Entertainment & Promotions Calendar

Emcee Jody Carroll, Travis Sherer and featured comedian David Testroet.

A comedian veteran of more than 30 years, David Testroet considers himself a short, fat funny guy with a different way of thinking. Pound per pound, he’s your "Best Buy." With rapid-fire delivery, he's headlined more than 40 clubs in the US and Canada, and five oversea military tours for the USO, PAC-AF and the DOD.

David has appeared on CBS, Fox, Showtime and MSNBC; done voiceover work on ESPN radio and National Lampoon radio; worked with Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, Jeff Dunham, Gallagher and many others; was a finalist in the Seattle international comedy competition and a host three times; won the Miller Light Comedy Connection; and won Planters Peanuts "You Could Be A Nut" comedy competition plus many others.

Emcee Jody Carroll, Gabey Lucas and featured comedian Tyler Boeh.

Tyler Boeh’s award-winning “beat-boxing” talent and ability to shift seamlessly from well-crafted material to improvised exchanges keeps audiences in awe. He established himself early in his career by placing in the finals of three of the most prestigious comedy competitions in the country: the Seattle International, San Francisco International and the World Series of Comedy in Las Vegas.

With past appearances on NESN Comedy All-Stars, Celebrity Name Game and two seasons of Laughs on Fox, Tyler has laid the groundwork for his growing success. In 2018, Tyler’s second album, Full Circle, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Comedy Charts and he was selected as the SiruisXM 98 Artist of the Month. His Dry Bar comedy special “Wait for it” has garnered millions of views online. You can find his comedy on Amazon Prime, Spotify, Pandora and SiriusXM, but don’t miss the chance to see Tyler perform live!

Emcee Jody Carroll, Lynette Manning and featured comedian Susan Rice.

Susan Rice has never met a stranger. Her comedic banter started on the bus lines of Portland, Oregon, in the mid-1970s and transferred to the comedy stage in 1983.

For over 41 years Rice has been performing for comedy audiences all over the United States and Canada.

Her audiences started in bars and progressed to comedy clubs and cruise lines. She's helped raise thousands of dollars for Planned Parenthood, Breast Cancer Awareness, the American Heart Association and pancreatic cancer.

She started the St. Johns Comedy Festival in her north Portland neighborhood in the summer of 2021 to help her fellow comedians get back on stage and to give her neighbors a sense of community. She repeated the very successful festival in 2022 and considers it one of her finest moments in comedy.

Rice's ability to relate to all ages has only grown in the last 10 years. She found acceptance amongst the millennials and even more so with Gen Z. She was recently invited to participate in a taping for the very hip Don't Tell Comedy.com's YouTube channel. When her set was released, it went viral proving "funny is funny" at any age.

Emcee Jody Carroll, JR Berard and featured comedian Andrew Sleighter.

Andrew Sleighter started in comedy looking for the perfect funny line to open a biography. Since then, Andrew’s laid-back style and clever writing has won him appreciation from fans and respect from his peers.

Andrew performed on Last Comic Standing, recorded a comedy special for Dry Bar and made his late-night stand-up debut on the Conan show. He's also written and performed sketch comedy for Comedy Central, and wrote and blogged for the Sports Show with Norm Macdonald on Comedy Central. Most recently, Andrew appeared on the Late Late Show with James Corden.

A regular at colleges and comedy clubs across the country, Andrew has also performed at some of the most prestigious comedy festivals in and out of the country including Bumbershoot, Bridgetown, Gilda’s Laugh Fest, The Aspen Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull and the Johnny Carson Great American Comedy Festival.

Andrew’s comedy has the ability to reach a wide range of audiences and works in a diversity of rooms. Reliable and consistent, he rarely ends a show by lighting the stage on fire out of rage. Most importantly, he’s constantly fascinated by, and eager to keep learning, about stand-up.

Emcee Jody Carroll, Adam Tiller and featured comedian Kermet Apio.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kermet Apio enjoyed a childhood in paradise. He spent his time watching television, playing and procrastinating about everything else. To this day, he still does all three extensively.

After graduating from high school, Kermet moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. Seattle became home. In early 1989, Kermet did his first open mic night at the Comedy Underground in Seattle. Comedy was a fun hobby. In May of 1990, he quit his job, said goodbye to healthcare and benefits, and took the leap to performing full-time. It is still his only job skill.

He was the winner of the 2009 Great American Comedy Festival and has had numerous appearances on television and radio. He has showcased at comedy festivals in Aspen, Las Vegas and Vancouver and has performed in 47 states and three Canadian provinces. He is a past winner of the Seattle Comedy Competition and was a semi-finalist in the San Francisco Comedy Competition. Also, in 1988, he was Dishwasher of the Month at the SeaTac Airport Denny’s.

Kermet is married and the proud father of two wonderful children. He enjoys his family, baseball and pie. He does not enjoy opera, sitting in traffic and writing about himself in the third person.