(More from Laura Minneno): "Mintyfresh is a comedy show that will be three years old this January. I co-produce the show with fellow comic, Shawn Hollenbach. Originally at The Duplex in the west Village, Mintyfresh has moved around to many venues. The show finally settled as a weekly show this year on Monday nights at Mo Pitkin's. Our weekly stand-up features a large range of comedic styles. We've participated in the last three NY Underground Comedy Festivals. The goal of our weekly stand-up show is to give the audience seven comics with eclectic styles, energy and material. Though the show is part of the 'underground/downtown/not a club' scene we don't discriminate between club comics and more 'alt' comics or comics who have been at this for ten years or one year. New York has wealth of talent and potential, that as producers and comics, we really want to use the show as an opportunity to meet and work with as many comics as possible. I'd have to sit down at our comic database but we've probably have had over hundred comics perform on our show in last three years. Along with our weekly standard stand-up show, we also produce monthly specialty shows that include 'Cocktail,' 'Coming Out' and our new show, 'Cabaret Star.'

'Cocktail' is our variety comedy show that is on the third Tuesday of the month at Otto's Shrunken Head. It features stand-up, sketch, improv, music, characters, monologists, even seocialty magic and juggling acts. 'Coming Out' is on the last wednesday of the month at Mo Pitkin's. The show features gays comics and perfomers (or even not traditional performers) telling their more amusing, less harrowing coming out stories. We've had great turnouts and were featured in the Time Out NY Pride Issue this past June. 'Cabaret Star' premiered this month. It's a short, four week reality TV/Americna Idol style competition in which actual legit singers perform up tempo and ballads and the audience votes for their favorite perfomers. Those semi-finalists perform in the finale show for the chance to win a free night to do their own show at Mo Pitkin's and have it recorded for free. In between the performers, we have musical comedians and feature comedians on the 'judging panel' who play original characters and celebrities. It's a way to bring the uptown musical theater, cabaret audience and the comedy audience together. New York is both unfortunately and fortuanately saturated with shows and perfomers that we've had to find a way to extend ourselves to a niche audience. Maybe our audience who comes to 'Coming Out' would never have an interest to go to our weekly stand-up show or vice versa. We're still growing and we have a stretches of amazing turnouts and sometimes we go through a dry spell. We're working on growing our repeat audience base. I think performers really enjoy our show and feel it's a safe, positive environment to try new material and work out the greatest hits."