Headliners of the OR - Esther Povitsky, Frankie Quinones, Chris Spencer, Blair Socci +more!

BLAIR SOCCI is a Los Angeles-based comedian whom you may have seen on The Late Late Show with James Corden, MTV, Comedy Central, NBC, TruTV, E!, and Adult Swim. She was recently named one of Variety’s Top Ten Comics to Watch in 2022. Blair was also named one of Vulture’s “20 Comedians You Should Know in 2020”. Additionally, she was a breakout “New Face” at the prestigious 2017 Just For Laughs Festival. Blair was also the co-host of The Trevor Moore Show on Comedy Central and has been seen on Netflix’s Q Force, Comedy Central’s Fairview, Adult Swim’s Hot Future, Good Morning Pickles! on FXX’s Cake, and in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. She is a paid regular at The World Famous Comedy Store and has toured with Ron Funches and Anthony Jeselnik. Catch her on Bob’s Burgers in 2023.

Esther Lauren Povitsky, also known as Little Esther, is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer living in Los Angeles, California. She is the co-creator and star of the comedy series Alone Together. Povitsky moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up comedy and acting full-time after attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studied comedy at iO Chicago, The Second City, and The Groundlings. She frequently performs stand-up comedy at venues throughout Los Angeles, California, including The Comedy Store, The Ice House, and The Improv. She plays Maya on the critically acclaimed series Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Other recent television appearances include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Love, and Parks and Recreation. Povitsky also survived several rounds of 2015's Last Comic Standing (season 9), drawing praise from judge Roseanne Barr in particular. Povitsky was the first female guest to appear on The Joe Rogan Experience, after which she began podcasting with DEATHSQUAD regularly. She hosted Little Esther's Piecast and co-hosts Brode & Esther with fellow comedian Brody Stevens as well as Weird Adults with Little Esther and Glowing Up with Esther and Caroline. She often appears as a guest on the network's Ice House Chronicles. In 2012, Povitsky turned down an offer from MTV to do a reality show based on her life as a comedian because she felt the series would be too invasive. In 2015, Povitsky wrote, starred in, and self-produced the short film Alone Together. The short was later adapted into a pilot for Freeform, produced by The Lonely Island. In December 2016, the pilot was picked up to series. In October, 2017, Freeform renewed the series for a second season ahead of its January 2018 debut.

Francisco Ramos can be seen on Netflix’s “Gentefied” and Hulu’s “This Fool” and wrapped his first feature film “The Unexpecteds” along Matt Walsh from “Veep”. He directed, co-wrote and starred in his debut comedy short “Zoo Animals”, which was acquired by MAX to stream on their platform. He also shot a standup special “Entre Nos” for MAX. He was part of the first ever Netflix is a Joke Festival held in Los Angeles. He was a top-ten finalist on Last Comic Standing and has appeared in Showtime’s “Shameless,” as well other appearances in !Angie Tribeca” from Steve Carell, Netflix’s “Lady Dynamite”, and voicing the role of Marmoset in the animated film “RIO” and part of Cartoon Network show “Victor and Valentino”. He has also appeared on the hilarious @midnight on Comedy Central and several times on Jimmy Kimmel Live. nnFrancisco was part of Lorne Michael’s “Mas Mejor”, where he has written, directed and performed several sketches for them. His debut album “Vayalo” has been exclusively playing on Sirius XM and has been a top 5 album on the Billboard Comedy Charts.nnEarly in his career, Francisco was selected to perform in the CBS Multicultural Diversity Showcase, where he was one of 12 selected from a pool of 5,000 applicants. Having won first place in the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival sponsored by NBC/COZI TV, American Latino produced a documentary on Francisco about his rise as a comic for Latino Out Loud (LOL).

Its hard to keep a straight face when talking to Chris Spencer. Extremely talented and hilarious, this quick-witted funnyman has a resume spanning over 30 years since his start in the business at six years old. Today, his resume ranges across several sectors of the industry – acting, writing, producing, directing and stand-up. With more than thirty television commercials, nine feature films, numerous television show appearances, a published book and nationwide comedy tours under his belt, Spencer is truly at the top of the entertainment game. nnHe co-created, along with Kevin Hart, BET’s hit original faux reality series Real Husbands of Hollywood and was also instrumental in the success of Nick Cannon’s Wild’n Out. nnHe recently directed his first feature. A comedy in the vein of The Full Monty Meets White Mike starring Tiffany Haddish, Wesley Snipes, Spencer Moore, Faizon Love, Gary Owen, JB Smoove and Bill Bellamy entitled Back on the Strip! nnChris has also been the head writer for countless shows such as The Emmy’s, The ESPY Awards, The Mark Twain Prize, Laugh In’s 50th Anniversary, The BET Awards, SNL, NAACP Image Awards, Grown-ish, The Hip Hop Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards…to name a few. nnChris currently has major projects with NBC Peacock, Universal, Viacom and has published the bestselling book 150 Ways to Tell If You’re Ghetto and is working on a new book called The Shepherd where he shares his experiences of working with the G.O.A.T.S of comedy such as Dave Chapelle, Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes and Jamie Foxx to name a few.