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On this streaming edition of TALKIES, we're super excited to welcome our featured guests Nori Reed, Christina Catherine Martinez and Steven Ku!

Featuring your hosts -Nick Stargu and George Chen

SPECIAL GUESTS FOR THE ZOOM EVENT:

Nori Reed is an LA based comedian, writer, and actress from Christian County, Kentucky. Nori cut her teeth in the stand-up world in Oakland, CA, and was boldly named by SF Weekly as ‘Oakland’s Next Great Comedian.’ She has opened for Amy Poehler at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest and Maria Bamford at SF Sketchfest and has featured at Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival and All Jane Comedy Festival. Nori’s writing has been published in Vogue Magazine, and she recently finished writing for an Audible project produced by Alan Cumming and Lorne Michaels.

Alex Koll's grounded absurdism has appeared on TBS, Comedy Central and stages all over the country. He has written for "Impractical Jokers" and "Billy On The Street," and produced video and animation for IFC, Super Deluxe (RIP) & Audible. His album “Wizard Hello” is currently available on iTunes.

Christina Catherine Martinez is a writer, actor, award-winning art critic, and comedian living in Los Angeles. She has been named both a Comedian You Should Know by Vulture and a Comic to Watch by TimeOutLA in 2020.

Steven Ku is a Bay Area native, stand-up comedian, and founder of the nerd-comedy network Komedio. As an avid fan of comics, tabletop board games, and Star Wars, he says his nerdiness has been a major influence on his comedy. "My favorite place to perform is where I can do my nerdy material," said the Berkeley resident. He isn't alone in this, either. "There's so much nerdy comedy in the Bay," he said, but "not a lot of it is getting pushed."

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Talkies is the Bay Area's best unconventional, experimental, and multi-media live comedy event every second Friday at All Out Comedy Theater in Oakland, CA. At Talkies, comedians, writers, improvisers, and performers work outside of their regular routines to push the boundaries of comedy; PowerPoint presentations, characters, and off-stage antics are the order of the day.

Started in the basement of San Francisco’s Lost Weekend Video store, this monthly show has been an incubator for many unique comedy talents spreading their wings on weird flights of fancy. Past guest performers have included Aparna Nancherla, Brent Weinbach, Ron Lynch, Frankie Quinones, Myq Kaplan, Sad Vicious, Calvin Johnson, and Beth Lisick. 

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This week the guys are joined by Stephen Ku who helps them tear down Thor 2 (spoilers!), give praise to the Marvel/Netflix deal and look at the internet's reaction to Batkid. Then Stephen and Ivan go head-to-head in Jacob's trivia match before getting into JLA: Earth 2.

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