Upcoming Events

Every Thursday Dead Crow Comedy Room hosts the best open mic in all the land!

Aspiring comics, both seasoned and new can sign up to try and keep the crowd laughing.

****This is a free event - ticket purchase and reservations unavailable - seating is first come, first served.

Joe DeRosa has made a name for himself in comedy and entertainment with six top-ten charting stand-up albums and a multitude of performances on television, radio, and in comedy clubs across the country and around the world. Joe’s most recent one hour special titled You Let Me Down premiered on Comedy Central in 2017, which he wrote, performed and directed. He currently recurs on AMC’s Better Call Saul as crooked veterinarian Dr. Caldera and hosts two heavily followed podcasts: We’ll See You In Hell with Patrick Walsh, where the two review genre movies, and Taste Buds—a food debate show—with Impractical Jokers’ Sal Vulcano. The latter is distributed through DeRosa and Vulcano’s co-owned No Press Productions Network. Other select credits include: Inside Amy Schumer, Louie, Bored to Death, Chelsea Lately, Grand Theft Auto V, and two half-hour Comedy Central specials. Joe has also written, directed, and starred in a series of web shorts. Additionally, his writing has been featured on HBO’s Crashing, Comedy Central’s Jeff and Some Aliens and Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer, as well as The Pete Holmes Show.

Join us for another Sunday Funday Special Event!

Dead Crow Comedy and Lush Garden Bar proudly present an October installment Live NC Color – a LouisTeeMedia and MT Bottles Comedy variety show to bring laughs, tears, and get the audience moving in their seats.

Festivities will kick off at noon in Lush's Garden with an outdoor market featuring some of Wilmington’s favorite vendors!  (For a full list, follow our instagram @deadcrowcomedy).

This month’s show, starting at 3 PM, will be hosted by D&D Sluggers, with comedians Wills Maxwell, Jr., Meghan Cook, and Jazmine - followed by poetry and spoken word by The 5th Horseman and hip hop by SkyBlew.

(For more details about each performer, click on ‘bio’!)

We’ll wrap up the day with a cosplay costume contest – show up with your best anime or super hero costume for your chance to win up to $100 in prizes sponsored by HP Fangs and Memory Lane Comics!

Tickets $18 in advance and $25 CASH at the door.

Author, columnist, and comedian Steve Hofstetter is often called the hardest working man in show-business. With all due respect to the late James Brown.

Hofstetter's national TV debut came on ESPN's Quite Frankly, where Stephen A. Smith yelled at him for three minutes. Hofstetter has also appeared on CBS' "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson", Showtime's "White Boyz in the Hood", VH1's "Countdown", Sundance's "On the Road in America", and ABC's "Barbara Walter's Special", where he thankfully did not cry. He is the host and executive producer of "Laughs" on Fox networks, where he only cries occasionally.

One of the top booked acts on the college circuit, the original writer for collegehumor.com has also released six albums. Hofstetter has written humor columns for the New York Times, SportsIllustrated.com, and NHL.com, where he publicly admitted to being a Ranger fan.

After hosting Four Quotas on Sirius Satellite Radio for two seasons, Hofstetter moved to broadcast radio, and his Sports Minute (Or So) was syndicated on over 170 stations and in over 30 newspapers. Hofstetter's second live comedy album ("Cure For the Cable Guy") reached #20 on Billboard's comedy charts. His third album ("Dark Side of the Room") was the first ever pay-what-you-want" comedy album, since people were going to steal it anyway. His fourth album consisted of an hour of 100% ad-libbed material, which is, frankly, nuts. And his fifth album hit #1 on iTunes' comedy charts, which is also a bit nuts.

Hofstetter's brutal tour schedule consists of over 100 colleges and dozens of clubs every year, and is fueled by an immense online popularity, tons of press, and a Prius with great gas mileage. He reached 200,000 friends on Facebook (still the world record), 400,000 more on MySpace, and high shelves in grocery stores.

While Hofstetter's live shows are routinely sold out, he is best known for his writing, first published at age 15, mainly to impress girls. At 18, he co-founded "Sports Jerk of the Week", an irreverent website featured by press like USA Today's Baseball Weekly, Sports Illustrated and CNN. And at 20, Hofstetter took a year off of school to head up web content for the New York Yankees. The Yankees won the World Series that year, which would have been wonderful if they hadn't beaten Hofstetter's Mets. Yes, he's also a Mets fan. Poor kid.

While an undergraduate at Columbia University, Hofstetter was a well-read columnist for the Columbia Daily Spectator and a voice of the Lions. After a summer writing for Maxim, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated for Kids, Hofstetter syndicated his column in several newspapers.

Without his glasses, Hofstetter also looks a great deal like Michael Rappaport.

Hang out with Steve immediately following his exclusive show!

This VIP upgrade includes:

• Group Meet and Greet

• Limited Edition Shirt (only for VIPs)

• Autographed Tour Poster 

• Album Downloads

• Signed Book

****PLEASE NOTE THIS UPGRADE DOES NOT INCLUDE SHOW ADMISSION OR AFFECT SHOW SEATING - SHOW TICKET MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY****

“Much of what’s wrong with the world melts away in Stanhope’s flame... comedy with brains and guts and a heart...”- The Guardian

“...the most fearless man in comedy.”- Esquire

“…an acidic blend of prickly hostility, elaborately articulated self-loathing and righteous anger.”- The New York Times

“...visionary douchebag....”- The Times of London

“Sharp, off color, and howlingly funny.”- San Francisco Chronicle

“If there’s such a thing as being too honest in comedy, Doug Stanhope may come close...Stanhope has elevated himself to become one of today’s most talked-about artists.”- Timeout Chicago

Mark Brady was born in Raleigh NC. In 2016, he won the title of North Carolina's funniest person contest held at Goodnights Comedy Club. He has worked with comics such as Andrew Shulz, Pete Holmes, Tom Segura, and Nate Bargatze. He has been featured on the Late Late Show with James Corden, ESPN and you can hear him on Sirius XM. In 2021 his debut comedy album "Incognito" reached #2 on the comedy charts. He is 1/3 of the popular Hummy's VR Comedy channel on YouTube and Podcast and has been seen on GamingBible, Gameology, and Gamingbible.

Caitlin Cook is a LA-born, NYC-based comedian.

She has taken the stage all across the world at top-tier comedy clubs (the Comedy Cellar, the Stand, Comedy Works, ACME, Comedy on State, the Punchline, Zanies, Go Bananas), festivals (New York Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, High Plains Comedy Festival), theaters (the Dolby Theatre, Webster Hall, Thalia Hall, Soho Playhouse, the Throckmorton), venues (Littlefield, Union Hall, the Elysian, the Lyric Hyperion, the Bill Murray), dimly lit bar basements, strangers' living rooms, and even a houseboat once.

Cook has released three successful musical comedy albums, which are regularly featured on SiriusXM:

• Zinger-Songwriter, which she recorded at 12 different venues while touring across the US and UK
• Betty Pitch, which she recorded after writing 250 songs a day during the pandemic (amassing her over 100K TikTok followers)
• The Writing on the Stall, the official studio album of her one-woman bathroom stall graffiti musical (which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022)

Cook is also a writer, director, and producer. She acted as creative consultant for Sean Patton’s upcoming comedy special Number One on Peacock. She made her directorial debut off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse with a sold-out run of A.J. Holmes’ critically-acclaimed Yeah, But Not Right Now. Cook also produces live comedy events including Good God (with Shane Torres and Tom Thakkar) and Fake Birthday (with A.J. Holmes), which have sold out all over in the world in NYC, LA, DC, London, and Edinburgh.

An internationally touring headliner, Nate is a paid regular at the Hollywood Improv, NY Comedy Cellar, and Largo (LA) among others. He plays Jonah Hill's brother "Phil" in the hit Netflix series "Maniac" and was a cast member on TruTV's "World's Dumbest". Nate's first standup special "Preferred Customer" was released this year by All Things Comedy, and his album "Eggshell" was featured in the Pandora "Comedy Spotlight" at Pandora.com. He plays a role in the latest season of the animated Netflix series "F is for Family" and was recently featured on Season two of Comedy Central's "Roast Battle". He's also been on AXS Gotham Comedy Live, Tosh.0, Comedy Central's "Mash-up", and he wrote for 3 seasons of "Ridiculousness" on MTV. Nate has been featured at The Just for Laughs Northwest, Bridgetown, and HBO Las Vegas Comedy Festivals. He's been on "Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast", "You Made it Weird" with Pete Holmes, has written for "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor, and was featured on the "Best of the Bob & Tom Radio Show". He does theater tours with Bill Burr, headlines internationally and has multiple full length comedy albums available on iTunes and everywhere else.

Originally from Buffalo, NY, Maddy Smith is steadily making her mark on the male-dominated NYC stand-up scene. Joking from the center, she roasts anything or anyone both from the stage and on her girls-only podcast “That Time of The WEEK.” Maddy gained national notoriety for skewering folks as a cast member of MTV’s “Wild N Out” for 3 seasons, and is currently taping her 4th. Maddy also went viral on TikTok a few times.

A standup, writer, and actor; Eagle is a born and raised New Yorker. At 25 years old, he has been passed and performs at all the major clubs in the city including as a regular at the Comedy Cellar. Eagle has been featured on Comedy Central’s THIS WEEK AT THE COMEDY CELLAR as well as Amazon’s scripted series MILLENNIUMS.

Most recently, he performed on COMEDY CENTRAL’S STAND UP.

Casey Balsham is a stand up comedian living and breathing in New York City. You’ve seen her at various club all over the country and as a regular in the New York City comedy scene. On weekdays, you can catch her warming up crowds for shows on Comedy Central and for The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV. She appeared on Gotham Comedy Live twice and in a Monistat commercial you can only find online. 

You have heard her on her weekly podcast Shady Shit, as well as on her debut album Son of a Barb which hit #1 on iTunes. She recently wrote and starred in a one woman show called “Casey Balsham Does a Thing” and was the lead in the off Broadway musical, HA! In between Instagram breaks, she wrote her first special Inconceivable which will be coming out later this year. 

Over the last sixteen years John Hastings has appeared at every major comedy festival in the world including Edinburgh, Melbourne and Just for Laughs Montreal. He has told jokes on BBC Radio 4, BBC 1, BBC 3, Comedy Central, CTV Australian Comedy Channel, and CBC The Comedy Network.

He is also the COCA Comedian of the Year, a Martin Sims Award Nominee, an Amused Moose Comedy Award winner, and was briefly a viral sensation after Dennis Rodman heckled him in Los Angeles. He was most recently spotted on America’s Got Talent where he got a standing ovation even though their was no audience thanks to COVID!

Press Clippings:

★★★★★ Edinburgh Festival

★★★★★ Fresh Air 

★★★★★ -Ed Fest Mag, ‘… a truly inspired show’ 

★★★★★- The Mirror 'Bold Dramatic Delivery' 

★★★★½ - The Age, ‘This fast growing comic is a pleasure to watch’

★★★★½Short Com

★★★★ Voice Mag

★★★★ Arts Award Voice

★★★★ The Times, ‘Pleasure To Watch’ 

★★★★ The Herald, ‘… go see him now!’ 

★★★★ The Advertiser 

★★★★ The Melbourne Herald Sun

★★★★ The New European

★★★★ Broadway Baby 

★★★★ Fest Mag 

★★★★ Three Weeks

★★★★ Fest

★★★★ Wee Review 

★★★★ Voice 

★★★★ One4Review 

★★★★ Chortle, ‘… truly devastating lines ‘ 

★★★★ Short Com, ‘...you’re in for a gold star evening’