Joanie Coyote is an artist and comedian who has performed at some of the top comedy clubs in the country and has featured for comics such as Ron White, Wanda Sykes, George Lopez, and Dave Attell. She has performed Stand-Up Comedy, Sketch Comedy, and Improv at some of the top clubs and theaters in the country.

She headlined at the Egyptian Theater in Utah and performed at the Sundance Film Festival. Joanie got her degree in costume design and has designed for plays in New York, Houston, and Los Angeles as well as for film. She worked on Broadway as a dresser for Les Misérables and Most Happy Fella and at Parsons Mears as a first hand where she made costumes for many acclaimed Broadway productions, including Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon. Joanie got her start in comedy at the Laff Stop Comedy Club in Houston, TX, and had the honor of performing for U.S. troops in Asia.

Joanie has also been in numerous TV shows, commercials, and has acted in plays, including an Off-Broadway production of TOP GIRLS. She also won a Best Actress Award for her work in a short film. Besides performing, Joanie is also a writer, theater costume designer, college professor, artist, and instructor at Flappers Comedy Club.

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Joe Wong is an LA-based Chinese American comedian and former biochemistry researcher. He received a PhD degree in biochemistry from Rice University in 2000. He started his comedy career in Boston in 2001, and only two years later was a fi nalist in the Boston International Comedy and Film Festival. By 2010, he had placed fi rst in the Third Annual Great American Comedy Festival.

He headlines live stand-up comedy shows in both English and Chinese. He appeared on Letterman, Colbert, and Ellen shows, and headlined at the White House RTCA dinner and roasted Joe Biden. He's acted in many blockbuster fi lms and hosted his own TV show, Is It True? in China for 10 years.

In 2018, he was featured in the book First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great. Joe Wong also published several books and e-books of his own, such as Not This Shit Again! A Comedian's Guide To Tackling Anti-Asian Racism in 2020, and an autobiography in 2011, The Tao of Humor in China, which became a best seller that year. You can see him perform all over, and at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, CA!

Nishy XL (Acsell) (Peacock TV NBC) is an Indian/Pakistani talent raised in LA. She tours all over the US and she's been featured in the LA Times. She was also an improviser and former sketch writer for the Second City Hollywood, and as an SC house cast member, she wrote and performed monthly comedic sketch revues. She was the only South Asian on the house sketch team. In 2020, she placed in the top 10 in the National Comedy Open, was in the finals in the US Comedy Contest by Audience favorite vote, and went home with the "Spirit of Comedy" Medal at the 2021 Gutty's Indiana Clean Comedy Challenge. Born in a war zone, she moved to LA at a young age, worked in corporate America, got hives from the cubicle, went straight to the comedy club, and found her calling on the stage. Nishy produces shows all over LA, including the Hollywood Improv, and promotes underrepresented voices in stand-up. Whether it's cultural, edgy, dark, or clean, she can take her material anywhere with clever writing and quick wit. Catch her streaming and at all the major LA comedy clubs. Live from Flappers Comedy Club & Restaurant located in lovely downtown Burbank - the Entertainment Capital of the World.

Joey Bragg is a stand-up comedian and actor from Union City, CA. Known for his role as Joey Rooney on the Disney Channel series Liv and Maddie, Freddie Raines in Call Your Mother, and Magoo in the television film Fred 3: Camp Fred.

Joey started his stand-up career early as a teen, and has performed frequently at Flappers Comedy Club and Restaurant since the beginning, making stand-up comedy a prominent part of his life. Beginning at age 12, Joey wrote jokes and discovered a passion for comedy, so much that he was never willing to take an acting job if it meant he couldn't perform.

You can see Joey's most recent work on season 3 of The Comeback on HBO starring Lisa Kudrow, and frequently at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank.

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On today's episode of Flappers Presents - Behind the Funny, hosts Barbara Holliday and Joshua Snyder pull back the curtain and make exciting announcements about the future of Flappers Comedy Club and Restaurant, particularly about the process of franchising! Stay tuned for more exciting information regarding this, and be sure to contact Barbara Holliday if you are a CRP!

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