Rhodeside Comedy Bunker 35: Jessica Brodkin and Franqi French

It is close to Valentines day so we are showing the love with TWO headliners!

We tried to make this show happen a while back but they were too booked. Now we have them

Headlining:
JESSICA BRODKIN

Jessica Brodkin is not your average stand up comedian. In addition to being a comedian, she is an MIT graduate, former CIA analyst, and a professional Reiki energy healer.Her work and story was featured and went viral in the NY Post and CNBC. She is a regular guest on SirusXM, and was also featured in Vulture, Galore Magazine, Vice Magazine, The Daily Beast and more. Jessica also has acting credits including a principle role on AMC's series Making of the Mob as Loretta Costello, and a principal role on TruTV's Road Spill. Jessica also voiced an award-winning cartoon featured at the Reel Recovery Film Festival.

​Jessica lives in New York City and performs at clubs, theaters, colleges, and comedy festivals around the country and internationally in London and Scotland including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023.

Headlining:

FRANQI FRENCH

NBC recently crowned Franqi French the 2019 winner of their National Standup Up Comedy competition! Out of thousands of submissions and auditions Ms. French was an undeniable stand out. Franqi’ an award-winning talent, who regularly performs coast to coast with appearances at The DC Improv, The Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Improv and the world-famous Comedy Store. Ms. French has shared the stage with Donnell Rawlings, Fortune Feimster, Todd Glass, D.L. Hughley, Nicole Byer, among other talented comedians. She has made guest appearances on WeTV, TVOne’s “The Roland Martin Show,” and she will be a featured comic on season 3 of “Laugh After Dark” on Amazon Prime. Franqi has headlined The Bentzen Ball as well as The Black Women in Comedy Festival in Brooklyn. She is currently based in Los Angeles, CA and will be a featured headliner on the Stand Up NBC Summer Tour!

Featuring:

BRONSTON JONES

Bronston Jones is a world traveling stand-up comedian and award winning director. Bronston performs stand-up from coast-to-coast and across-the-pond. For a decade, he was resident host of Venice Underground Comedy, LA’s biggest independent weekly show. Bronston has done the Edinburgh Fringe for seven summers. Do people find him funny? Some critics loved him. Some hated him. LA Weekly called him “certifiably unique,” which goes either way. You probably missed him on CMT, WEtv and TruTV, and shouldn’t watch or listen to his special “She Has to Take this Call” on Amazon. He apologizes if you did. He’s been on NBC, CMT and was a Bad Egg for Animals Australia. As a director, Bronston created hit videos for Darius Rucker and Uncle Kracker. He shot award-winning spots for the Summer & Winter Olympics on NBC. Bronston has worked with TV stars & drivers of NASCARs, plus wild rockers & serious talkers, and also two actors with Oscars. Bronston’s favorite shoot was a behind-the-scenes mockumentary of a clown-and-kid commercial: “MaxiDoodles: behind the makeup.” This festival darling skewered the Ad Biz, then, right on-brand, generated more Ad Work than all his big budget spots combined.

(lineup subject to change)

Host or Publisher Pete Bergen