Atsuko, Beth, and Rachel

They are three of the best female American standups around at the moment – Atsuko Okatsuka, Beth Stelling, and Rachel Feinstein. LA-based Atsuko Okatsuka was named one of Variety‘s Top 10 Comics to Watch in 2022; born in Taiwan to Japanese and Taiwanese parents, she moved to the States at age 10 and lived undocumented for seven years. That informs a lot of her comedy, but it’s not at all heavy – she notably performed a stand-up set in Pasadena during an earthquake in 2019 and was commended for keeping the show going and the audience calm while the quake went on.

Rachel Feinsten, another of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch for 2022 and another finalist on Season 7 of Last Comic Standing, is good at European-style racy comedy. She played herself as a comedian in the underrated 2015 Stephan Littger feature film Her Composition and has also appeared in Crashing.

Beth Stelling, once from Chicago but also from LA now, has performed in the Netflix series The Standups and served as a writer for the hit HBO TV series Crashing. Stelling has released two comedy albums and was one of the finalists on Season 7 of Last Comic Standing. All three of these acts are good, but Stelling probably gets magpie’s vote: she’s sharp, even when she’s expounding the differences between men and women: you haven’t heard her take on what you might assume to be a somewhat hackneyed trope …

The show is hosted by NeNe Leakes, actress, presenter, businesswoman, author, fashion designer and American TV personality (Real Housewives of Atlanta).

This show is part of the Dubai Comedy Festival.