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Comedians from Chelsea Lately ft. Chris Franjola, Brad Wollack and Bret Ernst

Presented by Zanies Comedy Night Club at Zanies Comedy Night Club

April 8-April 9, 2011

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Chris Franjola is a writer-comedian living and working in Los Angeles. He’s currently a writer and a regular performer on E!’s late-night hit show “Chelsea Lately.” Chris also recently secured a lead role in the upcoming scripted comedy series “After Lately” which will also air on the E! Network. When he isn’t busy writing and acting in Los Angeles, he spends most of his free time performing his standup on the road with Chelsea Handler, performing on the “Comedians of Chelsea Lately” tour, and headlining venues all over the country. Before working on Chelsea Lately, Chris wrote for other shows including Family Guy and the original “Chelsea Handler Show”. Chris also feels weird about writing this bio in the third person.

A two-time graduate of the University of Southern California (M.B.A. '09 / B.A. '00), Brad Wollack is an Emmy nominated television writer, producer and on-camera correspondent. Currently a writer – and regular roundtable guest – on E! Entertainment's hit late night series, "Chelsea Lately", Wollack's passion for television began in high school.  In addition to his work on "Chelsea Lately", Wollack's on-camera work includes a number of national commercials where he was seen happily pitching products for companies he's even at odds with politically. He's also a stand-up comedian who tours nationally with the 'Comedians of Chelsea Lately' and opens for the likes of Chelsea Handler and Kevin Nealon. He has played the Hollywood Improv, the Laugh Factory, the Punch Line in San Francisco and Sacramento, and at Caroline's, The Comic Strip and Gotham Comedy Club in New York. Wollack used to have an alter-ego, Woody Wittman, the clueless host of "The Hollywoody Show" on Comedy.com. "Woody" appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", hosted at HBO's "The Comedy Festival" in Las Vegas and has amassed upwards of 3.5 million views as a regular feature on YouTube.In the past few years, Wollack served as the head writer and Supervising Producer for the Fox Sports Net's comedy-sports talk show pilot, "Regular Joes", and was a writer-producer for the popular E! comedy series, "The Chelsea Handler Show", as well as the Simon Cowell/A. Smith & Co./FOX collaboration, "Celebrity Duets".

Bret Ernst is a headliner in the top clubs across the country and has earned the sought after honor of marquee status on the Sunset Strip. Ernst will next appear as the host of the new Oxygen Series LOVE GAMES: BAD GIRLS NEED LOVE TOO. Bret can also be seen in his own 1/2 hour Comedy Central Presents special. He was most recently seen on the BET series ONE MIC STAND & the SHOWTIME series COMICS WITHOUT BORDERS. He also recently starred in the feature film VINCE VAUGHN'S WILD WEST COMEDY SHOW, now out on DVD. The film documents Ernst with Vaughn & three other comedians as they perform to sold out crowds in a 30 night-30 venue tour across America. Bret was a recurring character on the hit SHOWTIME series WEEDS, and has guest starred on CSI: NY. He appeared in Artie Lange's movie, BEER LEAGUE and hosted the series WRESTLING SOCIETY X on MTV. His stand-up has been featured on THE LATE LATE SHOW on CBS and on COMEDY CENTRAL'S PREMIUM BLEND. He has made celebrity appearances on E!’s CHELSEA LATELY, ABC’s COMICS UNLEASHED, the TOP TEN on E! and THE SPORTS LIST/FOX. Born in New Jersey, Bret went to high school at Plantation High in South Florida, played collegiate level football at C.W. Post in New York, and currently resides in Los Angeles.