Hometown: Alfred, NY

Based in NYC, Sunny Laprade is a standup comedian, storyteller, and viral internet creator who has 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. Her first 75 minute comedy special, Queer Enough, which she filmed, wrote, 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 and currently has over 4 stars on Letterboxd. 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 semifinalist in the 2021 New York Queer Comedy Festival, a finalist in the P3 Comedy Festival, a finalist in the 2023 Far Out Comedy Festival, and a finalist in the 2023 New York Queer Comedy Festival. She is a staff writer for Going Down TV, and her variety hour Dolls on Tour, which was featured as a part of New York Comedy Festival, performs all over the country.

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