HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE FUNDRAISING

A Comedy Benefit for Emily Gallagher

Candidate for NYS Assembly, 50th District

Wed, January 8th @ Elsewhere

7:00pm doors / 8:00pm show

Featuring:

Ted Alexandro - Ted has made multiple appearances on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson and The View. He’s had two half-hour specials on Comedy Central. Ted is one of the co-founders of the New York Comedians Coalition, which successfully organized over three hundred comedians for the first pay raise since the 1980’s.

Kelly Bachman - Kelly is a writer, director, producer, comedian and musician from North Carolina—currently based in New York. The odds are, you know Kelly from that one time a show producer thought it would be a cool idea to invite an alleged serial rapist (Harvey Weinstein) to watch Kelly perform stand- up comedy. Someone taped Kelly’s set that night and shared it, so she talked to CNN about it, and wrote something for The New York Times and The Guardian too.

Josh Gondelman - Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and works as a writer and producer for Desus & Mero on Showtime. Previously, he spent five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, first as a web producer and then as a staff writer. He’s also the author of the essay collection Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results published September 2019 by Harper Perennial.

Jo Firestone - Jo Firestone is a Brooklyn-based comedian who can be seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Joe Pera Talks With You, High Maintenance, Shrill, The Chris Gethard Show, and others. She can be heard on Maximum Fun’s Dr. Gameshow, a podcast she co-hosts with Manolo Moreno. Her album, "The Hits" is available on Comedy Central Records, and if you like puns, check out Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers. She is very willing work with animals please consider her for animals.

Judah Friedlander - Judah Friedlander is an actor, author and comedian, best known for playing the role of writer Frank Rossitano on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. His 2019 Netflix special is "America is the Best Country in the United States."

Lane Moore - Lane Moore is a comedian, actor, writer, and musician based in New York City. She has been described by The NY Times as “ingenious…The way she manipulates tone and pace reveals an artist supremely confident in her form.” In 2018, her first book, How To Be Alone: If You Want To And Even If You Don’t was released and became a #1 bestseller.

Shalewa Sharpe - Shalewa developed her sly yet goofy style in Atlanta, where she was raised. Currently based in Brooklyn, she has joked on so many shows, festivals, and podcasts that in 2017 Time Out NY labeled her a “local fixture.” She has joked on HBO’s “2 Dope Queens” and Comedy Central’s “The New Negroes.” She got serious while playing the role of Yvette in John Cameron Mitchell's musical podcast "Anthem: Homunculus," but then she went right back to joking in her solo show, “Don’t Reach In The Bag.” She has two albums of jokes: “Stay Eating Cookies” (2016) and “So You Just Out Here?” (2019).

// LAUREN FLAX WILL BE SPINNING BETWEEN SETS! //

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Emily Gallagher is a fierce and fearless community activist in North Brooklyn. She's been organizing with her Greenpoint neighbors for tenant protections, environmental justice, and rights for survivors of sexual abuse and harassment for over a decade. Now she's running for New York State Assembly against an incumbent who's been in office since 1973. Learn more and get involved at emilyforassembly.com

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