Dave Helem and Joey Hill present A Dope Comedy Show - Byron Bowers, Justin Martindale, Joey Wells, Courtney Haynes, Drea Meyers

Dave Helem is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Chicago, Illinois. He attributes his sense of humor to the fact that he believes there is something funny in every facet of human life. He has headlined numerous venues and has performed on tour in numerous cities with Hannibal Buress and Tony Rock. He has also toured with Doug Stanhope and Tracy Morgan. Dave successfully completed a two-month residency at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington D.C. for Second City’s Black Side of the Moon, where he helped create and write the most successful selling show in the history of that theater. He was a writer for Comedy Central’s Hood Adjacent. Dave recently taped Laff Tracks (Tru TV) that will air in the fall of 2018. He is currently living in Los Angeles as a staff writer for the FOX sitcom REL.

Described by LA Weekly as A Comic Who's got Big Ideas and Big Plans to go Big Places, Byron Bowers is a stand-up comedian and actor that was named by LA Weekly as a Comedy Act to Watch. He was also featured as a New Face at the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival.nnByron recently made his CBS late night debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He also appears in much anticipated dramatic film Honey Boy which recently premiered in Sundance and was Bought by Amazon. He performed at the Famous Hollywood Bowl to 12,000 people next to Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and George Clinton as part of the sold-out Brainfeeder festival. He plays in the horror film KUSO which also premiered in Sundance IN 2018. His TV credits includes playing the character Meldrick in Showtime's hit show The CHI, season three of The Meltdown on Comedy Central, Funny as Hell in Montreal for HBO Canada and Vice Land TV. His festival performances this includes Oddball Comedy Fest, SXSW, Life is Beautiful, Austin City Limits, RIOT, SF Sketchfest and Blue Whale Comedy Festival.nnHis other late night appearances includes The Pete Holmes Show, followed by Jimmy Kimmel Live as well as being featured on The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim, Comedy Central's This is Not Happening as well as Adam Devine's House Party, the reboot of BET's Comic View and MTV's Guy Code and in the first ever comedy show on the History Channel called Crossroads of History.

Justin Martindale is a Los Angeles based comedian originally from San Antonio,TX. In 2009, he was the last hand picked paid regular by the Madame of comedy herself, Mitzi Shore. Justin has been seen on the reboot of “Comics Unleashed” as well as Comedy Central’s @Midnight, Amazon’s “NFL Pile Up” and pretty much as a guest on every podcast that exists. He hosted the hit series “What the Fashion?” on the E!Network and hosts his own weekly pop culture podcast “JustSayin’ with Justin Martindale”