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Season 4 FINALE, let's absolutely go! Another camp themed story with the legendary Daily Show writer SOPHIE ZUCKER. 

Sophie Zucker is a comedian, living in Brooklyn. She just came off three seasons, starring as Abby on Apple TV's Dickinson, a show on which she was also a writer. She can be seen in the upcoming New Line/Picturestart movie Sweethearts, written and directed by Jordan Weiss. Sophie has performed original work at Joe's Pub, Union Hall, The Bell House, Littlefield, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Second City, UCB, Vital Joint, and Lifeworld and trained at some of those places, too. Other favorite TV/Film credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; the Mindy Kaling feature Late Night, and Comedy Central's The Other Two. Last year, she developed a show with ABC/Tiny Reparations. She performs monthly with her all-female comedy collective Ladies Who Ranch at Union Hall. She's also currently workshopping her one woman musical about incest Sophie Sucks Face all over the city. Sophie grew up in New York and attended Hunter College High School. She went on to graduate from Oberlin College with a BA in Religion and Creative Writing. She is down to hang out.

Ever swallow a pill that's just too damn big?? Then you will totally understand Brian Bahe's story tonight. 

Brian Bahe (he/him) is an Indigenous (enrolled member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, Hopi, Navajo), gay (vers bottom) comedian, writer, and turquoise jewelry model (jk) originally from Phoenix, Arizona, now based in Los Angeles by way of New York City. He was a New Face at the 2022 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. He is a writer for the show “The Great North” on FOX. He’s taped a standup set for Comedy Central’s “Stand-Up Featuring.” He’s headlined Caroline’s on Broadway. His animated comedy pilot “Decolonize” was selected for the 2022 Indigenous List, which is a collaboration between The Blacklist, the Sundance Institute, and IllumiNative. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s. He’s been featured in NPR, Vulture, and The Los Angeles Times. He was one of IllumiNative’s “25 Native American Comedians to Follow in 2020.” He was profiled in the book We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff.

This week we have great guests including: Andy Cohen, Donald Trump, Andy Puddicombe... kidding it's all Matt Friend. He does impressions... and they're good btw!
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Matthew Friend is an old soul living inside a 23-year-old impressionist’s body. Matthew graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School in 2020, but his love of comedy and entertainment was sparked when he was four years old. He had watched Austin Powers (yes, as a four-year-old) and started mimicking the characters’ voices—and the rest was history. To date, Matthew has almost 350K followers on TikTok. He has appeared on the Today Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, NBC’s New York Live TV, Good Day LA, Good Day NY, and WGN. In 2019, Matthew won Kenan Thompson’s Ultimate Comedy Experience at Carolines on Broadway. His professional experience includes hosting HQ Trivia, performing at corporate events, and doing stand-up comedy throughout the country. Matthew’s repertoire includes more than 250 impressions ranging from Rami Malek to Timothee Chalamet. His favorite to do right now is Jennifer Coolidge.

You know him and love him from BONDING and HEATHERS  ... it's Brendan Scannell! Get ready to drift off to sleep as you listen to Brendan talk about Coldstone Creamery, the Amish, and sexual tension.  GOOD NIGHT!

Brendan Scannell is an actor and comedian known for playing the lead roles of Heather Duke in the Paramount Network series Heathers (2018) and Pete Devon in the Netflix dark comedy series Bonding for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor In A Short Form Comedy Or Drama Series.

We hope you're feeling LOTS of calmness right now. It's time to venture into the great outdoors for SUMMER CAMP vibes with our amazing storyteller Reid Pope. 

Reid Pope is a comedian, playwright, and Jew who’s been featured in PAPER, Vulture, and Boys With Plants Magazine. They were recently named a 2022 New York Comedy Festival Content Creator To Watch. Reid does stand-up weekly around NYC/BK and has performed at Big Pine Comedy Festival (Best Of Fest) & Edinburgh Fringe.  They’ve developed plays with Jewish Plays Project, Normal Ave, Primetime Theatre, & The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. 

Happy Sunday! Our second guest of season four? You know her, you love her... it's Jamie Linn Watson!

Jamie Linn Watson is an NYC-based actor and comedian, best known as “The Sprintern” on Sprint’s National Ad Campaigns. She has a BFA in Drama with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting at NYU Tisch, with a minor in the Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology. Jamie was a member of NYU's premier improv troupe, Dangerbox, and has performed at the Upright Citizen's Brigade, the People's Improv Theater, The Annoyance, the National College Improv Tournament, The Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and with the Story Pirates. She has also studied Film and TV Acting at Stonestreet Studios. Jamie is blonde, petite, and rarely ever late. She is not married to former teen star, Jamie Lynn Spears, as Google suggests she is. 

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Are you tucked in and ready to sleep for a year? Here comes the hilarious comedian, podcaster extraordinaire known George Civeris! Ever heard of Quibi, Los Angeles?! 

George Civeris is a comedian and writer based in Brooklyn. He's currently a senior editor at Gawker, and has previously written for The Outline, the Columbia Journalism Review, and other outlets.  His standup has appeared on Comedy Central, and he was selected as a New Face of Comedy at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. He has written for FOX's Let's Be Real, Comedy Central's Drag His Ass, the BBC's Comedians vs. the News, and Roku's Gayme Show. Along with Sam Taggart, he co-hosts the comedy podcast StraightioLab, which was named one of the best podcasts of the year by Esquire, Glamour, and Nylon, and Time Magazine. 

SEASON 4 PREMIERE ALERT! The stunning and hilarious Dylan Mulvaney is here to make your dreams culm true. 

Dylan was touring North America with the Broadway musical Book of Mormon as Elder White when everything shut down due to Covid! She was like... what now? She  realized her new female gender identity,  signed up for the TikTok app, and started documenting her transition. She now has over 10 Million followers! This year she was awarded the TikTok Trailblazer award, interviewed President Joe Biden, and made it on Good Morning America's "Who is Making LGBTQ+ History Right Now?" list. 

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CULM is a collection of crazy yet true sleep stories told by your favorite comedians, designed to help you relax. With these funny bedtime stories, you will laugh yourself to sleep knowing you haven’t screwed up as hard as our storytellers. 

Season 2 guests include Dylan Mulvaney (TIKTOK), Brendan Scannell (BONDING, HEATHERS, BROMATES), George Civeris (ZIWE, STRAIGHTIOLAB, COMEDY CENTRAL), Sophie Zucker (DICKINSON, LATE NIGHT, MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL), Matt Friend (THE SIMPSONS, HOW TO SELL DRUGS ONLINE FAST) and more!

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SEASON 3 FINALE ALERT! The hot and hilarious Kate Owens is here to make your dreams culm true. 

Thanks for sticking with us sillies - we'll see you soon for Season 4. 

Kate is a NYC-based actor, comedian, and award-winning clown known for her fearless commitment to characters and audacious physical comedy. She was a New Face at the Just For Laughs Festival (2021). Her critically-acclaimed solo show, Cooking with Kathryn, won "Best Physical Comedy" at Frigid Fest and "Critics Choice" at PortFringe Fest and has played throughout New York & LA. Kate earned a spot on the highly coveted Cirque du Soleil roster and has studied with the French master clown, Philippe Gaulier, AKA "The Tormentor." She spent a year as an apprentice at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and has toured comedy shows in the U.K. and Prague

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