A fundraiser for the International Institute of Buffalo
Enjoy an evening of laughs from internationally touring comedians Thom Tran, Matt Kirshen, and Corrina Yee!
Open bar with beer, wine, and soft drinks and international food from local restaurants!
Comedian Bios
Thom Tran
Los Angeles-based comedian, musician, actor, and U.S. Army Combat veteran, Thom Tran started his career as a standup comic when his career as a soldier ended, following a gunshot wound to the back of his head while deployed to Iraq.
Moving to Los Angeles in 2008, Thom created the internationally touring all-military veteran standup group, The GIs of Comedy, performing to U.S. service members stationed and deployed to combat zones around the world. The group was featured in Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy on Netflix, as well as on CBS and NBC.
Away from the GIs of Comedy, Thom has also toured across the United States and internationally with his friend Brad Williams to Copenhagen, Denmark, Norway, England, Ireland, and more!
Thom makes his home in Hollywood, CA, performing regularly at the world-famous Laugh Factory, Comedy & Magic Club, and rooms all around Southern California.
Thom has also co-starred on NCIS: Los Angeles & SEAL: Team on CBS, and appears in the dark comedy, “My Dead Friend Zoe” alongside Morgan Freeman, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Ed Harris.
Matt Kirshen
Matt Kirshen started his comedy career in the United Kingdom. He moved to America as a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He has also appeared on Comedy Central’s @Midnight, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Paul Provenza’s Green Room on Showtime, and The Nerdist, and is one of the regular guest co-hosts of StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
He was a writer for The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award, and also wrote for Arrested Development, and wrote for and appeared on How To Build… Everything on the Science Channel and Comedy KnockOut on TruTV.
He also hosts Probably Science, a weekly comedy and science podcast featuring a mix of comedians and scientists breaking down the week’s science news.
Corinna Yee
Corinna Yee got her start in standup at her high school talent show, where she did an impression of her Cameroonian French teacher. Since then, she has cultivated material around her mouthful of an identity as a Chinese girl adopted by Chinese professors who sent her to a Jewish Day School.
