Stand-up Comedians Shaun Eli, Kerri Louise and Frank Vignola at the Barrymore Film Center

Thursday August 14, 2025  7:30 PM
Barrymore Film Center
153 Main St.
Ft. Lee, NJ 07024
(201) 585-0601
Tickets

Comic Kerri Louise’s Showtime Comedy Special Called “Funny Women of a Certain Age”, is streaming now along with her Dry Bar Special “Street Smart”. She’s been on Oprah, Dr. Oz, and The Howard Stern Show. Kerri Louise was a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and starred in her own reality TV show Called “Two Funny”, on The WE Network. Kerri has been featured on Comedy Central, VH1 and TrueTV countless times. She’s been on numerous TV talk shows, podcasts, and three of her albums “Yummy Mommy”, “Funny Mommy”, and “Menopause Mommy” can all be heard on SiriusXM Radio. You’ve seen her high heels on stages like The Apprentice, Americas Got Talent, Comics Unleashed, Gotham Live, and across the country performing for the Troops. Her very first warm up tv show was the “The Sally Jesse Raphael Show” and then later the warm up for “The View”. Kerri Louise can be seen at the top comedy clubs and festivals nationwide. She lives in New York with comedian husband, Tom Cotter and their three sons. Together they have a live show on Spotify called “A Couple of Laughs”. Being in a household full of testosterone, Kerri needed an escape, which is why she started her “Family Group Chat” videos on her socials. Those viral videos have inspired Kerri to write her third book “If you give a MOM a glass of wine”, a funny parody to “If you give a mouse a cookie”. Kerri’s books “Harry The Elephant Has An Allergy”, and “Mean Mommy” are also on sale now on Amazon. This three time author, hilarious comic, and mother of three boys (4 if you count her husband) can be found performing all over the country.

 

 

Besides appearances on Comedy Central, Amazon Prime and SiriusXM radio, Frank Vignola also has performed at Montreal’s prestigious “Just for Laughs” Comedy Festival and toured the Middle East with Armed Forces Entertainment. As a teacher he has taught stand-up at some of Manhattan’s finest comedy clubs in addition to mentoring and private coaching many of New York City’s up and coming comedians.

 

 

Shaun Eli has rightfully been called one of America’s smartest comics. Whether it’s a story about dining with a vegetarian or successfully fighting a parking ticket, master storyteller Shaun Eli shows you that there’s hilarity in the ordinary if you approach life with a comedic warp. Job interviews? Serving on a NYC criminal jury? How about the Ten Commandments? For just about anything he’s experienced he has a hilarious story at the ready. Shaun has been profiled in The New York Times.

With a sense of humor that’s both cheerful and universal Shaun has headlined shows on five continents. His jokes have been quoted everywhere from the New York Post to Forbes to Readers Digest to Healthcare Finance News. In both Reform Judaism magazine and the Christian Science Monitor, where he was the subject of the cover story. He’s been featured on CareerBuilder.com and CNN, in local papers like the Scarsdale Inquirer and the Asbury Park Press and in the college papers the Yale Daily News and the Daily Pennsylvanian. Even in The Journal of Irreproducible Results, a scientific humor magazine. Yes, there is one. And his group The Ivy League of Comedy^sm was the subject of a front-page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

More than just smart, funny and clever, Shaun is determined to express his opinion passionately, not surprising for someone who wrote his first satirical essay at age ten. When profiled in Fortune magazine “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno quoted one of Shaun’s jokes, citing it as an example of the type of “smart comedy” he’s happy to include in his opening monologue. Jay and other late-night hosts have used Shaun’s topical material in their monologues for more than a decade.

Drawing on his vast wealth of clean, clever material Shaun quickly became one of New York’s brightest, funniest, most in-demand stand-up comedians. When he takes the stage other comedians stop and watch.

Outside the world of comedy Shaun was a world-class athlete in two obscure sports (rowing and dragon-boat racing), worked as a lifeguard instructor and is an instrument-rated pilot. He is also an award-winning economic forecaster who once sold his car to a hitchhiker.

Shaun is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. You can watch his videos and read some of his writings, including satirical political essays and hundreds of jokes he’s written for late-night television, on his web site BrainChampagne.com where his slogan “Brain Champagne: Clever Comedy for Smart Minds^sm ” rings true.