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The Seattle International Comedy Competition

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

*Appearing Sunday 11/7 - AND - Sunday 11/14 *

Two completely different groups of approximately 15 competing comedians will appear each night! Hosted by Monica Nevi.

The Seattle International Comedy Competition is the REAL “Last Comic Standing.”

  • 26 Days

  • 22 Shows

  • 18 Venues

  • 32 comedians from the U.S., Canada, UK, and Japan

  • Over $15,000 in cash prizes

  • It’s America’s biggest touring comedy festival

The 2021 Seattle International Comedy Competition starts the first week of November and ends in December.

There are two, Preliminary rounds of 16 comedians; each comedian gets 5 minutes to impress. The Preliminary rounds consist of five shows, and a combination of entertainment industry and celebrity judges and audience reaction determines who moves on when each performer’s five best scores are tallied.

The Top Five comics from the Preliminaries make the Semi-finals; all the Semi-finalists win some cash, and get to compete for the title by performing for 10 minutes nightly for five shows.

At the last Semi-Final show the Finalists are announced. Five comedians get to go big, and five get to go home. After two days to recover and plan, the Final round begins the fourth week of November. After visits to theaters in Whidbey, Vashon, Kirkland, Bremerton and Seattle, we will have a new champion.

http://seattlecomedycompetition.org

SCHEDULE & TICKETS

NOV 07 | 7:30 PM
$22 All Seats

AND

NOV 14 | 7:30 PM
$22 All Seats

2021 Seattle International Comedy Competition Roster

PRELIMINARY WEEK ONE
1. Wyatt Cote (Long Beach, CA)
2. Cavin Eggleston (Indianapolis, IN)
3. Ariel Evans (Brooklyn, NY)
4. Julian Fernandez (Walnut, CA)
5. Josh Firestine (Tacoma, WA)
6. Meaghan Gross (Seattle, WA)
7. Alex Grubard (Jersey City, NJ)
8. Quinton Jones (Detroit, MI)
9. Matty Litwack (New York, NY)
10. Kyle Mara (Rockville Centre, NY)
11. Melissa McGillicuddy (Sacramento, CA)
12. Sam Miller (Olympia, WA)
13. Bahiyyih Mudd (Yakima, WA)
14. Kitty Reynolds (New York, NY)
15. Jesse Warren (Seattle, WA)
16. Saku Yanagawa (Chicago, IL)

PRELIMINARY WEEK TWO
1. Christie Bahna (Los Angeles, CA)
2. Greg Beachler (Federal Way, WA)
3. Reid Clark (Long Beach, CA)
4. Dr. Dee (New York, NY)
5. Charles Engle (Astoria, NY)
6. Jeevin Gill (Toronto, ON)
7. Drew Harmon (Detroit, MI)
8. Todd Kirkwood (Seattle, WA)
9. Danny Martinello (Edmonton, AB)
10. Mike Masilotti (Los Angeles, CA)
11. Carly McMenoman (Minneapolis, MN)
12. Joe Medoff (Chicago, IL)
13. K.C. Novak (Vancouver, BC)
14. Danielle Thralow (Duluth, MN)
15. Tre Tutson (Houston, TX)
16. Ronn Vigh (San Francisco, CA)

Earlier Event: November 6
Peggy Guggenheim: Confessions of an Art Addict
Later Event: November 12
A Morning with Nancy Pearl: Recommended Reads (VIRTUAL)

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.