On the Mic with Mike Peters
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354 episodes
Joe Briggs and the Parallel Parker
Joe Briggs has been doing stand-up since April of 2019. He got his start in sketch and improv and got bullied into stand-up by some of his best friends in the Cleveland comedy scene. He's been in New York City for the last 3 1/2 years. His spec...
Kinsey Ford and the Free Comedy Shows
Kinsey Ford is a really funny comedian in Dallas. She started doing stand-up in Wichita, Kan., back in 2019 -- right before the pandemic. She moved to Charleston, S.C., for a year before settling in Dallas. She's working at the clubs and partic...
Connor Dixon and the Jared Fogle GoFundMe
Connor Dixon grew up in Chicago, went to school at Penn State and partied so much in New York City that his girlfriend told him to do stand-up. That was back in 2018 and his now wife only regrets it a little. He performs regularly all over New ...
Jake Piskor and the Most Approachable Person in Buffalo
Jake Piskor has been doing stand-up in Buffalo since 2017. It only took him nine years to become Buffalo's Funniest Person. He won that honor on Sunday, July 19 and never has to compete in that contest again. Whether it's his thirst for more de...
Nick Fierro and the Woman Floating in the Basement
Nick Fierro is a ridiculously funny comedian in Jersey City, N.J. He grew up watching In Living Color and George Carlin with his parents and is a major comedy nerd. This October, he'll be at The Fest in Gainesville, Fla., with a loaded lineup o...
Vinnie Paulino and the Rochester Comedy Festival
Vinnie Paulino has been doing stand-up for about 20 years. He did his first open mic in Texas before coming to Rochester. He started working the clubs in town in 2007 and has been with Comedy at the Carlson since it opened in 2016. He and one o...
Rachel Hendricks and the Hunt for a Good Persona
Rachel Hendricks has been studying science since she was at Shippensburg University. She was active in politics and had a good job in Pottsville, Pa. Then she enrolled in a stand-up class and developed a new interest. She's one of the better "y...
DJ Dangler and the Whole-Body Hug
DJ Dangler has spent the last 20 years working his way from New York City to Los Angeles, telling jokes wherever he can. He graduated from Purdue and wrote his first jokes while working at an accountant's office. He found a place on stage. He's...
Jordan Berry and the Obama Stamp
Jordan Berry is an up-and-coming comedian from Lexington, Ky. He moved to Louisville recently to put more time into stand-up. He's a regular at the clubs in the area and is producing the Spotless Clean Comedy Show at The Spot Comedy Club in Lex...
Johnny Mocny and the Dual Citizenship
Johnny Mocny spent the first eight years of his comedy career in Lansing, Mich., traveling the state and working all over the Midwest. He started coming to Chicago regularly in 2025 and moved there in January, joining his friend and Rocket Forc...
Tony Sykowski and the Strip Tent Show
Tony Sykowski grew up in Hadley, Mass., and began doing sketch and improv in Chicago. After five years there, he came to New York City and started traveling up the stand-up ladder in 2018. He's performed at the Asheville Comedy Festival and the...
Bob McClure and the Last Days in Akron
Bob McClure likes comedy and baseball. It's tough to know which one he likes more, though those 1990s Indians teams grabbed hold pretty tightly. He graduated college with a theater degree and moved to Los Angeles in 2017. He got a crash course ...
Eric Camp and the Pep Rally Sack Race
Eric Camp has been doing standup in the Binghamton, N.Y., area for two years. He played in punk bands growing up and made fun of the other bands and scene kids from the stage. He started to go to local comedy shows and attended the open mics fo...
Aaron Richter and the Sad Night in a Strip Club
Aaron Richter did his first stand-up set in Guatemala, like most comedians. He picked it up again when he got to Chicago and is now in West Lebanon, N.H. He runs a pair of open mics and produces shows at Bright Side Brewing in West Lebanon. He'...
Chris Nakis and the Best Rumor Ever
Chris Nakis has been all over the country doing stand-up. Well, he's been on both coasts. That good enough. He started in Boston 14 years ago before moving to Portland, Ore. After five years there, he and his wife moved to the Pittsburgh area. ...
Tony Rodriguez and the Warm Hug
Tony Rodriguez loves the Greensboro, N.C., comedy scene. He switched from music to stand-up seven years ago. After a rough start, he started to get the hang of his new hobby and is trying to make a career out of it. He helps run The Sidewalk Cr...
Michael Harrison and the Power of Edmonton
Michael Harrison started doing stand-up in Saskatchewan when he was 17 years old. Unless you count the time he roasted his uncle when he was 9. He moved to Toronto, then found his footing in Edmonton before going back to Toronto, where he got J...
Julianna Wiggins and the Comedy PhD
Julianna Wiggins is a comedian in Ypsilanti, Mich., where she's splitting time between the stage, the classroom and the rugby field. She's at the University of Michigan, working on her doctorate. Her dissertation on the Latina comedy scene in C...
Cat Mattis and the Wrong Day for That Video
Cat Mattis started doing stand-up in September of 2022 while working on a Master's degree at SUNY Brockport. It's definitely a unique way to stand out in the Buffalo comedy scene. She got her start in Rochester, but moved northwest at the end o...
Nicky D and the Worst Comedian in Chicago
Nicky D is a very funny comedian in Cleveland. Despite the crippling anxiety, he's been doing stand-up for 13 years and is working himself all across the northern part of the country. He began his career in Chicago and considers himself, in hin...
Adam Pasi and the Wrong Side of a Standing Ovation
Adam Pasi moved around the world with his military family until finally settling down in Portland, Ore., when he was 20 years old. Always the funny and attention-seeking friend, he started doing stand-up in 2012 when he was 32. He's one of the ...
Skyler Bolks and the Security Hundred-Dollar Bill
Skyler Bolks has done stand-up in 37 states over the last 10 years. He played basketball at Mount Mary University in Yankton, S.D., and he's found the competition he needs with himself on stage. He's one of the best comedians working in South D...
Ben Compton and the Concrete Slab
Ben Compton is one of the funniest comedians working in Hattiesburg, Miss. He started doing stand-up in 2014 and found himself on Hart of the City with Kevin Hart in 2017. He's learned a lot since them -- like always listen to your wife. He's g...
Patrick McKinstry and the Comedy Detective
Patrick McKinstry started doing stand-up in New York City in 2016. He commuted from Connecticut for a year before realizing there's comedy happening everywhere. He's in Norwich, Conn., now and works regularly in the Boston scene. He's an excell...
Sam Rager and the Benefit of Attrition
Sam Rager started doing stand-up in 2012 during her senior year at Wayne State University. She's a regular face around the Detroit comedy scene and released her debut album, Trigger Warning, in 2019. Her special, "Hot Dog Hands," is streaming o...