Nato Green was summed up more or less accurately by The East Bay Express as, “erudite and acerbic, a San Francisco-raised father, union organizer, gastronome, bibliophile, and political sparkplug.” His podcast The Nato Sessions is produced by 3200 Stories. His first comedy album, The Nato Green Party, was released by Rooftop Comedy. Nato has been named San Francisco's Best Comedian by the SF Weekly, Huffington Post, and CBS.

Nato is the creator of Iron Comic, the Iron Chef-spoofing comedy game show he co-hosts with Moshe Kasher. Nato has a regular column in the San Francisco Examiner, and his humor commentaries have appeared in VICE, Truthdig, Huffington Post, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Bold Italic. He also hosts FSFSF, a short spotlight on Bay Area comedy that airs every weekday during NPR's All Things Considered on 91.7FM KALW. Nato wrote for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX and toured nationally with W. Kamau Bell & Janine Brito as Laughter Against the Machine.

Francesca Fiorentini is a journalist, comedy writer, and performer. She is a host and producer with AJ+, the online channel of Al Jazeera Media Network. As a stand up comic Francesca has performed around the Bay Area including at the Punchline Showcase, Cobb's Comedy Showcase, and at the Comedy Comedy Festival in Los Angeles. She has worked in alternative media since 2004 as an editor with War Resisters League and with Left Turn Magazine.

Joe Eskenazi was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. "Your humble narrator" was a staff writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015. He resides in the Excelsior with his wife, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.

Malcolm Yeung first joined Chinatown Community Development Center in February of 2009 as Public Policy Manager, where he coordinated, developed, and helped lead Chinatown CDC’s advocacy initiatives . Immediately prior to rejoining the organization as Deputy Director of Programs in July 2012, Malcolm served one year as San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee’s Senior Advisor on Housing and Land Use policy. During that time, Malcolm led the City in developing a proposal for a San Francisco Housing Trust Fund to fund housing opportunities for low and moderate income San Franciscans. Malcolm is a 2001 graduate of the Berkeley School of Law and spent five years practicing tenant and housing law at the Asian Law Caucus, playing a lead role in forming Chinatown’s first affordable housing cooperative.