Sep 19, 2022
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Maura Quint is a humor writer and activist whose work has been featured in publications such as McSweeneys and The New Yorker. She was named one of Rolling Stone’s top 25 funniest twitter accounts of 2016. When not writing comedy, Maura has worked extensively with non-profits in diverse sectors including political action campaigns, international arts collectives and health and human services organizations. She has never been officially paid to protest but did once find fifteen cents on the ground at an immigrants’ rights rally and wanted to make sure that had been disclosed. She was the co founder and executive director of TaxMarch.org
She is now the Wealth Tax Campaign Director at the Americans for Tax Fairness
Originally from Oceanside NY, Lenny Marcus has been a mainstay of the New York City comedy scene for over for twenty years. He is currently a regular performer in every major comedy club in New York City.
Currently, Lenny has been traveling the world with comedian Leslie
Jones (Saturday Night Live), writing and performing. They have
collaborated on recent projects such as her Netflix special which
Lenny co-wrote entitled Time Machine, ABC's Supermarket Sweep which
Lenny executive produced, TV Commercials, Olympics appearances,
movie scripts, The MTV Video and Movie Awards, NBC's New Years Eve
show in Times Square, and the upcoming Fckry podcast with Lenny and
Leslie.
Lenny has performed stand-up comedy on television multiple times.
He has not only performed on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, he
also performed on The Late Show with David Letterman three times to
amazing reviews. He has also appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at
Gotham and AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live. You may also have seen him
in commercials for Wendy’s or Marriott or heard him on the radio in
spots for Southwestern Bell Telephone or Priceline.com.
He has performed at both the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy
Festival in Montreal, Canada three times, HBO’s US Comedy Arts
festival in Aspen Colorado, Clusterfest in San Francisco, and the
Great American Comedy festival in Norfolk, Nebraska.
Lenny appeared on TruTV on the show TruInside in the episode about
the world famous Comedy Cellar in NYC where you can see him perform
regularly. You may also have seen Lenny on Louie, on the FX
network, Amy Schumer Show or The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on
Comedy Central, or in the short film The Unimportance of Being
Ernest.
Lenny has recently directed and starred in his second short film
entitled The Walker, which was screened at the Big Apple Film
Festival, in New York City. His first short, A Condom Moment, has
been shown at the PSNBC short film festival. Lenny is also the
creator/co-star of Superstar Talent
(www.SuperstarTalentAgency.com), an online sitcom, and a long time
ago he also wrote and co-produced a show for Comedy Central’s web
site called Crash Course in Comedy.
Currently, Lenny has four comedy CD's, "Home and Away" being the
most recent. He also has ”You’re Getting A Zero“, ”Idiots,
Toasters, Meredith And Other Things Hazardous To Your Health” and
"Vegan Cupcakes", which are played on Sirius radio and will keep
audiences laughing for years to come.