, performed at the famed Montreal Comedy Festival, and appeared on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” and has guest hosted and been seen on Fuse TV, VH-1, Bravo and AMC. She headlines with new Off Broadway and national show Laughing Liberally, (www.laughingliberally.com) and is a writer and cast member of Rosie O’Donnell’s “The Big Gay Sketch Show,” which will premiere on the LOGO channel this fall (www.logoonline.com).Julie is also the co-lead in the Smithy
Productions film Mom (www.momthemovie.com). Click here for Julie’s website.
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BETSY SALKIND The Boston Globe said, "There are countless ways to make someone laugh, and Betsy Salkind knows most of them." Want sarcastic wit? Political humor? Or maybe just a good animal mime? Salkind can pull all that off and more. Best known as "Squirrel Lady," Betsy has appeared on "Girls Night Out," "Stand-Up, Stand-Up," "Last Comic Standing," and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” She was a staff writer for "Saturday Night Special" and "Roseanne" (the sitcom), and is the author of More Than Once Upon A Time (a children's book for adults), as well as the brilliant and funny blog "Ethel's Law." For more info, upcoming shows, videos, photos, bio, and more visit Betsy's website.
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Adrianne Tolsch began her career in New York City at Catch a Rising Star and the Improvisation. She has headlined at every major comedy club in the United States, appeared in casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and performed as far away as London, England, Melborne, Australia and Hobart, Tasmania. She has also been the opening act for Jay Leno, the Pointer Sisters, Bobby Vinton, Pat Cooper and Billy Crystal. Adrianne received rave reviews on Broadway in “3 From Brooklyn” at the Helen Hayes Theatre. For two years she co-hosted the syndicated radio show “The Better Sex.” Tolsch has received two Bistro Awards and three Manhattan Association of Caberet Awards for “Outstanding Comedy Performance.” Most recently, she was honored with the 2004 Cabaret Hotline Award for her first one-woman show, “Trucks, Guns and Mayonnaise.” Her much anticipated new one-woman show opens this summer. “None of Your Damn Business” is a hilarious look at growing older. Adrianne lives in Manhattan and is married to Bill Scheft, a writer for David Letterman. |
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BELLE BARTH, née Annabelle Salzman, was reknowed for her bawdy, unrepentantly irreverent humor. She released 11 albums during her career and was married five times. Though she played at hotels and nightclubs in New York, had her own club, Belle Barth’s Pub, in Miami, and even performed at Carnegie Hall, she did not achieve the lasting fame or notoriety of male comedians of the day. |
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JEAN CARROLL, née Celine Zeigman, began her career as part of a song-and-dance team with her husband, vaudevillian Buddy Howe, who later became her manager. She appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show more than 20 times and had her own short-lived sit-com, The Jean Carroll Show (or Take It From Me), which aired for one season in (1953-1954). |
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PEARL WILLIAMS, was known not only for her bawdy humor, but also her aggressive manner, she released nine best-selling “party” records during her career. Before retiring in 1984, Williams performed for 18 years at the Place Pigalle in Miami. |
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TOTIE FIELDS née Sophie Feldman, was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show 40 times, made 125 appearances on The Mike Douglas Show, and was a staple on the Merv Griffin show. In 1972, she wrote a humorous diet book titled I Think I'll Start on Monday: The Official 8 1/2 oz. Mashed Potato Diet (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1972). And, in 1978, during the last year of her life, she was voted "Entertainer of the Year" and "Female Comedy Star of the Year" by the American Guild of Variety Artists. |
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BETTY WALKER, née Edith Seeman, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Latvian immigrants. Over the course of her career, she appeared numerous times on television, including guest appearances on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show and The Steve Allen Show, on the radio, and in film, most notably in Exodus in 1960. |
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