"Funniest Comedian TOM PAPA vs YANNIS PAPPAS"

TOM PAPA

Thomas Papa Jr. (born November 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and radio host. He hosts the Sirius XM Satellite Radio show Come to Papa and...

Thomas Papa Jr. (born November 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and radio host. He hosts the Sirius XM Satellite Radio show Come to Papa and, in July 2019, he and Fortune Feimster started hosting the Sirius XM show What A Joke with Papa and Fortune. Papa hosted the show Baked on the Food Network and was the head writer and a performer on the radio variety show Live from Here, hosted by Chris Thile where he delivered the "Out In America" segment. Papa was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and grew up in Park Ridge, New Jersey, and later Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, where he graduated from Pascack Hills High School in 1986. He is a graduate of Rider College. He has two daughters, and a sister who works at the non-profit organization, City Green. Papa is noted to have played football and track while younger. He began in New York City in 1993 playing open mics and hosting at the Stand Up New York comedy club. He toured with Jerry Seinfeld after meeting him at the Comedy Cellar in New York. In 2005 he released his debut comedy album Calm, Cool, & Collected. His successful one-man show Only Human opened at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He has recorded four stand-up specials. Live in New York City and Freaked Out were directed by Rob Zombie. His fourth special, Human Mule, aired December 2016. All of his specials stream on Hulu, Amazon and Netflix. Papa has appeared multiple times on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Joe Rogan Experience. Papa's catchphrase is "Have you ever...? I have!"

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YANNIS PAPPAS

Yannis Pappas is an American comedian from Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. Pappas was born in Brooklyn, New York to Chris Pappas, an Army officer, an...

Yannis Pappas is an American comedian from Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. Pappas was born in Brooklyn, New York to Chris Pappas, an Army officer, and Anna Pappas née Mamalakis, a Greek lawyer originally from Rethymo, Crete. He was raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope with his two older brothers, Peter and Nikos. The former is a lawyer who worked for the Clinton and Obama administrations. He is of Greek ethnicity. Pappas attended college at the American University in Washington, D.C. where he studied American Studies and History. Pappas began his comedy career in 2000. After two years, he stopped performing, in large part, due to the effects of being shot outside of a New York nightclub at the time. He returned to stand-up at the end of 2004. Pappas began pursuing comedy full-time in 2008. Pappas has been featured doing stand up on AXS TV, TruTV's How To Be a Grown Up, VH1's Best Week Ever, Fox Business, and Good Morning America. He was the first comedian to ever do stand-up comedy on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; it was a test show and did not air. Alongside his stand-up comedy, Pappas had previously partnered up with lifelong friend and director Jesse Scaturro to create the production company Ditch Films in the mid 2000s. The comedy production team produced live and filmed comedy. With Ditch Film, Pappas created his popular internet characters Maurica and Mr. Panos, which premiered online in 2010 and 2009, respectively. Beginning in June 2013, Pappas co-hosted the MSG Network show The Bracket with Chris Distefano. Later in 2013, he began co-anchoring the live primetime news show Fusion Live alongside journalists, Marianna Antonio and Pedro Andrade. Focusing on current events, pop culture and satire, the show was one of the first for the then-new Fusion network. The show was canceled in December 2014. Beginning in Spring 2015, Pappas hosted the AOL Original Series, 2 Point Lead, a sports comedy show.

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