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WinterLaughs 2016 Comedy Competition Finals
January 21, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Broadway Comedy Club, 318 W 53rd Street
New York,NY10019United States
New York,NY10019United States
Come see a freaking comedy competition! @Broadway Comedy Club, 20 Comedians, two rounds, three nights!
Winter Film Awards is delighted to announce our first annual Winter Laughs Comedy Competition featuring the best Stand-Up comics in all of human history!
Semi-finals Group 1 … January 19, 8-10pm (5 minute set)
Semi-finals Group 2 … January 20, 8-10pm (5 minute set)
Finals … January 21, 8-10pm (10 minute set)
21+ with ID, 2 drink minimum
Event starts promptly at 8pm
Tickets $10 per night in advance, $15 at the door
Attend all three nights for $25
Winner take all. Prizes include $200 in hard cash and a speaking role in an upcoming film by director Larry Rosen.* Guests, hosts, and judges will all be rad. Winner will also receive an awesome Winter Film Awards Crystal Icicle statue and be invited to perform at the dazzling WFA 2016 Indie Film Festival Awards Ceremony on February 27 2016 at Club 230Fifth.
* Conditions apply: The performer must be available and able to transport themselves to the filming location, which will be in either NY or NJ.
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Broadway Comedy Club
Broadway Comedy Club offers all the fun of comedy in Times Square without the awkward run-ins with the law (although we're not responsible for whatever trouble you get into afterwards). The bi-level space is one of the most renowned comedy venues in the city, and has hosted performers from HBO
Rosenguez Productions
Rosenguez Productions is an award winning production company creating entertaining content across all genres. President of Rosenguez Productions is Larry Rosen. Larry has directed over 80 films both short and feature length. On the film festival circuit, his films have won over 60 awards, numerous Awards of Merit, and dozens
Hosted by
David Feldman
David Feldman is an Emmy-award winning comedian who has appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show, and The Late Late Show. His podcast and website DAVIDFELDMANSHOW.com currently features the greatest comedians of our time. His writing credits include The Burn, Joy Behar: Say Anything, Roseanne, Dennis Miller
Pete Bradt
Pete Bradt, Comedy Competition Producer, learned standup comedy from reading Mein Kampf, which really isn’t that funny if you actually think about it.
Performances by
Aviva Woolf
Aviva Woolf has been performing improv, standup and sketch comedy since 2014. She’s entertained audiences at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, Gotham Comedy Club and The Experimental Comedy Gallery. Currently, she can be found doing Harry Potter: Improvised every second Sunday of the month in Williamsburg and hosting trivia on Tues. nights at Buddha Beer Bar in Washington Heights ...
Derek Humphrey
Derek Humphrey is a stand-up comic who has performed nationwide for the last 7 years. In addition to stand-up, Derek has formal training in improv, sketch and storytelling, and is a graduate of Theatre 99 (Charleston SC), The Upright Citizens Brigade, the Peoples Improv Theater (the PIT) and Magnet Theater (NYC). When not performing for throngs of fans, Derek spends his time with his dog and looking for the best chicken and waffles this fine nation has to offer ...
Ian Murphy
Ian is a comedian/writer performing throughout New York and New Jersey. He has performed sketch, improv, and stand up shows through out the Tri-State including at The Magnet Theater, The People’s Improv Theater, New York Comedy Club, The Creek and the Cave, The New York Fringe Festival, Broadway Comedy Club and The Greenwich Village Comedy Club ...
Jocelyn Chia
Former lawyer Jocelyn Chia is originally from Singapore and has been doing stand up consistently for two and a half years. Jocelyn was a guest comedian on Jackie’s Joke Hunt on Sirius XM, placed second in the She-Devil Comedy Festival in 2015, second at the New York Comedy Club Competition and won the Gotham Comedy Club’s Funniest Lawyer Competition ...
Laura High
Native New Yorker Laura High has been doing stand up for four years. She performs stand up through out the North East and the South and has been on shows such as 'Dates from Hell' on Discovery ID, and 'I Love you, but I Lied' on the Lifetime Movie Network. Laura won the title, "Most Fantastic New Comedian," at a competition hosted at Broadway Comedy Club and is also an actor who has been on Lifetime and Discovery ID ...
Max May
Max May's laid back demeanor draws audience in just to deliver a knockout punch. Raised in Brooklyn and now residing in Staten Island, Max May embodies the New York life. He started his comedy career in 2010 and runs and produces 3 weekly comedy shows for international crowds; he also hosts a weekly magic show. He is a regular at Stand Up NY comedy club and is a winner of Comedy Battles of 2014. He was featured in the Meadowlands Comedy Festival in 2015. Congratulations to Max -- winner of the 2016 Winter Laughs Comedy Competition! Read all about it here! ...
Shelly Colman
Brooklyn native Shelly Colman wanted to be a comic since she was 11 years old. Shelly won the 2014 Ladies of Laughter competition — Newcomer Division — at Gotham Comedy Club and has since performed with the LoL Funny & Fabulous tour in Long Island, Upstate New York & New Jersey. She has produced and hosted a monthly show in Brooklyn Heights for the last 3 years, and when not on stage she is behind a mic as a radio announcer and voice-over actor ...
