13th Annual U.S. 2017
Sketch Comedy Competition:
| As a writer/producer with credits on several
feature films including the multimillion dollar “Cruel World”
and the director of a sketch comedy group, event founder, Paul Lawrence
saw that while there were plenty of sketch comedy events around
the country there seemed to be a real shortage of events that offered
sketch comedy artists the opportunity to get exposure to the industry
who could offer them career opportunities. So, the International
Sketch Comedy Championships were born in 2005 with the goal of having
world class sketch comedy groups compete in front of a live audience
filled with not only the general public but entertainment industry
executives who were searching for the next big stars.
After a wildly successful first year of selling out the historic Los Angeles Theater Centre in downtown LA, the event moved to world famous Laugh Factory for the next couple of years to make it easier for industry executives to attend and offer the finalist groups a chance to perform on a stage that countless thousands if not millions dream of, but very few actually do. After a couple of very successful years the event was moved to
one of the other landmark world famous comedy clubs in Hollywood,
the World Famous Improv where another successful show was held
to a sold out crowd.
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