Comedy Mania

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Lauren Ashley Bishop
Lauren Ashley Bishop has been making people laugh since the day she could pretend fall. She may look like a nice southern belle, but don’t be confused. There is a razor sharp wit behind her debutante smile that can carve you up quicker than her mom can shoot whiskey. Lauren is a proud native of Arkansas, but once she learned that "fixin’ to" was not a proper verb in senior English class, she knew she had to venture out and see what else she had been wrong about. Turns out, there was a lot.

Lauren has performed at top clubs coast to coast, including The Improv, Zanies, The Ice House, Comix, and Gotham Comedy Club. She has also toured colleges across the nation and was named a 2009 Hot Up and Coming Comic by Campus Activities Magazine!

Johnny Cardinale
Johnny Cardinale is one of the leading touring college comedians in the nation. He has traveled to all 50 states in the last four years alone. You've also seen him on Chelsea Lately, Jimmy Kimmel Live and doing sketches for the Emmys on TV Guide Channel.

Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, he now calls Los Angeles home and works regularly at all the major clubs in Hollywood when he's not touring.


Tom Connolly
Tom Connolly has toured the world entertaining our military in more than 15 countries, including Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. An accomplished actor as well as comedian, he has appeared on programs such as The Tonight Show, Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin, House and Criminal Minds.

Connolly has also worked with Operation Gratitude for more than 10 years, producing benefit shows to raise money and awareness for an organization that has packed and shipped more than 600,000 care packages worldwide to the men and women serving in our military.


David Forseth
David Forseth is an accomplished comedian and actor. He recently appeared in Cold Case and General Hospital as well as on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio and National Lampoon Radio and will be heard in the animated 3D film Escape From Planet Earth in the summer of 2012. He also is the creator/star of his own online talk show, Speakeasy. Born and raised in Montana, Forseth has a brother and uncle both retired as officers from the Navy, a cousin who is an officer and Army Ranger (survivor of a suicide bomb attack in Iraq) and another cousin currently in the Navy; it is an honor for him to be performing for the troops.