Call for Submissions: Friars Club Comedy Film Festival

The folks at the Friars Club in NYC are embarking on what’s basically a two-tiered comedy contest, and it’s pretty intriguing!

They’re asking for improv and sketch groups to submit videos of themselves doing their thing on stage. The 5 most impressive groups from each category will be invited to New York to compete amongst themselves in June at the UCB Theatre. The two winners from THAT will get $10,000 each! Plus, the winning teams will get 3 months to shoot films that will be shown at the The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival in September.

Confusing? The way I summarized it, probably! But it’s all laid out on their site, along with the application form.

About the Author

Sharilyn Johnson is the author of the book Bears & Balls: The Colbert Report A-Z. Called "one of the city’s most discriminating comedy critics” by NOW Magazine, Sharilyn has been covering comedy for longer than she cares to admit. She served as the comedy reporter for Winnipeg's Uptown Magazine for five years, and was the host of the radio show Laugh Tracks for three seasons. Her work has also appeared in the Toronto Star, the Winnipeg Free Press, The Apiary, and on CBC Radio's national comedy programs LOL and Definitely Not the Opera.