Joli is the entertainment producer and network executive behind Rampantly and the World Comedy Web. She thought it would be cool to give comedians their own global media network, so here ya go. Don't spend it all in one place! When she's not supporting the next generation of indie entertainment artists and expanding access to platforms for free speech through comedy, Joli moonlights with musicians across the city of Philadelphia as rock and roll singer and rainstick player Lyre J Byrd (it's pronounced Larry!) Joli believes the human voice is the one free tool we all have, yet few adequately use. She is passionate about expanding public access to free speech through comedy everywhere, and she tries to do what she can to give performing artists an easier go at saving the world together. If you know any very rich and altruistic humanitarian philanthropists, please send them her way. Thanks. It's as didactic as it is apocryphal, kids! Here's her full biography: Joli was born a double Aquarian coon ass on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Her parents were two sporty hotties from Ohio who had been meddling together since middle school. By the time she was one month old, Joli was leading the Knights of Sparta atop a white mare. Some would say she peaked there... They'd be right! Imagine a proper Drew Barrymore meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, stuffed senseless on Twinkie cream. What would you do with her? I(t's where she gets her big forehead.) Our young grasshopper enjoyed a childhood pogo-sticking around the master-planned oil suburbs of The Woodlands, Texas, playing pogs with her own shadow, and inviting her crushes to eat bark sandwiches in the woods. She also remembers having two brothers in there at some point. In 1995, Joli's family defected from the globalist petrochemical stranglehold and burrowed down in Amish-adjacent Chocolatetown, USA. There, whilst dressed as Ghoulardi, Joli lip-synched Surfin' Bird by the Bntthole Surfers in front of the whole 3rd grade class. Meanwhile, her first and future husband was 23 and working in a Cascadian timber mill. Ain't it quaint? As a girl, Joli enjoyed watching the Simpsons while gazing out her own bedroom window at the smokestacks of the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear facility. After cross-dressing her haunted Howdy Doody puppet as an Aunt Jemima doll, Joli wore its clothes herself in her 5th grade breakout role as the smallest tap-dancing country singer in the world, lip-synching to Patsy Cline's "Crazy." She was nothing if not hellbent in her performative whimsicality, and she's got the x-rays to prove it! In middle school, Joli began producing comedy with her friends. First, it was spoof commercials on her camcorder, followed by, among other things, a sock puppet interview with George Washington Carver. You can still find her 1999 Jolly Productions website on the Internet Archive. Later, in high school, Joli was voted Young Woman of the Year by her town... Yet somehow she still never learned how to take care of her car. That's life before YouTube, kids! After heading to to art school in the City of Brotherly Love, Joli began spending summers teaching aesthetics, public art and museum studies in New Haven, Connecticut. She also enjoyed enrolling in and promptly disavowing the archaic pedantry of various teacher training programs as she fashioned her own fringe pedagogies into arts-integrated and project-based enrichment curricula for children of all ages. In 2011, after scoring 12 points against the Harlem Wizards at Yale, Joli wrote her first sitcom pilot while driving jet bridges in an overnight blizzard at the Philadelphia International Airport. It wasn't long before she hit the stand-up scene by way of South Street, Philly, as the only woman on the list at the now defunct Lickety Split. In 2014, Joli promptly tabled her stand-up to be wed, but she soon clawed her way out of that star-crossed sinkhole, taking up studies in improv and sketch-writing at the Philly Improv Theater and ComedySportz. She later studied red nose clown and devised theater at the Pig Iron School under Emmanuelle Delpech and enjoyed a career as an art and museum educator, social studies teacher, and educational programs director for Philadelphia school children. In 2018, after dreaming of becoming a comedy writer since birth, Joli became a full-fledged digital nomad, moving first to Austin, Texas, where she started an eyewear company and resumed her study of stand-up comedy. The next few years, Joli traversed the country to all corners in every which way, carving her path on nearly every Amtrak line coast to coast, driving from Austin to Fairbanks, and living in Austin, Eugene, Los Angeles, Oberlin, and West Hollywood, where she produced more than 600 underground comedy shows from 2020-2022. Joli returned to Philadelphia in 2022 and can now be found voice acting across radio stations nationwide, producing comedy with Rampantly, and steering the development of the World Comedy Foundation and related projects. Joli would like to thank her friends and mentors who fostered her creative and qualitatively philanthropic ambitions, her co-producers, talent and volunteers including Aaron Ring, David Parsons, Ray Powers, Andrew Ferrara, Adam Coonen, Dani Riedel, Kristine Knowlton, and Carol Newell, her parents Jon and Lindi, and especially Eddie Pepitone, Rich Chassler, and Jetpack for their contributions to the greater good. laughter to the people. :) (;