Joe Machi

State College native Joe Machi did not always plan to enter comedy. After graduating from Penn State, Joe became a customer service manager for a supermarket. It wasn’t until after stint as a human resources assistant that he decided to try his hand at standup comedy.

Joe moved to New York City in 2006, where his comedy career began. In 2010 he won the New York Underground Comedy Festival’s Emerging Comic’s Competition and in 2013 The New York Comedy Festival’s Funniest Comedian Competition.

In 2010, he won first place in the ‘Emerging Comics’ contest at the New York Underground Comedy Festival and was also named a finalist at the New York Comedy Festival’s NY’s Funniest Person Competition. He’s done standup on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and finished 4th on Season 8 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing.