Who Is Behind The Hahaas®

Hahaas® is the brainchild of Joel Haas.  Joel has been immersed in the comedy world for over 19 years.  He is currently the Program Director of Slacker Radio's 2 Comedy Channels and worked as XM Satellite Radio's Comedy Director from February 2001 until 2009.  He can still be heard regularly on Sirius XM's Raw Dog comedy channel.  As the creator and architect of XM Comedy and Laugh USA, Joel screened more comedy CD's than anybody in the business. A lot of them were poorly produced with sound quality issues so he couldn't play them. This drove Joel nuts and inspired him to start recording and producing comedy albums.


Joel recorded his first live comedy shows for XM airplay in early 2002. Over the years, Joel rarely turned down a live recording gig, constantly upgrading his equipment. He now uses up to 12 high quality microphones to capture crowds. For the comedian, he switches out the house microphone for a high quality wireless mic. He records every microphone onto a separate track on a laptop with Pro Tools, the industry standard for audio recording. He personally mixes, masters and edits all of these recordings.