Kurt Braunohler

Kurt Braunohler is a comedian who once hired a skywriter to write "HOW DO I LAND?" in the sky over LA. In features, Kurt can be seen in the Oscar-nominated film “The Big Sick”, with Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in "Long Shot", the horror sensation “Barbarian”, and alongside Michelle Pfeiffer in “Oh. What. Fun.” On TV: "Bob's Burgers,” "The Good Place," “Murderville”, “Black Monday," "Lady Dynamite," "American Housewife," and many more. He’s done multiple late night spots on The Tonight Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conan, The Late Late Show with James Cordenn, as well as appearing too many times on After Midnight. In stand up, Kurt’s 3rd special “Perfectly Stupid” was heralded by the NYTimes as doing “…what fresh comedy can, make you see things that were always there but never noticed.” His wildly popular strange news podcast BANANAS is available wherever you get podcasts. And lastly, he once jet-skiied from Chicago to New Orleans for charity.

Kurt performs on Saturday, March 14th

Mia Jackson

Mia Jackson, a native of Columbus, GA, started her stand up career in Atlanta. Now living in New York, Mia performs regularly around the city when not on the road. She has written for Life & Beth (Hulu) and I Love Us (BET+).

A true multi-hyphenate, Mia landed a voiceover role as the narrator for My Celebrity Dream Wedding (VH1) and has half hour comedy specials on MGM+ and Comedy Central. She was recently featured on Season 2 of Nateland Presents: The Showcase and Don't Tell Comedy.

Mia performs on Saturday, March 14th

Chris Gethard

Chris Gethard is an American actor, comedian and writer. He was the host of The Chris Gethard Show, a talk show based in New York City, which aired from 2011 to 2018. He hosts the podcasts Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People and New Jersey is the World.

Chris performs on Friday, March 13th

Mohanad Elshieky

Mohanad Elshieky is a New York based, Libyan born comedian who made his national TV debut on Conan, has been featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Don’t Tell Comedy, Comedy Central, This American Life, and has toured with Pop Up Magazine. In 2025, Mohanad released his first stand up special with Comedy Dynamics titled NO NEED TO ADDRESS ME. The special received critical acclaim for its sharp joke-writing and was listed as a top comedy special on DECIDER and made the “Best Of List” on NPR’S BULLSEYE WITH JESSE THORN.

Mohanad is currently a regular at the Comedy Cellar in NYC.

Mohanad was also a digital producer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Mohanad combines a deceptively laid-back demeanor with his whip-smart perspective on politics and culture.

Mohanad performs on Friday, March 13th

Steven Wilber

As a writer, director, scientist, mercenary and family man, Steven Wilber (born Esteban Cox-Arquette) injects his brand of down-home musings and eldritch incantations into everything he does. Since his early beginnings as bassist for Better Than Ezra cover band, Worse Than Ezra, Steven’s star grew to meteoric heights, starring in 90s sitcom, “Nurse Cop,” wowing audiences with his one-person play “Hey God, Shut Up About My Trauma,” and becoming TikTok famous with his “Spaghettihump Challenge.”

In 2019, Steven suddenly passed away at the age of 23, due to complications from a pasta-related injury earlier that year.

Steven performs on Friday, March 13th

David Tveite

David Tveite (pronounced like “whitey” with a ‘t’ in front of it) is a lanky, perpetually embarrassed Minnesotan guy who has been thrilling and delighting audiences with his unique, cleverly crafted standup comedy for over ten years. He is a cheerful pessimist with material that is absurd but acerbic, cranky but whimsical, and cerebral but also very, very stupid. People seem to like it for the most part.

David has appeared on NBC's "Last Comic Standing" and performed at festivals across the country, including Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Atlanta’s Laughing Skull Comedy Festival and Seattle’s Bumbershoot Music Festival. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

David performs on Saturday, March 14

Arlo Weierhauser

Arlo Weierhauser is a pretty fun. They were “Portland’s Funniest Person” in 2017, performed at Just for Laughs Montreal 2018, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and were in Disney's "Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made". They can be seen in Epix Season 2 of "Unprotected Sets".

Arlo performs on Friday, March 13th

Shain Brenden

Shain Brenden grew up in Millington, Tennessee. He is the second most famous person from there after Justin Timberlake. His album “Either Way, Pretty Funny” debuted at #2 on iTunes because he’s very humble.

He’s been featured on Don’t Tell Comedy and can be heard regularly on Sirius XM anytime you get a rental car. While making the rounds in comedy festivals like High Plains, 10,000 Laughs, Laughing Skull, San Francisco Sketchfest and Limestone Comedy Fest, Shain was also crowned Portland’s Funniest Person in 2022 at Helium Comedy Club in Portland, Oregon. You’ve probably seen him in projects for NBA 2K, Nike, Google, Lowes, and Navy Federal Credit Union, if not, he still got paid pretty well for all of them. He was also a long time co-host of NBA pre/post game shows for the Portland Trail Blazers on NBC Sports, and currently is trying to break 80 on the golf course. One time in college he threw a half-eaten corn dog that got stuck in Eli Mannings helmet and that’s…that’s just cool.

Dianna Potter

Dianna Potter has been named one of the Portland Mercury’s “Geninuses of Comedy.” Her humor is drawn from a, rich, shall we say, tapestry of life experiences.