Ryan Priestle is from Cincinnati, OH. He has been doing stand-up comedy since 2010 with Blue Pencil Comedy and improv comedy since 2012 as a member of OU Improv's Black Sheep, Inc. However, his real passion is acting for the screen. He has enjoyed a storied and varied career as (among other things) the 8th Doctor, the 5th Bond, the 3rd Batman, and the 2nd Seth Meyers. The only thing missing from this career was internet sketch comedy videos, so Ryan joined up with B-Side Comedy, bringing his acting talent and silver screen looks to YouTube.
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Max Cothrel is a 20-something guy from Parts Unknown. He graduated from Ohio University in 2013 with a degree in Journalism and an English minor. Overwhelmed by the flood of job prospects in both fields, he currently works with his hands for a living, but they’re both kind of ass-holes and the left one never gets any work done in the afternoons. Max has been performing stand-up comedy since 2010 as a member of Blue Pencil Comedy in Athens, Ohio, and he’s pretended he’s not nervous on stages across two states. He’s written, acted, stunt driven, and directed with B-Side Comedy. His indiscriminately ethnic appearance is a great way to make skittish old white women suspicious and it also makes for a fun guessing game at parties. He spends his free time imagining things he could beat his head against and silently shouting curses at the heavens. In his nightmares, the clowns are always laughing at him.
B-Side Comedy / Our Accomplices
Drew Tonkovich
Caz Finnegan is a time traveler from the future, past, and present—as clearly time is an illusion within a massive, cyclical, and ever-expanding universe structured around a thermodynamic mathematical anomaly even he can't understand. He also has a very refined palate for Root Beers, Sarsaparillas, and Ginger Ales. He's been involved with comedy his entire life, on the stage, the screen, and at all moments of consciousness. He does not sleep. Before co-creating B-Side Comedy, Mr. Finnegan held the office of Head Writer at Ohio University's notorious live-to-tape public access sketch comedy show, Fridays Live. He has been performing stand-up comedy for many years, and continues to write for the screen and act in a variety of projects. He is writing a novel—but sometimes it looks like a grocery list to be honest with you.
After your first encounter with Zac, you may think that he is a pensive, well-dressed man who not only performs comedy, but lives it. That is a dumb thing to think, seeing as none of those things are in anyway true. (maybe the well-dressed thing, but that’s kind of subjective) Zac first started his career as Head Writer for Fridays Live. Which he frequently brings up because he had the job before Caz, and Zac was the best Head Writer ever. At parties, Zac can be heard frequently and drunkenly telling people that he taught Caz (whose name is just Zac backwards) everything he knows. Fridays Live led Zac to try his hand at stand up comedy in 2010 where he quickly amassed a cult following of two guys who not only shared a van as a house together but also mirrored Zac’s seductive inner sadness. If there was only one thing you had to know about Zac to truly understand his comedic point of view, it would be this: He’s deathly afraid of spiders.
Caleb Fullen
Zane DeLong
Cat Abood
Bart Browne
Caz Finnegan
Writer
No one is 100% sure what "B.A." stands for. If you were to ask him he would sarcastically tell you that it stands for "Bad Ass." If you asked anyone else they would tell you it probably stands for "Brandon is an Asshole." We will probably never know for sure, but it's that bit of mystery that makes B.A. the most awesome person in B-Side according to Ryan Priestle. B.A.'s first big project was directing the sketch comedy show Baby Mountain, during his time at Ohio University. This is where he learned the ancient secrets of sketch comedy, and where he attended numerous fests which led him to forget most of those secrets. In addition to making B-Side's videos, B.A. is also a stand up comedian that got his start with Blue Pencil Comedy in 2010, and continues to perform in New York City.
“I'm just trying to make some stuff for my reel." - B.A.
Zac Coleman
Best Dressed
Max Cothrel
Stunt Driver
B-Side Comedy / The Gang
B.A. Ivey
Filmmaker
Ryan Priestle