Jon Friedman is a writer, comedian and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. As an original blogger for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon he won two Creative Arts Emmy’s (Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Media). He is currently the creator/producer and host of the award winning popular variety show, The Rejection Show, and has produced, hosted and/or created many other unique live events, including The NYC Beard and Moustache Championships, comedy’s ECNY Awards, and the annual Delicious Sandwich Social. Jon’s first book, the award winning Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped & Canceled, a humor anthology of rejected works, was released in 2009 with Villard (Random House). He performs regularly at literary events and stand-up comedy venues throughout New York City and beyond. His solo show, Bear With Me ran at The Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in New York and was nominated for a 2011 ECNY Award (Excellence in Comedy – New York City) for Best One Person Show. Jon’s new original series, The Jon Friedman Internet Program will debut on My Damn Channel in the Fall of 2011. You can follow Jon on Twitter at @friedmanjon.

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Eliot Glazer is a writer and comedian who has trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade since January 2007 under Will Hines, Charlie Todd, Joe Wengert, and Bobby Moynihan. With his sister Ilana, Eliot co-produces the High School Talent Show. Additionally, Eliot is an editor at Urlesque.com], and the creator of My Parents Were Awesome [myparentswereawesome.com], while is available in book-form on Amazon and in Barnes & Noble.

Elna Baker is a New York-based writer, actress, and comedian, and host of the wildly popular variety show--The Talent Show. She has performed with The Moth, on This American Life, Studio 360, Radiolab, BBC Radio 4, at the Upright Citizens Brigade, The PIT, The Magnet and at many other comedy clubs throughout New York City. Her show, "If You See Something, Say Something", premiered at the NY Fringe Festival and under the direction of her mentor Elizabeth Swados, she also created "Mexican-Morman" (La Mama Etc.), and "A Book of Over-Dramatic Confessions." She’s written for ELLE Magazine, Glamour, Five Dials and The Onion. Elna has also appeared in The New Yorker…or a really bad picture of her did, but hey, that counts. In 2007 and 2008 Elna was awarded residencies at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony, and most recently, her book "The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance" was published by Penguin.