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Up next, Laura Mannino (left). Cutesy, but in a good way, this woman with a booming voice established some dialogue with audience members.
“What’s going on over there in the corner?” she asked a group of guys and gals wearing colored polo shirts, collars turned up.
“It’s a super sweet 16 birthday party remix,” was the reply. “The theme is Pumas, pumps, and Polo.” It was just the kind of response a comedian could really run with, but out of kindness, Laura held back.
She didn’t hold back on the gross factor of traveling the New York City subways.

“Can you imagine seeing yourself under a black light after riding the F train?” she asked. Citing subway horrors of a little girl urinating on the platform, finding herself sitting in a seat with a trampled weave underneath her, and sitting by a man cutting his toenails, Mannino’s jokes hit home.
“What am I doing still living in New York? Am I done trying to prove myself to my high school friends?”

To break up the stand-up routine, Sam Lally (left) was on next. She performed an act from her one woman show, Butterfly Suicide. Her range of facial and body expressions, with one fluttering eye or shuddering her whole body, was intensely comical. The performance was spot on and the audience was captivated.

A Comedy Central’s Fresh Face, Molly Reisner, finished the show.
“So, what’s the four hundred eleven?” she asked. With glee, she told the audience about her favorite springtime game.
“I play Red Rover,” she said. “When I see a happy couple holding hands on sidewalk, I charge towards them and tear through that shit.”
Reisner also had some helpful advice for those starting out in corporate office jobs.
“Think carefully when choosing your work computer password. The other day, I had to give mine to the IT guy. It’s bongwater. I spelled it out, pausing for long moments in awkward spots. ‘Didn’t work. He was like, ‘bongwater’?”
Stephens is proud of Chicks and Giggles - she founded the event three years ago.
“After running it for three years, we’ve built a community,” she said. “Now it runs like a machine.”
“Carolyn and Nichelle are two extremely supportive and classy ladies,” said Corrao. “They have gained a respect for producing a comfortable yet very professional weekly show with the best of the best female comics. You do not want to miss this show!