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.
Patrick Holbert is a very funny comedian, director, film-maker, producer and podcaster in New York City. He started doing stand-up for real in 2014 after a couple false starts. He jumpe…
Victoria Vincent is a really funny comedian working out of Chicago. She grew up in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of a surgeon and a nurse practitioner. She joined the rest of her extende…
Rachel Peters has been doing stand-up in Philadelphia for the last decade. She did improv in high school and then took the microphone when she was 18 while attending the University of t…
Sam Ellefson started doing stand-up when he turned 21 years old in college in Tacoma, Wash. In the last seven years, he's risen toward the top of the Tacoma scene, moved to Denver and r…
PT Bratton, a comedian in Bowie, Md., started doing stand-up nine years ago after he and his wife saw a comedy show. A preacher since he was 14 and a military veteran, Bratton decided t…
Jacqui Marpa moved to Michigan from the Philippines when she was 15 years old. She'd studied up on America by watching High School Musical, so she was ready to perform when she got here…
Erin Clough started doing stand-up at The Backline Comedy class in January 2023, mainly out of boredom. Since then, she's become and established member of the comedy scenes in Omaha and…
Bob Beach is one of the best comedians in Utica, N.Y. He started doing improv at the Uptown Theatre in 2018 and began stand-up pretty soon after that. He's able to do that while working…
Eric Rueseler is a comedian in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He started doing stand-up six years ago and is a part of the St. Louis scene. It was either that or Memphis. An active Marine for six …
Austin Baca is a very funny comedian in Reno, Nev. After growing up in Los Angeles, Baca ditched his plans of becoming a geologist and began doing stand-up in 2016. He helped keep the c…
JJ Jones is a Boston-area comedian who was raised on British TV and New England sarcasm. He started doing stand-up in Denver eight years ago. He moved back to Massachusetts in 2017, liv…
Carson Taylor has been doing stand-up in the Mobile, Ala., area for almost a decade. He made friends with Zeke Buckhaults in high school, joined his band, Shropshire Collective, and fol…
Kristen Lytie grew up in the punk rock scene in Green Bay, Wisc., and started doing stand-up in Chicago in 2013. She moved back to Green Bay in 2018 and is one of the big pieces of the …
Charlie Nadler is a stand-up comedian living in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. His parents, Marty and Holly Nadler, met while working on Laverne & Shirley, and Charlie was abl…
Jake Silberman started doing stand-up in Minneapolis in 2013 before moving to Portland and beginning a serious run. He was one of Potland's best comedians, putting out "The Crowd Work A…
Brad Monkell picked up the bass when he was in middle school and has been able to make a career out of it. At the end of 2019, he stepped onto a comedy stage. It took him about a year t…
Ted Anderson went to college at Marquette and decided with his wife to buy a house in Hawaii. After beginning their physical therapy practice, he started doing stand-up in 2009 and beca…
Alan Massenburg started doing stand-up in Lancaster, Pa., in 2015. Already with two daughters, he decided to take his funny social-media persona onto the stage and it's paid off. He spl…
Chris Jones started doing stand-up in the Poconos when he was 15 years old. He started doing bar shows and open mics when he was 19. He's 28 now and after a few years away from the stag…
Paul Clemente started doing stand-up when he was 36 years old and is doing all he can to keep comedy alive in Jamestown, N.Y. Always a performer at heart, he did improv at the Lucille B…