Articles & Podcast Episodes

Comedian and JokeZoom.com member Claudia Bonavita

Claudia is the 2019 Aragona’s Comedy Winner of the Suffolk County Comedy Contest as well as The AARP over 50 Comedian! You can see Claudia performing on the Long Island (Governor’s, Brokerage, The Boulton Center and various other venues) and NYC circuit (Greenwhich Village Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Comic Strip Live and Eastville Comedy Club). She recently performed at the House of Blues in Dallas, Tx. Claudia has trained at The Second City Training Center in Chicago.

Comedian and JokeZoom.com member Helaine Witt

“I started comedy in the 80’s. I wrote jokes that Joan Rivers told on The Late Show with Johnny Carson. I was on The Wendy Williams Show several times. I was in 4 films last year. One went all the way to The Critics Choice Award!”

Comedian and JokeZoom.com member Richie “The Head” Parisi

“Im a 59-year-old mail postal worker by day, stand-up comic by night. My stage name is Richie “The Head” Parisi”.

Comedian and JokeZoom.com member Michael Friedman

“My name is Michael Friedman. I have been doing stand-up comedy on-off for many years. I have performed all over the United States, as well as in a few other countries. Currently, I can be found performing on Long Island or in New York City.”

Kevin Markman is a standup comedian from Rochester, NY who has been making audiences laugh for eight years with his unique perspectives on relationships, daddying, and pickles. His clever wordplay and raw truths take his audience on a roller coaster of comedy.

Kevin’s passion for helping others drew him to the healing power of laughter, which makes him an entertaining and endearing comedian, host, actor, and producer, but sadly, a poor dancer.

Kevin’s “Stand Up for Drag” show is a yearly hit at the Rochester Fringe Festival, and he’s consistently a top five nominee for the ROC award for Rochester’s best comedian. Kevin was also a finalist to represent Rochester on the Comedy Central show “Kevin Hart’s ‘Hart of the City.’” Kevin provides comedy and laughs wherever he travels.

Comedian and JokeZoom.com member Cathy Perkins.”I am 67, currently own my own Thoroughbred training business in partnership with my spouse of 25 +-years, work part-time as a zero turn mower operator for a small (300 acre) breeding operation, a part-time horse crossing person for a local Thoroughbred Race Track and Sales enterprise, Keeneland Foundation, a published poet working on my first manuscript, a humor collection. I used to be a clarinet blower until my teeth started getting loose and a painter, too (but I don’t paint anymore because I’ve been too busy working. “

Comedian and JokeZoom.com founder Rob Cioffi