Comedy

Jennifer Dziura is comedian who has performed in/at…

• New York University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Indiana University (Bloomington), West Virginia University, Bowling Green State University (Ohio)
• Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; Camp Buehring, Kuwait; Camp L.S.A., Kuwait; Camp Virginia, Kuwait; Camp Patriot, Kuwait Naval Base; Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar; As Sayliyah, Qatar; Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, Africa; the U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Gettysburg, 200 miles off the coast in the Persian Gulf; and Naval Support Activity, Bahrain, on a three-week Armed Forces Entertainment tour of the Middle East.
• The Boise (Idaho) Funny Bone; “Comedy, TN” in Memphis; Bear’s Place in Bloomington, IN; One-Liners Comedy Club in Greenwood, IN; Barrel of Laughs Comedy Club in Findlay, OH
• The D.C. Arts Center (sold out show!), The Red & The Black (D.C.), The Hamilton Arts Collective in Baltimore, The 305 South Anti-Mall in Durham (NC), The Garage in Winston-Salem (N.C.), and The Boot in Norfolk, VA (sold out!)
• “The Tomorrow Show” in Los Angeles
• Fort Hamilton Army Base (Brooklyn)
• Ivy League Comedy at the Penn Club (New York) and at Penn’s World Cafe Live (Philadelphia), and Ivy League Comedy “Uncensored” at the Broadway Comedy Club (NY)
• Zuzu/Middle East in Cambridge, MA
• Philadelphia’s 215 Festival with Neal Pollack
• New York’s Laughing Liberally comedy series (Host/Emcee)
• The Empire State Book Festival

…and in NYC venues including The P.I.T., Ars Nova, Ochi’s Lounge, Mo Pitkins, Caroline’s on Broadway, The Improv (now Broadway Comedy Club), Stand Up New York, New York Comedy Club, The Comedy Cellar, The Comedy Village, Sal’s Comedy Hole, Pianos, Galapagos, Collective Unconscious, The Marquee, Pete’s Candy Store, the Cornelia St. Cafe, and Apocalypse Lounge.

As a host, Jennifer has booked and emceed over 100 comedy shows at Pete’s Candy Store and over 50 quiz nights at the Chelsea Market, as well as produced and hosted larger events at the late, great CBGB’s Gallery, and at Madame X’s.  She continues to co-host the famed Williamsburg Spelling Bee at Pete’s Candy Store, and in 2010 she and Abbi Crutchfield co-founded Ladybits Comedy, a weekly all-women comedy show in the West Village.

Television: Jen appears in a spot called “Note to Self” for the Oprah Winfrey Network, and has been filmed for Good Morning America (in a segment on adult spelling bees) and as an expert on “how to be witty on a date” on VH-1’s “Can’t Get a Date.” She has also appeared on Brooklyn Cable Access Television, appears on TimeOut On-Demand cable with the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, and co-starred in a SciFi Channel pilot for the show “Brain Trust.”  She was filmed for — and then cut from — a special about the best of Tyra Banks, perhaps because Tyra can’t take a good model joke.

Hiring: Jen is available for corporate and private events as well as club bookings. She can work entirely clean, if desired. Previous corporate, charity, and fundraising events include the YWCA of New York Benefit Show, Fort Hamilton Army Base’s Christmas Show, ASET’s annual conference (for which Jen wrote entirely new jokes about –seriously — electroneurodiagnostic monitoring), and Coffee with Conscience, a charity fundraising event run by Methodists in New Jersey.  Jen also maintains a page over at Ladybits Comedy about her one-woman shows and other comedy productions available for hire. Email jen [at] jenisfamous.com

Comedy Writing
Jen is the winner of a National Society of Newspaper Columnists Award in humor writing. Email jen-at-jenisfamous.com to inquire, or see the Writing page for more information.

Jen’s jokes also appear in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes (Alpha/Penguin).