Meet Rob “Mr. Comedy Man” Haze “There are times when everyone is in agreement, and there are times when the room is divided. I get to dictate that chemistry in real time.”
Stavros Halkias Has No System “Writing stand-up sucks, and every moment I’m doing it I’d rather scrape my nuts across broken glass.”
Katrina Davis Finds Beauty in Closed Doors “It’s nice to get messages from people who relate to my jokes or accidentally woke up the person next to them on a red-eye flight laughing at me.”
Sheng Wang Refuses to Die on a Hill “I’m trying to connect audiences with their humanity. I’m trying to convince audiences to see me as a worthy whole human being just like they are.”
Laura Peek Prioritizes Silly “Don’t let other people’s failures and insecurities stop you from trying. Unless you really suck at comedy! Then I dunno what to tell you.”
Jaye McBride, Future Marvel Villain “That’s not so much embarrassing as unattainable. A trans villain is a little too on the nose for Middle America.”
Ever Mainard, the Proud Onstage Idiot “You think you know bleak, but then you perform at a small casino in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the middle of winter.”
Nore Davis Will Be Your Stand-up Superhero “There are a combination of stories that lead to me becoming a stand-up comedian, but they all have the same common denominator: control.”
All Hail the Scam Goddess Laci Mosley “Robbery really resonates with people, and it’s taken me to some dope places and introduced me to some amazing people pretty fast.”
Robby Hoffman Gives the Best Advice “Before you go off that I’m completely unqualified, I have a business degree from McGill University, it’s not nothing!”
comics to watchThe 50 Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2013 These are the next Aziz Ansaris, Kristen Schaals, and Bobby Moynihans: stand-ups and performers destined to pop up in prime time soon.