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Mermaid Comedy Hour ft. Valerie Tosi, Joleen Lunzer, Laurie Kilmartin, Irene Tu, Jasmine Ellis, Subhah Agarwal, Jeena Bloom, JoAnn Schinderle!
Mon, 13 Sep, 7:30 PM PDT
Doors open
7:00 PM PDT
Hollywood Improv (The Lab)
8162 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90046
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Age Limit
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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
Joleen Lunzer
Joleen Lunzer
Comedy
Joleen Lunzer is a stand-up comedian, writer, content creator, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer Enthusiast. Her comedy has been featured on FOX, Hulu, Tubi, Amazon, and BET. You can find Joleen on the newest season of Laugh After Dark on Amazon and Tubi. She also co-produces The Mermaid Comedy Hour at the Hollywood Improv. Joleen has over 30k subscribers on YouTube where she provides comedy and commentary about all things pop culture and reality tv. Her pop culture commentary was recently featured in an episode of Impact X Nightline on Hulu.

Comedy
Laurie Kilmartin
Laurie Kilmartin
Comedy
Laurie is an Emmy-nominated writer for CONAN on TBS, and, as a stand-up comedian, has appeared on CONAN, Last Comic Standing, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Comedy Central. Her first book, Shitty Mom, was a NY Times bestseller. Her Seeso special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, was named Vulture 's Top Ten Comedy Specials of 2016.

Comedy
JoAnn Schinderle
JoAnn Schinderle
Comedy
JOANN SCHINDERLE is a Stand Up Comic, Actress, Writer, and live show Producer living in Los Angeles by way of Portland, OR, but who will never let you forget her sturdy MidWestern roots.
Named Portland's Funniest Person’17 in the Willamette Week as voted by Portland comedy peers and local industry heads, as well as being listed as an ‘Undesputable Genius of Comedy’ by the Portland Mercury; Schinderle has a relatable yet snarky storytelling style that will make you feel like she’s your favorite best friend letting you in on a dirty little secret. Also trained as an improvisor through courses at Second City Training Center- Chicago and Curious Comedy Theater, JoAnn creates big characters and will “yes and” the shit out of you.
Schinderle’s debut album, ‘Dark Jeans’ was released on Comedy Dynamics in Aug 2019 and sat at #1 on iTunes for the week of it’s release. Schinderle wrote ‘Dark Jeans’, which is an entire album premised of menstruation jokes, as a middle finger to the notion that “period jokes aren’t funny”. On the contrary, Schinderle tours the hour across the country laughing at the stigma of female menstruation and raising period products as donations to local women’s shelters.
JoAnn has appeared on Laughs TV, VICE, Rooftop Comedy, Fight Stigma Web Series, and is a contributing writer for Laugh Staff. As a SAG-AFTRA Actress, JoAnn has landed principal roles in both national and local commercials. As a comedy producer, Schinderle curated, hosted, and produced as a podcast a weekly live show called ‘Control Yourself: A Showcase of Funny’ that was featured as ‘Top 5 PDX Comedy Showcases to Watch’ for all 4 years it’s running; Paste Magazine even recognized CY as a Portland entertainment destination. Episodes of Control Yourself can be found on Soundcloud here.
JoAnn is an on-going feature act at Helium Comedy Club and has performed across the country in such festivals as All Jane, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, Chicago Comedy Exposition, Hell Yes Fest, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, 10,000 Laughs ,as well as having won multiple rounds of Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction. Schinderle has been known to win crowds over with her pervy charm.
She has high hopes of landing her dream job of writing inspirational quotes into all of morning after pill product packaging.

Comedy
Irene Tu
Irene Tu
Comedy
Irene Tu is an LA-based stand-up comedian, actor and writer who honed her chops in San Francisco. Her first comedy album WE’RE DONE NOW debuted in March of this year at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts. Irene has performed at Netflix Is A Joke comedy festival in the highly coveted “INTRODUCING” showcase. Her STAND-UP FEATURING set is the most watched reel on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up’s Instagram page, with over 2.7 million views. Paste Magazine praised Irene’s “quick wit, relaxed stage presence, and hilariously off-the-wall observations” in this album that “ticks all the boxes of a winning introduction, and then some.” She was named one of Vulture’s “Comedians You Should and Will Know” and singled out in The SF Chronicle as an “artist on the brink of fame.” She’s a regular at festivals and clubs around the country and opens for comics like Taylor Tomlinson and Patton Oswalt.

Stand-up
Jasmine Ellis
Jasmine Ellis
Stand-up
Jasmine Ellis is a Stand Up Comedian, ,Entertainment Journalist and podcast host from Dallas-ish Texas. Jasmine tours colleges and clubs nationally and has been featured at over a dozen of the Top comedy festivals including Moontower sponsored by Netflix.

Comedy
Subhah Agarwal
Subhah Agarwal
Comedy
Subhah Agarwal has brought an honesty to her comedy that will leave you saying, "I didn't need to know that." Subhah has written for Netflix's "Arsenio Hall" limited series, the "Plan B" movie on Hulu, and "The Jim Jefferies Show" on Comedy Central, amongst others. You can also catch her jokes live at stand up comedy clubs across the country. If you don't want to leave your couch, you can see her late night debut on NBC's "A Little Late With Lilly Singh." She's also appeared on season three of HBO's "Westworld", "General Hospital," TruTV's sketch comedy "Friends of the People", and as herself on MTV2, Comedy Central, and Gotham Comedy Live.

Comedy
Jeena Bloom
Jeena Bloom
Comedy
Jeena Bloom is a transgender comedian that divides her time between LA and NYC. Starting comedy a month after completing her transition, she uses standup to document the sometimes ridiculous intersection of gender, sexuality and race in America.