On the Mic with Mike Peters
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 306
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Isaac Novak and the Upper Left Comedy Festival
Isaac Novak is a Seattle comedian and one of the founders of the Upper Left Comedy Festival, which had a successful first year in 2022. Novak started doing stand-up in 2012 and got tire…
Rebecca Kaplan and the Unhappy Birthday Party
Rebecca Kaplan started doing stand-up back in 2014 when she was going to SUNY Purchase. A New York City native, Kaplan moved back to Brooklyn after school and has been able to carve a p…
Becky Wiggins and the Chandelier Above a Toilet
Becky Wiggins started doing stand-up in Utica in early 2020, right before the world shut down. She kept busy during the pandemic and came out with a purpose -- to get on stage and stay …
Yale Hollander and the New Yorker Submissions
Yale Hollander did his first stand-up set in 1985 and his second in 2016. Things changed a bit between them. Hollander became a lawyer, which has served him well in the St. Louis comedy…
Manny Santiago and the Benefits of Juggling
Manny Santiago got his start in performance by juggling because, well, duh. He decided to step away from the juggling to dive into stand-up with his best friend, roommate and co-host of…
James Nghiem and the Drumming Comedian
James Nghiem started doing stand-up in Oklahoma City, Okla., way back in 2007. Over the last 15 years, he's calmed down as a comedian and is able to find the joy in what he's doing. He'…
Jim Bryan and the Church of Satire
Jim Bryan grew up in Long Island and started doing stand-up in 2002 and moved to Las Vegas. He met his wife there and they moved to Hanover, Pa., to raise their kids, but he put stand-u…
Avery Quinn and the Face of a Serial Killer
Lisa Rossi and the Funny Side of Journalism
Lisa Rossi was doing a journalism fellowship at Stanford University when an improv comedian caught her attention and inspired her to get on stage. A journalism professor at the Universi…
Spencer Thomas and the Prison Folding Chair
Spencer Thomas is a really funny comedian traveling around North Dakota. After spending a few years in Los Angeles, working in post production, Thomas returned him to help take care of …
Steve Wrigley and the Birth of New Zealand Stand-up
Steve Wrigley started doing stand-up when he was 17 years old as a way to impress high school girls. He traveled all over New Zealand, working his way onto TV and into a good living bef…
Brandon Vincent Jackson and the Time Kevin Hart Bumped Him
Brandon Vincent Jackson is one of the most talented comedians in Delaware. An adjunct professor at the University of Delaware, teaching English as a second language, Jackson started doi…
Ashley Pontius and the Never-Ending Revenge Tour
Ashley Pontius is a super funny comedian who grew up near Hagerstown, Md., and performs all over the DMV area. She got her start in stand-up by lying about how she knew Myq Kaplan and t…
Darryl Charles and the Red Dodge Neon
Raised in thenBrooklyn, N.Y., Darryl Charles went to school for engineering before starting his comedy career in Philadelphia. He realized he was kind of good at that and moved down I-…
Helen Keaney and the Group Therapy Show
Helen Keaney is a comedian in Florida and host at the Home Shopping Network. She started doing stand-up in New York City after moving there at 19. She picked up momentum quickly, taking…
Mark Riccadonna and the Hatred in Their Eyes
Mark Riccadonna grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, but got his start in stand-up while working the door in a New York City club. His comedian friends bet him he couldn't get on stage in 2002 …
Karen Rontowski and the Paranormal Encounter
Karen Rontowski wanted to get out of Massachusetts, so she took a job as a cigarette girl in Las Vegas and it changed her life. She's been doing stand-up for the last 30 years, performi…
Robin Phoenix and the Best Medicine Brigade
Robin Phoenix is relatively new to the comedy scene in Charlston, S.C., but she’s far from inexperienced. After 26 years in the military, she decided to help her fellow veterans and the…
RJ Purpura and the Baby Travis Test
R Purpura is one of the best comedians in Rochester, N.Y. He got his start in 2011 while still a SUNY Oswego, writing for a TV show and taking the material to a music mic on campus. He …
Damon Sumner and the Year of the Comedian
Damon Sumner's life changed completely in 2010 when he became a father, a teacher and a comedian all in just a few months. One of the bright spots in the Atlanta scene, Sumner released …