Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler

Kumail is a tireless Los Angeles-based writer and performer. He's toured with Stella, Eugene Mirman, and Zach Galifianakis and has been seen performing stand-up on Conan, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has also had recurring roles on Portlandia, The Colbert Report, andMichael and Michael Have Issues, as well as appearing in the feature films The Five Year Engagement and Life As We Know It. He is currently a series regular regular on TNT's Franklin & Bash, and he cohosts the Nerdist Industries podcast and webshow about video games called The Indoor Kids.

Mike Phirman is an L.A. based comedian, and half of the comedy duo “Hard ‘n Phirm”, whose Comedy Central Presents premiered in 2008. Recently, Mike released his first solo album, “The Very Last Songs I Will Ever Record (Part 1)”, on which “Weird Al” Yankovic performed on one of the tracks.

Cameron Esposito has appeared at TBS’ Just for Laughs Chicago, SXSW, and the Aspen Rooftop and Bridgetown Comedy Festivals, on LOGO, and NPR’s The Sound of Young America. Her hour solo show, SIDE MULLET NATION, debuted as a production of TBS’ Just for Laughs Chicago Festival (Best of the Fest, The Onion’s AV Club). SIDE MULLET NATION has been featured in Time Out Chicago (Critics’ Pick), Time Out New York (Critics’ Pick), The Chicago Reader, and Gapers Block. Known for her “effervescent storytelling” (AV Club), Cameron acts as ringmaster for Chicago-based touring circus company El Circo Cheapo Cabaret, and created and teaches the world’s only all-female standup course, The Feminine Comique. Cameron released her debut standup album, Grab Them Aghast, on Rooftop Comedy Records in 2010.

Pearl and the Beard is three voices, one cello, one guitar, one glockenspiel, one melodica, several drums, one accordion, ninety-six teeth, and one soul. Former strangers Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price, and Jeremy Styles were united in the great city of New York. Each had migrated there from a far corner of the nation with naught but food in their pockets and money in their bellies. Each had the same true love. Since then, the three have nested, and their unique brand of brightly melodic songcraft continues to blossom of its own accord. Pearl and the Beard loves you the way you’ve always been.

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