Kevin Allison is the creator and host of the hit storytelling podcast RISK! and the editor of its companion anthology RISK!: True Stories People Never Thought They'd Dare to Share. His screen credits include The State, Reno 911!, Flight of the Conchords, @Midnight, High Maintenance, and Cobra Kai, among others. Allison is the founder of The Story Studio, where he currently teaches storytelling.

Tim Barnes is a comedian and television writer. He is the creator of the animated series Maurice on Mars and has contributed to Comedy Central, NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as Warped! and the All That revival for Nickelodeon. He currently writes the Letters from African America newsletter on Substack and hosts the new podcast You Are The Genre.

Emmy Blotnick is a stand-up comedian and writer based in New York. Her writing credits include @midnight, The President Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Pause with Sam Jay, History of the World: Part II, and In the Know. Blotnick has performed stand-up live at venues coast to coast, including the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and the Comedy Cellar in New York, and on screen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, and her half-hour special on Comedy Central. In 2023, she was featured as a panelist on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Blotnick's debut comedy album, Party Nights, was released in 2019.

Mia Jackson was named a New Face in Comedy by the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, and Atlanta's Creative Loafing named her the Critic's Choice Best Stand-Up in the city in 2017. On screen, Jackson has appeared on NickMom Night Out, Viceland, Comedy Central's This Week at the Comedy Cellar, and was a semi-finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing. Her Comedy Central half hour special debuted in November 2019. Jackson has toured nationally with Amy Schumer and is a featured comic at festivals and clubs across the country, and recently served as a writer for Life & Beth and I Love Us.

Myq "Mike" Kaplan has performed on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Late Late Show with James Corden. Additional screen credits include his half-hour Comedy Central Presents special; his one-hour Amazon special Small, Dork, and Handsome; and most recently, the Dry Bar special Live from the Universe. He has been featured on America’s Got Talent and was a finalist on Last Comic Standing. His debut album, Vegan Mind Meld, was one of iTunes’ Top 10 Comedy Albums of the Year. Additional albums include Meat Robot, No Kidding, and A.K.A., which debuted at #1 and was called "invigoratingly funny" by The New York Times. Kaplan hosts the podcasts Broccoli and Ice Cream and The Faucet.

Jackie Kashian is a stand-up comedian who has been seen on Conan, The Late Late Show with James Corden, 2 Dope Queens, and on HBO, NPR, Netflix, and Comedy Central. Kashian has five comedy albums, two podcasts, and she tours 45 weeks a year.

Matthew Love is a writer with bylines in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, The Onion, The AV Club, and Time Out New York, where he was formerly the Comedy and Books editor. He's currently a consulting producer for Selected Shorts and its spin-off podcast, Too Hot for Radio. He has interviewed, written for, or shared a stage with the likes of Chris Rock, David Byrne, Roxane Gay, David Sedaris, Jordan Peele, Stephen Colbert, and Aparna Nancherla, to name a few. His “grandma noir,” Tough Old Birds, is currently in development.