Celebrate at WMG’s Comedy Night Featuring PRH Authors!
Don’t miss Women Media Group’s Holiday Party on Tuesday, January 27, at Gotham Comedy Club featuring comedians Akilah Hughes, Phoebe Robinson, Ophira Eisenberg, Leighann Lord, Youngmi Mayer, and Maysoon Zayid with emcee Audra Boltion-Ortiz.
This event is open to all – please spread the word.
Event Details
When: Tuesday, January 27, 2025, 6:00 p.m. VIP Hour, 7:15 General Admission
Where: Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street
Cost: (Special Holiday pricing until 1/7/26)
- VIP reception Non-member $120 (Includes 2 drinks, passed hors d’oeuvres, and VIP reception)
- VIP reception Member $95 (Includes 2 drinks, passed hors d’oeuvres, and VIP reception)
- General Admission Non-member $90 (includes 2 drinks)
- General Admission Member $70 (includes 2 drinks)
Register: To register, click here.
Comedians:
Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for nine years and is the host of the new comedy podcast Parenting Is a Joke, co-produced by iHeart Radio and Pretty Good Friends Productions. Ophira filmed Inside Joke, her comedy special about surprisingly finding herself expecting at “an advanced maternal age,” when she was 8½ months pregnant. Her new comedy album, Plant-Based Jokes, is available on iTunes and is streaming now on YouTube. Her other comedy albums are Bangs! and As Is. Ophira is a regular host and storyteller with The Moth, and her stories were featured in two of The Moth’s bestselling collections. Ophira’s first book, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press), was optioned for a feature film.
Akilah Hughes is an award-winning podcast host of Crooked Media’s What a Day daily news podcast, a USC MacArthur Foundation Civic Media Fellow, and the author of Obviously: Stories from my Timeline for Penguin Random House. Akilah has created hundreds of videos, garnering more than 100 million views across the internet for companies like HBO, Comedy Central, ABC, and her own YouTube channel since 2013. Her latest project is Rebel Spirit, a podcast in which she returns to her hometown of Florence, Kentucky to try to convince her high school to change their dated, racist mascot, “The Rebels,” into something “everyone in the South loves.”
Leighann Lord is a seasoned standup comedian who has appeared on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam, Comedy Central, The View, and Showtime’s Even More Funny Women of a Certain Age. She’s performed for the troops in the Middle East and her Dry Bar comedy special has had over one million views. Leighann is the author of several humor books, including Dict Jokes and Real Women Do it Standing Up, and is the host of the online show, Skeptical Inquirer Presents. She is the official emcee of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop.
Youngmi Mayer is a standup comedian and host of the podcasts Feeling Asian and Hairy Butthole. She has been on The Today Show, ABC News, Rolling Stone, CNN, Vice Munchies, Eater’s Guide to the World, and The Mind of a Chef. Youngmi’s work has been featured in Netflix Is a Joke, Comedy Central, and the BBC. She has written for Lucky Peach, Cherry Bombe, InStyle, and Women’s Health Magazine. She is one of the rare comedians working today who has obtained success both on online platforms and in the mainstream.
Phoebe Robinson is a standup comedian, bestselling author, producer, actress, and publisher. Phoebe is the author of the essay collections You Can’t Touch My Hair, Everything’s Trash, but It’s Okay, and Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, and, in 2020, she launched her own imprint, Tiny Reparations Books. She is also the co-creator and co-star of the podcast 2 Dope Queens, as well as the HBO series of the same name. Other onscreen work includes the TV adaptation of Everything’s Trash and the standup special Sorry, Harriet Tubman, both of which are produced by her company, Tiny Reparations. She was the recipient of Variety’s Comedy Innovator Award for her work and continued contribution in comedy. Her second standup special, I Don’t Wanna Work Anymore, premiered October 7 exclusively on YouTube.
Maysoon Zayid is a comedian, actress, writer, and disability advocate. She is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and the Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time on-air contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Maysoon has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC News, and the Oprah Winfrey Network, and had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014. As a professional comedian, Maysoon has toured extensively at home and abroad, serving as a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and the Together Live Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan and has written for Glamour. She limped in New York Fashion Week and is a recurring character on General Hospital. Maysoon is the author of the bestselling memoir, Find Another Dream, and collaborated with Scholastic on her debut comic book, Shiny Misfits.
Emcee: Audra Boltion-Ortiz is a seasoned PR executive with 20+ years of communications and brand marketing expertise in the entertainment, publishing, and food and beverage categories. Throughout her career, she has crafted and executed successful campaigns in tandem with industry leaders, including Conagra, Diageo, General Mills, Verizon, Abrams Books, Disney, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster. She has worked in partnership with God’s Love We Deliver, Food Bank for New York City, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Audra has launched Emmy Award-winning television programs, led campaigns for dozens of New York Times bestselling titles, and facilitated workshops on media training techniques for New York Women in Film and Television. She specializes in extending the life of properties under her care beyond the bestseller lists and yearly award cycles.
If you are unable to attend but would like to make a donation to the Women’s Media Group Educational Foundation, click here. The Women’s Media Group Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3, which funds scholarships, fellowships, and mentorships for women in partnership with institutions such as CUNY, City College, Pace, Medgar Evers, Girls Write Now, and Girls Who Code.