The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Want a chance to visit Los Angeles and perform alongside Mindy Kaling, Ed Helms, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rashida Jones, Max Greenfield, John Cho, and The Sklar Brothers? Don’t worry. You don’t have to write your own material: You’d be performing stories written by 5th graders. Make a $10 donation to the …
Hey, kids! And by kids, I mean comedy fans who are between the ages of 14-23 and have a knack for drawing funny things! Reader’s Digest just launched its first-ever Search for the Next Great Cartoonist. Is that you? If so, put your pen to paper or whatever markers you …
A decade ago, I recall sending in a VHS tape to Comedy Central HQ for what they called “Laugh Riots.” Oh, VHS. Oh, my own stand-up aspirations. Anyhow. Moving on, we all did. Comedy Central then presided over a similar contest called Open Mic Fights, which had comedians from different …
The host of NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Nick Cannon, performs stand-up comedy. One of the show’s judges, Howie Mandel, got his big break in show business as a stand-up comedian. But could a comedian ever win AGT? Before you say Terry Fator, remember this: Fator, listed among the biggest-earning comedians …
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 a tape (wait, what’s a tape? A tape is what we used to record video on, and keep separately from the camera, make physical copies …
Mike E. Winfield enjoyed a productive and fruitful comedy festival over the weekend, earning $10,000 as winner of the 2013 Gilda’s LaughFest Stand-Up Competition in Grand Rapids, Mich. Winfield beat out nine other finalists after an eight-performance competition. You may have seen him previously on TV via Late Show with David Letterman, Showtime’s Comics Without …
In the past couple of years, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has earned Emmy Awards and loyal viewers, in part, through its use of crowd-sourcing content — rewarding their biggest fans by leveraging social media to putting their Twitter suggestions into late-night TV segments. The previous Late Night occupant, Conan …
Congratulations to Michael Malone, who edged out four other finalists and a couple of dozen other stand-up comedians to emerge victorious last night as winner of the 33rd annual Seattle International Comedy Competition. The final standings: Michael Malone (Los Angeles) Joe Klocek (San Francisco) Tyrone Hawkins (Tacoma) Landry (Atlanta/Toronto) Elliot …
Carmen Lynch won the inaugural She-Devil Comedy Festival contest a couple of weeks ago in Long Island City, where I was one of the judges, and Friday night, Lynch made her debut on Late Show with David Letterman! Coincidence? No. But I cannot take credit for it. Lynch is and …
Ricky Gervais has a contest that will grant one stand-up comedian with a three-minute spot to perform on Conan. Wait, what? Why? Doesn’t Gervais have his own TV shows? And why isn’t Conan O’Brien holding this contest instead? It’s all about the new mobile app Gervais has launched called Just …
