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The 88 Show with Avery Pearson + Kyle Kinane, Jon Rudnitsky, Joe DeRosa & more!
Tue, 12 Mar, 9:30 PM PDT
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9:00 PM PDT
Hollywood Improv (The Lab)
8162 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90046
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Music
Avery Pearson
Avery Pearson
Music
Avery Pearson is a comedian, actor, and musician whose original comedy music has been featured on SNL, Broadway, and Netflix. He wrote and performed opening numbers on ‘The ESPYs’ and ‘NFL Honors’ as well as the Emmy-winning ‘Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson’. Avery served as the music director and wrote all the songs for ‘Historical Roasts with Jeff Ross’ and ‘Back That Year Up’ (Peacock). His appearances include ‘Iliza’s Locals’ (Hulu), ‘The Hall’ (Netflix), ‘Bill Burr’s Friends Who Kill’ (Netflix), ‘Masters of Sex’ (Showtime), WYFD? (Apple TV), and 'Suits' (USA). Avery co-wrote and co-directed the music video 'Christmas Magic' featuring 60 all-star comics (Howie Mandel, Adam Devine, Richard Lewis) to benefit the charity Comedy Gives Back.
A staple of the comedy scene, Avery tours his signature comedy music show ‘Comedian Rhapsody’ and produces two hit live shows in Los Angeles: Comedy Crush (The Hollywood Improv) and Keys to the Store (The Comedy Store). He's also been featured at JFL, Moontower and New York Comedy Festival. His special GIVE IT UP, AVERY PEARSON was released by Veeps & Pinch Records and his solo comedy music album drops in the Fall of 2025.

Stand-up
Joe DeRosa
Joe DeRosa
Stand-up
Joe DeRosa has made a name for himself in comedy and entertainment with six top-ten charting stand-up albums and a multitude of performances on television, radio, and in comedy clubs across the country and around the world. Joe’s most recent one hour special titled You Let Me Down premiered on Comedy Central in 2017, which he wrote, performed, and directed. He currently recurs on AMC’s Better Call Saul as crooked veterinarian Dr. Caldera and hosts two heavily followed podcasts: We’ll See You In Hell with Patrick Walsh, where the two review genre movies, and Taste Buds—a food debate show—with Impractical Jokers’ Sal Vulcano. The latter is distributed through DeRosa and Vulcano’s co-owned No Press Productions Network. Other select credits include: Inside Amy Schumer, Louie, Bored to Death, Chelsea Lately, Grand Theft Auto V, and two half-hour Comedy Central specials. Joe has also written, directed, and starred in a series of web shorts. Additionally, his writing has been featured on HBO’s Crashing, Comedy Central’s Jeff and Some Aliens and Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer, as well as The Pete Holmes Show.

Stand-up
Michael Glazer
Michael Glazer
Stand-up
Mike Glazer recently got Kanye West to quit X (Twitter), but that's a longer story that involves Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, and being called a "Jew Pig" by a Nazi heckler, which went mega-viral and was reported on by TMZ. Before taking down Fascism, Glazer smashed his 2024 Netflix is a Joke Fest Presents: Mike Glazer show. After that performance for a sold-out crowd at the biggest comedy festival in the world, Glazer performed in his first arena for the NHL Awards. Glazer has also had beyond memorable performances at two of the largest festivals in America, Outside Lands and SXSW, plus shows with Don't Tell Los Angeles, Comedy Central, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has written for HBO's Night of Too Many Stars (which earned him an Emmy nomination) and competed on Food Network's Worst Cooks in America. Glazer also smoked with Snoop, cooked with Gordon Ramsay, and won a gold medal as a roller hockey goalie for Team USA. For more, go to his Instagram @GlazerBooHoo.

Stand-up
Jon Rudnitsky
Jon Rudnitsky
Stand-up
Jon Rudnitsky is an actor, writer, and comedian who can be seen opposite George Clooney in the Hulu Series CATCH-22 and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIAM opposite Larry David. Rudnitsky also starred in Universal Pictures' ALL MY LIFE also performed in the Tyler Perry movie NOBODY’S FOOL, alongside Tiffany Haddish and Whoopi Goldberg.
In 2017, Rudnitsky starred in the Nancy Meyers produced feature HOME AGAIN, opposite Reese Witherspoon. He is also featured in a supporting role in Edward Burns’ SUMMERTIME, and Netflix’s comedy SET IT UP opposite Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch. Rudnitsky was added as the only new cast member of the 41st season of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Other TV credits include NBC’s CHAMPIONS, Disney's BIG HERO 6 series, Amazon’s RED OAKS, and Comedy Central’s THE COMEDY JAM, where he performed “Footloose” alongside Kenny Loggins.
As a stand up comedian, Rudnitsky tours all over the country, was selected for the prestigious New Faces showcase at Montreal’s Just For Laughs in 2015, and made his late night debut on CONAN in 2019.

Comedy
Scout Durwood
Scout Durwood
Comedy
SCOUT DURWOOD is an LA based writer/comedian. Her debut studio album, TAKE ONE THING OFF, was released with Blue Élan Records along with a twenty-two episode digital series of the same name, written and directed by Scout, which was nominated for Best Indie Series at the 2019 Streamy Awards. In 2020 and 2021 and she released follow up EP’s, COMEDY ELECTRONICA VOL. 1 & 2 and is currently in post production on her second feature length visual album, YOUTOPIA. Scout starred in MTV’s scripted comedy, MARY+JANE and FUNNY GIRLS on Oxygen. Her thirty minute comedy special is available on the Epix series, UNPROTECTED SETS. Scout is an accomplished cabaret singer and nationally touring comedian.

Stand-up
Michelle Ortiz
Michelle Ortiz
Stand-up
Michelle Ortiz is a comedian on the CW’s reboot of “MadTV.” She has officially bumped up the number of Latinas currently on late-night sketch comedy shows. Known for her brazen and bold humor, she studied at the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia and trained as a classical opera singer in Germany. Ortiz participated in the 2014 ABC Diversity Showcase and the 2016 CBS Diversity Showcase. Her television credits include “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Life in Pieces”, “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn” and “MadTV”.

Music
Stevvi Alexander
Stevvi Alexander
Music
Stevvi Alexander originally hails from Los Angeles but has toured the world extensively with artists including Diana Ross, Britney Spears, Sheryl Crow, Justin Timberlake, Cirque du Soleil - The Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour, Fleetwood Mac and Barbra Streisand. She is presently having a blast as the featured singer on the Game of Thrones Live tour featuring the incredible music of composer Ramin Djawadi. Most recently she can be heard singing throughout the score for the Disney film "A Wrinkle In Time" and was a part of the ensemble for the newest Steven Spielberg film "Ready Player One" She has recorded with artists including Incubus, Macy Gray and Colbie Caillat and can be heard on commercials for Mercedes Benz, VH-1, Lowe’s and Walmart - performing alongside Craig Robinson. For almost 10 years, she has been responsible for sourcing the vocal sections on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” working closely with The Roots as their vocal contractor. Through her company Choirgirl Music, she also regularly hires vocal sections/choirs for shows including “SNL”, “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “The David Letterman Show” among others. In 2012 she was featured in the Oscar-winning film “20 Feet From Stardom” along with Lisa Fisher and Judith Hill and holds a masters degree from NYU in Music Therapy choosing to pursue the degree based on her belief that music heals above all else. Aside from her professional work, she is one half of the Silverlake-based band Public Art with her partner Jan Ozveren with whom she writes and plays guitar. Lastly and most importantly, she loves Taco Tuesdays, has two pet goldfish named Prince and Vanity and values her role as a mother most of all.

Comedy
Kyle Kinane
Kyle Kinane
Comedy
Kyle Kinane is a comedian from Addison, Illinois. According to Wikipedia, he is a notable person from that town. Other notable residents of Addison have been the boxer Leon Spinks and a woman who wrote poetry about Beanie Babies.
Raised in such a cultural fondue pot as this, it was natural for Kyle to find his way from warehouse work into show business. As a comedian, he has been seen on Conan, The Tonight Show, Netflix’s “The Standups,” and three of his own hour-length specials on Comedy Central. As an actor, he’s been in the Judd Apatow series “Love” and truTV’s “Those Who Can’t.” He was also on “Drunk History,” where he unfortunately wasn’t acting. As a voice over actor, he was the former voice of Comedy Central for 8 years and currently plays Bullet on the Netflix series “Paradise PD.” He is also cohost of the Boogie Monster podcast along with Dave Stone, and the
streaming show “Hey Girl” with Matt Braunger. As a musician, he has done nothing, as he is not a musician.
Kyle’s most recent standup work, “Trampoline In A Ditch,” was recorded at Comedy on State in Madison, Wisconsin and was released on 800 LB Gorilla Records in 2020. The album was accompanied by an animated short, produced by Meister.
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