Marshall Chiles

Marshall Chiles started stand-up comedy in 1999 and quickly became a road comic. He also quickly realized that for most one-nighter road gigs in the south, the worst thing that could happen to you is that they ask you back. 

He then made the goal of doing stand-up comedy while sleeping in his own bed at night. In 2002 he bought The Funny Farm Comedy Club in Roswell, GA that was inside an entertainment complex called StarTime Entertainment… which was like Dave and Busters if Dave was a crystal meth head. StartTime was closed in April of 2009 which meant no more Funny Farm Comedy Club (thank goodness). Since Marshall had seen the writing on the wall, in February 2009 he opened the world famous comedy club called The Laughing Skull Lounge. Yes, it is world famous because it is in this world and now even you know about it.

In 2010, Marshall started The Laughing Skull Comedy Festival which is considered by the industry to be the number one discovery comedy festival in North America… maybe even the world, we don’t know yet.

Marshall has also written three books. His first book is called ‘Your Presentation is a Joke: Using Humor to Maximize Impact’ and is now a textbook at the University of Alabama, which just means it has lots of pretty pictures in it.

His second book is a children’s board book called ‘Cool Kids Share.’ He came up with the concept when his son was four years old playing on a playground. This one kid did not want to share and Marshall’s wife said, “It’s ok that the kid does not want to share.” Marshall said, “No, not really. That kid is being a dick. Only cool kids share.” And then BAM, 10 years later he wrote the book. 

His third book is children’s book for adults called ‘My Colonoscopy & Me: A Love Story.’ He wrote the first version of this book as a poem while sitting in the waiting room of his first colonoscopy. You know, like you do.

As you can see, Marshall is building a comedy empire to pass down to his children so they can eventually run it into the ground.