The Charleston Comedy Festival has come and gone. For those of you that couldn’t make it or missed a few show, I’ve collected all the videos we posted during the festival. There are some real gems in here, so take your pick. Justin Nathanson of The Cut Company and his crew provided about half of these videos and we are grateful for his quick turnaround and mad skillz in the editing room. These first two are from the finale and are pretty long, but I think their performances deserve to be seen in their entirety. Enjoy!
FUCT (sketch)
“…for anyone with a hard-edged sense of humor, they’re gold”
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Roseville (sketch)
“If you like surreal humor, this is for you…”
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I Eat Pandas (musical improv)
“Imagine a story involving a love affair between a mad scientist and his lab monkey. Now imagine that story set to music.”
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God’s Pottery (sketch)
“New Yorkers and improv veterans Wilson Hall and Krister Johnson play it absolutely straight as Bible-thumping slow-wits Jeremiah Smallchild and Gideon Lamb.”
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Kenny Z (stand-up)
“…Kenny Zimlinghaus had total control of the stage”
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J. Reid (stand-up)
“His ability to shift seamlessly into different characters is a major talent and probably his strong suit.”
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Hot Sauce (improv)
“Hot Sauce comes out of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. Ben Schwartz (center), the group’s ringleader, has also written sketches for the Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken.”
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The Pushers (sketch)
“Their skits ranged from Captain Kirk gettin’ down with some CofC girls to a funky clerk that sells cheese sandwiches and handjobs.”
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Big Dicktionary (improv)
“The dynamic and ever-unpredictable Big Dicktionary follows John Brennan and teammate Timmy Finch as they randomly select a word from Webster’s dictionary and immediately create characters and stories off the cuff.”
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Full Love Throttle (improv)
“After 17 years of collaborating on stage with various ensembles, Greg Tavares and Brandy Sullivan, co-founders of the Charleston Comedy Festival, recently decided to pare things down for a two-person act.”
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3 Play (improv)
“…we do what’s called ’scene painting,’ where we describe the environment a little bit before we step into it as characters. You never know who’ll show up.”
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This is Chucktown! (sketch)
“Theatre 99 sketch vets”
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Dopplegänger (musical)
“Jason Cooper and Lee Lewis — a pharmacist and a shrink by day, respectively — sang songs like “Burnin’ Piss””
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The Banana Monologues
“The Banana Monologues is a raucous, one-man play acted by John Brennan, written by musician Jason Cooper, and directed by Mary Cimino.”
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Neckprov (improv)
“…popular Theatre 99 side-project Neckprov, which goes a long way to prove that a mind is an incredibly easy thing to waste.”
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