Geoffrey Asmus
Geoffrey Asmus began performing stand-up in 2013 immediately after wasting $143,548 on seven college degrees.
Geoffrey regularly performs at the famous Comedy Cellar in New York City and was featured at Just For Laughs in Montreal and the Netflix festival in Los Angeles.
Geoffrey has opened for Dave Attell, Mark Normand, Dan Soder, Fortune Feimster, Sam Morrill, and Daniel Sloss among others. He headlines comedy clubs worldwide and sleeps on Greyhounds nationwide.
In 2021 his debut album “Prodigal Little Bitch” went to #1 on iTunes. His new YouTube special “The Only Funny White Man” is out now and his mother says, “It is hellish to behold.”
But no matter where he performs Geoffrey never makes eye contact, which is a blessing for all.
Heather Shaw
Heather Shaw is a seasoned stand-up comic who has gained a large following on social media for her humor and uncanny resemblance to Jim Carrey.
She’s been featured on The Today Show and The Tamron Hall Show, and has worked with comics such as Mark Normand, Eric Andre, and Fortune Feimster.
Heather has a weekly podcast, Heather Shaw is Kidding, where she makes fun of current events happening in pop culture, politics, and elsewhere.
Ian Lara
Ian Lara is one of the hottest rising comics in New York City. He found internet success when he recorded his “Comedy Central Stand up Featuring” which has garnered over 10 million views, he also made an appearance on the first season of “NBC’s Bring the Funny” and made his late-night debut on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon all in the same year.
He was a regular player on ‘This week at the Comedy Cellar’ on Comedy Central with his second Comedy Central set hitting the 10 million views mark yet again. He's been featured in The New Yorker Magazine and was named a “2021 JFL NEW FACES" of comedy. On February 10th, 2022 he debuted his Comedy Central half-hour special titled “Growing Shame”. Shortly after on November, 11th, 2022 he debuted his first standalone HBO special titled “Ian Lara: Romantic Comedy” now streaming on MAX.
In 2023 he has hit the ground running and has received the high honor of being name one of “Variety’s 2023 Comics to Watch” he then went on to make his third appearance on The Tonight show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In 2024 he made his 4th appearance on the Tonight show and is now slated to release his new special in 2025.
Caitlin Peluffo
Originally hailing from San Francisco, CA, Caitlin Peluffo is a comedian based in NYC. After a brief six year stint in art school studying performative video art (no, really…that’s a thing) Caitlin expanded her talents to the stage. She’s opened for comedians, Maria Bamford, Fortune Feimster, Matteo Lane, and Brian Regan. She’s been featured everywhere from the world famous Comedy Cellar in the Big Apple to clubs nationwide talking about how she came to be such a lovable loose cannon.
Caitlin has been featured on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden, After Midnight, 2022’s Just For Laughs Festival, and has hosted her weekly podcast, Good Time Gal with Caitlin Peluffo for over three years. She has also been featured on Comedy Central’s “Featuring” series, and has a Don’t Tell Comedy Set with over 150k views on YouTube. With Caitlin, no subject is off limits, however, she did make a promise to her mother that she would never, ever discuss that one time she took those ‘whorish, yet tastefully executed’ photos for a guy she used to bang in the military. She may be a patriot, but a promise is a promise.
Debra DiGiovanni
Debra DiGiovanni is a standup and performer originally from Toronto, now based in Los Angeles. Debra can be seen around the world appearing in comedy festivals like Moontower, High Plains, JFL Sydney, and JFL Montreal. Her comedy album Lady Jazz was nominated for a Juno award: Comedy Album of the Year 2019. Debra has appeared on CONAN, The Tonight Show, Comedy Central’s Stand Up Featuring, and released a comedy special on Season 2 of Unprotected Sets for Epix. Debra can be seen on the Amazon original series Last One Laughing, and her most recent comedy album Honourable Intentions is available on SiriusXM.
Mandal
MANDAL is a comedian based out of Atlanta, Georgia. He has been seen and heard on Adult Swim, Netflix Is A Joke Radio, and Don’t Tell Comedy. He was selected as one of Netflix Is A Joke’s INTRODUCING Comics, and as one of Vulture’s Comics to Watch. He is currently developing an animated series with Adult Swim based off of his SMALLS series, Mandal Takes an L. He can also be seen on the new Jordan Peele-produced comedy series Scare Tactics. Mandal opened for John Mulaney at the Hollywood Bowl and works on his Netflix talk-show series, Everybody's in LA.
Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins is a Colorado native and a nationally touring stand-up comedian. His viral stand-up clips have amassed millions of views, and he’s starting to sell out stops across the country. He was recently asked to perform at the prestigious 2024 Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival in Hollywood and the 2024 New York Comedy Festival in NYC. He’s been featured on Bob & Tom, ViceTV, Don’t Tell Comedy, and recently released a debut mini-special called “Mind Wizard” for free on YouTube.
Sweet Baby Kita
Licita “Sweet Baby Kita” Cromer is a native of Spartanburg, SC currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been making audiences laugh for over 10 years and possesses a vibe that’s as contagious as the chicken pox. Sweet Baby Kita has been seen on Kevin Hart’s “Hart of the City,” Don’t Tell Comedy, and The Steve Harvey Show. She is a previous winner of Showtime at the Apollo and has won Atlanta’s hottest female comedian 3 years in a row!
ATL HOEDOWN
w/ Geoffrey Asmus and Chris Higgins
These two festival headliners will go head to head with their own team of fest comics, in a stand up comedy battle, and you get to vote for the winning team!
The Rad Ole Opry
Featuring Good Cop/Rad Cop…and other WECF comics!
Good Cop/ Rad Cop is a musical comedy experience that feels like a week’s worth of summer camp packed into one show. Headliners of the Red Eye Comedy Festival, Dave & Ryan have also been featured performers on the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival, Altercation Comedy Festival, Epic Comedy Festival and Lookout Comedy Festival. They’ve brought their musical comedy show “The Rad Ole Opry”, a mix of standup comedy and variety acts, to Denver, Asheville, Chattanooga and other cities around the United States. They’re regular features for comedy legend Bobcat Goldthwait. They’ve played the Bijou Theater with Trae Crowder and The WellRED Comedy Tour, and have appeared on Eddie Pepitone’s Podcast, Apocalypse Soon . Their songs have gone viral and been played on BBC and NPR. They’ve crowd-surfed in living rooms, performed singing telegrams for Mother’s Day, and played the 7th inning stretch for minor league baseball games.
Promedy
Promedy returns for the 5th Annual West End Comedy Festival! 50% Comedy, 50% Prom, 100% fun as hell!
That means the time to start planning your outfit is now, and don’t forget the corsage! Grab a date or a group of friends and join us!