So You Want to Win a Comedy Contest? Life lessons from six stand-up champions
by So you want to win a comedy contest? Sounds like fun, right? Maybe if you win. But first, you have to enter the competition. Submit …
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Marcus Monroe wins the eighth annual Andy Kaufman Award
In what other competition but the Andy Kaufman Awards will you find a juggler competing against a ventriloquist, a street performer, two actors in character …
Seattle’s Adam Norwest wins CMT’s 2012 Next Big Comic contest
Adam Norwest, a Seattle comedian who began performing improv at the tender age of 13, has won CMT’s 2012 edition of its Next Big Comic …
Dan Soder takes NY; Landry wins Boston in dueling 2011 contest finals
In an odd scheduling move, both the New York’s Funniest competition and the Boston Comedy Festival competition held their finals on the same evening last …
Sean Kent wins 2011 San Francisco Comedy Competition
Congratulations go out to Sean Kent, who has become the third stand-up comedian to win both the San Francisco and Seattle comedy competitions. Kent completed …
Comedy Central launches short pilot competition with New York TV Festival
As the 2011 New York Television Festival hits its own homestretch this weekend, it has announced a new initiative with Comedy Central that seeks original …
Melissa Villasenor’s quarterfinal performance on America’s Got Talent 2011
The fourth and final group of quarterfinalists performed last night on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, and that left impersonator Melissa Villasenor as the last comedian …