The Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT) is proud to announce ClickFest - a Live New Media Comedy Festival On Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3, 2015, The Peoples Improv Theater will host the world's first live digital comedy festival. Over forty groups will come together to mash up comedy's best online and in-person comedy experiences.
Curated by PITtv and The PIT's artistic staff, ClickFest is built to give audiences and superfans a chance to be in a room with their favorite online comedy acts and for the comedians to capitalize on having a live room to heighten their online content. Groups will create new mixed media sketches, host Q and A sessions, record live podcasts, improvise sets based on instagram comments, and every other intermingling you can imagine.
Highlights include Garlic Jackson, the premiere of Josh Ruben's (J + V Films, recent Zoolander runway show, Collegehumor) new podcast with guest Bill Persky (Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), The Shorts Show (Funny or Die, Good Morning America), The Roundtable of Gentlemen, and oh so very much more.
Tickets are $10 Per Show / $40 Festival Pass. For tickets and more information, visit thepit-nyc.com/clickfest.
SCHEDULE:
Saturday, May 2, 2015
STRIKER STAGE
3PM Not Brothers
4PM Temple Horses / TBA
5PM Cowboy Hotel / Cool Kid Comedy
6PM BGBG
7PM Low Budget Sketch Show
8PM Baldwins / Big Black Car
9:30PM Pop Roulette
10:30PM The Otter Boys
11:30PM OSFUG
UNDERGROUND
4PM Girls with Brown Hair / TBA
5PM Planners
6PM Daniel Ahrens
7PM The Shorts Show
8PM North Coast
9:00PM Uncanny Valley / Free Blowjobs
10PM Damn Family / Kokomo
11PM When Animals Attack with The Roundtable of Gentlemen
Sunday, May 3, 2015
STRIKER STAGE
4PM Becky Krause / Comedy Girls
5PM Akilah Hughes / Dibs
6PM Srsly / Soap
7PM Who Won The Internet / Nerds on Fire
8PM Garlic Jackson
9PM Grape Dutches of York
UNDERGROUND
4PM Andy Zhou / Bueller
5PM Rekha Shenkar / VDO Bros
6PM Hot Buffet / Lucy Cottrell
7PM Josh Ruben's MINDHOUSE Podcast, featuring Emmy-award winning TV Legend, Bill Persky
8PM Hank / Forever Dog
9PM PITTV Highlight Reel
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