EXCLUSIVE: David Levine and Ethan Mansoor, co-founders of Underground Overground Comedy, have signed with WME.
Underground Overground Comedy is an events organizer that produces pop-up comedy shows throughout New York City. What began for the duo as a single show for family and friends during the pandemic quickly grew into something much bigger.
Since launching the company, also referred to as Comedy UO, in 2021, Levine and Mansoor have produced nearly 300 shows across more than 50 unconventional venues in New York City, including an Alphabet City laundromat, an Upper East Side gym, Lower East Side institution Economy Candy, Katz’s Delicatessen, and Astor Place Hairstylists.
In addition, Underground Overground has executed shows in Chicago as well as the Hamptons, and plans to expand to other major East Coast cities in 2026. The waitlist for tickets to their shows is over 30,000 people long, and they have worked with over 250 comics to date, including actor, comedian, and podcaster Bill Burr, former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., and Saturday Night Live cast member Marcello Hernández.
Levine has been running Underground Overground Comedy full-time for four years since graduating from Syracuse. Mansoor, meanwhile, grew up in New York City and graduated from the University of Chicago shortly before starting Comedy UO.
