Ritch Duncan is a writer, comedian and social media professional living in New York City. He is the co-author of The Werewolf’s Guide To Life: A Manual For the Newly Bitten and has written comedy for Saturday Night Live, Billy on The Street, and Cookie Monster. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Deathbed.

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Kevin Maher is an Emmy nominated comedy writer. His humor writing has been published in McSweeney's and Slackjaw, and he is the host and creator of the longrunning NYC Video Variety Show KEVIN GEEKS OUT.

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Dan McCoy was an Emmy and Peabody Award winning comedy writer for The Daily Show, and he created/co-hosts The Flop House podcast. As contributing editor to Deathbed, he has written several stories and devised the soon-to-be-globally renowned Deathbed Clown-o-Meter.

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Jeffrey Kaufman is a New York-based media creative, comedian, and writer. He’s led content for places like MTV, NBC, SYFY, and YouTube, and helped create Hulu and Smosh Games. He led Editorial Strategy for DC Comics and is co-creator of an upcoming original comic book IP. He won an Emmy for his work on Mr. Robot at USA Network and won a Museum of Sex stand-up contest and is equally proud of both.

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Ben Zelevansky is a two-time Emmy Award winner and one-time Writers Guild Award loser whose work has been performed by such luminaries as Martin Short, Robin Williams, Laraine Newman, Andrea Martin, Patton Oswalt, Marc Maron, Paul F. Tompkins and the Garbage Pail Kids.

Ben has also appeared as an actor on shows like Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Goldbergs and St. Denis Medical, which was a lot more fun because they have people who do the writing for you.

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CeCe Pleasants Adams is an Emmy nominated writer, producer and jazz bassoonist. She's contributed words to The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The End is Nye with Bill Nye the Science Guy, and more. She has two very good looking rescue dogs .

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Janine Annett is the author of the humor book "I Am 'Why Do I Need Venmo?' Years Old." Her writing has been featured in The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New York Times, and many other publications. She is also a judge for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, one of the highest recognitions of the art of humor writing in the United States.

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Doug Bost is a writer, a director, and a member of the sketch comedy juggernaut that was Euphobia. He wrote and directed the feature film ‘The Bride in the Box’ (2021), co-wrote ‘Diminished Capacity’ (Sundance premiere, 2008) and directed award-winning comedy shorts including ‘The Doctor Cares’ and ‘COP-DOC’. His short fiction has appeared in Stories That Need to Be Told, TulipTree Review, Dimension6, Euonia Review and Portland Magazine. His story ‘Policy of Truth’ was adapted into an award-winning short film. His story ‘The Desperate’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He’s a founder of the Rough & Ready writer’s salon in NYC and co-host of the Grown Ass Men podcast.

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Scott Jacobson is a longtime writer for Bob's Burgers. He's also written for The Daily Show. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Todd Mitchell is a St. Louis-based writer, musician, and game developer. He produced and hosted the GameDev Breakdown podcast and authored the companion book, Inside Video Game Creation. He was a 2024 Best of the Year contributor at Weekly Humorist and recently performed at the Slackjaw: LIVE showcase in New York City. His tech and gaming content has appeared at Kotaku, Halo Waypoint, Microsoft.com, and more.

If you really want to get him worked up, ask him about the time he almost got to work on Balatro.

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Bob Powers has written for shows on Comedy Central, Showtime and Paramount+. This piece originally appeared on his Substack, Some of the Cats, which you can subscribe to here.

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Gena Radcliffe is the co-host of the Kill by Kill podcast, featured at The A.V. Club and Variety. A semi-retired film reviewer, she writes about pop culture and current events on her newsletter Gena Watches Things, covering everything from Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein to Kraft's 'Season's Eatings' commercials of the 80s.

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Kate Wilkinson is a writer, actor, archivist, and wig judge. She has written and performed in shows at Ars Nova, Joe's Pub, 92Y, the Brick, and most recently The Lost Hallmark Christmas Movie at Caveat. She is a founding member of the alt-pop band Ladystein and has co-written the plays Settlement, Power Burn 3, and Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy, in which she co-starred with Corey Feldman Off-Broadway. Her blog, Wigwurq, reviews movies, tv shows, and live-tv musicals through the lens of wig quality. She has made several appearances in Kevin Geeks Out, and will be co-hosting the DOLLS show April 23rd at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park.

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Steve Young is a comedy writer, songwriter, and performer who wrote for David Letterman for many years and has also written for The Simpsons. He’s the main subject of the award-winning documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway.

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