Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.
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Sketch comedy | Festivals
The growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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It is the third episode of the of the American animated television series "Ugly Americans", and the seventeenth overall episode of the series
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when was it aired?
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July 14, 2011
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who directed it?
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Aaron Augenblick and series creator Devin Clark
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Grimes, Mark Lilly , Callie Maggotbone, Randall
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United States
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Superjail!, Wonder Showzen and Golden Age
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has the first show been broadcasted internationally?
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It has been broadcast in Canada
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Television series
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Television series
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Sketch comedy
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It comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long
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A comedy festival is a celebration of comedy with many shows, venues, comedy performers (such as stand up comics, sketch troupes, variety performers, etc.) and is held over a specific block of time. Normally, each festival has a diverse range of comedy themes and genres.
Comedy festival | Introduction
Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.
Sketch comedy | Festivals
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and sketched down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy. An individual comedy sketch is a brief scene or vignette of the type formerly used in vaudeville, and now used widely in comedy and variety shows, talk shows and some children's television series (such as "Sesame Street").
Sketch comedy | Introduction
Daily shows contain four sketches, except from 1 April 2013 to 28 June 2013 when, because of changes in France 2's schedule, they only contained three. During each sketch, the four members of the jury may press at any time a "stop" button, called a buzzer. If two judges do this, the sketch is interrupted and the comedian is not scored. If the end of the sketch is reached, the comedian is scored: every member of the jury gives a score between 0 and 20. These are added to the average score given by the studio audience. The comedian must obtain a total of 60/100 (an average of 12/20) to be able to return several days later.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Shows
The Improv and Sketch Comedy discussion panel featured a discussion of both Improv and Sketch Comedy, as well as how the two forms of comedy influence each other. Panelists were: Video footage of this panel can be found as part of the Fracas! Improv Podcast.
Fracas! Improv Festival | Improv and Sketch Comedy
A theater was leased and sketch groups from around Chicago were invited to perform at no cost. The festival opened in January 2002, and ran for 7 weeks. Over 30 sketch comedy groups performed, nearly 2000 patrons attended.
Chicago Sketch Fest | Introduction
The festival is thus characterized by the demands it places on an actor as much as for its accessibility and vigor . Because it is difficult to tackle a serious theme completely in the course of a page the plays are commonly absurd, satirical or (rarely) dramas of the kitchen sink variety. Comedic and dramatic monologues as well as homages in the style of a particular writer are also common.
Couch Soup | Introduction
SF Sketchfest, or The San Francisco Comedy Festival, is an American comedy festival founded in 2002 by Bay Area actor-comedians David Owen, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton. It takes place every January and February in a variety of Bay Area venues and features sketch comedy, improv comedy, film and television tributes and reunions, solo performers, podcasts and stand-up comedy performers.
SF Sketchfest | Introduction
The Comedy Festival, formerly known as the US Comedy Arts Festival, was a comedy festival that ran from 1995 to 2008. The festival included stand-up comedy performances, appearances by the casts of television shows, and has a film component called the Film Discovery Program.
The Comedy Festival | Introduction
From his point of view, the festival is an occasion to share diverse perspectives that span cultural, perceptional, linguistic, professional, or personal similarities and differences between people.
Dialogue ONE | Performers
Producer Gus Beattie began the show after noticing there were multiple shows about up-and-coming comedians but none showcasing sketch talent. Beattie chooses which sketch groups will perform on the show. He finds many of these groups at the Edinburgh Festival and online. The chosen groups gather at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to perform before a live audience.
Sketchorama | The making of
A partial list of well-known comedy festivals includes:
Comedy festival | Comedy festivals
In season 4, the show's final sketch was performed by a "historic" "pensionnaire" who is not scored. If a comedian does not get the required 60 points, they can be saved. This happened differently depending on the season.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Shows
Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, including "Mad" and "Right Now Kapow". Sketch comedians routinely differentiate their product from a "skit", maintaining that a skit is a (single) dramatized joke (or "bit") while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character or situation.
Sketch comedy | Introduction
Although it is mainly a vehicle for stand-up and cabaret acts, the festival has also included sketch shows, improvisational theatre, debates, musical shows and workshops.
Prague International Festival of Comedy | Introduction
Sketch comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall, where many brief, but humorous, acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In Britain, it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights, such as "Beyond the Fringe" and "A Clump of Plinths" (which evolved into "Cambridge Circus"), to radio, with such shows as "It's That Man Again" and "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", then to television, with such shows as "Not Only... But Also", "Monty Python's Flying Circus," "Not the Nine O'Clock News" (and its successor "Alas Smith and Jones"), and "A Bit of Fry and Laurie".
Sketch comedy | History
Little-known comedians, alone or in groups, professionals or amateurs, may appear in a sketch on the show. Each candidate is evaluated by a panel of judges, known as the jury, and by the audience. Candidates who obtain a sufficient score may come back with a new sketch. Each sketch is written by the candidate (with or without other writers) about a theme relating to current events chosen several days before the recording from a list. Comedians who have performed more than 10 times (known as "pensionnaires", "residents") do not get to choose from the list; their theme is imposed by Laurent Ruquier.
On n'demande qu'à en rire | Format
A festival is a celebratory event, usually centered on a theme. It may also refer to:
Festival (disambiguation) | Introduction
For 26 minutes, in public, comedians have to produce a scene identical to that in a theatre, while improvising their text based on a situation evolving from the characteristics of their characters (which were determined prior to the sketch). To do this, each comedian wears an earpiece, connected live to the microphone of the show's presenter (in this case Benjamin Castaldi, in France). He gives games for the artists in the scene to improvise. In France, each episode took place in the apartment of Sören and Noémie (brother and sister), with their different friends and co-workers visiting.
Totale impro | Premise
The event usually begins with the Stand Up for Heroes benefit concert.
New York Comedy Festival | Introduction
A 100-word detailed description of a black-and-white photograph is given to each team. Based on this description, the participants need to sketch the photograph. Judging is based on how similar their sketch turns out to be, compared to the original photograph, and also on their artistic skill.
Festember | How Close Can You Get
But, as with all sketch shows (especially improvised ones), the output is hit or miss."
Rixty Minutes | Reception
The Ninth Annual festival included Conan O'Brien, recipient of the annual Tribute Award, who was scheduled to appear on January 17, but had to be postponed due to the late night fiasco at NBC. The tribute was done later that summer on July 17 at the Herbst Theater, where O'Brien was joined by Andy Richter and moderator Patton Oswalt for an incredible, candid, three-hour conversation. The Comedy Writing Award was presented to author and humorist John Hodgman, who was joined in conversation with Dave Eggers. The festival presented their first Monty Python member in Terry Jones, who appeared in conversation at a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python’s Life of Brian at the Castro Theatre.
SF Sketchfest | 2010
Days of Comedy (: "Денови на комедија") is an international theater comedy festival in Kumanovo, Macedonia. The festival is held at the Cultural Center Trajko Prokopiev annually. Theaters from Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and other countries participate.
Days of Comedy | Introduction
A majority of the show is made up of single sketches. These sketches are unrelated from the main sketch and usually resolved by the end of the scene. In rare occasions, the sketch may link with another sketch later on. The length of the sketches can range from very short (~10 s) to quite long (4–5 min).
Capping Show | Sketches
In 2011, the festival celebrated its 10th Anniversary, now regularly utilizing nearly a dozen venues, including The Castro Theatre, Yoshi’s San Francisco, The Purple Onion and Marines’ Memorial Theatre. The annual Tribute award was split into a new Great Collaborator Series, showcasing fantastic comedy teams. The first was a 25th Anniversary Tribute to “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” with Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel appearing with moderator Zach Braff; second was an Airplane! Tribute to Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, moderated by Chris Hardwick; and the third was a Tribute to Murphy Brown with Candice Bergen and Diane English.
SF Sketchfest | 2011
Every show consists of several comedy sketches that vary in length and can contain several sketches or even one full length sketch.
Funny or Die Presents | Description
The 48 Hour Film Festival can refer to any of these film competitions:
48 Hour Film Festival | Introduction
CCA Festivals were held each year from 2002 to 2015. The festivals took place over three to five days, depending on sponsorship and the availability of talent, volunteers, and venues. The awards ceremony was held either on the final evening, or on the second-last evening with a Last Laughs Gala on the final night. The largest festivals had two to three dozens events, with more than one hundred performers. Comedy shows featured the nominees and comics from the host region, with stand-up, sketch, improv and one-person shows, competitive improvisational games, seminars, workshops, and interactive exhibits. Some festivals have also included celebrity hockey games with comedians and alumni of the host city's professional hockey team.
Canadian Comedy Awards | Festivals
An Arts Festival is an umbrella-term for a festival that focuses on multiple art genres including fine art (painting, drawing, pottery), music, photography, film, and other visual styles. Fringe festivals are a type of arts festival, often focusing on many arts but sometimes focusing on a specific art such as theater more than others. Some subgenres of an arts festival include art fairs, theater festivals, dance festivals, film festivals, music festivals (pop festivals) and more.
Arts festival | Arts festival
Many other activities are held out of main program lines. Table football or Dance Dance Revolution are available, films are projected in cinema. Events such as expositions, concerts, dramatic performances, fencing shows, ceremonial party with masquerade competition and raffle, beauty contest, literary workshop or book (and DVD, CD, VHS) exchange are held in terms of the festival. Many contests and tournaments belong to the additional program among others. These contests are often organized by festival visitors themselves (e.g. table football or staring tournament).
Festival fantazie | Additional program
In 1999, Mask and Wig established an annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival to showcase the talent of the nation's best collegiate sketch comedy troupes. The mission of the festival is not just to put on a hilarious show that cultivates new talent, but also to honor and showcase a well-known comedian. Each host does a stand-up routine for the audience and participates in sketches with Mask and Wig. Past college sketch troupes include: Past guest hosts include:
Mask and Wig | ComFest
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival (or SketchFest) is an annual nonprofit sketch comedy festival held in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood at Stage 773 (1225 W Belmont Ave). This is the world's largest sketch festival, featuring 160 sketch groups (totaling over 1,000 performers) in roughly 180 shows throughout the festival's two-weekend run. This year, SketchFest organizers are projecting an audience of over 11,000 patrons. Past SketchFest sponsors include Burt's Bees, Uber, Red Bull, Chipotle and Whole Foods, though many local businesses team up with Stage 773 in order to make SketchFest happen. The fourteenth installment will take place January 8–18, 2014. The idea for SketchFest was born in October 2001, when Chicago teacher/director Brian Posen wanted to create a venue to showcase the city's best sketch comedy troupes and provide a venue for up-and-coming troupes, all free from financial burden.
Chicago Sketch Fest | Introduction
Edinburgh Comedy Festival was a short-lived festival of comedy shows which operated during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2008 and 2009. Effectively a marketing campaign for the "Big Four" venues at the Fringe - Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly - the designation was quietly dropped after widespread media and industry criticism.
Edinburgh Comedy Festival | Introduction
Comedy festivals are used by industry professionals to seek out new comedians to hire. Stand-up comedy is the focus of four major international festivals: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland; Just for Laughs in Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada; HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
Stand-up comedy | Festivals
Held annually each fall, the festival showcases the talents of Arab-American actors, comics, playwrights and filmmakers, and challenges as well as inspires fellow Arab-Americans to create outstanding works of comedy. Participants include actors, directors, writers and comedians.
Arab Americans | Festivals
A number of events took place at the festival, each themed in association with the comedy series.
Ted Fest | Events
Every year towards the end of the Festival the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year is announced. To begin with, the festival lasted for just seven days. In 2010 the duration increased from 10 days to 17 days, then in 2015 it was increased to 19 days.
Leicester Comedy Festival | History
Following are festivals that are events (similar to a fair). They are typically hosted, and are held at a specific location.
Outline of festivals | Specific festivals
Since 2007, the Comedy Festival runs in tandem with a Comedy Film Festival.
Cologne Comedy Festival | Offshoots
Novak; Michael Showalter, John Vanderslice, Match Game Live, Comedy Death-Ray, a "Freaks and Geeks" reunion with Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, Samm Levine, Martin Starr, Busy Philipps, Dave (Gruber) Allen, Steve Bannos and Paul Feig; Patton Oswalt, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bro'in Out with Seth Morris with special guest Adam McKay; Upright Citizens Brigade with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Rachel Dratch, Rob Riggle, Kevin Dorff and guest monologist Neil Patrick Harris; The Whitest Kids U Know, and Tim and Eric.
SF Sketchfest | 2008
BNT also sponsors a 24-hour theater festival every spring. From 10 pm to 10 am, individuals and teams work together to produce the script for a show or a series of shows based on a prompt. Then, from 10 am to 10 pm, the script is passed off to actors and producers, who memorize lines, block the show, acquire necessary props, costumes, and sets, and rehearse the show. At 10 pm, the curtain goes up, exactly one day after the show was first conceived.
Brand New Theatre | 24-Hour Festival
Audience Award deadlines run one month after entry deadline.
IThentic | Festival: Shortnonstop
Birmingham Comedy Festival is an annual arts festival in the city of Birmingham. The festival takes place throughout the city for 10 days during October. While primarily focused on stand-up comedy, it also includes films, theatre, cabaret, visual arts, spoken word, music, dance.
Birmingham Comedy Festival | Introduction
During the summer The Greenshow is performed outside before the evening productions. The Greenshow often includes comedic skits, sword fighting, and musical routines with dancing. During and before the performance people dressed (roughly) in period clothing walk around the courtyard (green) selling programs, telling jokes, and offering a selection of treats. The Festival also produces The New American Playwrights Project or N.A.P.P., a "plays in progress" series, featuring staged readings of new plays in a workshop setting These workshops take place each August at The Festival.
Utah Shakespeare Festival | Productions
The Leicester Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival held in a number of venues across Leicester, England early in the year.
Leicester Comedy Festival | Introduction
Improvisational-theater festivals, also known as improv-comedy festivals or improv festivals, are venues where multiple improvisational-theater groups perform. They are usually not limited by improvisational style, though they may limit entrants to professional-only or collegiate-only. Most improvisational-theater festivals are hosted by a single troupe, but others are hosted by conglomerations of troupes or a company set up solely for that given festival.
List of improvisational theater festivals | Introduction
The third Comedy Writing Award was presented by James L. Brooks, who candidly chatted with Danny DeVito before a screening of Brooks’ classic Broadcast News. The festival teamed with local drag superstar Peaches Christ for an evening with Cloris Leachman and a screening of High Anxiety, and presented a 25th Anniversary screening of True Stories with Talking Heads’ frontman David Byrne. Other great events included a Saturday Night Live: The Originals panel with Dan Aykroyd, Tom Davis, Laraine Newman, Don Novello and moderator Carl Arnheiter; Brian Henson in conversation with Neil Patrick Harris featuring a live puppet demonstration; The Thrilling Adventure Hour with a star-studded cast including Neil Patrick Harris, Colin Hanks, Alison Brie, John DiMaggio, Donal Logue, Danny Pudi, James Urbaniak, Busy Philipps, Samm Levine, John Ennis and Paul F.
SF Sketchfest | 2011
Awards were presented on the final day of the festival as follows:
Sydney Comedy Festival | Awards
The World of Comedy Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It usually takes place in the last week of February. It features comedies from Canada and all over the world.
World of Comedy Film Festival | Introduction
The Creating an Original Improvised Show panel will discuss the process of creating an original show that relies heavily upon improvisation. The following panelists are scheduled to appear:
Fracas! Improv Festival | Creating an Original Improvised Show
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.
Festival | Introduction
An arts festival is a festival that can encompass a wide range of art forms including music, dance, film, fine art, literature, poetry and isn't solely focused on visual arts. Arts festivals may feature a mixed program that include music, literature, comedy, children's entertainment, science, or street theatre, and are typically presented in venues over a period of time ranging from as short as a day or a weekend to a month. Each event within the program is usually separately ticketed. Arts festivals are largely curated by an artistic director who handles the organizations' artistic direction and can encompass different genres, including fringe theater festivals that are open access, making arts festivals distinctive from greenfield festivals, which typically are weekend camping festivals such as Glastonbury, and Visual Arts Festivals, which concentrate on the visual arts.
Arts festival | Introduction
The winner receives a trip to the Brighton comedy festival in the UK.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Awards
. . ." In his work as a comedy promoter, Andy Wood created a venue where the comedy market was struggling, and has promoted the venue to as a regional and national event. Part of Wood's approach in creating 'draw' to a weak comedy market was to couple art with philanthropy. In 2014, Kristi Turnquist of The Oregonian wrote that "The annual event brings comedians from around the country together with some of the Northwest's top acts, for four jam-packed days of hilarity."
Bridgetown Comedy Festival | Reception
The second segment varies every week and lasts from 15 to 25 minutes. The band members usually participate in sketch comedies and games. Sketch comedies include both originals and parodies of popular films and television series. International guests include: Madonna, Janet Jackson, Destiny's Child, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Cruise, etc.
SMAP×SMAP | Sketch comedy and games
Nottingham Comedy Festival is an annual festival held in Nottingham, England each November. It started in 2009 with 50 acts in 10 venues over 9 days and each year continues to grow but continues to organise the festival and other NCF events along with a small group of volunteers, The festival aims to bring together a variety of comedy events and give both new and established comedians the chance to perform. There are a variety of comedy events from stand-up, sketch, improvisation to films and poetry and more. The Glee Club, Funhouse Comedy, Royal Centre and local promoters all join together with NCF to make the festival happen.
Nottingham Comedy Festival | Introduction
Original comedy is an entirely original event in which competitors write a comic story, the structure of which is entirely up to them. The story often involves a main character and several different side characters which the competitor will "pop" in and out of quickly. No introduction is required and no props or manuscript are allowed. This is a high school event with a time limit of 8 minutes.
Individual events (speech) | Original comedy
The Halifax Comedy Festival (often spelled in promotional materials as "Ha!ifax Comedy Festival") is an annual comedy festival held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The festival is sponsored by the CBC which tapes and broadcasts the comedians' sets as a series of television specials, and is usually about one week long. Shows frequently take place at the Halifax Casino in "The Schooner Showroom" among other venues. Live tapings of CBC Radio's hit show The Debaters have become a part of the annual festival, frequently using comedians who are performing in the festival as the 'debaters'.
Halifax Comedy Festival | Introduction
The six mini-musical comedies are performed over a series of three nights. On the final night of the show awards are given to the top three shows determined by a panel of judges. Additional "Caption" awards are given for Best Musical Number, Best Use of Theme, Best Female Performer, Best Male Performer, Best Dance Break, and Funniest Show.
Humorology | About the show
God Improv with Matthew Lillard; My Monster with Bill Corbett from Mystery Science Theater 3000; Reggie Watts; Kasper Hauser; Killing My Lobster; and stand-up sets from Nick Kroll, Jon Dore, Brent Weinbach, Matt Braunger, Kyle Kinane, and Jamie Kilstein.
SF Sketchfest | 2010
The New Zealand International Comedy Festival, is held simultaneously over three weeks during April/May in Auckland and Wellington. From its beginnings as a 2-day event; the Festival has now developed into a major nationwide event with a total attendance of over 100,000 people each year. The Festival is run by the New Zealand Comedy Trust.
New Zealand International Comedy Festival | Introduction
Tompkins; A table read of the unproduced script "They Came Together" by David Wain and Michael Showalter with an all-star cast including Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler; the return of Theme Park Improv with guest monologist Bob Odenkirk; Stella, the Classic Nightclub Show with house band Release The Sunbird; The Paul F. Tompkins Show with Judy Greer, John Hodgman and musical guest Ted Leo; Delocated Witness Protection Program Variety Show with Jon Glaser and guests including Brett Gelman, David Cross, Paul Rudd and Ben Gibbard; Set List: Comedy Without a Net with Matt Braunger, Jon Dore, Rick Overton, Eddie Pepitone, Chelsea Peretti, Greg Proops, Steve Agee and surprise guest Robin Williams; John Hodgman - An Evening of My Expertise, featuring Dana Gould and Lance Bangs; Bruce McCulloch's solo show The Pink Dot Stories; Harmontown with Dan Harmon; An Afternoon with Eagleheart with Chris Elliott; Pretty Good Friends with Eugene Mirman; Jon Benjamin Has a Van Live with H.
SF Sketchfest | 2012
The Greenshow is an outdoor performance that precedes each play during the summer season, excluding matinees. It is free. The actors do skits and most of them have minor roles in the six productions during the summer season.
Utah Shakespeare Festival | The Greenshow
This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A festival is an event ordinarily staged by a community, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its traditions, often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival is a special occasion of feasting or celebration, usually with a religious focus. Aside from religion, and sometimes folklore, another significant origin is agricultural. Food (and consequently agriculture) is so vital that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.
Lists of festivals | Introduction
The Third Annual SF Sketchfest featured a tribute to Amy Sedaris; a panel discussion with Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy and Michael J. Nelson from Mystery Science Theater 3000; and performances by Totally Looped featuring Dan Castellaneta and Rick Overton; Slovin & Allen; The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show featuring David Koechner from "Saturday Night Live"; Girl's Guitar Club featuring Karen Kilgariff and Mary Lynn Rajskub; and "Saturday Night Live" castmember Fred Armisen. Improvisational comedy was added to the festival with Beer Shark Mice featuring David Koechner and Neil Flynn. Film was added with the Bay Area premiere of "Martin & Orloff".
SF Sketchfest | 2004
The festival introduced their first Comedy Writing Award, presented to Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O'Brien scribe Robert Smigel, who was joined in conversation with Dana Carvey. Smigel also joined Dino Stamatopoulos, Doug Dale, the Anifriends and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog for a live stage version of the Comedy Central television show TV Funhouse. Other notable programming included A Salute to Bud Cort, interviewed after a screening of Harold and Maude at The Castro Theatre; A Fernwood Reunion with Martin Mull and Fred Willard; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!; Savage Steve Holland and Diane Franklin with a screening of Better Off Dead; The Hills: A Staged Reading with Janeane Garofalo, Rachael Harris, Tom Kenny, Rob Huebel, Rob Riggle, Dannah Feinglass, Danielle Schneider and Mike Phirman; Comedy Death-Ray with Zach Galifianakis, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Kindler, Chris Hardwick, Paul F.
SF Sketchfest | 2009
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to festivals: Festival – celebration that focuses upon a theme, and may run for hours to weeks. The theme of a festival might be an area of interest such as art, or an aspect of the community in which the festival is being held, such as the community's history or culture. Festivals are often periodical, for example, held annually.
Outline of festivals | Introduction
When the festival came to New Brunswick, James Mullinger and Lloyd Ravn stayed to build a comedy scene in the province. Seven years later Mullinger staged the show "Every Comedian in New Brunswick" featuring 42 local comics.
10th Canadian Comedy Awards | Related events
Urban Sketchers organization organizes Urban Sketchers Symposiums. These are festive gatherings of artists, where for 3 days sketchers draw on location, attend numerous workshops, panel discussions, lectures, meet each other in person and draw.
Urban Sketchers | Symposiums
The activities or events of a festival may be primarily of the spectator or participatory variety, or a mixture of these. A festival may include spectator or participatory variations of one or more of the following types of events or activities, among others.
Outline of festivals | Festival activities
Since 2012 Festival N°6 has hosted hundreds of musical artists and many other artists performing comedy, talks or performance art. The 2012 festival was in partnership with Electric Elephant Festival. Artists that performed since 2012 have included:
Festival N°6 | Artists
Occasionally, usually every three years, a show is put on as part of the Dunedin Fringe Festival. Usually 40 minutes long, it consists of sketches from the previous three years of capping show. The most recent one was in the 2011 Fringe festival.
Capping Show | Best of
Ciné Sans Filet is a short film festival that occurs every year in the second weekend of August, it features one hundred and fifty short films over the course of three days.
Alet-les-Bains | Events and festivals
The N°6 Festival includes live music, poetry readings, comedy, talks and other cultural activities. The festival also includes a range of participative activities to complement the mainstream music events and develop differentiation from other music festivals. These have included "Giant Mind", "Urban Sketching", and "Extraordinary Bubbles". The Slow Readers Club released a mini-album on 4 May 2018, recorded with Joe Duddell at Portmeirion Town Hall called "Live From Festival No.6". BBC Radio Wales also regularly broadcast live from the festival, with DJs Adam Walton and Bethan Elfyn presenting shows from the site.
Festival N°6 | Art, culture and other activities
The fast-paced nature of this festival is meant to spark conversation about how events in the Middle East are represented in the news cycle and how this news immediately affects various communities. What is different about this forum is that the creative process is opened to guest playwrights, actors, and directors from all backgrounds. In 2015, Mona Mansour, Keith Josef Adkins, and Shana Gold were a few of the writers and directors invited. In 2016, the participating writers were David Zellnik, Kara Lee Corthron, Leila Buck, Laith Nakli, and Clare Barron. In 2018, the festival was sponsored in part by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Noor Theatre Company | 48 Hour Forum
This year the festival returned with a fresh new face now under the direction of C69 Comedy (RTCE Productions). It ran from 1 to 17 November 2013 with performers including Jack Dee, Alan Davies, Josh Widdicombe, Jonny & The Baptists, Tony Law and Sean Lock to name but a few. This is also the first year of the festival's Funny and Free Fringe bringing 18 free shows.
Hull Comedy Festival | 2013
Each year the Festival features over 200 shows and involves around 250 performers. The Festival contains a wide range of comedy performances - from emerging artists through to NZ comedy industry veterans, and stars of the international comedy circuit. Similarly, the Festival caters for a wide range of audiences with specific shows aimed at children, teenagers and a diverse offering of comedy fare. The opening of the Festival is the televised Comedy Gala, a showcase of performances by the top local and international comedians appearing in the festival. Past venues include St. James Theatre until 2008, and since then the Auckland Civic Theatre and ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre.
New Zealand International Comedy Festival | Main events
The Fourth Annual SF Sketchfest featured a tribute to Dana Carvey; a panel discussion with writers and editors from The Onion moderated by author Dave Eggers and performances by Bruce McCulloch from The Kids in the Hall; comedian Demetri Martin; "Bizarro" creator Dan Piraro; Hard 'n Phirm with Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman; Olde English; and Elephant Larry.
SF Sketchfest | 2005
Among the many offspring of general arts festivals are also more specific types of festivals, including ones that showcase intellectual or creative achievement such as science festivals, literary festivals and music festivals. Sub-categories include comedy festivals, rock festivals, jazz festivals and buskers festivals; poetry festivals, theatre festivals, and storytelling festivals; and re-enactment festivals such as Renaissance fairs. In the Philippines, aside from numerous art festivals scattered throughout the year, February is known as national arts month, the culmination of all art festivals in the entire archipelago. Film festivals involve the screenings of several different films, and are usually held annually.
Festival | Arts festivals
Other FunnyFest events are the monthly comedy series, the Christmas Comedy Fest and there is a Comedy Workshop that runs 6 times per year. The FunnyFest Talent Search has talent competitions over 6 different nights to find the funniest person. Anyone with original comedy material can apply to compete. FunnyFest is a combination of entertainment through its comedy performances throughout the year; learning via workshops on topics, such as, "Learning How to become a Stand Up Comic" and "Laughter in the Workplace": cultivating local talent through seminars & workshops; comedy industry advocacy, socializing as part of community engagement and also volunteering and fundraising collaborations on behalf of non-profits and charities.
FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival | Introduction
... Limits liberate the best of these filmmakers, rather than confining them," wrote "Charlotte Observer" theater critic and culture reporter Lawrence Toppman in November 2015. Filmmaker Scott Galloway, founder of Charlotte-based media production company Susie Films, is the festival's founder and director.
100 Words Film Festival | Introduction
The Eighth Annual SF Sketchfest featured a reunion of the MTV sketch comedy group The State, marking the first time in twelve years that all eleven original members (Kevin Allison, Michael Ian Black, Robert Ben Garant, Todd Holoubek, Michael Patrick Jann, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon, Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Michael Showalter and David Wain) were together onstage. They presented a brand-new hour-long sketch show at the intimate 200-seat Eureka Theatre, and also sat down with moderator Janeane Garofalo for the annual Tribute award at the Herbst Theatre. Related programming included a cast-introduced screening of "Wet Hot American Summer", and Stella: The Classic Nightclub Show, with guests Thomas Lennon, Tig Notaro, Nick Kroll, Zak Orth, Eugene Mirman, Seth Herzog and Janeane Garofalo.
SF Sketchfest | 2009
Festival is based on: the open international competition for authors of all ages from around the world, worldwide most important comic authors presentations with their personal appearances, revalorization of domestic comic scene from early beginning to present days, young talents recognition and support, popularization of comics and similar artistic expressions such as animation and illustration through the various exhibitions and educational programs.
International Comics Festival &quot;Salon stripa&quot; | Festival program
The festival is geared towards supporting local artists and has an approval process and higher registration fee for non-Australian or New Zealand artists.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Views on the festival
Tompkins Show featuring Dave Foley, Illeana Douglas and musical guest Grant-Lee Phillips; Comedy Death-Ray with Michael Ian Black, Dana Gould, Doug Benson, Natasha Leggero, James Adomian, musical guest Aimee Mann and host Scott Aukerman; the return of Facebook Improv; Game Show Explosion with Jimmy Pardo; The Red Wine Boys with Todd Barry and H. Jon Benjamin and guests Larry Murphy, Brendon Small and musical guests Mates of State; Invite Them Up with Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale; The Whitest Kids U’ Know; Greg Behrendt’s Bring the Rock featuring Matt Nathanson; The Jill and Julia Show with Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney; Ask A Ninja Live; The Big Gay Sketch Show; Theme Park Improv with Edie McClurg, Danny Pudi, Scott Adsit, Rachel Dratch, Jessica Makinson, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton; Never Not Funny Live with Jimmy Pardo and guest Dave Foley; The Benson Interruption with Doug Benson, Steve Agee, Graham Elwood and more; Doug Loves Movies and Comedy Death Ray Radio Live; The Shit Show with Rob Huebel; Dr.
SF Sketchfest | 2010
The success of 2009's The Hub inspired four After Hours special events within the venue. Scriptworks offered actor-led critique, feedback, advise and support. Three short films premièred, including Acid Burn starring Agyness Deyn. A sketch competition offered a mentoring session with Gill Isles at Baby Cow Productions to the winner, whilst an Industry Q&A was chaired by Elizabeth Newman of the Octagon Theatre Bolton, featuring Artistic Director David Thacker and actor, playwright & director Matthew Dunster.
24:7 Theatre Festival | 24:7 Theatre Festival 2010
It is an open access (or "unjuried") performing arts festival, meaning there is no selection committee, and anyone may participate, with any type of performance. The official Fringe Programme categorises shows into sections for theatre, comedy, dance, physical theatre, circus, cabaret, children's shows, musicals, opera, music, spoken word, exhibitions and events. Comedy is the largest section, making up over one-third of the programme and the one that in modern times has the highest public profile, due in part to the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. The Festival is supported by the Festival Fringe Society, which publishes the programme, sells tickets to all events from a central physical box office and website, and offers year-round advice and support to performers.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Introduction
The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία, which is a compound either of "κῶμος" (revel) or "κώμη" (village) and "ᾠδή" (singing): it is possible that "κῶμος" itself is derived from "κώμη", and originally meant a village revel. The adjective "comic" (Greek κωμικός), which strictly means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage, generally confined to the sense of "laughter-provoking". The word came into modern usage through the Latin "comoedia "and Italian "commedia" and has, over time, passed through various shades of meaning.
Comedy (drama) | Etymology
The National College Comedy Festival is an annual not-for-profit festival of student sketch and improvisational comedy that takes place each winter on campus. The festival, which first was held in February 1990, includes professional workshops. Among the colleges and universities that regularly participate are Bard, Bates, Brandeis, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Emerson, George Washington, Haverford & Bryn Mawr, Kenyon, Manhattan, Marist, NYU, Oaksterdam University, School of Visual Arts, Skidmore, SUNY Binghamton, Swarthmore, Tufts, University of Arizona, University of Maryland, University of Southern California, Vassar, Wesleyan, William & Mary, and Yale.
Skidmore College | National College Comedy Festival
The festival ran from 21 October to 21 November under the new direction of Rich Quelch, who took over as festival director with assistance from creative consultants C69 Comedy (RTCE Productions) Performers included Tim Minchin, Tommy Tiernan, Andy Parsons, Paul Zerdin, Joe Pasquale, Lee Hurst and Jerry Sadowitz, however there where other acts also.
Hull Comedy Festival | 2011
Many German comedy acts have been discovered via the festival.
Cologne Comedy Festival | Introduction
Comedians who have appeared at The Sydney Comedy Festival include:
Sydney Comedy Festival | Comics
The Sydney Comedy Festival produces the following current special events: Special events in past years include:
Sydney Comedy Festival | Special events
The Short Form and Long Form panel compared the two main types of improvisational theatre. The panelists discussed the supposed rivalry between the two forms, and the benefits to each. Panelists were: Video footage of this panel can be found as part of the Fracas! Improv Podcast.
Fracas! Improv Festival | Short Form and Long Form
"Word Dance (Part 2) " - Originally staged by James Starbuck, this is the continuation of the sketch that begins the show. Like Part 1, it is based on captions from Thurber’s cartoons and some of his other writings. It concludes with a request, taken from the last line of "The Ladies of Orlon" (from "Alarms & Diversions", 1957), for the women in the audience to keep their seats until the men have left the theater. "They need, God knows, a head start."
A Thurber Carnival | Word Dance (Part 2)
Festival is an hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and aired on the BBC from 1963–64. There were a total of 32 episodes adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Titles include "Krapp's Last Tape" by Beckett, "Comedy of Errors" by Shakespeare, "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes, "Under Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas, "Murder in the Cathedral" by T.S. Eliot, and "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello. Stars included Judi Dench, Cyril Cusack, Diane Cilento, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Lee Grant, Milo O'Shea and Margaret Whiting.
Festival (TV series) | Introduction
As usual, the routines were divided into two types of entertainment: singing and comedy.
Festival de Viña 2020 | Artists
The festival is 4 days long, with one day for each of the four genres of the festival: Each day, there are two sections:
L'Boulevard | Organization
Every UKErevyen revue is given a name, which also becomes the name of the entire festival. The name is decided by the writers and is a well-kept secret all the way up to the opening of the festival and the play, and only a handful people outside of the writers' collegium knows it before it's officially revealed. This is a big event where the name is physically uncovered at midnight in front of the student society, with several thousand attendants. The writers aren't entirely free in choosing the name either. A more or less strict set of rules applies, never written down, but followed from one festival to the next.
UKA | Names