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WinterLaughs 2016 Comedy Competition Semi-finals Group 2
January 20, 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
Jacqueline Novak
Jacqueline Novak is beautiful, talented and, usually, hungry. She is one of the funniest people on the planet. Her amazing book, How to Weep In Public, comes out March 1st, 2016 and yes you can pre-order it. It’s a humorous memoir about depression with some useful tips and absurd tales
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 ...
James Creelman
James Creelman is a stand up comedian based out of New York City. His comedy is a mixture of the absurd and the innocent, delivered with a melodic bite. He takes pride in being a hard-working comic, performing almost every night in a variety venues. Appearances include the Boston Comedy Festival, the Devil Cup in New York City, and the F. Harold Comedy Festival in Philadelphia ...
James Nichols
By day, James is a billing associate at a downtown law firm but by night, he’s an up-and-coming comedian and a regular on the New York comedy scene. He was once declared “if not the funniest, certainly the tallest comedian I know” by an Uber driver. In addition to forming the sketch group Clam Pals, he has performed all over the city at venues such as Broadway Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, The Stand, and The Chain Theatre ...
Jepherson Guevara
Jepherson Guevara is originally from Venezuela, and has been living in Fort Worth Texas for 2 years. He began performing comedy in Venezuela in 2012, started in this world because he got trouble everytime he said anything but some people thought that was funny. After moving to America, Jepherson started to do comedy in English, talking about his life and experiences in USA when he didn’t know English very well. His goal is get his dream and his dream is to make you laugh ...
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 ...
Mike Keegan
Mike Keegan’s likable stage presence and sharp wit have been providing audiences all over the tri-state area with hilariously enjoyable comedy show experiences. He can be seen regularly at The Comic Strip Live and Greenwich Village Comedy Club in New York City and has featured in Connecticut and the Poconos. He was a finalist in the “Funniest Comic on the East Coast” at Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino and was recently selected to compete in the Devil’s Cup Comedy Festival ...
Shaddy Feel Good
Jashad “Shaddy Feel Good” McCoy has been the talk of the crowd and making people laugh all his life. Through various shows around the country he has opened up for veteran comedians such as Mo’Nique, Cedric the Entertainer, Lil Duval, Tyler Craig, Lester Bibs, Tight Mike, and Dexter Tucker. He began as a local host in the nightlife scene in New Orleans. He was a 2013 Finalist in the National Miller Time Competition. In 2013, he was also voted Louisiana’s Funniest Person. In 2013, he was a headliner for Laugh Your Way to Heaven Christian Comedy Tour and the I Can’t Stop Laughing Christian Comedy Tour ...
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 ...
Tony Tudor
Tony Tudor is from Milwaukee WI, and started performing standup in 2012. A year ago, he moved to New York and performs regularly at Caroline’s. Last year, he was asked to perform in their March Madness Comedy Competition, and advanced to the second round. Tony has written jokes for 8 different comics ...
