Stand Up! for Main Street 2019 – Public Citizen’s all-star comedy benefit
What: Public Citizen’s All-Star Comedy Benefit, Stand Up! For Main Street
Who: You, your friends, and some of the funniest comedians in the business
When: 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 20, 2019
Where: The Writers Guild Theater at 135 South Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills, California
For more information, or to sponsor the event, please contact
Kristen Caruana, 202-588-7759 or kcaruana@citizen.org
Larry Miller
Larry Miller has appeared in over 100 films and television shows, including 10 Things I Hate About You, Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries, Boston Legal, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman and Real Time with Bill Maher. He starred in his own HBO comedy specials and on Broadway in Neil Simon’s play, The Dinner Party.
John Fugelsang
John Fugelsang hosts Tell Me Everything weekdays on Sirius XM Insight #121. He has appeared in Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and in television shows like CSI. His new film Dream On, a road trip in search of the American Dream, was named Best Documentary at the NY Independent Film Festival.
Cristela Alonzo
Cristela Alonzo is a stand-up comedian who made TV history as the first Latina to create, write and star in a network TV sitcom named Cristela. She was the first Latina to star in a Disney Pixar movie, Cars 3, and has served as one of ABC’s The View’s most popular guest hosts. Her one-hour stand-up special, Lower Classy, is currently streaming on Netflix.
Rondell Sheridan
Rondell Sheridan is a comedian, actor and director. His appearances include The Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the Late, Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comics Unleashed, Showtime and Comedy Central. He is known for his role as Chef Victor, the lovable dad on Disney’s That’s So Raven.
Amy Anderson
Amy Anderson‘s many television credits include Comedy Central, Showtime, GSN, The Tom Joyner Show, Comics Unleashed, HBO’s The Newsroom, ABC’s Modern Family and Fox’s Raising Hope. She created and hosted the first Asian American stand up showcase, Chop-SHTICK, at the legendary Friars of Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Improv.
Matt Kirshen
Matt Kirshen has appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Green Room with Paul Provenza, @Midnight and The Nerdist. He was a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He writes for The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central, for which he was nominated for a 2018 Writers Guild of America Award.