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“Brother-and-sister team John and Molly Knefel skip the sibling rivalry in favor of joke-telling, making charming videos and populating their monthly show with quality performers.” -Time Out New York

"A deceptively innocent-looking sibling act." -Joe Berkowitz, Splitsider.com

John and Molly Knefel are brother and sister and both staples of the NYC indie comedy scene. They've performed on Radio Happy Hour, Tell Your Friends, Comedy as a Second Language, We're All Friends Here, and the Keith and the Girl podcast. Their web series (John and Molly Get Along) has been featured in Punchline Magazine, The Apiary, Urlesque, and Funny Not Slutty. Their writing and other comedy videos have been featured on Gawker, the New York Times, CNN, Jezebel, and This American Life.

Past performers on their monthly show, John and Molly Get Along, include:

Janeane Garofalo, Hannibal Buress, Ted Alexandro,Kurt Braunohler,Sean Patton,Jordan Carlos

and much more.

Check him out here.

John F. O’Donnell works for the Comedy Forces of Good. He is a goddamn passionate Comedian living in New York City since 2005, where he performs his tits off. He started doing Stand Up in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2001 and he’s still totally into it. He also performed for a year in Dublin, Ireland in 2003. John is a high energy, high substance, stream of consciousness type, who also has outbursts of extreme brilliance. He’ll talk about anything: Sex, War, Nintendo Power Gloves, Creme Brulee. ANYTHING! He’s super fun to hang out with, as well. He’s pretty much beloved throughout all the land. And a lot of people call him JFOD. John F. O’Donnell has been featured as one of Comedy Central’s Fresh Faces of Comedy. He was nominated for a 2007 ECNY Award in the category of Best Emerging NYC Comic. He was a featured performer at the 2008 Bridgetown Comedy Festival (Portland, Oregon), as well as the 2008 New Orleans Comedy Arts Festival. He will be presenting his own show entitled, "JFOD Loves NYC Comedy Videos" at the 2008 Seattle True Independent Film Festival in June. He will also be making his Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut this August in a two person show entitled, "Irish American" alongside the inimitable Eleanor Tiernan. In New York City, John hosts a weekly Wednesday night 8pm show called The KINGDOM OF HEAVEN with his buddy, Timmy Williams, from IFC’s The Whitest Kids U’ Know. John also hosts a new biweekly Saturday night 8pm show called JFOD LOVES YOU. He’s so psyched about it all!

Susan Prekel is a NYC-based stand-up comic who has been featured on Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham" and "Comics Unleashed." In addition to performing regularly at shows throughout NYC< she has also appeared at the prestigious Montreal Comedy Festival in the "New Faces" and "Dating It" shows.

Mixing his spontaneous creativity and absurd view of the world, Rory Scovel is quickly making a name for himself across North America. Whether discussing drugs, politics, or life in general his infectious stage presence and engaging charisma will quickly shift the vibe of any room and place the audience in the scene of every punchline.