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Mermaid Comedy Hour! ft. Isa Quiros, Babs Gray, Pat Resnick, Liz Stone, Kristen Cunningham, Julia Loken, Kari Assad, Valerie Tosi!
Mon, 8 Sep, 7:30 PM PDT
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7:00 PM PDT
Hollywood Improv (The Lab)
8162 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90046
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Comedy
Valerie Tosi
Valerie Tosi
Comedy
Valerie Tosi is a Second City trained actor, writer, voiceover artist, and stand-up comedian. In 2019, she made her late-night debut on Conan and has appeared in a viral commercial for Lyft with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, was featured on 'The Joel McHale Show' on Netflix, 'Based On A True Story' on Peacock, and was a guest star on 'Stan Against Evil' on IFC. You may recognize Valerie's voice from her work on scripted podcasts, animation projects, and several ad campaigns, including Google Home Mini. As a comic, she tours the US regularly and has headlined and featured at festivals such as Limestone, Laughing Skull, and West End. Between road dates, Valerie has produced and hosted The Mermaid Comedy Hour, a monthly female- and non-binary-focused comedy show at The Hollywood Improv, for over 10 years. She regularly features for Emmy Award-winning comedian Dana Gould and has previously featured for Paul Reiser, Heather McDonald, Gina Brillon, Orny Adams, Brent Terhune, and more. Her debut comedy album "Beach Trash" reached #1 on the iTunes charts and was featured in The Boston Globe. When she's not slinging jokes, you can find her at her pinball league (yes, that's a real thing!), pumping quarters into the Jurassic Park table.

Comedy
Kari Assad
Kari Assad
Comedy
Kari Assad is a Mexican-Lebanese comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. She is the co-host of the popular show Mermaid Comedy Hour at the Hollywood Improv. Her silly and relatable content has been featured on the popular comedy platform WhoHaha, and she's also been a featured performer at premium festivals like Limestone, 10,000 Laughs, and Flyover where Tig Notaro personally picked her to open. When she's not on stage, you can find her borderline making out with your dog.

Comedy
Isa Quiros
Isa Quiros
Comedy
Isa is a Costa Rican-American comedian from sunny South Florida, where both the oranges and the butts are bigger than you could ever grow organically. She grew up doing totally normal things like playing tennis, being one of the best trumpet players in the state, and watching her parents' marriage unravel in front of her very eyes. After four unremarkable years in college, she graduated from [does it matter] with a B.A. in Music and Communication Studies, two subjects she was never very good at anyway. Emerging a more beautiful and less-stable version of herself, Isa was finally ready to leave her comedic mark on the world. As a digital producer, Isa has worked on shows including Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Always Sunny Podcast, and The Chow Line. She also worked at a creative agency to produce and star in hilarious/cool/viral content for your favorite brands on the internet including Converse, Amazon, Chipotle, Lyft, Nike, and more. Now, Isa is staffed on the new late-night TV show After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson as a digital creator.

Stand-up
Liz Stone
Liz Stone
Stand-up
Liz Stone performs throughout the country and is known for her personal stories of life, love, and embarrassing moments. She can be seen on Amazon Prime's Laugh After Dark and is a regular at comedy clubs throughout the country. She is also Head Writer for Fitz Games, a pop culture satire game company, and co-wrote Girl Code, available in Targets nationwide. A former corporate attorney, Liz discovered standup comedy as a balance to the corporate grind and has been entertaining audiences with her unique perspective ever since.

Stand-up
Julia Loken
Julia Loken
Stand-up
Julia Loken is a Los Angeles-based comedian who Divulge Magazine describes as having a "Scarlett-Johanssen-meets-Enid-from-Ghost-World vibe that [is] refreshing to see." She's performed at bars, clubs, theaters, and backyards all over the country. She is a host and producer of Chatterbox Comedy Night, one of LA's longest-running and most respected independent comedy shows, which has been named "One of LA's most coveted stages" by LA Weekly, and a "Must See" by TimeOut. She is also one of the hosts of What's Your Sign?, a comedy astrology podcast for lovers AND haters ;) Which Refinery29 has described as "'My Favorite Murder' for astrology fans" and has been featured in Nylon, Bustle, the New York Times, Women's Health Magazine, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan.

Stand-up
Pat Resnick
Pat Resnick
Stand-up
BAFTA, Tony, and Writers' Guild nominee Patricia Resnick has enjoyed a successful and varied career in film, television, and theatre. She wrote the original screenplay for the film 9 to 5, a comedy classic starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton, and one of the top-grossing films of all time. Under the tutelage of her mentor, Robert Altman, she co-authored A Wedding (BAFTA and Writers' Guild nominations) and Quintet starring Paul Newman. Other films include Maxie (Glenn Close) and Straight Talk, which reunited her with Dolly Parton. She has written numerous pilots for television for networks including Showtime, CBS, and FX, and her seven produced made-for-television movies include The Battle of Mary Kay starring Shirley MacLaine and Parker Posey, who both gave Golden Globe-nominated performances. She was the executive producer and head writer of an animated series based on the children's book Olivia for the Nick Jr. Network. Her theatre work includes her Drama Desk-nominated book for the Broadway musical 9 to 5, which garnered four Tony nominations, sketches for Lily Tomlin's first one-woman Broadway show Appearing Nightly, and a stage musical adaptation of her own PBS movie Ladies in Waiting. She was a consulting producer on the final season of Mad Men, co-executive producer on Netflix's Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City starring Laura Linney, and co-EP on season four of Emmy-nominated Better Things. She is currently writing a new feature film and two television pilots in addition to appearing onstage as the oldest new stand-up comedian in L.A.

Stand-up
Kristen Cunningham
Kristen Cunningham
Stand-up
Kristen is a stylish comedy writer and stand-up comedian based in Los Angeles, CA. Originally from Detroit, Kristen moved to LA in the fall of 2019 to actualize her dream of living the lyrics to The Beatles’ I’ll Follow The Sun. Since then, she has been working on writing and performing comedic timing rather than living it. As a grounded eccentric in real life, Kristen explores the absurd in the everyday and invites you into her world of magical realism.

Stand-up
Babs Gray
Babs Gray
Stand-up
Babs Gray is a comedian, writer, and podcaster based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her iconic podcast Britney’s Gram, which sparked the #FreeBritney movement, and for Toxic: The Britney Spears Story, which earned two Webby Awards. She has been the co-host of the hilarious Lady to Lady podcast since the late 1800s. Her television credits are old, but they do include appearances on Comedy Central’s Corporate, MTV’s Acting Out, and the digital series Typical Rick, which you definitely watched, right? As a writer, she has contributed to Billy on the Street, Netflix’s Magic for Humans, and your mom's Tinder bio.