Runnin’ on Empty is a monthly stand-up show with nothing to lose! The show features a mix of pros and up-and-comers, from people who last performed on Conan to people who last performed to three tumbleweeds. To be fair, those tumbleweeds hadn’t laughed that hard in years. Join us at the show critics are calling “Best comedy in the city, I am so proud” (Lisa’s Mom) and “My baby is going to Hollywood!” (Yotam’s Mom).

Hosts/soul-siblings Yotam Tubul and Lisa Franklin first met in a college stand-up group, where Yotam told Lisa “I think your joke is more cute than funny,” and she replied “You’re probably right.” Since then, they’ve been thick as thieves.

Emmy on Twitter | Emmy Official Site

Emmy Blotnick is a comedian and writer based in New York. Her half hour standup special will air on Comedy Central later this year. Currently she is Head Writer/Co-Executive Producer of The President Show on Comedy Central. Previously, Emmy wrote for The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, Comedy Central’s @midnight with Chris Hardwick, TruTV’s Billy On The Street, MTV’s Nikki & Sara Live, Vh1’s Best Week Ever and others. As a performer, Emmy was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics To Watch and Time Out New York’s Women of Comedy. She has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, @midnight and in the Comedy Central web series New Timers. Emmy is originally from Boston, but regretfully has no accent or bar-fighting experience.

Will Miles on Twitter | Will Miles official site

Will Miles is a comedian and a Chicago native. He co-hosts the popular Sunday show at The Knitting Factory in New York and co-hosts the popular podcast “Hopefully We Don’t Break Up.” He has been in Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, and was one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch in the 2016 New York Comedy Festival. His debut stand up comedy album, GOOD YEAR, is available on iTunes. Will has written for The Chris Gethard Show, Comedy Central, Fusion, and Seriously.tv.

Patti Harrison on Twitter

Patti Harrison is a comedi-aunt to 3 beautiful nephews of varying ages and values. She is a trans/queer demon from Columbus with asthma and a lazy eye in pictures sometimes at certain angles. She is violent, resistant to bullets, and has doubled in size since the last time she was spotted off the Kyushu coastline.

Amy Buchwald official site

Amy Buchwald is a writer, actor, and producer, originally from Minneapolis. She wrote, developed, produced and starred in the local TV series Loons, for the Minneapolis CBS affiliate; was a contributing member of The Playwright’s Center and The Women’s Theater Project; wrote, produced starred in the one-woman, critically acclaimed, Glenda, from the Heart, featured on PBS. She has performed at Upright Citizens Brigade, The Improv, Punchline, Laff Stop, Igby’s, NY Comedy Club, Under St. Marks, The Living Room, The Ice House and the Comedy Store. She is also the author and lyricist of the musical, Candy Hearts, which is the first to objectively address the progression of relationships into the realm of domestic violence.

Eudora Peterson official site | Eudora Peterson on Twitter

Eudora is a comedian. Her work has appeared on The Hairpin, The Toast, and Thought Catalog, and she blogs at OkayHater. Follow her on Twitter if you’re nasty.

Yaari Nadav Tal on Twitter

Yaari Nadav Tal is a Queens-born, Brooklyn-based stand-up comic, improviser, and musicians. Yaari has performed standup and improv at almost every major comedy venue in New York City, and has taken classes at the Advanced Study program at UCB. Yaari has been playing the piano for 80% of his life, and has studied music at NYU and GWU. He tweets really dumb stuff at @yaaaaaaaaari (that’s 9 A’s).