Patty Rooney is a Detroit-based comedian and self- proclaimed recovering people pleaser, using her sharp, self-deprecating humor to turn life’s awkward moments into universal struggles. Drawing from a childhood of overthinking, a chaotic family, and the everyday struggles of womanhood, she brings an authentic and relatable voice to the stage.
Patty has opened for comedic legends like Tim Meadows (SNL), Alex English, and Keith Alberstadt, and has shared stages with some of Michigan’s finest talent. She’s a familiar face across the Midwest and Canada, including the Detroit Women of Comedy Festival and Traverse City Comedy Festival.
Marv Barnett hails from Flint, Michigan and has been doing comedy since 2017. His relatable stories, including his ‘love’ of family and kids, will have you laughing and wanting for more.
Adam Degi is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after three-time cancer-surviving, bald, white comedians with a Hungarian last name in the world. You can add fatherhood, well-crafted jokes, and improvisation to his repertoire. He’s been a guest on most of the comedy-based podcasts you’ve never heard of, and he has a real knack for making your dad laugh. By the time you read this, he’ll have a few more followers on TikTok and a few less on Instagram. The only thing that can stop him is getting cancer a third time. What if I told you it happened…AGAIN. He’s on his way to another victory, the only way he knows how: saying things he shouldn’t in front of strangers
Sean Shank began his comedy career in the Midwest as a house MC for Crackers Comedy Clubs, a cartoonist, and writer for humor publications. After only a year of putting in work, he began performing at clubs around the country. Over the years he has evolved from a set-up and punch comedian to one who has cultivated a friendly, measured, storytelling-style that helps him find common ground among audiences from New York to New Mexico. His set centers around family life, his college experiences, relationship woes and wins, growing up an isolated and poor country kid, and the things that confuse him. Sean’s ultra-friendly style on stage makes him likeable, and relatable, to audiences. He gets big laughs as a headliner and feature wherever he goes by peppering his stories with quick jokes leading up to massive punches at the end! Sean has been on CBS Stand-up Spotlight, Showtime’s Comedy on the Road, Night Shift, Starmakers, Def Jam, and he was a five-time Laughfest Pro selection. He has worked with Kevin Farley, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jeff Dunham, Carlos Mencia, Dave Attell, D.L. Hughley, Christopher Titus, Ron White, Doug Stanhope, Davin Rosenblatt, Kevin Downey Jr., Dave Landau, Robert Day, Greg Hahn, Mike Armstrong, Bob Zany, Mike Green, Larry Reeb, Mike Birbiglia, Dustin Diamond, Pauley Shore, Ralphie May, Jackie Fabulous and many others. Sean has a BA in English and Creative Writing and a Master’s in Writing and Teaching Writing from Johns Hopkins University and is currently working on his PhD. He has completed six novels, a multitude of articles, and an anthology of short stories. Currently he resides in Michigan and spends his days managing a comedy club, blacksmithing, and teaching writing at two colleges.
or you can just say I’m a redneck who learned to read.
Darrick Ervin II is the kind of comic who isn’t afraid to take you to places most people avoid—places that are a little uncomfortable, a little too real, but ultimately hilarious. Think of his act as a comedic courtroom, where he stands as both prosecutor and defendant, using laughter as his weapon of choice to expose uncomfortable truths and poke fun at the status quo. He’s not just telling jokes; he’s are daring you to think, to question, and to laugh so hard you can’t help but whoop, howl, and guffaw.
Home Club: Mark Ridleys Comedy Castle.
He has performed at Ridleys, Laugh Factory in Chicago, Detroit House of Comedy, Funny Bone in Toledo, The Comedy Project in Grand Rapids, One Night Stans and have hosted at The Second City in Chicago, as well as at the Traverse City Comedy Club.
In September, 2024 he auditioned at The Comedy Chateau in Los Angeles and will perform in December.
He was a finalist in Ridleys Detroit to LA Competition, performed in Gilda’s Laughfest, Maumee Comedy Festival, Jersey City Comedy Festival, the Upper Peninsula Comedy Festival and the Finger Lakes Comedy Festival.
Nazik Najar uses her dry sense of humor, and cynical point of view, to tell stories about teaching, culture, and family. People usually don’t say her name right on the first try. Or second. Or third.
Nazik made her comedy debut at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle. She has since performed at One Night Stan’s, Detroit House of Comedy, and the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase. Nazik has performed with the Micaholics Comedy Crew, at private events, and all manners of open mics around town.
Keith Lenart is an internationally touring comedian, working clubs across the U.S. and shows overseas for the troops. A regular at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, Keith also enjoys entertaining at corporate events and private parties. His television and film appearances include Last Comic Standing, NBC’s So You Think you’re Funny, American Wedding, and Vamps with Sigourney Weaver and Richard Lewis. He has worked with comedy legends such as Bobcat Goldthwait, Pauly Shore, Jim Gaffigan, Caroline Rhea, Judy Tenuta and more.
