On the Mic with Mike Peters is your place to meet some of the best up-and-coming comedians from all over the United States and hear about what they're doing with their lives. Stay tuned for a new comedian every Friday.
Indianapolis comedian Gwen Sunkel works as a nurse practitioner in hospice care during the day and takes the stage at night to try to shake off the sadness. Six years into her stand-up …
Wes Williams started doing stand-up seven years ago in Harrisburg, Pa. After taking abuse from audiences all around Pennsylvania, he moved to Denver in 2018 and has been there ever sinc…
Al found two feral cats to match her personality and has rebranded herself for when comedy comes back. The only scientist to ever make an appearance on this podcast, Al has been doing s…
Genevieve Rice is one of the best comedians in Phoenix, Ariz. She started doing stand-up in 2007 when Oklahoma City's scene was tiny and got her footing in Arizona, where she began her …
Megan Goetz is about to record her first album at the Grape Room in Philadelphia. She started doing stand-up while at Penn State in 2012, then moved to Philly to give it a real go and i…
Greg Bach began doing improv in 2006 and started doing stand-up six years later. Now he's one of the key players in the Milwaukee comedy scene. Bach joined Matt Kemple and Kaitlin McCar…
JT Haberstaat grew up in the punk rock scene before taking the stage as a comedian. He grew up in New York, but now he's based in Austin, Texas, and is touring with Eddie Pepitone betwe…
Tina Friml started doing stand-up in Burlington, Vt., about five years ago and began building an impressive resume pretty much right away. She was Vermont’s Funniest Comedian in 2018, a…
Dan Mills began his comedy career about three years ago in Bellingham, Wash. A comedian on the clean side with a wife and two kids -- they still love him, too -- Mills has been producin…
Cody Webb started doing stand-up in Eugene, Ore., back in 2016 and he's still at it in 2021. Growing up on Mitch Hedberg, Webb found an open mic while at the University of Oregon and ke…
"Funky" Sam Medina is a comedian out of Tracey, Calif. A San Jose native, Medina reconnected with his future wife, Athena Rodriguez, on Facebook in 2009 and started doing stand-up with …
Connor McGrath is a comedian in Portland, Maine. He started stand-up in 2011 and drove all around the New England area, working to get better, and was named Maine's Funniest Comedian by…
Brooke Barsell is a comedian and producer in Omaha, Neb., who's been doing stand-up for three years. She decided improv wasn't for her after a couple years and wanted to tell her own st…
JP Leonard has been doing stand-up for the last seven years and he's been bringing in some of the best comedic talent in the world to Lafayette, La., since 2015. A former musician and c…
Krangus Gillespie turned a drunken, open-mic set in San Diego into a career as a headliner and comedy producer. A key piece of the scene in Biloxi, Miss., Gillespie started Landmass Com…
Zeke Buckhaults is a hilarious comedian out of Mobile, Ala. After working in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., Buckhaults came back home to Alabama and found a small scene in Mobile. O…
Chino LaForge was the only comedian working on Maui when he began his stand-up career in 2007. Since then, he's helped grow a small scene on the Hawaiian island and has toured with Ari …
Russell Austin went from punk rock to stand-up and feels right at home on the stage. He got his first paid gig at 14 years old and hasn't stopped performing. The only comedian in Jim Th…
Sam Ike is a super funny and smart comedian out of Boston. He studied theatre in high school and college and then did improv before giving stand-up a serious go in 2015. He's traveled a…
Buffalo comedian Don Johnson took a break from Ubering to talk about comedy and ska -- the only two topics that matter. Johnson's been doing stand-up in the Buffalo area for six years a…