Big Dawgs in The Rickles room

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About this show

Special Event Ages 21 and Over Big Dawgs Emma Dalenberg and Sunny Laprade Certified big dawgs Emma Dalenberg and Sunny Laprade are two of the funniest, freakiest, queer comedians New York City has to offer, and they’re also best friends! They are coming together to bring nonstop laughs and feral stories on this unforgettable double-headlining tour. Emma Dalenberg is a NYC-based, Minnesota-born stand-up comic, writer, and actor. Since getting on stage and performing stand up comedy for the first time at age 19, Emma has developed a style that blends good vibes with controlled chaos—balancing sincerity with subversion, nostalgia with futurism—all delivered through a sweet charm and a genuine desire to connect with audiences of every background. She performs regularly at internationally recognized clubs including The Stand NYC, Laugh Factory Chicago, Acme Comedy Club in Minneapolis, and The Wall in Berlin. Her viral stand-up and sketch clips have earned her a devoted Instagram following of over 75k, helping her emerge as a distinct voice with global reach. In 2024, Emma was featured on the LMAOF TV Comedian Highlight Series, won Best of Fest at the Portland Comedy Festival, and completed her first work-in-progress solo tour across 14 cities in Europe and the USA. In 2025, she opened Daniel Sloss’ residency at the Soho Playhouse in NYC, joined Reggie Watts on his Europe tour at Soho Theater London and Berghain Berlin, debuted the newest version of her solo show, Freak, Pray, Love, in NYC, Berlin, and Istanbul, and made her playwriting and acting debut at the New York Comedy Festival with Woke Woke West: The Musical, which sold out its two-night premiere. Raised in Western NY, Sunny Laprade is a NYC based standup comedian, storyteller, writer, producer, and director who has been featured on MTV and amassed over 15 million likes and 240,000 followers on TikTok alone. With over a quarter of a million followers combined across all platforms, she was at one point the second most followed trans woman standup comic in the world. Sunny performed her first hour of comedy at Alfred University in 2017 at just 17 years old. She is the current host and producer of T4T Comedy, a monthly all-transgender comedy show, which sold out the Bell House in June 2025 and was the largest live all transgender comedy show of all time. Her first 75 minute comedy special, Queer Enough, which she wrote, performed, and produced, ran for two nights to sold out audiences and was released to the public on YouTube in 2022. It was named one of 6 Queer Comedy Specials That Will Restore Your Faith in the Craft by Autostraddle. Her story F It, We Ball won the Moth GrandSLAM at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in 2024, and a short film based off of that story is currently in post-production. Laprade was a staff writer for Late Stage Live, and is currently a staff writer for Going Down with Ella Yurman. She has been featured as part of New York Comedy Festival, and performs all over the country!