Stephanie McHugh was a finalist on Season 3 of Nick at Nite's Funniest Mom contest on Nick at Nite. She also had a cameo appearance in final project of TV Guide's America's Last Producer grand prize winner Gwen Uzuko. Steph opened for Kathleen Madigan from the TV show Last Comic Standing, when Kathleen taped her DVD at the Boulder Theater. She was a finalist in the Laugh Across America Contest and won a trip to the Las Vegas Comedy Festival were she performed at the Stardust Casino. She also was a semi finalist in Oxygen's Hit TV Series Girls Behaving Badly Nationwide Talent Search. Stephanie won the 2002 Summer Comedy Contest at Wits End Comedy Club in Westminster, Colorado. She performs all over the mountain region and is a regular at the prestigious Comedy Works.

Stephanie herself has been described as white bread with a little bit of mold, but still a good piece of dough if you cut off the mold. But that's just a metaphor. Don't try to really cut her because that would really, really hurt.