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THURSDAY, JUNE 5TH 2025

8:00 PM TO 9:30 PM

6161 Hwy 65 NE, Minneapolis, MN 55432

Dunsmore Jazz Room

18+ Recommended

Free Parking at Venue

DescriPtion

DescriPtion

We've scoured the country, searching high and low for untapped talent—join us for Heat 4, as 8 great comedians from across the U.S. compete to advance to the next round and keep their dreams of the $5,000 GRAND PRIZE alive in our stand-up comedy competition!

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HOST

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Shubh Panda is a New York City based comedian who performs regularly at QED and have headlined shows across the country He won the 2024 Palm Springs Comedy Festival and Competition, 2025 Good Karma Comedy Festival and Competition, and was named the 2025 Funniest Person On The Waterfront!

FEATURED COMEDIANS

FEATURED COMEDIANS

Dan Brittain

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Dan Brittain

Dan Brittain has been part of the Detroit comedy scene for over 20 years. He started out in improv at the Detroit Second City and performed in several festivals and clubs for over a decade. Since switching to stand up, his likeable sarcastic personality has made him a crowd favorite all over the Midwest. He’s headlined everything from one night shows to weekends at clubs like One Night Stan’s (Waterford, MI) to the world famous Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle (Royal Oak, MI). So sit back and enjoy his tales of being an ex-paratrooper, laboratory scientist, that is struggling with his new identity as the hottest guy…at the senior center.

Manny Petty

Manny Petty

Manny Petty is a Chicago-based Stand-Up Comedian and Musician somewhere between Tom Petty and a Mani-Pedi. He is a first-generation Sicilian-American, happily gay-married househusband, and former punk rocker turned clown. Manny has opened for Rhys Nicholson, Brendan Scannell and Beth Stelling. He is the writer and performer of Thirst Trap Salon at the Newport Theater and Zanies Chicago and has been featured on WGN TV Chicago Spotlight. He has headlined shows at The Laugh Factory, Laugh It Uptown, Laughs at Atmosphere, and The Comedy Clubhouse and taken part in several comedy festivals including Loons on the Lake in Minneapolis.

Matt Laughery

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Matt Laughery

Matt Laughery is the only person in his family who can properly pronounce quesadilla—a skill that has yet to land him a Netflix special. Based in Los Angeles, Matt’s deeply personal insights fuel sardonic yet vulnerable takes on body image, religion, race, and sexuality. When he’s not on the mic, Matt can be found behind the scenes as a producer on Two Ts in a Pod, a top-ranked podcast and current iHeartPodcast Awards nominee with over 2 million monthly listener downloads—none of whom know he exists. He also runs a boutique social media management agency, All That Creatives, with his husband. Matt has performed at legendary venues like The Comedy Store and The Ice House, and was recently a finalist in the US Comedy Contest, an honor previously held by Anthony Jeselnik.

Mike Maxwell

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Mike Maxwell

Mike Maxwell is a Chicago area comedian, writer, and actor. Although he performs nationally, Mike is a regular at the Zanies and the Chicago Improv while performing at all the major clubs in Chicago. His comedy style is an upbeat level of sarcasm and emotion covering many personal moments the audience may have experienced as well. Mike recorded his debut comedy album ‘Wait it out!’ at Zanies Rosemont in late 2023 and debuted #1 on new releases for Amazon Music charts and hit #3 on the Amazon Music Best Seller chart. He went on to headline the Chicago Improv and Comedy Plex Comedy Club in 2024. Mike was one of three comedians selected to the Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival. Third Coast Review caught his performance and noted ‘Maxwell is a guy you can’t help but like, and his relatability and charm are immediately obvious in his set.” Aside from touring to clubs across the US, Mike has headlined dozens of corporate shows and events for such notable companies as the NFL/Ford, Twitter, Allstate, Salesforce, Snapchat, and the Boy Scouts of America, among many more. Outside of stand up comedy, Mike is a writer, producer and performer of several projects. He was a featured columnist for the site Football Absurdity. The debut of his mock new hire orientation ‘The Anti-Boss’ was at the Chicago Sketchfest, Laughfest, and Fringe Festival. The Chicago Reader called it ‘a nimble, delightfully dispiriting hour.’

Oscar Salem

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Oscar Salem

Oscar Salem is a comedian based in New York City and has been doing stand up since his 17th birthday. He’s won the Tight Pants Tight Five comedy competition and performs at some of the best clubs in the city.

Stacey Axler

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Stacey Axler

Stacey Axler is a stand-up comedian who’s been making people laugh for four years. Stacey performs in comedy clubs including the DC Improv, Hotbed, Room 808 and The Port. Known for sharp observations and a knack for turning awkward situations into comedy gold, Stacey has taken part in comedy festivals like SOLOCOM, the North Carolina Comedy Festival, and the Sixth City Comedy Festival. Stacey also produces a monthly comedy showcase and co-produces a seasonal comedy show in a historic DC cemetery (it is actually very fun!)

Tracie Jayne

Tracie Jayne

Tracie Jayne was in NYC for 16 years, but is now in Pittsburgh, post-apocolypse. That must have changed this small town girl. She has performed all over the country for over 2 decades and overseas for the troops. She has appeared in the Boston Comedy Festival, the New York Underground Comedy Festival (named Emerging Comic of the Year 2006), Trail by Laughter on Comcast, TMZ, Spike, the Discovery Channel, as a host for LX TV and Atlantic City TV, and also can be seen dancing on DiCaprio in the Wolf of Wall Street.

Wellington Ojukwu

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Wellington Ojukwu

Welllington is Straight out of Arkansas. He was 2023 Montreal "Just for Laughs New Face Comedian". Ojukwu has a DryBar Clean comedy special out right now called "Razorback". Wellington was featured on" Standup Nashville ", Live frome Zanies, and Nate Bargatze's Clean Comedy Series " Nateland ".

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