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Get ready for another amazing show Thursday October 10th from 6:30 to 8 pm at Dead Crow Comedy Room! Prohibition Comedy has been producing premier standup comedy shows at premier venues since 2021, with lineups featuring national headlining acts you may have seen on Netflix, Comedy Central, HBO, The Late Show and more!

Started in the Prohibition era of standup comedy during the COVID-19 pandemic with its first show at an old photography studio, Prohibition Comedy now frequents historic NYC Comedy Clubs like Gotham Comedy Club, Caroline's and New York Comedy Club, as well as the best performance venues/Off-Broadway theaters like The Cutting Room, The Laurie Beechman Theater and Soho Playhouse. 

Outside of NYC, Prohibition Comedy has taken the show on the road across the country in Chicago, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and more. With a combination of hilarious comedians and partnerships with quality event spaces, a Prohibition Comedy show attracts great crowds looking to have fun. Get your tickets to what will be another amazing experience in Wilmington, NC!

This week's open mic will start at 8:30 immediately following the 7PM show.

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.

Vincent Bryant is an Atlanta based comedian/writer/actor that is originally from St.Louis. After cutting his teeth in Chicago, Vincent went on to be selected as a JFL new face in 2018. He made his television debut on Comedy Centrals Hart of The City and has made appearance on Gotham Live and recently “Don't Tell”. He has worked with Ms. Pat, Leonard Outs and countless others on the road. He's also written on the Emmy nominated "The Ms. Pat Show" on BET+ and Shea Serrano's "Primo" for Freevee. His laid back demeanor on stage puts the crowd in a relaxed state as he bounces from silly to serious all while they're in the palm of his hand.

Trivia is BACK with Meeser Eddie and friends! Catch us in the Dead Crow showroom at 7PM every Wednesday for a knee-slappin' good time -- themed trivia and physical challenges. It's FREE to play, and you can win show tickets and other prizes!

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.

Willie Macc, a breakout from the hit BET show College Hill: Virgin Island, has transitioned seamlessly from reality TV stardom to an accomplished Hollywood actor and comedian. With over 100 million views on his stand-up and comedy videos across various social media platforms, Willie's humor resonates globally.​

Willie’s TV guest roles include shows like CSI, The Goldbergs and Hulu's Casual. He has also appeared in over 50 national commercials for brands like Kia, Verizon, Credit Karma, Progressive, Snapple, and more. He starred in Meet the Spartans alongside Kevin Sorbo, Carmen Electra, and Tiffany Haddish. He also starred with his brother Jonathan in their own HGTV pilot, My Flipping Family.

A Don’t Tell Comedy favorite, Willie's stand-up has also been featured on TruTV's LaffMobb LaffTracks, Revolt TV’s Funny AF, and was named Best of Fest 2024 at the San Luis Obispo Comedy Festival. Taking his talent international, Willie has entertained the US Military abroad and headlined stand-up shows in Japan and South Korea.​​

Willie Macc cites Bernie Mac, Dave Chapelle, Jerry Seinfeld and Eddie Murphy as his role models. He spells his name with two c's, so as not to be confused with Bernie Mac. Catch Willie and his co-host Danny Plom on their podcast Afronoodles, available on TikTok and Instagram.

Trivia is BACK with Meeser Eddie and friends! Catch us in the Dead Crow showroom at 7PM every Wednesday for a knee-slappin' good time -- themed trivia and physical challenges. It's FREE to play, and you can win show tickets and other prizes!

This week's open mic will start at 8:30 immediately following the 6:30PM showcase.

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.

Mike Cannon is a New York City-based comedian, podcaster, writer, and actor. He has headlined at some of the world’s most iconic venues – including a sold-out performance at Gramercy Theatre in his hometown of NYC – and worked as a contributing producer, writer and panelist for ViceTV's Super Maximum Retro Show hosted by Chris Distefano in 2023. He also co-hosts of Chrissy Chaos podcast, also with Chris Distefano.

In 2022, Mike released two independently produced hour specials on Youtube – Mike Cannon's Huge Mistake, a crowd work special on edibles, and White Privilege Homeless – both of which received wide praise from fans, comedians, and critics alike. His debut comedy special, Life Begins, was released on YouTube in January 2020 and earned a spot on Laugh Button’s Top 35 Comedy Specials of 2020. The album version of Life Begins was released in February 2020 by 800 Pound Gorilla Records, and was recognized as one of Interrobang’s Top 11 Albums of 2020 as well as one of Sirius/XM Raw Dog Radio’s Top 10 Comedy Albums of 2020. Mike’s first comedy album, I Think It Just Kicked In, debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts and has over 5 million streams.

Outside of stand-up, Mike has made a name for himself in both acting and writing. He earned critical acclaim for his performance as lead character Mike in the feature film Timing, which is available on Amazon Prime, and he can be seen on the popular Barstool Sports series Friday Night Pints and Answer The Internet, Stupid Questions with Chris Distefano and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central, as well as Blake Griffin’s Double Cross, Greatest Ever, and Top Funniest, all on TruTV. Additional appearances include Failosophy and Money From Strangers on MTV, Red Eye on Fox, and MSG’s The Bracket. He was a contributing writer and performer on MTV2’s Guy Code, co-host of Cosmopolitan Magazine’s series Sexy vs Skanky, and a featured performer on VH1’s Why Am I Still Single?

In addition to Chrissy Chaos, Mike hosts two digital series, Heads Up with Mike Cannon and Mike Takes Edibles. He co-hosted Here’s the Scenario podcast with fellow comedians Mike Feeney and Brendan Sagalow, as well as hosted Irish Goodbye Podcast and the popular weekly web series The Weed News with Mike Cannon. Mike is a regular guest on Sirius/XM Radio, including recurring features on The Jim Norton and Sam Roberts Show, KFC Radio, Barstool Radio, Barstool Breakfast, and The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder and Bennington.

When he’s not on his nationwide tour, he plays all the major New York City clubs, including the Comedy Cellar and New York Comedy Club. It makes no difference to him whether he’s performing in a club, bar, casino, elevator (done that twice), parking lot, rooftop, on a fake beach in front of a freight train, or in technically-legal underground speakeasies; comedy is his life. Mike is dedicated to making the majority of you laugh and the rest of you confused, yet oddly satiated.

Trivia is BACK with Meeser Eddie and friends! Catch us in the Dead Crow showroom at 7PM every Wednesday for a knee-slappin' good time -- themed trivia and physical challenges. It's FREE to play, and you can win show tickets and other prizes!

"Funny Funny" presents its annual "Schtick or Treat!", a night where Steve & Chad challenge Stand-Up Comics to dress up & perform as other Stand-Up Comics...both Dead & Undead!! See some of the most Famous & Infamous Stand-Ups in the world...as performed by local favorites!

Line up to follow.

Mekki Leeper stars as juror 'Noah' on the viral series Jury Duty, and is currently Emmy-nominated for
Oustanding Writing For A Comedy Series for his work on the show. He can also be seen as 'Eric' on the
HBOMax show The Sex Lives of College Girls from Mindy Kaling. He was cast as series regular 'Matt' in
the NBC series St. Denis Medical, which was picked up to series. He has one of the top watched Comedy
Central Featuring stand up sets, which recently broke 7 million views and counting, and was also
featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

Adrienne is a comedian, writer, and performer based in New York. As a stand-up, Adrienne is a JFL New Faces alum. She won the first ever People's Choice award at the New York Comedy Festival and made her debut on NBC's Last Comic Standing. Her Degenerates Netflix special is on Netflix and one of her jokes was featured in Netflix's Best of 2020 Stand-Up special. She has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, This Week at the Comedy Cellar, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Gotham Comedy Live on AXS TV. Adrienne wrote on What's Your F@3King Deal?! with Big Jay Oakerson. She released her debut album, Baby Skeletons in 2020. It was met with high praise from fellow comedians Neal Brennan, Patton Oswalt, Chris Rock, Anthony Jeselnik and others. Baby Skeletons was named Interrobang's Top Eleven Comedy Albums of 2020.

Explosive, Dynamic, and completely Original, are just some of the words to describe one of the most powerful Entertainers in the Comedy World today! The EMMY nominated Basile has entertained millions of comedy fans in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Basile’s unique blend of material, improvisation, and characters has made him one of the most sought-after comedians in the entertainment industry today. The multifaceted, bilingual comedian is touring Worldwide to sold-out audiences with both of his unique shows of the “BasileLicious Taste This” World Tour (general audience in English) and his critically acclaimed series of Growing Up Greek in America,” The Greek Mystique World Tour” (Greek/English speaking audiences). Basile has over 100 television appearances throughout the world, Including: HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, A & E, Dry Bar Comedy & the Tonight Show on NBC to name a few. Basile is also known for his voice work as Universal Studio’s Bullwinkle J. Moose, as well as for the Cartoon Network and many Japanese Anime series. Recently, Basile was recently nominated for an EMMY for his work on ESPN’s “30 for 30” series segment, “The Legend of Jimmy the Greek”, as the voice of Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder (Syionidis).

Ladies and Gentlemen… Basile

As a staple of NYC’s comedy scene and a DJ with roots in the city’s rich hip-hop history, Cipha Sounds is a man of many talents. With a knack for observational comedy, a background in improv, and an arsenal of music industry anecdotes, Cipha’s sets are always unique – drawing on the energy of the room and the audience.

When he’s not traveling the world with comedians like Dave Chappelle, Michelle Wolf, Mo Amer, and Michael Che, you can find him performing at Manhattan’s legendary Comedy Cellar, and headlining major clubs around the country. Cipha is no stranger to the small screen. He just wrapped a series with L.L. Cool J for A&E titled Hip Hop Treasures, which is slated to debut top of 2023. Cipha starred on TV shows like Tru TV’s "Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks", Fuse’s "What’s Ur Thing?" and was featured on HBO Max’s "That Damn Michael Che". He also spent many years as a host on Hot 97’s morning show, the original DJ for Chappelle’s Show, and a touring DJ for artists such as Lil Kim, Mos Def, and Rihanna. Cipha is currently the co-host of the podcasts Juan Ep Is Life (with Hot 97 and ESPN’s Peter Rosenberg), and Talk Clearlyer (with fellow comedian Wil Sylvince), and he is working on his debut half-hour special

Originally hailing from San Francisco, CA, Caitlin Peluffo is a New York based comedian. Last year, Caitlin released a Comedy Central Featuring set and a Don't Tell Comedy set. She was also featured on the Late Show with James Corden, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, After Midnight on CBS, and as a New Face of Comedy at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. Peluffo regularly opens for comedians like Fortune Feimster, Matteo Lane, Maria Bamford, Gary Gulman, Colin Quinn, and the late Gilbert Godfried to name a few. She performs all over NYC at The Comedy Cellar, The Stand and New York Comedy Club to clubs nationwide talking about how she came to be such a lovable loose cannon.

Hari Kondabolu is a comedian, writer and podcaster based in Brooklyn. The NY Times called him
“one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today” and described his 2018 Netflix
special Warn Your Relatives as “an incisively funny and formally adventurous hour that reveals a
comic in command of his powers.” The special was named on many “Best of” lists, including
for Time, Paste Magazine, Cosmopolitan, E! Online, and Mashable. He was also named one of
2018’s “Comics To Watch” by Variety. Hari currently hosts the new Netflix food competition
series Snack vs Chef along with Megan Stalter.
In 2017, his truTV documentary The Problem with Apu was released to critical acclaim and
spurred a global conversation about race and representation. The Nation called it “a
devastating critique of the ultimate comedic sacred cow: The Simpsons.” It is now used in high
school, college and grad school curriculums around the US.
Hari has also released two comedy albums, Waiting for 2042 & Mainstream American
Comic with legendary indie rock label Kill Rock Stars. Additionally, he has performed on such
shows as Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late Show with David Letterman among many
others. He is also a former writer & correspondent on the much loved, Chris Rock produced FX
show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.
A regular on the public radio, Hari is a panelist on the NPR game show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell
Me. As a podcaster, he co-hosted the popular Politically Reactive with dear friend W. Kamau
Bell. Additionally, he also co-hosts what he politely describes as a “pop up podcast,” The
Untitled Kondabolu Brothers Podcast with his younger brother Ashok (“Dap” from HBO’s Chillin’
Island and defunct rap group Das Racist.)
Hari attended both Bowdoin College and Wesleyan University, graduating from the former
institution with a B.A. in Comparative Politics. A former immigrant rights organizer in Seattle
who worked under the leadership of now-Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Hari also earned a
Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008. He was the “Artist In
Residence” at NYU’s APA Institute for the 2014-2015 Academic Year and at Shangri La Museum
in Honolulu in 2018.

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.

An internationally touring headliner, Nate is a paid regular at the LA Comedy Store and NY Comedy Cellar among others. Most recently he appears in the hit Netflix movie "Old Dads". He also played Jonah Hill's brother "Phil" in the Netflix series "Maniac" and was a cast member on TruTV's "World's Dumbest". Nate's latest comedy special, "Live at The Green Mill" was executive produced by Bill Burr, and is his second standup special distributed by the All Things Comedy network. He plays a role in the last season of the animated Netflix series "F is for Family" and was 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 Montreal, JFL Northwest, Bridgetown, and HBO Las Vegas Comedy Festivals. He's been on "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 headlines internationally and has multiple full length comedy albums available on iTunes and everywhere else. 

Laurie Kilmartin is a comedian and an Emmy-nominated/WGA Award-winning writer for CONAN. She has also written for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, The Late Late Show, and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. She has performed standup on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central and Showtime. Her standup special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad made Vulture's list of Top Ten Comedy Specials of 2016. Festival appearances include Just for Laughs, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Moontower Comedy Festival.

Laurie has written two books, Dead People Suck and the New York Times bestseller Shitty Mom. She and fellow comic Jackie Kashian host a popular podcast about standup comedy called The Jackie and Laurie Show. Her new album, Corset, was released at #1 on the iTunes charts. Laurie’s recent TV appearances include After Midnight (CBS), Sherri (syndicated) and being interviewed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton on Gutsy Women (AppleTV).

Laurie’s new one-hour comedy special, Cis Woke Grief Slut is available on AppleTV, Amazon Prime and YouTube. In a January 2024 profile piece, the Los Angeles Times says that “Kilmartin has become one of the most fearless, respected performer-writers in the L.A. standup scene.”