2023 LINEUP
PLEASE NOTE: This is 2023’s lineup. For this current year’s comedians, go here.
WHAT A crop!
KYLE KINANE
Kyle Kinane is an internationally touring comedian who has appeared on “Drunk History", "@Midnight," "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," "Conan," "Workaholics," "This Is Not Happening," "Not Safe with Nikki Glaser" and "Comedy Bang! Bang!" He is featured in Season 2 of Netflix’s “The Standups” released in February 2018. He invented science. He has ESP. He is a recurring character on Netflix's "Love" created by Judd Apatow. He let someone else write most of this bio. He can swim backwards. He has released three Comedy Central specials: "Kyle Kinane: Loose in Chicago", "I Liked His Old Stuff Better" and "Whiskey Icarus". Also, farts.
BRENT WEINBACH
Brent Weinbach's stand-up comedy is weird and stupid and visual and post-modern and random and other stuff.
Brent is a recipient of the Andy Kaufman Award, which recognizes innovation in stand-up comedy. He is also responsible for various internet video sensations such as Gangster Party Line, Mind Jack, Man Gives Birth, and Ultimate Drumming Technique, as well as the cult web series, Pound House. Brent has appeared on Conan, Lopez Tonight, Comedy Central (The Meltdown, @midnight, Corporate, Kroll Show, Another Period), Cartoon Network (Adventure Time, Clarence), IFC (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Garfunkel and Oates), ABC, and Adult Swim, and also toured with the Comedians of Comedy. He plays the role of Brent on the TBS show The Dress Up Gang and his stand-up special "Appealing to the Mainstream" is on Amazon Prime.
"...obscenely, disturbingly brilliant." -L.A. Weekly
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".
SHAIN BRENDEN
Shain Brenden is a comedian, writer, actor and pretty much solid guy. Born from a Filipino mother and Bahamian father, (explains his face), raised in the South, (explains his accent), top it all off with being a husband, father, and military veteran, Shain uses his life experiences and knack for storytelling to paint a picture of a man "just trying his best with what he has." He was crowned “Portland's Funniest Person,” dubbed an “Undisputable Genius of Comedy” by the Portland Mercury, and named one of Willamette Weekly's "Funniest Five."
KATE MURPHY
Kate Murphy is a Portland based comedian and artist. She performs all around the PNW, has produced multiple shows in Portland, and is a regular at Helium Comedy Club.
Kate wrote and co-produced the short film “A HUMP! Public Service Announcement” which won ‘best humor’ HUMP! Film Festival 2017. She’s been featured in Hell Yes Fest, The NW Women’s Comedy Festival, Pacific Crest Comedy Fest, and more. Kate was a finalist in Helium Comedy Club's Portland's Funniest Person Contest 2018, and was named one of the Portland Mercury's Undisputed Geniuses of Comedy the same year. In 2020, she was featured on the Helium Comedy Records album "Best of Helium Volume 1".
PHIL SCHALLBERGER
Phil Schallberger is a comedian from Portland Oregon. He's recognized as one of the most unique and uncompromising comics in the Pacific Northwest and has been featured in the Seattle Sketchfest, San Francisco Sketchfest, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, TBA, and Hell Yes Fest. Mixing his years of experience with formal stand-up, sketch, and improv, Phil is able to weave in and out of multimedia, character, and sketch performance to create a distinctive solo-sketch show which has been regarded favorably by many. If you’re looking for something new that combines all your favorite elements of comic performances, Phil Schallberger is the guy for you.
If that's not what you're looking for, might I recommend the comedian Kevin Hart.
JORDAN CASNER
Jordan Casner is a comedian from Portland, Oregon. He has performed in festivals including the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and 10,000 Laughs Festival and has opened and toured for acts including David Spade, Taylor Tomlinson, and Brian Regan. He has two cats and a solid night routine.
Becky Braunstein
Becky Braunstein grew up on a mountain in Eagle River, Alaska where she had no one to talk to, moved to Portland, Oregon after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and almost losing her voice forever - but she didn’t lose it, and now she won’t shut up.
A uniquely enthusiastic comedian and actor, she appears in Trinkets on Netflix, Chad on HBOMax, Shrill on Hulu, and was recently featured in Teen Vogue, in an article which insisted that each one of her life experiences "deserves [its] own television show". Wanda Sykes & Page Hurwitz agreed, producing Becky’s half-hour stand-up/documentary special as part of ‘Unprotected Sets’ on EPIX.
Jamie Carbone
Jamie Carbone is a comedian whose lifetime of awkward experiences and faking adulthood have helped them find a voice for themselves, originally in West Virginia, then Chicago, now Portland. They have been a featured performer for showcases and festivals across the country, including Boston’s Thunderfest and Phoenix’s Bird City Comedy Festival, was named one of the Portland Mercury’s Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy, and is a regular performer at Portland’s Helium Comedy Club.