Ithaca Festival Comedy Fest: Laughter is The Best Medicine

Comedy On The Commons is back with the Remember The Ithaca Festival Comedy Fest. The Ithaca Festival is postponed, but the comedy is going online!  We are going Virtual and bringing this event to you!

Cindy Arena entered the comedy scene two years ago. She drew on her funny experiences growing up with family in the porn business and being a mother of two dumb millennials, she is also a self identified terrible lesbian.  She won Rochester’s Funniest Person and was a semi finalist in Buffalo Funniest person.   Has been nominated as 2019 best female comedian of the year at the Roc Awards.

Jack Pflug is a comic based in Syracuse NY. Started doing standup 2 years ago, and I’ve been in love with it ever since. I’ve had the opportunity to perform shows across the north east, explore the London comedy scene during my time abroad. My passion for stand up prompted me to confound Crowdwork Orange, Syracuse Universities first ever student led stand up comedy organization.

Sarah Cannon is a Rochester based comedian who likes to expose the absurdities of everyday life through sarcasm and four-letter words (sometimes). She was a semi-finalist in the “Funniest Person in Rochester Contest”, hosted at Comedy at the Carlson for headliner Michael Kosta, from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. 

Emily Walsh is a NYC comic who recently headlined a sold out Stand Up NY. She won 1st place in the Comedy Mob Festival at Stand Up NY in 2018, and 2nd place in the She Devil Comedy Festival in 2019. Festival credits include HBO’s Women in Comedy Festival, the Out of Bounds Festival in Austin, and the Cape Fear, Oak City, and Rogue Island Comedy Festivals. Her mom is very supportive and really want

Julianna Maher is a writer, stand-up comedian, writers' assistant on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and is frequently mistaken for a small child drinking whiskey in the back of a bar.

Ben Miller is an NYC based comedian who has been working for the past 3 years. In that time, he has performed at all the top clubs in the city such as Broadway Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Carolines, and The Stand. Ben was recently ranked among the top 30 roast battlers in NYC.