Felicia Madison is the Director & Founder of FUNY Standup, the CEO of FUNY Records, a talented Comedian in her own right, a Teacher & the Booker of West Side Comedy Club. She recently filmed her first special.
Brian Scott McFadden is an actor and comedian who has been doing stand up comedy for over 25 years. He has performed all over the world & appears regularly in clubs all over NYC. He has been seen on Late Night With David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Star Search as well as MTV, Comedy Central. He has voiced many animated characters in movies like Ice Age 2 & Robots as well as providing the voice of the Honey Nut Cheerio Bee, the M&M Peanut and the Serta Mattress Sheep.
Sophia Wolbrom, Associate Director of FUNY Standup
Jordan Carlos is a stand up comedian, actor and writer based in New York City. He recently co-starred and wrote for the first season of “Everything’s Trash” on Freeform. He has also written for “Divorce” (HBO), written/performed for “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore” (Comedy Central), and “First Wives Club” (BET). He can also be seen in Black Mirror (Netflix), and the Home Alone reboot on Disney Plus. In addition, Jordan co-hosts the hit podcast “Adulting” on Exactly Right Media with Michelle Buteau. Other notable writing credits include “The White House Correspondents Dinner” (2016) as well as “The Not The White House Correspondents Dinner” with Samantha Bee (2017).
Eddie Brill is a well respected and very funny stand up comedian here in the USA and abroad.
For seventeen years, he worked on The Late Show with David Letterman. He was the audience warm-up and for eleven of those years he was the Stand Up Comedy Talent Coordinator.
Eddie has taped more than 100 TV shows in six different countries, including ten appearances on The Late Show and on an Emmy nominated episode of the FX hit series, “Louie.”
He has been seen in many films including, “30 Years To Life” with Tracy Morgan.
A 3-time MAC award winner for Outstanding Male Comic in NYC, Eddie was the architect and Creative Director of The Great American Comedy Festival which honors Johnny Carson in his hometown of Norfolk, NE.
Along with Norman Lear, Eddie helped create the comedy writing program at Emerson College in Boston.
He has hosted his own podcasts and is now the interviewer for the American Comedy Archives.
Clayton Fletcher is a NY-based comic with a special, Middle Child Syndrome, slated to premier in January. Clayton is also the co-author of The ROI of LOL (p. HarperCollins) where he shares what comedians know that business people should know!
Other credits include: “The Ivy League of Comedy Live from the Emelin Theatre” on Amazon Prime, ‘Best of the Fest’ at the Stockholm Comedy
Festival, Sirius/XM’s Laugh USA, Blue Collar Comedy, and Jamie
Foxx’s Foxxhole stations. Clayton is also featured on Hulu’s “Comedy Brew,” AXS TV’s “Gotham Comedy Live“, MSNBC’s “Your Business,” Fox’s “Fox News Saturday Night,” hosted by Kennedy, and Comcast’s “Who’s Laughing Now?”
Chanel Ali is a comedian who blossomed on the Philadelphia circuit before taking her commanding stage presence to NYC. She has two Comedy Central specials, she was a Just For Laughs New Face, and she’s passed at most NYC comedy clubs.