The Forum

Natalie Morales currently studies performing arts at VCU and is training to become a yoga instructor. She's really excited to be on the podcast because she's never heard her own voice before and now she can listen to the episode and get to know that part of herself.

Sandy Honig is a photographer, rapper, and comedian and works for Rookie Mag. Please, call her Sandrew!

Rollie Williams is from Denver. He's way way way into snooker. He's a graduate of the UCB improv program, and taking classes at the Annoyance. He's the pale half of the sketch and improv group Stevedore and co-writes and co-produces Love Factually at the Annoyance theater. Follow his various spleebs slobs on the interblarg.

Rita Chinyere is a writer and comedian based in NYC originally from London, England. She has a British accent and it's 100% authentic. Her work has been featured on Gothamist, CollegeHumor, FunnyorDie, Huffington Post and Huffington Post UK among other sites you should give a shit about. Like most comedians, she maintains a "web presence." Watch her videos, including the ongoing series Feeling Feelings where she lets you know how she's feeling each day. Follow her on Twitter: @britajames and/or Instagram: @britajamess. She'd like you to know that she once convinced members of the press that a Beyoncé cult existed.

Chris Burns is a comedian/writer/attention whore living in New York City. He makes up one half of the comedy duo BrickBurns, whose videos you can find on the BrickBurns youtube channel, and sitterstheseries.com. If you want to see him in person he can be found doing improv, crying and sometimes eating around New York City. He (legit) lives for likes, favs, retweets & follows so look him up on insta @chrzbrnz and twitter @chrisburnscrap AND @sitters_series.

Carmen is a comedian from Chicago who is now living in Brooklyn. He was part of award winning Comedy Collective – Kill All Comedy who performed in the 2013 TBS Just For Laughs Festival. KAC also performed shows in his living room. While in Chicago he performed at The Annoyance, Upstairs Gallery, iO Theater, The Playground, Second City and he created and hosted Thunderdome at MCL Theater. He now hosts variety show The Juice and is a cast member of the Holy Fu*K Comedy Hour and Improv House Ensemble at the Annoyance-NY. He also co-hosts $$$ at UCB East with some buds. Check out his videos here – carmenchristopher.tumblr.com/. Carmen is a romantic.

#WaitWhat (or Wait, What?) is a sketch comedy duo made up of writing partners Mel Owens and Teresa Lee. They write, produce, perform, and edit their own videos which have been featured on Huffington Post, Gothamist, Jezebel, and more. Their first web-series #YouUp premiered to 10,000 views on Youtube. They aim to create content that is female empowering and relatable. Teresa is a writer and producer in Brooklyn, NY but soon to be Los Angeles, CA. She writes and produces for groups #WaitWhat, Come On Get Mad, and UCB Comedy. You may have also seen her doing stand-up or gogo dancing. Mel is a writer and comedy person in NYC. She writes for comedy groups #WaitWhat and Eva & Mel. She has been on national news to discuss various hard hitting topics of our times such as Fall Boyfriends and breaking up via text. Mel enjoys dancing, despite her mom calling her moves "not traditionally good, but something," transitional weather and boogie boarding.

Nicole Conlan is a comic and writer in Brooklyn. She's currently an editor for Jalopnik and blogs for SB Nation. Nicole is also a writer for the UCB Maude team Goodbye Handsome and performs as one half of Stevedore. She likes Tweeting jokes, Instagramming her butt, and embedding links in text.

Anthony Atamanuik has been writing, performing, and producing comedy for over twenty years. In 1997 he moved to Los Angeles after graduating with a BS in Film Theory from Emerson College. While living in LA Anthony worked for Jim Henson Interactive , Mr. Show, and sadly, Suzanne Somers. He moved to New York in 2000 and started training and performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2002. Anthony has trained with Matt Walsh, Matt Besser, Owen Burke, Billy Merritt, Kevin Mullaney, Seth Morris and others. Anthony is currently performing with the critically acclaimed and award-winning weekend team Death by Roo Roo, he co-hosts ASSSSCAT 3000, Anthony also performs in his one-man variety show, The Tony Show, twice a month on Tuesday, 9:30pm at the UCB East He has appeared on Adult Swim's "Fat Guy Stuck in Internet", Late Night with Conan O'Brian, The Reggie Watt's Live at Central Park Comedy Central Special, Todd Barry's Comedy Central Special, Dinner With Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends, Broad City and 30 Rock.

John Trowbridge is a big boy comedy person in NYC. He writes for his UCB maude team, Roanoke, and he writes/acts in the Livia Scott Sketch Program at UCB but it doesn't matter because #Content runs the world now. That's why John is the creator of LAST NIGHT and a founding father of the #BlizzKidz. #BlizzKidz is the only comedy group on the internet who know that #ContentIsKing and Bill De Blasio #AintMYMayor. When the singularity comes, John will be one of the only people ready to actually become content. Instructions at @johntrowbridge.