The Forum

Wonderful friend, other half of cool show and deep voiced demi-god Pat Wise joins the show again to talk about his new zen take on life and the horrible fiery trash pit that is the...entire planet? It's a hoot.  Pat has been improvising since he started. He's from Maryland and is a great friend. You should get to know him, he would like that.

Rachel Pegram is a comedian, actor, writer, and singer living in New York. Rachel improvises with the house team The Union and currently performs in the sketch show Beeng Boong: The Great and Powerful MTA. She's appeared in videos and sketches for MTV, Above Average, Mashable, Refinery 29 and more. Rachel attended NYU and received a BFA in Drama. While at NYU she wrote and performed with the sketch group Hammerkatz. Rachel performs throughout NYC regularly doing sketch and improv. Twitter: @rachelpegram Email: [email protected] Website: http://rachelapegram.wixsite.com/rachelpegram

Cory is the only Brooklyn-based writer, comedian, and graphic designer. His face has been on Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Food Network's Giving You The Business. His words have appeared in The Onion, Buzzfeed, and countless other low-revenue periodicals. His designs and Funny Photoshops® have been featured on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Joss Whedon's Save The Day super PAC, and your weirdest friend’s retweets. Check him out at the UCB theater in all sorts of stuff or on Twitter at @corypalmer.

Jenny Nelson is a writer and comedian in Brooklyn. She's written for Poncho, Splitsider, Funny Or Die, The Hairpin, and Videogum. She co-founded the satirical lifestyle blog Lark & Olive, co-hosts a live monthly comedy and lecture series called The Simple Show, and performs around the city. For more info go to #JennyNelsonNinetyDayFitnessChallenge on Instagram.

Kady Ruth Ashcraft writes, performs comedy, and pays taxes in Brooklyn, New York. She has written for Disney Channel, Funny or Die, The Hairpin and her work has been featured across the web on Jezebel, Trop Mag, College Humor, and Above Average. Her series Triffany & Briffney was an official selection of the New York Television Festival. Check out the satirical lifestyle/mommy blog Lark & Olive that she is a co-founder of. Eight videos she co-wrote and starred in with Horrible Insane Girl premiered on IFC's Comedy Crib. Back in the day she studied comedic performance at Chicago's Second City and The Upright Citizen's Brigade and honed her narrative humor writing at Bryn Mawr College and University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder of the humor website Hot Hot Phone and performs up and down the eastern seaboard with Mister Sister and often all by herself! Occasionally, she's gathers the courage to venture to Austin, LA, and Edinburgh and tell jokes there.

Lauren Besser is a writer and actor. She is the co-host of the feminist/comedy podcast, The Real Housewives of Bohemia and co-creator of WOMYN INC and the improvised series U.E.S. Lauren played on house teams at The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre in New York City from 2014 to 2016 and is trained in improv and comedy writing by UCB-NY, iOChicago and The PIT. She's been in Above Average, Refinery29 and Funny or Die videos, The Bozo Show (1984), Suddenly Susan (2000), Prada's Spring/Summer runway (2013) and Impractical Jokers (2015). Lauren was once the youngest state president elected in the history of the National Organization for Women (NOW), a founding member of NOW's Young Feminist Taskforce and a winning city council campaign manager. She is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Lauren lives in Brooklyn, but she's from downtown Chicago. Her favorite things are walking, water and manners. She is a scorpio. Follow @labesser.

Years worth of work culminated in a MASSIVE live show to celebrate episode 100! So many topics we can't fit them all in the bio! A very special thanks to everybody who participated! Have questions or comments? Email us, [email protected]

Next Saturday the 28th ISTDM will be LIVE STREAMING our 100th episode. It'll be a huge event, kicking off at 1:30pm and running until about 6pm EST. We'll be hosting it on Facebook live, and the show audio and video will be hosted for those that can't make it. Be sure to tune in! Molly performs with her sketch group Buzz Off Lucille (buzzofflucille.com) and works for the reproductive rights organization Lady Parts Justice. She is a member of the Harold team Women and Men at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She hails from Miami and is a doula. Her mother is way hotter than her by far and its an issue.

Follow us on twitter and facebook for all the information surrounding our live show! Past guests will be joining us, and Team Ian will go up against a very formidable Team Alise to find out WHO'S BEST. Will Martinez is a improviser, writer, and actor from The Bronx. He has studied improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2013. He is very happy to be a part of Characters Welcome. You can also catch him performing around New York City with his indie improv groups Schoolmarm, Scareface Danza , 2 Puerto Ricans, and hosting his own show Hood Water.

Nick Naney is a comedian, actor, writer & director who performs all over New York City. He has been featured in the Comedy Central web series “New Timers”, “The Special without Brett Davis” and the Adult Swim show “Fat Guy Stuck in Internet”. He used to be obsessed with Shrek but he isn’t anymore.