Just in time for Election Day! Humorous commentary on America’s political landscape -- with a decidedly blue-state attitude.

Roster:

Sam Sedar
George Bush impersonator James Adomian
Jamie Jackson

Katie Halper
Harry Terjanian

Background:
Laughing Liberally is a comedy show which uses humor and laughter to spread understanding of liberal ideas and advance progressive values. Showcasing the brightest progressive comedians from all across the nation in an off-Broadway show in New York City and on a national tour, Laughing Liberally will save democracy one laugh at a time.

SAM SEDER - Sam Seder has acted in and written nearly a dozen network sitcoms. He is a political commentator on MSNBC and CNN, and was the host of The Sam Seder Show, The Majority Report, and Seder on Sundays on Air America Radio. He has directed several TV shows and films including The Gary Busey Show, Who's the Caboose? starring Sarah Silverman and Andy Dick and A Bad Situationist starring David Cross, Jon Benjamin and Janeane Garofalo.  Seder can now be seen every weekday on Air America's Maron v Seder at mvsLive.com.

JAMES ADOMIAN - An actor and writer from Los Angeles best known for doing impressions of George W. Bush and other laughable characters. A member of the Groundlings Sunday Company and a frequent performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade and Garage Comedy, he has appeared on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on CBS many times, and has performed for Comedy Central, Air America, Channel 101 and The Onion Radio News. He is the star and co-creator of "West Wingers," a Shoutboy.com podcast that is wildly popular in the "blogosphere" -- a trendy word which sounds like an atmospheric layer of vomiting walruses.

KATIE HALPER- Is an Artistic Director and Comedy Curator at The Tank, a space for emerging artists, where Laughing Liberally was initially developed. She performs her own monthly show, Red Diaper Baby Presents, and performs throughout the city (Stand Up New York, Mo Pitkins, Galapagos). Her award-winning documentary, La memoria es vaga, about historical memory in Spain, premiered at the Amnesty International Firefly Festival and has been screened at the Havana Film Festival and throughout Spain. Katie is currently developing a one-woman show, Mi Vida Meshugga.

JAMIE JACKSON - Jamie is an actor, writer and comedian who studied acting at Australia's premiere theatre school, NIDA, gaining his BA in 1989. He worked for ten years as an actor with all of Sydney's major theatre companies as well as in film and television. In 1998 he moved to New York where he gained his MFA in musical theatre writing from NYU in 2000. Since then he has written several musical theatre works with his wife, SoHee Youn (composer) including Love: A Multiple Choice Question, a one man musical which they performed in the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival and then toured to Melbourne and Sydney in Australia. Jamie studied standup with Stephen Rosenfield at the American Comedy Institute and has performed at Caroline's, StandUp New York, Village Lantern, The Duplex, Don't Tell Mama, Joe Franklin's and now with Laughing Liberally. Currently, Jamie and SoHee are working on a new full-length musical comedy, The Man for the Job, as well as a new one man musical, The Trojan Clothes Horse, with book writer, John Herin. Jamie is thrilled to be affiliated with Laughing Liberally and is grateful to Eric Krebs for this opportunity.

HARRY TERJANIAN - Started performing stand up-comedy at the ripe old age of 18 in 2001. Since that time he's worked at many of New York's top clubs and been part of the Laughing Liberally comedy labs at the 45th Street Theater. Harry is also an alumni of the Wicked Wicked HammerKatz, an NYU sketch group, writing and performing in several runs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater including "Reading is for Dicks," "Go-Go Robot Dance Party," and "A Wicked Wicked Christmas." In addition he's written and preformed a political one-man show, "The No-Facts Zone" at the UCB, appeared on MTV-U's "The Freshman," been a producer/performer of the Ron and Fez Show (XM Satellite Radio), and a staff writer for the Record and Jersey Journal. He's currently a student at the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Warning: Language and content