The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival has unveiled its list of top up-and-coming comedians in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, who are set to participate in the New Faces of Comedy showcase later this week. The event is a traditional launch pad for major Hollywood talent like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani and Jimmy Fallon.
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first signs of a post-pandemic spring for live entertainment have arrived with news that the Asian Comedy Fest will return for a live/digital hybrid event.
Billed as “a comedy festival with Asians,” the happening — which debuted in 2020 — will unfold in Brooklyn and in a livestream on Rizzle, a TikTok-esque video sharing platform, on May 27.
Among this year’s confirmed performers are comics Fumi Abe and Mic Nguyen, Michael Cruz Kayne, Bryan Yang, Usama Siddiquee, Fareeha Khan, Youngmi Mayer and Dylan Adler.
The fest is also mounting a contest this year, welcoming submissions from “pan-Asian ...
Billed as “a comedy festival with Asians,” the happening — which debuted in 2020 — will unfold in Brooklyn and in a livestream on Rizzle, a TikTok-esque video sharing platform, on May 27.
Among this year’s confirmed performers are comics Fumi Abe and Mic Nguyen, Michael Cruz Kayne, Bryan Yang, Usama Siddiquee, Fareeha Khan, Youngmi Mayer and Dylan Adler.
The fest is also mounting a contest this year, welcoming submissions from “pan-Asian ...
- 3/29/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The first signs of a post-pandemic spring for live entertainment have arrived with news that the Asian Comedy Fest will return for a live/digital hybrid event.
Billed as “a comedy festival with Asians,” the happening — which debuted in 2020 — will unfold in Brooklyn and in a livestream on Rizzle, a TikTok-esque video sharing platform, on May 27.
Among this year’s confirmed performers are comics Fumi Abe and Mic Nguyen, Michael Cruz Kayne, Bryan Yang, Usama Siddiquee, Fareeha Khan, Youngmi Mayer and Dylan Adler.
The fest is also mounting a contest this year, welcoming submissions from “pan-Asian ...
Billed as “a comedy festival with Asians,” the happening — which debuted in 2020 — will unfold in Brooklyn and in a livestream on Rizzle, a TikTok-esque video sharing platform, on May 27.
Among this year’s confirmed performers are comics Fumi Abe and Mic Nguyen, Michael Cruz Kayne, Bryan Yang, Usama Siddiquee, Fareeha Khan, Youngmi Mayer and Dylan Adler.
The fest is also mounting a contest this year, welcoming submissions from “pan-Asian ...
- 3/29/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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