Who is Marcus Cardona?

Sarcastic, satirical, smart, social media savant, and shameless. These "S" alliterations comprise of Marcus' comedic style. The by-product of middle class rural Maine upbringings, Filipino immigrant parenting, TV addiction, post college debt depression, under protest private school attendance, New York City hustling, and an all too self aware Peter Pan syndrome. Marcus' youthful storytelling abilities and coming to grips with "adulting", social interactions, politics, stereotypes, pop culture, life, conspiracies and relationships in the social media age is an original post-postmodern comedic commentary you don't want to miss out on.

Marcus Cardona is a New York City based comedian, writer, actor, Twitch streamer, and producer who performs throughout the country. The Maine born Filipino-American comedian began performing in 2011, after forming the YouTube sketch comedy group, Pinetree Comedy. Assistant manager at Brooklyn House Of Comedy, helping develop new talent in Brooklyn, a power house of a producer with a “build your stage and kill it too” energy producing a variety of shows that have included Bassanova Ramen shop based comedy show, Send Noods in New York City’s Chinatown and Group Text a concept interactive audience show with comedians performing with a pop of silent roasts in group message projected behind them on a screen. That is until the pandemic threw him back to Maine. Making the most of a situation and super passing goals producing the 13 time SOLD OUT comedy series Cabin Fever: An Outdoor Comedy Show For A Socially Distant Time in collaboration with Empire Comedy Club at Thompson’s Point in Portland, Maine, and producing New York City’s first comedy scene only comedy awards show The Bombys which was hosted in 2020 at Bushwick’s The Tiny Cupboard. During the pandemic he began streaming and gaming on Twitch under the name neurotic_fodder or has his following has known him as NERF and continues growing his Discord community you can find him regularly on Mondays playing Fortnite among other games. Proudly repping Asian culture as much as Maine he joined the all Asian sketch comedy group Model Majority as a writer and performer. After collaborating with Don’t Tell Comedy in 2022, he went on to turn the pop-up event venue of Free Street Restaurant and Bar into Maine House Of Comedy as founder and creative director. In 2023 during his time in Maine he successfully brought back comedy to the former Empire Comedy Club stage on 575 Congress Street under the name Empire Comedy Lives. His talent has been recognized throughout the comedy world and he has been apart of festivals across the country such as the Asian Comedy Fest, North Carolina Comedy Festival, Filipino Comedy Festival and the esteemed SF Sketchfest. You can see him perform and produce great shows throughout the country.