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College drop-out and former snarky record store clerk Brooke Van Poppelen is a NYC based stand-up comic, writer and actress who finally had enough guts to get off her bar stool and start telling jokes into a microphone instead of a tepid mug of Old Style. Rabble rousing one moment then unpredictably goofy the next, Brooke’s disarming persona delivers self-deprecating comedy with real swagger.
Recently, Brooke has been featured in a 3 episode story arc of TLC’s American Chopper as Mikey Teutul’s comedy coach and feels confident that stand-up comedy has claimed yet another victim. Other fun sightings include Brooke shaking her booty in a Ford Fiesta campaign called “Big Tempin’”, setting the studio audience ablaze on The Food Network’s Emeril Live, and teaming up with Andy Cohen of Bravo’s Real Housewives to spoof Conde Nast’s Sales Person of the Year for Glamour and Details magazines.
On air, Brooke has contributed some sex-themed hilarity to Sirius Satellite’s Cosmo Radio and Maxim Radio, makes fun of current events with AOL’s Group Therapy podcast on Lemondrop.com, and has cleaned up her language to talk local politics on Chicago Public Radio.
Brooke also writes and in turn, gets written about in The Wall Street Journal, Magnet Magazine, Time Out NY, Gaper’s Block and The Comic’s Comic. Brooke is a contributing writer to AOL’s Lemondrop.com and had eight blog posts from her own site NY is Retarded published in The Printed Blog. She’s currently the creator and self appointed editor-in-chief of her newest project, Rock Bottom Stories.
“BVP”, as she’s affectionately referred to, can be seen performing on stand-up shows at UCB Theater and clubs nationwide, as well as story-telling nights, comedic reading series, and an occasional festival or two. She just finished the first run of her original 1-Woman Show, So-Low Show which will launch again in the spring. Brooke’s also co-written and co-starred in the 2-Woman Sketch Comedy Show MACHO with good friend and killer comedian, Joselyn Hughes of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0.
Last year Brooke was nominated for an ECNY award as the “Emerging Comic of 2008”. This year she’s been nominated for the “Best Female Stand-Up of 2009” award.