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2008 Competition Preliminary Dates & Info
The 2008 29th Annual Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition will run November 5-30 2008.
Schedule as of 10/03/2008:
Preliminary Round 1
Wednesday Nov 5 - Laffhole at ReBar, Seattle
Thursday Nov 6 - Laughs Comedy Spot, Kirkland
Friday Nov 7 - The Knitting Factory, Spokane
Saturday Nov 8 - Comedy Underground, Seattle
Sunday Nov 9 - Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, Bellingham
Monday Nov 10 - Comedy Underground, Seattle
Preliminary Round 2
Tuesday Nov 11 - Comedy Underground, Seattle
Wednesday Nov 12 - Stiffy's, Hoquiam
Thursday Nov 13 - Laughs Comedy Spot, Kirkland
Friday Nov 14 -Intiman Playhouse, Seattle
Saturday Nov 15 - Columbia Theater for the Performing Arts, Longview
Sunday November 16 - Fairhaven Pub & Martini Bar, Bellingham
Semi Finals
Tuesday Nov 18 - Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds
Wednesday Nov 19 - Liberty Theater, Puyallup
Thursday Nov 20 - Laughs Comedy Spot, Kirkland
Friday Nov 21 - Skagit Casino Resort, Bow
Saturday Nov 22 - Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester
Sunday Nov 23 - Marson's, Everett
Finals
Tuesday Nov 25 - Washington Athletic Club, Seattle
Wednesday Nov 26 - Vashon Theater, Vashon Island
Friday Nov 28 - Kirkland Performance Center, Kirkland
Saturday Nov 29 - Admiral Theater, Bremerton
Sunday Nov 30 - Comedy Underground, Seattle
Welcome Pagliacci Pizza!
The Competition welcomes a new sponsor, Pagliacci Pizza, voted "Seattle's Best Pizza" a gazillion years in a row! Pagliacci joins returning '07 media sponsors 103.7 FM The Mountain and the Seattle Weekly.
Mmmm. Pizza.
Dwight Slade wins 2008 Boston Fest!
Former Comp Champ Dwight is the newly crowned winner of the annual comedy contest at the Boston Comedy Festival. Dwight has just recorded a new DVD, and can be seen at TBS's The Comedy Festival at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in November.
About this Contest
The Seattle International StandUp Comedy Competition is a touring comedy festival-slash-elimination contest, now in its 29th year. Hundreds of comedians audition each year to compete; only thirty-two are chosen to compete. Comics from Chicago, Boston, New York and Canada will be participating, as well as performers from the Northwest's hot comedy scene.
Last year's winner, "Marcus," went on to be runner-up on NBC's "Last Comic Standing" this summer.
The Seattle Comedy Competition began in 1980; the winner that first year, David Silverman, has gone on to a long successful theatrical career as not only a comedian, but an actor, singer, dancer, and director as well. Silverman has just been announced as the guest producer of a comedy cabaret series at Seattle's Town Hall.
In years to come, many more talented comedians would emerge from the rounds of the Seattle Comedy Competition.
One of the hottest comics in the country, Patton Oswalt, the voice of "Ratatouille" in the hit film, is a former finalist; his "Comedians of Comedy " partner Brian Posehn participated as well.
1997 winner , the amazingly funny Mitch Hedberg, "the Kurt Cobain of comedy," was one of the most popular comedians in the US when he tragically passed away last year at the age of 37.
1992 Comedy Champ Bill Radke went on to become host of National Public Radio's acclaimed satire program Rewind, and is now host of "Weekend America" on NPR.
1985 winner, and the only woman ever to take the top spot Peggy Platt starred in Rocky Horror Show at the 5th Avene Theater and is a comedy and theater icon in the Pacific Northwest; although Aisha Tyler, former host of E! Network's Talk Soup and Friends regular, and star of the TV show "The Ghost Whisperer," did make the finals several years ago. And 3'11" former finalist Tanya Lee Davis has made numerous TV appearances, including several this past year on the Maury Povich show, and was the hit of the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Speaking of Edinburgh, former winners David Crowe and Dwight Slade have appeared in the last couple of years, where Slade inspired a rave review in The Scotsman from no less a personage than Scotland's Minister of Culture.
Other participants over the years include the likes of Seattle TV stars John Keister, Bill Nye The Science Guy and Ross Shafer.
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