Iris Benson

Iris Benson is a comedian because no other profession will have her and that includes drug dealing and prostitution. Since her comedy debut in 2011 she's garnered such praise as ' Bleak and honest ’, 'pleasantly dark’, 'wonderfully weird’ and 'pretty good for a woman’ by no one worth mentioning. Glenn Sumi of Toronto Now described her as 'least likeable’, 'angry’ and 'misanthropic’ to which her best friend's husband, Clint , retorted via Facebook, 'He doesn't like angry and misanthropic comics? - so he's missing out on George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Dennis Leary, Lewis Black, Roseanne Barr......pretty much all my favorite comics.’ Fellow comic Mean Dave says of her, ' She is a very sweet person and a funny comedian who I relate to very much. And she once drove a table of Mormons away with one fell swoop of an anal sex joke simply cuz {sic} she didn't know that's how young Mormon girls preserve their virginity.’ and comic and author Steve Mix says, 'Warn your children about Iris Benson...before it is too late.’ Iris has performed all over the United States, making appearances at Comedy Festivals such as The Laughing Devil Comedy Festival (NY, NY), Trial by Laughter Competition (Indianapolis, IN), The She-Devil Festival (NY, NY), The She-Dot Festival (Toronto, ON) and the Cape Fear Comedy Festival (Wilmington, NC).