Girls Nite Out

A night of shopping from boutique and local vendors, cocktails and dinner, followed by a comedy set to support the Girls.

Girls Nite Out 2025

Girls Nite Out will return in March 2025. Please check back for more details as they become available.

Girls Nite Out 2023

Comedian: Zainab Johnson

Zainab Johnson is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer from Harlem, NY who was recently hailed by Variety as being a Top 10 Comic To Watch. Zainab’s comedy is based on her unique point-of-view, which was shaped growing up as one of thirteen siblings in a Muslim family. Zainab can currently be seen playing the role of Aleesha on the Greg Daniels Amazon series UPLOAD and hosting Netflix’s 100 Humans, a social experiment where 100 individuals take part in interactive experiments exploring sex, happiness, torture, and all the other aspects of being human.
Zainab is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in NY as well as the Comedy Store and Improv in LA. She’s made appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, HBO’s All Def Comedy, MTV’s Acting Out, and NBC’s Last Comic Standing. She had a breakout performance at The Melbourne Comedy Festival and regularly returns to the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.

Past GNO Comedians

2023    Zainab Johnson
2020     
Frances Dilorinzo
2019     Heather Land
2018     Marina Franklin
2017     Beth Stelling
2016     Kira Soltanovich
2015     Frances Dilorinzo
2014     Kelly McFarland
2013     Karith Foster

2012     Maryellen Hooper
2011     Lynn Trefzger
2010     Chad Daniels
2009     Tammy Pescatelli
2008     The Second City
2007     Wendy Liebeman
2006     Diana Jordan
2005     Maria Bamford
2004     Debi Gutierrez

2003     Maryellen Hopper
2002     Amy Borkowzki
2001     Cathy Ladman
2000     Pam Stone
1999     T Marni Voss
1998     Maryellen Hopper
1996     Carolina Rhea
1994     Monica Piper
1993     Our First Girls Nite Out!