Category: Comedy and Featured

Ali Siddiq: The Custom Fit Tour

Vulture calls Ali Siddiq “stand-up comedy’s most prolific storyteller,” but audiences simply call him one of the best to ever do it.

From Houston, Texas, Ali developed his unmistakable voice in one of the most unlikely places, behind the walls of incarceration, where storytelling was survival, currency, and community. Today, that same voice has made him one of the most watched, respected, and consistently viral comedians in the world.

Ali is the first comedian in history to release a four-part stand-up series, THE DOMINO EFFECT 1–4,  a storytelling saga that has amassed over 50 million views and cemented his reputation as a master craftsman of narrative comedy. Each chapter became a cultural event, landing Ali among the top-viewed comedians on YouTube year after year.

His momentum has only accelerated. In 2025 alone, Ali released three hit specials and executive-produced a fourth:

His 2022 breakout, THE DOMINO EFFECT, remains one of the top 5 most-watched comedy specials of the year with more than 18 million views. The sequels — LOSS, FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, and PINS & NEEDLES — quickly followed, each reaching millions within weeks and proving Ali’s status as the internet’s most unstoppable comedian-storyteller.

Fans first met Ali on DEF COMEDY JAM, Live From Gotham, and Comedy Central’s #1 Comic to Watch list. His legendary story “Mexicans Got On Boots” on This Is Not Happening (16M+ views) remains one of the most iconic comedy stories ever told. Comedy Central later sent him back inside a Texas jail to film It’s Bigger Than These Bars, now over 4M views.

Ali’s reach extends far beyond the stage — he has been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience, Club Shay Shay, 85 South, The Breakfast Club, Kill Tony, VladTV, Your Mom’s House, Good Morning America, and dozens of other top shows and podcasts, making him one of the most recognized and requested voices in comedy today.

With unmatched authenticity, unforgettable stories, and a style rooted in truth, resilience, and humor, Ali Siddiq has become the greatest storyteller of his generation — and one of the most influential comedians in the world.

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Colin Jost

Colin Jost is a writer, performer and author best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live.” Jost started writing for “SNL” in 2005 and has been the co-anchor of the show’s “Weekend Update” since 2014.

Jost has won five Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards and has been nominated for 18 Emmy Awards for his writing on “SNL.” He received two Emmys in 2025 for his work as a producer and writer for “SNL50: The Anniversary Special.”

Jost and Michael Che have hosted special editions of “Weekend Update” on MSNBC during the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions as well as the primetime “Weekend Update Summer Edition” in 2017. The duo also co-hosted the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2018 and in 2024 executive produced and co-hosted Peacock’s first-ever live comedy event, “Colin Jost and Michael Che Present: New York After Dark,” which featured an evening of surprise drop-in performances from stand-up comedians.

In 2015, Jost wrote “Staten Island Summer,” a coming-of-age comedy that was released by Paramount Pictures. In 2016, he had a supporting role in the Warner Bros. film “How to Be Single.” Jost can be seen in the Paramount film “Coming 2 America.” He also starred in the Warner Bros. live-action animation film “Tom and Jerry.”

As a writer, Jost has been published multiple times in the New Yorker and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine and the Huffington Post, among others.

In 2020, Jost debuted “A Very Punchable Face.” A New York Times bestseller, the memoir is a series of essays that documents pivotal moments in Jost’s life, including growing up in Staten Island in a family of firefighters, commuting three hours a day to high school, attending Harvard while Facebook was created and more.

Jost received a Sports Emmy Award for his work serving as an NBC Sports correspondent from Tahiti for the surfing competition at the 2024 Summer Olympic
Games. He also received strong reviews as the featured entertainer of the 2024 White House Correspondents Dinner.

In 2024, Jost debuted as the host of “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” for Amazon Prime Video, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Host for a Game Show.

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Rodney Carrington

Rodney Carrington is a multi-talented comedian, actor, singer and writer playing sold-out shows around the world as one of the top 10 highest-grossing touring comedians for the past two decades. A platinum-recording artist, Rodney’s recorded eight major record label comedy albums, followed by three albums on his own record label, Laughter’s Good Records. Rodney is fresh off the release of his latest album, “Get Em Out,” (released 2019) which hit #1 on iTunes. His album “Here Comes the Truth” (released 2017) climbed to #3 on the comedy charts, accruing tens of millions of streams on Spotify and even spawned a Netflix special.

Rodney broke through with his major label comedy CD debut “Hangin’ With Rodney” in 1998. The next few years saw nine more Top 10 comedy albums: Live, Morning Wood, Nutsack, Greatest Hits, King of the Mountains, El Nino Loco, C’mon Laugh You Bastards, Laughter’s Good and The Hits, all of which continue to receive radio airplay and regularly place on the national comedy charts. “Hangin’ With Rodney” and “Morning Wood” earned RIAA gold record certification, and his Greatest Hits (a double CD) album reached platinum status. Rodney also released “Make it Christmas” which features his original song “Camouflage and Christmas Lights,” a tribute to our military.

Rodney also added “author” to his list of accomplishments with the release of his book “Rodney Carrington, Coming Clean” published by Hatchette Books. Over the years, he’s starred in his own TV sitcom, Rodney, which ran for two seasons on ABC, co-wrote and co-starred with Toby Keith in the feature film, Beer for My Horses, which won the Tex Ritter Award from the ACM, and starred in his own Netflix special Here Comes The Truth. Rodney’s also appeared on countless other TV shows, including the ACA (American Country Awards), hosting the American Country New Year’s Eve Live show on FOX, and won “Supporting Character of the Year” from the CMT Music Video Awards for his appearance on the Trace Adkins’ music video “I Got My Game On.”

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