Sunday, November 3, 2024 | 7pm to 9pm
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48 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
#mitshasscomedyMIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the deFlorez Fund for Humor present Stand-Up Comedy Live! Come laugh with us Sunday, November 3 at 7 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. Headlined by Tatanka Means, the show also features comics Brian Bahe, Wolf Brown, and Jackie Keliiaa. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
TATANKA MEANS is an award-winning American actor and comedian of Oglala Lakota, Omaha, Yankton Dakota, and Diné descent. He is best known for his roles in the Academy Award-nominated film Killers of the Flower Moon and the film The Son. Means was recently a featured comedian on the PBS special, "Roots of Comedy," with Jesus Trejo. He was named "Entertainer of The Year" by the National Indian Gaming Association.
BRIAN BAHE is an Indigenous (Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Navajo) gay comedian and writer originally from Phoenix, Arizona, now based in Los Angeles by way of New York City. He was named a “Comedian You Should and Will Know in 2023” by Vulture and he was a New Face at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in 2022. He’s a writer for the CBS series GHOSTS. Before that, he was a writer for the Fox hit series THE GREAT NORTH.
WOLF BROWN is from Bapchule, on the Gila River Indian Community, south of Phoenix, in Arizona. The “Pima and Papago” comic’s style has been described as “one-liners, story telling, and roasts.” He is a rising star in the Arizona comedy scene and is versatile in both club comedy and reservation humor.
JACKIE KELIIAA is a stand-up comedian, writer, actor and producer based in Oakland, California. You can find her in the 2021 release We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy. She has been featured on Comedy Central, Team Coco, Netflix, and Illuminative’s 25 Native American Comedians to Follow. She wrote for the Web Series You're Welcome America, and has been featured in Vulture, Uproxx, the LA Times and KQED.
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