The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you feel like you’re missing out on pilot season, do not lose all hope. Comedy Central once again is putting out $7,500 and a potential development deal in the waters for writers and producers through a contest via The New York Television Festival. If you’ve got a scripted-comedy format …
America’s nationally televised singing competitions may be on the diminuendo in 2014, but perhaps that’s only to make room for a revival of stand-up comedy contests on TV?! TBS announced Tuesday that it has ordered an eight-episode summer series from Marlon Wayans — tentatively titled Funniest Wins — pitting comedians against …
The official NBC Last Comic Standing website is still a few days away from making the leap from 2010 to present-day 2014. But the email line is open now if you want Last Comic‘s producers to consider you for an on-air callback audition! That is, if Gmail is working today… …
Congratulations to Zoltan Kaszas from San Marcos, Calif., for emerging victorious in the 34th annual monthlong stand-up contest known as the Seattle International Comedy Competition. In a “Meet the Finalist” interview before last week’s final five shows, Kaszas said winning would mean a lot to him. “There were so many …
Houston-based stand-up comedian Ali Siddiq emerged victorious on Monday as the first grand prize winner of Comedy Central’s “Up Next” nationwide talent search contest. Fans online chose Siddiq from among nine finalists who had advanced this fall out of regional contests at network-approved comedy clubs. His prizes for winning include an …
Here are your nine finalists from Comedy Central’s inaugural Up Next talent showcase contest: Tone Bell Chris Cubas Randy Liedtke Nimesh Patel Joe Pera Ali Siddiq Dave Thomason Aaron Weaver Jenny Zigrino They performed last week at Carolines on Broadway during the New York Comedy Festival‘s Comics To Watch showcase. And …
America’s favorite late-night anti-host with the anti-dote to your do-do dum-dum humdrum lives — ERIC ANDRE — is heading back on tour this week. What’s so special about the Eric Andre Show Live tour, you may ask if you’re reading this sentence aloud? For one thing, if you’re tagging along …
Mike Wysocki is a stand-up comedian from Pittsburgh who usually spends his mornings sharing his opinions on the local radio around the Three Rivers airwaves on WDVE-FM (102.5), but he had to make a run for the border to earn his big late-night TV break last night on Arsenio. I listened …
Time is running out if you’re a stand-up comedian who’d like to win a trip to Switzerland this December to perform in the 2013 Montreux Comedy Festival… The festival happens this year from Dec. 4-10, 2013, at the foot of the Swiss Alps by Lake Geneva. You have 22 days …
A year after winning a late-night TV credit contest, Samuel J. Comroe has won a slightly bigger and older, if not also more prestigious prize, emerging victorious in the 2013 San Francisco Comedy Competition. The 38th annual stand-up contest hosted a slightly different finish this October, with one night, one …
