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The Mermaid Comedy Hour with Valerie Tosi, Aparna Nancherla, Jena Friedman, Joleen Lunzer, Aisha Alfa, Liz Magee, Lindsay Adams, and more!
Mon, 10 Dec, 9:30 PM PST
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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
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
Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla
Comedy
Aparna Nancherla is a comedian and general silly billy. Her sense of humor is dry, existential, and absurd, with notes of uncalled-for whimsy. Think a wine you didn’t order. Her book, Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself and Impostor Syndrome (Viking), is currently available via Penguin Random House and was released on September 19, 2023.
You can hear Aparna as the voice of Moon on Fox’s The Great North, or have heard her as the voice of Hollyhock on Bojack Horseman. You can currently watch Aparna on episodes of After Midnight (CBS) or in The Drop on Hulu. You may have watched Aparna as Grace the belabored HR rep on the critically acclaimed Comedy Central show, Corporate.
She also has a half-hour special on the second season of The Standups on Netflix, as well as appearances on Late Night with Stephen Colbert on CBS and Two Dope Queens on HBO. Other acting credits include A Simple Favor, Modern Love, Bob’s Burgers, Crashing, Master of None, Lopez vs. Lopez, and Inside Amy Schumer. She’s written for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and Late Night with Seth Meyers, as well as Mythic Quest on Apple+. Aparna was also named one of “The 50 Funniest People Right Now” by Rolling Stone. In 2019, she was in a Super Bowl commercial with Michael Bublé for sparkling water neé seltzer.
In 2016, she released her debut album, Just Putting It Out There, on Tig Notaro’s label, Bentzen Ball Records, and recorded a half hour special for Comedy Central. She was also chosen as one of Variety’s “Top 10 Comics to Watch” that year.

Comedy
Jena Friedman
Jena Friedman
Comedy

Comedy
Aisha Alfa
Aisha Alfa
Comedy
Aisha Alfa is a comedian, actor, writer, and host who performs on stages all over the world. You may recognize her as Carolyn on Peacock’s “Based On A True Story” or Ms Grell from the Degrassi franchise. As a Mama of two, she’s very excited to be here with you all…mostly cause her kids aren’t here.
Comedy
Liz Magee
Liz Magee
Comedy
Comedy
Lindsay Adams
Lindsay Adams
Comedy

Comedy
Jenny Zigrino
Jenny Zigrino
Comedy
Jenny Zigrino made her late night debut on Conan with Conan O’Brien and performed a total of three guest appearances. In 2023 she performed on The Late Late Show with James Corden and was met with rave reviews. She was a Just For Laugh’s New Faces in 2016 and since then has been featured on Comedy Central, MTV, HBO, Netflix is a Joke and many others. She starred in films such as Bad Santa 2 along Billy Bob Thornton and in the horror comedy Too Late in 2021. She’s headlined festivals like Moon Tower, New York Comedy Festival, and High Plains Comedy Festival. She’s written and performed several comedy specials including Comedy Central Presents the Half Hours and her latest hour special Jen-Z premiered on Comedy Central Digital in 2023. Her latest appearance on After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson has been hailed as one of the funniest episodes yet by fans. Her most recent Don’t Tell Comedy special is out now.