She’s an amazing parent who swears never to know what she’s doing by day and one of the fast-rising comedians in the country by night. Stylish, hilarious, and completely unpredictable, Jiaoying Summers finds time to talk comedy, motherhood and everything in between with her funniest friends as part of her weekly podcast entitled Tiger Milf w/ Jiaoying Summers.
A comedy career spanning less than three years, Jiaoying Summers has not only been the busiest comedian of the pandemic era but she’s also been one of the most successful businesswomen in comedy entertainment. One of the hottest up-and-coming Asian American females on the comedy scene, Jiaoying is one of the most popular comedians on TikTok with more than 1 million followers, 21.6 million likes and over 300 million views.
Summers is the owner of The Hollywood Comedy Club in Los Angeles, California and inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame.
Jiaoying is considered the trailblazer in building up the Hollywood underground comedy scene. She performs 10+ shows a week headlining regularly at The Hollywood Improv and The Laugh Factory and produces 8 shows weekly across her clubs in LA and Pasadena. She is the founder of THC Tour, which brings in the best comics touring nationally. In 2022, it was announced that Summers is set to release her 30-min comedy special as part of Peacock TV’s first stand-up comedy series entitled Comedy InvAsian 2.0.
In this week’s episode, titled The Bad Bitches in Comedy, Jiaoying Summers is joined by New York comedians Adele and Gabby Ryan for a girl’s chat. Adele explains how to audition and be considered by one of the best comedy club in NYC- The Stand. How to balance being a career woman and dating. Why we should not date a make comedian. Jiaoying confesses losing her money in the divorce and why she actually happier now she has less money.
Gabby Bryan: Gabby was born in New Jersey and quickly escaped to New York in 2012 to pursue a career in acting, comedy and writing. She graduated from Pace University in the International Performance Ensemble Program. There she learned how to develop original work and studied movement based theater, classical, and film technique, as well as tools for contemporary devising.
In 2017, Gabby worked with director Dan Fogelman in his newest feature Life, Itself starring Olivia Wilde and Oscar Isaac. There she has the opportunity to act with Oscar Isaac as well as Anette Benning. She filmed a L’oreal Hair Diaries commercial in partnership with Marie Claire Magazine. She also co-starred in Ruta Viva, a bilingual short film shot in Quito, Ecuador which won Best Short Film at HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival amongst other awards and is now streaming on HBO.
Gabby is a stand up comedian and podcast personality. She has performed in New York City (The Comedy Cellar, The Stand, Broadway Comedy Club, Carolines, etc.), Los Angeles (The Comedy Story), Boston (Laugh Boston), Chicago (The Laugh Factory), etc. She produces and appears on Robert Kelly’s podcast “You Know What Dude” on the RiotCast network. She also co-hosts ‘Unabashed Podcast’ with fellow comic Zack Signore.
Most recently in the Theater Universe, Gabby worked on a workshop reading of Princess Diana, created by Joe Dipietro, David Bryan and Christopher Ashley at Mirvish Productions in Toronto, Canada. She has traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the Bienal Arte Joven performing All is Good conceived and devised by the GAPESEED Ensemble Theatre Co. as well as a adaption of KASPAR directed by Scott Fitzgerald at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, Romania. She has worked with Annie Hamburger and Seth Bockley during the development of the docu-theatre piece The Wilderness Project, that continued throughout 2015 into 2016. She has traveled with Drama League Nominee Cosmin Chivu’s production of Bury the Dead the Sibiu International Theatre Festival. In New York, Gabrielle has been in shows such as Woyzeck at The Chain Theater, The Rabbit on the Moon at the TADA Theater, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses directed by Dr. Ruis Woertendyke. She has also trained in comedy sketch writing and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City Los Angeles and interned in the writing department at NBC’s Saturday Night Live and the producing department of The Emerging Theatre of the American Moment (the TEAM).
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