Past Comedians

John Oliver

John Oliver is a writer and correspondent for "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." He joined the show in 2006 and at the time of this writing is yet to be fired. Since then he has done everything from interviewing UN Ambassadors to breaking his nose fighting for the Confederate army.

As a writer he has been nominated for both Emmys and Writers Guild Awards and he won the Breakout Award at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. He performs stand-up around the US and his Comedy Central Hour Special "Terrifying Times" debuted in April 2008. Along with Andy Zaltzman, he also writes and stars in a weekly podcast, "The Bugle: Audio Newspaper for a Visual World."

He hopes to stay at "The Daily Show" for as long as they and US immigration will allow.

Rory Albanese

Rory Albanese is a four time Emmy-winning Executive Producer and Writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has been a key part of The Daily Show since 1999. Rory is also an accomplished stand-up comedian. In the summer of 2006 he joined Lewis Black's "Red White and Screwed" tour performing with Lewis all over the country. Most recently Rory has been seen performing with Daily Show correspondent John Oliver as well as headlining his own shows at clubs and colleges throught the country. He will have his own half hour comedy special on Comedy Central in 2010.

Pete Holmes

Pete Holmes is a nationally touring stand-up comedian, actor, improviser, writer and cartoonist. He has appeared on VH1's "Best Week Ever," Comedy Central's "Premium Blend", the Motherload "Honesty" series and is one of the warm-up comedians for 'The Daily Show.

Pete has studied and performed at Chicago's Improv Olympic and Playground theaters, as well as Boston's Improv Asylum theater and New York City's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Pete's cartoons have appeared in various magazines, most notably The New Yorker. He also writes for CollegeHumor.com and designs t-shirts for BustedTees.com.

J.R. Havlan

Writer for the Daily Show

Wyatt Cenac

Wyatt Cenac was born in New York City. After three years of big city life he had enough and moved to Dallas, Texas. Missing the big city life, Wyatt moved to North Carolina. After four years, he realized he got on the wrong plane and moved to the big city of Los Angeles where he would spend the next bunch of years doing comedy and getting into debt.

While in LA, Wyatt spent three seasons as a writer on FOX's animated show "King of the Hill" and also performed stand up at shows like "Comedy Death Ray" and "The Tomorrow Show." To avoid his debt collectors, Wyatt spent most of his time performing at places like the Upright Citizens Brigade and Improv Olympic, where he performed in shows like "Rap Crisis Center," "The Armando Show" and did a regrettably terrible Barack Obama impression that found its way onto the Internet. In 2008, Wyatt starred in the film "Medicine for Melancholy" which was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards and lost all three (Thanks a lot, "Synecdoche, New York").

Wanting to return to the big city he gave the finger to as a toddler, Wyatt moved back to New York in 2008 to join the news team of "The Daily Show" as a correspondent and writer. He forgot how cold it gets in the winter.

Eddie Brill

Eddie Brill is a well-respected and very funny stand-up comedian here in the USA and abroad.  Eddie also works regularly in England, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, France, Holland and Hong Kong. He has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman 8 times. In July of 1984 he started, booked and hosted the very successful Paper Moon Comedy Club in the west village of NYC. Since then he has become an international comedian who can work most anywhere in the world. He has taped more than 100 television shows in six different countries. He is also a 3-time MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabaret and Clubs) for Best Male Stand-up Comic in NYC.

Ted Alexandro

Alexandro is a  Bellerose,  New York native who attended Queens College and majored in music. Following that he obtained a Masters in elementary education. He began to teach music by day, and by night he worked on his stand-up comic career. Since then, Alexandro has appeared on  The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien,  Jimmy Kimmel Live!,  The View and two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials.

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Joe Wong

Self-titled as an all American immigrant, Joe Wong came a long way from a rosy-eyed new immigrant to a blossoming comedian. His jokes range from ethnic, personal, political, observational to bizarre. Its not always easy to categorize his humor, but it is always inspired.  Joe performs regularly in major comedy clubs and colleges throughout the country, as well as benefits and corporate events. His volume of comedy material, his originality, and his "cut-from-a-different-kind-of-mold" character create a persona that audiences can't help but love.

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Lenny Marcus

Originally from Oceanside, NY, Lenny Marcus has been a stand-up comedian for over a decade. He is currently a regular performer in every major comedy club in New York City.

He has performed at both the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada three times and HBO's US Comedy Arts festival, in Aspen Colorado.

Lenny has performed stand-up comedy on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, NBC's Friday Nite, NBC's Comedy Showcase with Louie Anderson and MTV's The Jim Brewer Show. Lenny has made multiple appearances on True-tv making fun of the world's stupidest criminals, shoppers and drivers. You may also have seen him in commercials for the MTV Video Movie Awards, Wendy's and Marriot or heard some of his radio characters in commercials for Southwestern Bell Telephone or Priceline.com.

A Condom Moment, Lenny's debut as a film writer/director, has been shown at the PSNBC short film festival. He is currently the creator/co-star of Superstar Talent (www.SuperstarTalentAgency.com), an online sitcom now in its third season. Lenny has also written and co-produced a show for Comeny Central's web site called Crash Course in Comedy.

Lenny has written for national publications such as UsWeekly and Life and Style magazine and has been a contributing writer for DailyComedy.com. Lenny's has two comedy CD's, "You're Getting A Zero" and the newly released "Idiots, Toasters, Meredith and Other Things Hazardous To Your Health" will keep audiences laughing for years to come.

Jon Fisch

Jon’s appearances on Last Comic Standing 4, where he was the New York City Capital One Audience Favorite, gained him wide recognition and a new legion of fans. He has also been seen on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, was invited to perform at the 2007 HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and was a host of 3 Men and a Chick Flick on the WE network.

A prolific monologist with universal appeal, Jon focuses on the idiosyncrasies of city living. After moving to NYC from his native Boston, he was chosen as one of Comedy Central’s Fresh Faces of Comedy and named one of Back Stage Magazine’s 10 Standout Stand-ups.

Jon was a critical favorite at the prestigious Montreal “Just for Laughs” comedy festival as part of the “New Faces” showcase and the Club Series show “Dating It”. Following his impressive appearances, Jon was singled out by both the Hollywood Reporter and the Montreal Gazette as a “standout performer”. He tours the country performing at theatres, clubs, colleges and corporate events and is a favorite in NYC at Gotham Comedy Club and the Comedy Cellar.

Pete Correale

Los Angeles) Recently named by Entertainment Weekly as one of the top 10 comics to watch, rapidly rising comedy sensation Pete Correale brings his keen eye for the humor found in daily life to Comedy Central with his first-ever special, “The Things We Do For Love.” The show debuts on Saturday, May 30 at 11 PM (Eastern and Pacific times).

Praised for his “brash and energetic” humor by the Anchorage Daily News, Correale is a veteran of the comedy club and festival circuit as well as television talk shows like “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Last Call with Carson Daily,” and co-hosted the Sirius satellite radio show “Breuer Unleashed” with former “Saturday Night Live” star Jim Breuer for four years. The Long Island native began his comedy career after graduating from college in 1992 and moving to New York City, where he cooked hamburgers and mopped floors at the New York Comedy Club in exchange for stage time late in the night to hone his act. He quickly rose to headliner status and began making his living as a comedian.

“The Things We Do For Love” features Correale in front of a New York City streetscape set making his pungent observations on the absurdities, contradictions and weirdness of everyday life from the perspective of a regular guy (albeit one with a wickedly funny wit). The special spotlights his gift for finding laughs in love, marriage, drinking, smoking cigarettes in an increasingly non-smoking world, being married versus single, and living in New York City, among many other topics. Essential to the collective implication of “The Things We Do For Love,” his wife is an unseen presence yet integral partner throughout in many of Correale's wickedly funny tales. Whether the subject is life and health insurance, taking his nieces and nephews to the Bronx Zoo, being a dog owner, carnival rides, or his sister running in the New York Marathon, Correale zeroes in on the inherent humor in everything he encounters and experiences to evoke fervent and knowing laughter from the live audience at the special's taping. A viral Internet campaign and My Space and Facebook promotions over the next two months will tease comedy fans with snippets of Correale's wit to plug the special.

His first big breaks were appearing at Canada's prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in 2000 in its New Faces showcase and making his national TV debut on NBC's “Late Friday.” Other television appearances include NBC's “Friday Night” and Comedy Central's “Premium Blend” and “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,” co-starring in the pilot for a Jim Breuer series for Fox, and being a featured comic in 2004 on MTV's live pre-game “Superbowl Bash.” He has showcased his stand up at the 2008 Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, New York Comedy Festival, the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and the 2005 Bonnaroo music festival. Correale has also taken his act international at Ireland's Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival and was invited to perform in London, England on the BBC/Comedy Central show "The World Stands Up” that featured the best comedy acts from around the globe. He has been appearing in 2008 into 2009 on the third annual Jameson Comedy Tour. In April, Correale headlines the historic first-ever Beirut Stand Up Comedy Festival in Lebanon.

Correale has participated in such charity events as Comics Come Home fundraiser at Boston University, and was invited to entertain the first U.S. troops coming home from Iraq at a show aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier in New York City. He has also worked as a comedy writer for shows on MTV and Comedy Central, and acted in starring roles in the films The Gynecologists, American Dummy and Act of Contrition. With his tabloid front-page styled website (www.petecorreale.com), the comic keeps his hilarity buzzing on the Internet. He is an avid sports fan and devoted follower of the New York Yankees who earned an All American honorable mention playing high school basketball and played for SUNY Fredonia in his college years. He lives with his wife in Manhattan, where he keeps his act sharp appearing at the city's comedy clubs when not on tour.

Correale's humor connects so strongly because it's reality-based comedy that comes from the laughs he finds in his own life. “If it happened to me, it happened to someone else,” he observes. “I like to tell stories that happen to me and find the joke in it. Whether it's putting together furniture for my wife, or walking my dog at 2 AM or hanging out with buddies having a few beers, it's all things we do for love.” And with Correale, the things that also provide hilarity in spades.