The Talking Show featuring Josh Gondelman, Ana Fabrega, Nore Davis, Calise Hawkins

A monthly live talk show and stand up comedy event.


Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and works as a writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Onstage, Josh charms audiences using his good-natured storytelling and cracks them up with his sharp, pointy wit. He takes topics from surprise parties to his experience teaching preschool and makes them all equally hilarious. Last spring, he made his late night standup debut on Conan (TBS), and he can also be seen on the first season of Night Train With Wyatt Cenac (SeeSo). Josh’s newest comedy album Physical Whisper debuted in March of 2016 at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts (as well as #4 on the Billboard comedy chart) and stayed there for…well…longer than he expected, honestly.

Offstage, Josh has earned a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and a WGA Award for his work on Last Week Tonight. He is also the co-author (along with Joe Berkowitz) of the book You Blew It, published October 2015 by Plume. In the past, Josh has written for Fuse TV’s Billy On The Street. His writing has also appeared in prestigious publications such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker.

Gondelman is the co-creator and co-author of the Shorty Award-winning Modern Seinfeld Twitter account, and his own Twitter feed was named the year’s best by Paste Magazine in 2015. The Ellen DeGeneres Show took notice of Josh’s joke writing skill and featured him as part of their “Tweetly Roundup.”

Additionally, Josh has performed at the Rooftop Comedy Festival in Aspen, CO, and headlined at the Laugh Your Asheville Off Festival in Asheville, NC. More recently he has appeared in the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and SF Sketchfest. His debut standup comedy CD, “Everything’s The Best” was released in November of 2011 by Rooftop Comedy Productions.


Ana Fabrega is a comedian in New York City. She produces, hosts, and performs at comedy venues and art spaces around the city. She hosts a monthly show on the first Sunday of every month at Starr Bar in Brooklyn at 8pm called Sundays with Ana. She was selected for Just For Laughs “New Faces: Characters” 2017 and for Comedy Central’s “Comics to Watch” for the 2016 New York Comedy Festival. The New York Times describes Ana as “an inventive performer with a knack for off-kilter characters.”

Ana previously wrote on The Chris Gethard Show on truTV. She has appeared on IFC’s Portlandia, truTV's At Home with Amy Sedaris, TV Land’s The Jim Gaffigan Show, Comedy Central’s “Sunset Peak" and “Alternatino,” Chestnut Walnut’s “Little Banks on Wall Street,” MNN's The Special Without Brett Davis, IFC’s “Boy Band,” and more. She wrote and starred in the web series “Jana & Shasta” (New York Television Festival), and wrote the comedy zines “The Truth About Pangaea" and “The Truth About Pangaea II” published by Social Malpractice Publishing. She was a finalist in the 2015 Andy Kaufman Awards. In January 2016, she was part of Ars Nova’s Showgasm Spotlight series with her show “Go, Baby, Go!” which featured a variety of her characters, stand-up, videos, and pictures.


First CD "Home Game" on Rooftop released. Second CD "Away Game" on New Wave released. First hour special "Off the Chain" Bounce TV/New Wave premiered July. Recurring on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" as Daniel and MTV's "Nikki & Sara Live" as a correspondent. Appearances on "Inside Amy Schumer" and "Russell Simmons Presents: The Ruckus" Comedy Central and "Gotham Comedy Live" AXS TV. He has also been seen on nickmom "Night Out" and "Mother Funny Specials" as well as BET's "Comic View."