2026 JERSEY CITY COMEDY FESTIVAL HEADLINERS

Learnmore Jonasi is a Zimbabwean stand-up comedian and actor. He stands at over 6 feet, his comedy is brought to life by past experiences, observations and his view (from the top) which elicit rib-tickling laughs, regardless of the crowd. He has performed with and alongside the biggest names on the African Continent and performed across 20 countries at various Theatres, Festivals, Comedy clubs, and on TV Shows. He was the winner of the 2023 Boston Comedy Festival, and the 2023 audience choice Jersey City Comedy festival. In 2019 he won the National Arts Merit Awards as the Outstanding Comedian of the Year, the Savanna Comic Choice Awards as the Pan African Comic of the Year, and he was the People’s Choice Award winner in Steve Harvey’s Stand Up Spotlight competition. He received the golden buzzer on America's Got Talent and placed 5th in 2024.

Isabel Hagen is a nationally touring stand-up comedian and classically trained violist. As a comedian, she has been featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and was a New Face of Comedy at the Just for Laughs festival in Montréal. Isabel started stand-up right after earning her Bachelors and Masters degrees in viola performance from the Juilliard School. As a musician, she has performed as a touring member of the band Vampire Weekend, and has also performed and worked with numerous artists such as Björk, Ed Sheeran, Max Richter, The National, and Steve Reich. Isabel is also a filmmaker, and her debut feature film ON A STRING, which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival where it won Best Screenplay in a U.S. Narrative Feature.