Two comedians battling. One mic. Three minutes of jokes that would get you uninvited from Thanksgiving. Then the judges decide who survives.

Roast Battle League NY is back at the Comedy Cellar's Village Underground on Monday, September 28, and Mint Comedy is streaming the whole thing live. Five battles, four judges, one Brian Moses, and zero HR departments.

Watch live Monday, Sept. 28 at 6pm ET / 3pm PT on Mint Comedy.

Just $2 with promo code MINTROAST.

The Fight Card

Main Event: Dan Wickes (NY) vs. Chris Scriva (Pittsburgh)

New York's #3-ranked battler takes on a mechanical engineer turned roast assassin from the Steel City. One of them is walking out of the Cellar with a win. The other is walking out with one very specific joke about himself living rent-free in his head forever.

Dan Wickes

Lifetime record: 10-4-1 | Season: 6-1 | RBL rank: #3

Winner of the 2021 Coney Island Comedy Festival, Dan has spent the last decade roast battling, which he'll tell you was a choice he made freely. He finished third in RBL Season 3 and has battled pretty much everywhere that matters: Roastmasters, the old Roast Battle NYC at New York Comedy Club, Comedy Mothership, SXSW, and both the Belly Room and Main Room at The Comedy Store. He also runs the RBL NY show, so he spends most weeks judging other people's jokes. On Monday, it's his turn.

Chris Scriva

Lifetime record: 13-8 | Season: 4-1

Born into a blue-collar family in Pittsburgh, Chris grew up in his dad's repair shop, then went on to become an altar boy, a grandma's boy, and a mechanical engineer, in roughly that order. He spent years training in improv and sketch in Chicago before heading back home to the Steel City, and he's performed everywhere from Amsterdam to LA since. He's riding a three-battle win streak into the Cellar.

The Undercard

Divya Gunasekaran (NY) vs. Pope (Cleveland)

Divya Gunasekaran

Lifetime record: 4-2

A New York writer and stand-up, Divya was part of the inaugural Warner Bros. Discovery Access Comedic Voices program, went through The Onion's writing workshop, and writes on a UCB house sketch team. Her comedy mixes social commentary, self-deprecation, and what she calls "previously repressed childhood memories." She also produces a weekly mic and a monthly showcase for women and LGBTQIA+ comics.

Pope

Lifetime record: 13-9

Pope is a New Yorker who moved to Cleveland, where he owns My Cuzin Vintage in the Gordon Square neighborhood. He's a two-time RBL Cleveland Champion, hosts the roast battles at the Happy Dog, and won a Cleveland Comedy Award for Best Host. Monday is a homecoming, and he's not bringing a gift.

Big T (NY) vs. Silvia De Anda (Los Angeles)

Big T

Lifetime record: 6-10

Big T is your favorite uncle. He's a native New Yorker who started roasting in kindergarten in Brooklyn public schools, says whatever he's thinking, and thinks he's better than you because he owns an above-ground pool. The record says underdog. The pool says otherwise.

Silvia De Anda

Lifetime record: 0-1

An LA comic who works the big Southern California clubs, including The Comedy Store, the Hollywood Improv, and the Laugh Factory. Silvia has opened for Laurie Kilmartin, Melissa Villaseñor, and Shapel Lacey, won the U5 Roast Battle tournament at The Comedy Store, performed at Netflix Is A Joke Fest 2026, and co-hosts the Dumb Tired Podcast. She's flying in from LA to take her first RBL win out of a New Yorker's hide.

Greg Giraldo Jr. (NY) vs. Geo Yankey (NY)

Greg Giraldo Jr.

Lifetime record: 7-3

A New York City native who's been doing stand-up since 2021, Greg is a regular at RBL's weekly shows and has already battled at the Comedy Cellar. Yes, his dad was the late, great Greg Giraldo, one of the best roasters Comedy Central ever had. Greg Jr. calls himself a "second-generation roaster (derogatory)," which is a better joke than most of the ones his opponents will write about it.

Geo Yankey

Lifetime record: 6-1

Geo is a born-and-raised New York comic, model, and voice actor who's appeared on Pause with Sam Jay and Stavvy's World. His only loss on record came in December 2025, and he's won four straight since.

Lily Smalheiser (Los Angeles) vs. Connor O'Brien (Hartford)

Lily Smalheiser

Lifetime record: 7-2

Lily performs in LA and New York and is known for deadpan, dry, dark humor, usually delivered with a smile, which makes it worse. She trained at the Groundlings, UCB, and Westside Comedy Theater, and she's won seven of her last eight battles, several of them in The Comedy Store's Belly Room.

Connor O'Brien

Lifetime record: 12-0

Undefeated. Connor broke onto the roast scene by winning the 2025 Comfy Cook-Off at Comic Strip Live, and he's battled at the Comedy Cellar, Comedy Mothership, and New York Comedy Club. He splits time between Hartford and NYC, is completely sober (despite looking a little roasted), and wins with a chill, nonchalant style that his RBL bio compares to being "covered in baby oil." Somebody has to beat him eventually. Could be Monday.

Your Host

Brian Moses

The man who invented this whole thing. Brian is the creator of Roast Battle, a Comedy Store regular, and co-creator of Comedy Central's Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle, where he served as announcer and referee. He hosts Roast Battle every Tuesday at The Comedy Store and co-hosts the RBL Weekly podcast with RBL Commissioner Pat Barker. He's also written for Truth & Iliza and MTV's Wild 'N Out and is a regular guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and Kill Tony.

The Judges

Jeremiah Watkins

Kansas-born, Comedy Store paid regular, and famously the comic who made Judd Apatow fall in love with comedy again. Jeremiah was one-third of The Wave on Comedy Central's Roast Battle, voices The Joker on DC Super Hero Girls, and co-hosts the Scissor Bros podcast. His specials Family Reunion (Prime Video) and DADDY (YouTube) are streaming now, and GQ called his live show Stand-Up On The Spot one of the "5 Funniest Nights in America."

Subhah Agarwal

A nationally touring headliner from Mundelein, Illinois, now based in New York, who started stand-up at 17. Subhah has written for Netflix's Arsenio!, Comedy Central's The Jim Jefferies Show, and Hulu's Plan B, made her late-night debut on NBC's A Little Late with Lilly Singh, and has acted in Westworld and General Hospital. Her newest special, Dream Elephant, premiered in 2026.

Matt Broussard

Born in New Jersey, raised in Atlanta, and the son of a Cajun chemist and a Jewish biologist, Matt got a math degree and worked as a financial analyst before quitting for comedy. He's performed on The Tonight Show, Conan, Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle, and his own Comedy Central Half Hour, and acted in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Here Today. His special Hyperbolic is out now. He's also the guy behind the webcomic Monday Punday.

Eagle Witt

A Comedy Cellar regular and the youngest comic with his picture on the Cellar's wall. Eagle is a Wild 'N Out cast member who's appeared in Flatbush Misdemeanors and Beware of Dog. He won the 2017 Devil Cup, was a NY's Funniest finalist at the 2018 New York Comedy Festival, and won the 2022 Comix Roadhouse Competition.

How to Watch

• What: Roast Battle League NY, live

• When: Monday, September 28, 6pm ET / 3pm PT

• Where: Streaming live from the Comedy Cellar's Village Underground in NYC

• Watch: watch.mintcomedy.com

• Price: $2 with promo code MINTROAST

Can't make it to the Village? Grab a snack, open the stream, and yell at your screen for two bucks. That's cheaper than the Cellar's drink minimum and the jokes are meaner.