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Pete Lee might be the nicest person in New York City, but that’s because it’s impossible to sound aggressive with a Wisconsin accent. Pete was raised in Janesville, WI by divorced parents and a 19-inch television, which is probably why he pursued a career in entertainment.

In 2005, Pete flew to New York to make his television debut on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend. That same night, he met his future wife, and she made him move to Manhattan. Soon after moving to NYC, he was selected to perform at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, where he was voted a standout performer. In 2008 Pete made his network television debut performing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing finishing as a semi-finalist. He's also been seen on Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, CBS Soap Opera As The World Turns, his own Comedy Central half Hour Special, VH1’s Best Week Ever, multiple appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and has performed at over 500 colleges across the country.

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Introduced to America on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” Alonzo Bodden was runner up on season 2 and came back to win it all on Last Comic Standing season 3 “The Best of the Best.” A regular on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!,” Alonzo recently filmed his second stand-up comedy special tentatively titled “Historically Incorrect,” and filmed a guest role on the upcoming ABC comedy “Dr. Ken” starring Ken Jeong as a doctor married to a therapist.

In 2011, he starred in the comedy special “Who’s Paying Attention” on Showtime, released a DVD, and hosts a podcast of the same name. That same year, he was a panelist on the syndicated show “Inside the Vault”. Bodden has also hosted Speed Channel’s “101 Cars You Must Drive” and “America’s Worst Driver” on the Travel Channel, and has appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” His first big comedy break came when he was on the “New Faces of Comedy” showcase at Just for Laughs in Montreal. While his movie career has consisted mainly of playing security guards he has protected the best, including Steve Martin and Queen Latifah in “Bringing Down The House” and Leslie Nielsen in “Scary Movie 4.” He was also the voice of “Thunderon” in “Power Rangers Lightspeed.”

Alonzo has traveled around the world entertaining USO troops from Iraq to Greenland and everywhere in between.

Port City's Top Comic is in it's 10th year! It's a comedy competition for local and regional comedians. Winners are voted on by the audience members during the preliminary rounds Friday and Saturday night. Those chosen will advance to the final round on Sunday. Submissions limited to 40 contestants and we will crown 1 winner! So, if you know someone that is funny, have them sign up at the Dead Crow Comedy Club!

Each Comic will get 8 minutes to perform during one of the four shows Friday and Saturday. The winners of each of those shows face off during the championship round Sunday night.

Nate Craig is a nationally touring, headlining comedian and was recently featured on Comedy Central’s “Roast Battle”, and MTV’s “Acting Out”. He’s been on AXS Network’s “Gotham Comedy Live”, was a cast member on truTV’s “World’s Dumbest” and has also appeared on Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 and “Mash-up”, which he also wrote for. He currently writes for “Ridiculousness” on MTV and his latest full length comedy album, Nate Craig “Eggshell”, was released in the Pandora’s “Comedy Spotlight” at Pandora.com. Nate has headlined and been featured at comedy festivals such as RIOT LA, Bridgetown and the HBO Las Vegas Comedy Festivals. He’s been featured on “You Made it Weird” with Pete Holmes, has written for “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor and has been featured on the “Best of the Bob & Tom Radio Show”. Nate also does theater tours with Bill Burr, headlines all over the country and has multiple full length comedy albums available on iTunes and everywhere else.

Michael Blaustein is an internationally touring headlining comedian, accomplished actor, and award winning writer. He has performed at over 200 colleges worldwide and has been on the Comedy Central on Campus Tour, The College Humor Tour, and The Oddball Comedy Fest. Michael has preformed at prestigious festivals such as JFL 42 and The New York Comedy Festival. Michael can be seen on this season of CBS’s Person of Interest and has a role in The Lucky Guy, a feature film produced by Spike Lee, out in late 2017. He has hosted two pilots for MTV and was a cast member of the last season of MTV's Punk'd. Michael created and developed a Snapchat show for Comedy Central and has sold ideas to CBS Radio and various other production company's. He was also a comedy pilot finalist in The Austin Film Festival. Michael co-wrote, co-directied, and co-starred in the feature film "Up There" that will be out mid-2018.

Andrew Orvedahl is a stand-up comedian who resides in Denver, Colorado. He is one third of the comedy troupe The Grawlix, along with Ben Roy and Adam Cayton-Holland. Together they created the TV Show, "Those Who Can't", which is in it's 3rd season on True TV.

Orvedahl released his debut comedy album, Hit the Dick Lights, in 2013. Since 2010, he has also co-hosted the podcast and storytelling show The Narrators on a monthly basis.

On Tour with Alex Pavone (MTV, Just for Laughs) and Chris Scopo (Sirius XM, Redeye).

Michael is a New York based comedian by way of Atlanta, Mike can be seen as a recurring character on BET’s hit show, “The Game” as well as in 2016 feature film “American Dirtbags” (watch for FREE on Amazon.

Mike finds his humor from his everyday life experiences mixed with his internal struggle with health, crippling paranoia and his longing for that perfect girl who he will inevitably blow it with.

Mike produces the "Red Clay Comedy Festival" annually in Atlanta, GA and several showcases in New York City where he currently resides

When Darren Carter takes the stage, he takes the audience with him. A whirlpool of impressions and observations with on-point improvisation keeps the crowd rolling through the night, and on through the morning if they’re lucky.. From The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to Be Cool with John Travolta, to Comedy Central, BET and Showtime, the aptly named “Party Starter”, and sometimes even “Rooster”, gets recognized on the daily by his many adoring fans. See what all the fuss is about and join the party! Darren Carter style.

LISA BEST is a comedian, writer and performer from Los Angeles and has quickly made a name for herself in LA’s alternative scene as a brilliantly quirky comic and skilled story teller. In the summer of 2018 Lisa made her television stand-up debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden. She is an experienced TV writer having spent a season writing for the truTV show THOSE WHO CAN’T and appeared on the show as well. As a stand-up Lisa has been a featured performer at Sarah Silverman's 1^st annual JASH Fesht in Palm Springs, All Jane Comedy Festival in Portland, Los Angeles' alternative comedy festival RIOT, and two years in a row at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival where The Portland Monthly wrote that Lisa "has a flair for turning embarrassing stories into comedy gold." Lisa was also a co-host for the Travel Channel pilot Cheat Day, performed stand up on Viceland’s Flophouse and appeared in digital sketches for Comedy Central, Funny or Die and IFC's Comedy Crib. In 2016 Lisa released her first stand up album BRAIN BANK via Comedy Dynamics.

DeAnne Smith, a Canadian Comedy Award winner, has performed at Just for Laughs, JFL42, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Iceland Comedy Festival to name a few. She's also been on TV all over the darn world, including on Last Comic Standing and The Late Late Show in the U.S., as well as in Canada, Australia and the UK. Her video "Straight Men, Step Your Game Up" has over 46 million views. She is currently developing a sitcom for CBC and her Netflix half-hour comedy special will debut in 2019. Melbourne's The Music calls her stand up "a virtuoso display of smart, slick, silly brilliance — a metaphorical (and literal) mic-drop of a show," giving it five stars, while the UK's Chortle calls Smith "always relevant, but never reverent. The UK Telegraph says she's "Smart. Very funny. Effortless charm lets her get away with murder."