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Chicago's Erica Switzer is “your bougie jet setting auntie who cleans house while twerking to NPR."

With her unique energy, biting wit, Chicago's Erica Switzer is “your bougie jet setting auntie who cleans house while twerking to NPR." She has featured for veteran comedians That Damn Michael Che's Simeon Goodson, The Laugh Factory's Mateen Stewart, and America's Got Talent's Justin Rivera. Co-founder of Shanghai's Blackout Comedy and founder of Hei Now Comedy, China's premier Black comedy crew, Erica became the first Black comedian to perform in Mongolia at the inaugural Silk Road International Comedy Festival July 2019. A 2020 Flappers Comedy Club Soup-or-Bowl winner, festival appearances include the World Series of Comedy, Laugh Riot Grrrl Festival, and Burbank Comedy Festival's Best of Fest. 2022 festival appearances including Chicago's World Comedy Expo and NYC's Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest.