Comedians Tom Cotter, Kerri Louise, Robin Phoenix Johnson and Doug Bennett will be touring with Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE) next year as the Best Medicine Brigade. The tour, which runs January 9–25, 2025, features 11 shows at bases across the Pacific.
Tom Cotter first took the comedy scene by storm after finishing runner-up and becoming the breakout star from the seventh season of “America’s Got Talent” (AGT), where he was the first comedian ever to be a finalist. More recently, Cotter was invited back to the AGT stage to perform against the best of the best performers from other years and around the world on “America’s Got Talent: The Champions.” In addition to numerous TV and radio credits, Tom Cotter was a winner of the Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition and regularly headlines famous comedy clubs, including the Improv, Comedy Cellar and Gotham Comedy Club, just to name a few. His first book, “Bad Dad: A Guide to Pitiful Parenting,” was released in 2016, and his special, “Tom Cotter: Rapid Fire,” is streaming now.
Doug Bennett, also known as “Mr. Perspective,” is a Marine Corps veteran from Alexandria, Virginia. He is a stand-up comedian, actor and radio host who specializes in sharing his perspectives with a universal face. He enjoys the simple things in life and sees how the world reinvents the wheel instead of putting new treads on the tires. When not on stage, Doug Bennett can be found on his radio show “Conversations with Comedians” on nlgradio.com.
After serving more than 20 years in the Army, including five deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, Robin Phoenix Johnson went from frontlines to punchlines. She tours worldwide and has been featured on VET Tv, CBS and USA Today. When not performing, she teaches how to use humor beyond entertainment through HEAL*ARIOUS, a humor-based program to improve psychological performance. Robin Phoenix Johnson is a Certified Humor Professional through the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, an Institute for Defense and Business instructor at Duke University and a Stanford University Hoover Institution veteran fellow.
High-energy, commanding and versatile, Kerri Louise is on a roll. She has been on dozens of TV shows on NBC, VH1, TruTV, Comedy Central and more, including “Dr. Oz,” “Last Comic Standing,” “The Apprentice,” “Comics Unleashed” and “Gotham Comedy Live.” She was also featured on the new Showtime special, “Funny Women of a Certain Age.”
Kerri Louise lives in New York with her comedian husband, Tom Cotter, and their three sons. Her web series, “My Mommy Minute,” has been popular on YouTube for nearly a decade. Her audience also inspired Kerri Louise to write “Mean Mommy,” a funny how-to-mom book, and the children’s book “Harry the Elephant Has an Allergy.”
AFE has been committed to boosting the morale and well-being of service members and their families stationed overseas through world-class live events and performances since 1951.
