SketchFest NYC is pleased to announce the featured shows at this year's seventh anniversary Festival, including the Whitest Kids U Know, College Humor, and Marvel Comics.
The seventh anniversary celebration of SketchFest NYC will run June 8 - 11, 2011 at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre; 307 West 26th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues. Featured shows will include:
Whitest Kids U Know -- The sketch group began in 2000 at New York's School of Visual Arts. After college the group set up shop at the Lower East Side bar Pianos. They performed weekly shows until 2006 when they sold their sketch show to the cable network Fuse. Their fifth and final season can now be seen on IFC. The Whitest Kids will be performing a rare live show, as well as hosting a panel looking back at five years of their TV show.
URDB - Live! -- An open platform for world records, built on a belief that everyone can be the world's best at something. Launched in 2008, the site hosts over 6,000 user-generated records submitted from 50+ countries. Named "Best Oddball Night" by New York Magazine, their live events have featured records set by the likes of Reggie Watts, Morgan Murphy, AJ Jacobs, Arden Myrin, Mark Malkoff, Jon Friedman and M. Doughty.
College Humor - Live! -- The College Humor Show is a monthly comedy show held at the UCB Theater in New York. Since 2008, the show has featured everything from sketch to standup to improv from the CollegeHumor cast as well as the city's best comedians, improvisers and sketch groups.
Channel 101 -- At Channel 101, the destiny of TV entertainment is in your hands! During this monthly screening, new five-minute mini-TV shows from the best comedians and filmmakers in NYC battle it out for the right to be turned into a series. The top five shows become the new "prime time" lineup for the following month; losing shows are canceled! Wouldn't it be great if all television worked this way? Come vote for your favorite!
The Rejection Show -- A comedic based event that embraces the rejected and "turned down" material of writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and other artistic types who display their creative and personal "failures" live on stage. This year, The Rejection Show will present the audience favorite 'SketchFest NYC Closing Night Craptacular', where SketchFest NYC groups present their most ridiculous and outrageous sketches.
Marvel Comics Presents "What The?" -- Action figures = CHECK! Stop Motion Animation = CHECK! Marvel Mayhem at its best = ehh....Come see the mental midgets that make the monthly mighty marvel 'mation "What The?"
The full schedule, including performance times, will be announced in the upcoming month.
The last six years of the Festival have been a huge success, featuring over a hundred different sketch comedy groups from across North America, sold-out shows, standing ovations, and industry attendance from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, HBO, MTV, VH1, IFC, Fuse, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land/Nick at Nite, Discovery Channel, Just For Laughs, Miramax, Tribeca Films,
William Morris, ICM and many more.
The Seventh Annual Festival will be held June 8-11, 2011, and is currently sponsored by The Friar's Club, The Onion, The Sound of Young America, and UCB Comedy.
If interested in being a sponsor, please contact us at info@sketchfestnyc.com, with "Sponsor" in the subject line. Past sponsors include: Lifetime, American Airlines, Back Stage, AMC, 23/6, Crackle, Red Bull, New York Press, Animal Planet, and many more.
SketchFest NYC is Executive Produced by Alexander Zalben, with Becky Poole,
ElizaBeth Lawrence, Marni Zalben,
Shayna Ferm, Jon Pack, Jason Kalter, and Stefan Lawrence. For more information, please visit the festival website at SketchFestNYC.com.
