The showcase features twenty five (25) local comedians each performing three minutes of their best stand-up comedy in front of a live audience. Comedians are auditioning for a spot in the 5th Annual Burbank Comedy Festival held at Flappers Comedy Club and Restaurant in Downtown Burbank, California on August 12-18, 2018. At the end of the show, two comedians will be chosen for the festival spots: one will be selected by audience vote and the second by producer vote. Tickets are available by going to the Clubs website.
The first 25 comedians to submit and pay a non-refundable $10 submission fee (USD) will automatically be signed up to perform in one of the 25 showcase spots. Once you register, you will be confirmed and offered one (1) complimentary ticket to invite friends & family to watch the audition show! Producers may decide to select additional comedians for the festival per their discretion. To register, go to www.BurbankComedyFestival.com
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Host/MC Kenny Garcia GOTHAM COMEDY LIVE ON AXS, LAUGHS ON FOX , COMEDY TIME TV, NEW YORK COMEDY FESTIVAL , LAUGHING DEVIL FESTIVAL
"Kinda funny, kinda charming and kinda handsome" are the words Kenny Garcia's friends and family would use to describe him. But they all like using the word kinda! Kenny has been performing for almost 6 years but has been making those close to him laugh since he was a little kid. With his first crank phone calls to his moms office at 8 years old pretending to be her important boyfriend she didn't have to teaching his daughter the importance of laughter. A natural storyteller, on stage he will take you on a fun ride with stories of raising a daughter and some of life's unimportant things that we still find very very important with a bit of exaggerated truth to it! Be sure to catch this up and coming comic when he plays at a club near you! It will be a fun, clean time...maybe! WEBSITE |
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Comedian Chris Scopo RED EYE ON FOX NEWS, SIRIUS XM RADIO, ROBERT KELLYS PODCAST
.Since starting comedy, Chris has performed at some of the best clubs, not only in New York, but across the country. In August of 2013, Chris had the privilege of joining one of the most popular podcast’s in the country, Robert Kelly’s “You know What Dude” podcast, where he learned valuable lessons in life and comedy. Since joining the podcast, Chris worked his way to become Producer of the show, a title he currently holds. Chris has had the honor of opening for top comics such as Robert Kelly, Dan Soder, Andrew Schulz, Joe List and Luis J. Gomez. WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Steve Shaw FAR OUT PODCAST, BROADWAY CMEDY CLUB RADIO, ORIGINAL KINGS OF PODCAST
A prank caller as a kid, Steve Shaw eventually broke into Stand Up in 2012. He has been hitting stages in NYC,Philly,Boston,Wash,DC, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
Specializing in character voices and parodies. TWITTER |
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Comedian James Camacho ESPN, THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW, NEW YORK'S GOT TALENT
James Camacho is a NYC based comedian. He was a finalist on Season 3 of New York’s Got Talent. James performs regularly at The Comic Strip Live. When not in NYC he can be found at establishments including Catch A Rising Star and The Comedy Works. James has worked on Elite Daily, The Wendy Williams Show, ESPN, and more. You can see him in the near future on ID Channel’s, A Crime to Remember, and in the upcoming comedy, “What Happened Last Night” staring Amber Rose. James started doing stand-up as a student at Rutgers University. It was a way for him to tell the jokes he wrote in his screenplays. Now stand-up has moved to the forefront. His uniqueness, his likeability, and his point of view make him one of the most hilarious and interesting new comedians out there! At least that’s what he thinks! WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Brian St. Relko MTVU, COMEDY TIME TV, LOL TIMES SQUARE, STAND UP 360 FESTIVAL,
Brian St. Relko is a New York City based comedian whose verbose style of semi-observational humor mocks the everyday -isms and -asms that make our society so painful for intellectuals and rational people to dwell in. His comedy is deeply sarcastic, but generally clean. TWITTER |
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Comedian Fumi Abe THE LATE SHOW W/ COLBERT, LLS W/ JAMES CORDEN, COMEDY CENTRAL
Fumi Abe is a Japanese-American stand-up comedian/writer based in Los Angeles who recently made his TV debut on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
He has written for NPR’s “Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!”, was part of the 2020 Comedy Central Digital Creators Program, and is currently a staff writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden. WEBSITE | |
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California native, Malorie Bryant is a graduate of NYU: Tisch School of the Arts. She performs and produces stand up and sketch comedy throughout the city. Catch her weekly at The Grisly Pear Comedy Club, Saturdays & Sundays at 6pm. WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Mary Jane Murphy COMEDY STORE, BROADWAY COMEDY, STANDUP NY, MTV, SHEDEVIL FESTIVAL
Mary Jane Murphy hails from NYC. Making people laugh has always been her favorite thing to do. Mary Jane started performing stand-up comedy while living in Hawaii in 2013. In LA, she has featured in front of crowds at the Flappers in Claremont as well as the Flappers in Burbank. She has also featured at the World Famous Comedy Store. Over the past seven years, she has competed in comedy festivals in LA, NYC and Hawaii. In 2016 she won best female comic at the Manhattan Comedy Festival and recently won joke of the week on comedywire.com. Besides performing in comedy clubs across NYC and LA, she has also toured with headliners in Florida, Vegas and more recently Amsterdam. BOOK
Comedian Nick Makosky ILIZA SHLESINGER OPENER, BROOKS WHEELAN OPENER, IAN EDWARDS OPENER
Nick Makosky is a New York-based comedian, and proud veteran of the United States Navy. Makosky entered the Hawaii stand up scene in early 2013 and in less than two years, established himself as one of the finest comics in the scene, and one of its most likable, by comedy fans and colleagues alike.
Makosky has endeared comedy audiences with his natural charm, a casual edge, and stone faced joke delivery, already featuring and headlining dozens of shows, as well as sharing bills with the established likes of Iliza Shlesinger, Ian Edwards, Paul Ogata, and Brooks Wheelan, and in such a short time has been recognized as one of Hawaii's elite performers. TWITTER |
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Leigh Shull has lived in Manhattan off and on since 2005. Since getting her start in standup comedy in late 2015, she has performed at Gotham Comedy Club, People's Improv Theater, and the PIT Loft multiple times. A finance professional by day, she was recently a finalist in Gotham's Funniest Person Finance Competition. TWITTER |
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Comedian Stacy Moise BLACK GIRLS GIGGLE COMEDY, BURBANK COMEDY FESTIVAL, SETS IN THE CITY, BLACK CHICKS & PINK DICKS,
With her larger than life personality, Stacy takes "It's not what you say, it's how you say it" to a whole new level. She fell in love with performing in high school through musicals and plays but didn't realize she truly had something until she got big laughs at her very first open mic. Right then and there she fell in love with comedy and dove head first into open mics, classes, workshops and booking shows. In May of 2015 she began producing her own monthly show to get a bit of the hosting bug and has been working on her craft in all areas ever since. Do not miss out on this fresh and expressive face as she will continue to say what we're all thinking and sometimes too scared to say! WEBSITE | |
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Comedian Alex Barry BROADWAY COMEDY CLUB, NAT TURNER REVUE IMPROV, HBO'S THE DEUCE , DEAD OF WINTER , IMPROVISERS AREN'T FUNNY
Alex Barry is a stand up comedian from New York City. Nobody knows who he is or where he came from but he is hungry. And ready to make people laugh. He's headlined at various comedy shows in Colorado and has been making his NYC comedy debut for the past year, producing his own shows and he has even opened for the late night comedian Jordan Carlos. TWITTER |
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Comedian Noah Toth HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, REGINALD KILL ME, TITANIC SKETCH SHOW
Noah Toth is a New York based comedian, writer and performer who got his start in the Hartford area of Connecticut with improv, stand-up and sketch comedy. TWITTER |
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