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The 2016 Green Gravel Comedy Festival Is Taking Submissions Until Jan. 22nd

January 13, 2016

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That gives you until next Friday.

Iowa’s Green Gravel Comedy Festival is back at the beginning of March and they’re accepting submissions for anything from stand-up to podcasts to improv to sketch to something else altogether.

If you’re interested in submitting, the deadline is Jan. 22nd and the fees are as follows:

$15 – Iowa Stand-up Comedians (Must provide verification of Iowa residency or address. This can be in the form of a past link to your work in Iowa, a cell pic of one of your utility bills, or yr mom calling us.) (Please don’t have yr mom call us.)
$20 – Podcast Submissions, One-man/woman Shows, Musical Comedy Acts
$25 – Out-of-State Stand-up Comedians
$30 – Sketch or Improv Groups

Get more details and submit here.

Phoenix’s First ‘Bird City Comedy Festival’ Is Now Taking Submissions

December 8, 2015

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Phoenix, AZ is getting a brand new comedy festival, The Bird City Comedy Festival, and in its inaugural year, it’s taking submissions for stand-up, sketch, improv, and more. The festival is taking place on the weekend of Apr. 8th going through to Apr. 10th.

Right now, the submission fee is $15 until the early deadline of Dec. 15th, then $25 for the final deadline on Jan. 15th, 2016.

Learn more here and submit here.

We’re Always Taking Submissions

December 7, 2015

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Want to have your comedy web series, video, short film, podcast, album, special, book, audio book, essay, stand-up, improv, sketch, play, variety show etc. featured and/or listed at The Comedy Bureau?

Well, just send us your stuff at thecomedybureau@gmail.com for consideration! If we dig it, we’ll post about it or list it. We love discovering new folks, troupes, and more, so don’t feel intimidated in ever sending anything in.

Three things:

1) For now, we’re based in LA, so if you’re submitting a show for listing, please have it been within the Greater LA area. Otherwise, we’ll take in anything else to be potentially featured from anywhere else in the world.

2) Do keep in mind that we’re short staffed, so keep your submissions brief (i.e. don’t send EPK or extensive bios/descriptions) so we can get through submissions as quickly as possible.

3) Please submit recent work only i.e. anything that’s been posted or released from beyond two weeks of your submission. We like keep things fresh at the Bureau.

The 2016 Bridgetown Comedy Festival Is Now Taking Submissions

November 20, 2015

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If you’re looking to do a comedy festival, this a pretty darn good one to try to get into.

Portland’s annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival is coming up, specifically on May 11th-15th. They’re taking submissions for individual performers as well as shows to come out to Oregon and delight the wonderful folks of Portland.

The early deadline is Jan. 1st and the submission fee is $20. The final deadline is Jan. 31st with the submission fee kicked up slightly to $25.

If you’re interested, find out more/submit here.

2016 LA Film Festival Now Taking Submissions

November 8, 2015

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Yes, they’re accepting submissions for web series and “alternative digital content”.

Los Angeles’ own highly touted LA Film Festival is coming up in June 2016 and they’re now taking submissions. While they have traditional categories of feature films, short films, and documentaries, they’re also be accepting, with some caveats, various web videos/series/digital content that we’re sure you all have.

The early deadline is Nov. 20th, the official deadline is Dec. 14th, and the late deadline is Jan. 15th.

Get details and submit here.

The Peabody Awards Are Taking Submissions For Podcasts, Web Series, and Other Digital Media

October 24, 2015

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The deadline is Jan. 13th, 2016 at 8PM EST.

The prestigious Peabody Awards is reaching as far as they can to find excellence in storytelling in all sizes and shapes and forms. As the Internet has expanded the medium far beyond our wildest imagination, The Peabody Awards has adjusted accordingly and widened their scope in what they’re looking for.

As you’ll note, comedy like Inside Amy Schumer have recently gotten honors from The Peabody Awards.

Podcasts, web series, interactive video, social media, apps, and more traditional forms like TV and radio are all being considered and you can submit for consideration.

Submissions fee do run $225 for radio/podcast entries and $350 for else, so do not submit on a whim.

Learn more and submit here.

Superego’s Matt Gourley and James Bladon Have Made Theme Songs for Non-Existent TV Shows and Are Taking Submissions For Opening Sequences

October 18, 2015

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This is almost like a DIY version of Adam Scott’s Greatest Event in Television History specials.

Matt Gourley from the beloved Superego and James Bladon have teamed up to make TV themes that sounds so much like a real TV theme of a TV show from yesteryear, you’d have a hard time believing the shows didn’t exist. Even when they have long acronyms like S.T.I.N.G.R.A.Y. or juxtapose gnomes into a sitcom, the theme songs of Stay Tuned Vol. 1 are pretty perfect.

If you so desire and have the free time and resources to do so, Gourley and Bladon are looking for submissions for opening credit sequences to go with these themes. They just might feature your submissions as well.

While it might seem like a lot of work, we have no doubt that someone’s going to come up with something great as plenty of folks did for Superego’s Stetch Maldonay contest.

The Montreux Comedy Festival Is Searching The Globe Again for The World’s Best English and French Speaking Comedians

August 19, 2015

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Want to perform stand-up in Switzerland? Well, you should enter this contest by submitting a five minute clip to The Montreux Comedy Festival’s Jokenation Comedy Talent Search.

As long as you do stand-up in French or English, you could win a chance to perform with Jokenation U.S. Ambassador Jessica Michelle Singelton.

The Montreux Comedy Festival is set to happen all the way in Switzerland on Dec. 3rd-7th, but you need to submit by Sept. 21st for consideration. Do so here.

The Big Pine Comedy Festival Is Now Taking Submissions

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Wanna do a comedy festival in Flagstaff, AZ?

The Big Pine Comedy Festival is coming to Flagstaff from Oct. 7th-10th and they’re looking for stand-up, sketch, and improv from around the country.

You can submit now for $15 as a stand-up and $25 as a sketch or improv group until July 1st. After that, the fees go up to $25 and $35 respectively until the final submission deadline of Sept. 1st.

24 acts from around the country will be invited to the festival as well as 24 from around Arizona.

Find out more details about the festival here and look to submit here.

The 2015 LA Indie Improv Festival Set For July 18th

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For those of you not stopping by The Clubhouse and several other places around LA, you might not know that there is vibrant indie improv scene going on. It’s impressive considering that’s on top of the improv that happens at UCB, iO West, Westside Comedy Theater, Second City, etc. and all the stand-up comedy and sketch that also go up every night in LA.

So, there will be one whole day dedicated to those striking out on their own to do make ‘em ups in The LA Indie Improv Festival on July 18th. If you’re interested in performing, you’ll be able to submit here starting Jun. 15th.

Superego Once Recorded a Nearly 40 Min. Sketch That They Are Holding a Contest To See What Someone Can Do With It

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Superego is one of the funniest podcasts around as they really let loose in all their sketches. In fact, just over two years ago, the did a sketch entitled “Stetch Maldonay: Scissor Shapener” that clocked in, raw and unedited, at 38:41.

A quick Google search and check of Record Setter will leave you unsure of exactly if there’s a longer sketch on record in existence (there is a Shortest Comedy Sketch), so we’re going to say, for now, that’s the world’s longest single comedy sketch.

Currently it’s in three separate tracks here, here, and here.

Knowing all of this, the guys over at Superego have been racking their brains for years in trying to see what they can do to make Stetch Maldonay more manageable and into something that would put on a episode of the podcast that features numerous sketches of more standard length.

Now, they’re giving all of us a chance to take this beast on.

If you have the audio know how and have a good sense of comedic structure and timing, you might want to give this a shot. They’re taking submissions until May 1st and might feature it on the actual show. Get all the details here.

NBC/Second City and HBO Launching New Diversity Programs

February 25, 2015

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Continuing in the direction of making the landscape of television less male and white, both NBC and HBO have just announced programs designed to find diverse talent.

More specifically, NBC has partnered with the legendary Second City to find new sketch talent (via The Wrap) in the form of fellowships, scholarship awards, and a festival. Hopefully, this will help them avoid such things as having to hold a “secret” audition for a new black female cast member for SNL.

HBO has launched their own HBOAccess Writing Fellowship that will search for unrepresented writers from “diverse backgrounds” (via Deadline). If accepted, you’ll get a week long intensive, 8 months writing/development period with HBO top brass, and a live table read. With Girls, Silicon Valley, Veep, The Comeback, and Togetherness, we’re HBO would like to continue their hot comedy streak.

NY TV Festival Independent Pilot Competition Will Be Taking Submissions Next Week

February 11, 2015

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Every year at the New York TV Festival, there is an open competition for independently produced TV pilots in various respects. In years past, Comedy Central has had their own specific categories in this competition and we’ll keep you updated as to what those might be.

For now, the submissions for this year’s NYTVF Independent Pilot Competition open starting Tues. Feb. 17th and the deadlines are as follows:

Early-May 11 by 6PM-Fee: $30
Regular-June 15 by 6PM-Fee: $50
Procrastinator-June 29 by 11:59 PM-Fee: $100

Hell Yes Fest 2015 Now Taking Submissions

February 2, 2015

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Whether it be stand-up, films, sketch, improv, or any other sort of comedy, Hell Yes Fest is, for the first time, now taking submissions for this year’s edition of the festival set to take place from Oct. 1st-11th in New Orleans. This way, they can reach further to bring in comedy from around the country down to their neck of the woods.

The deadline is June 1st and you can submit here for live comedy and here for films. So, if you want the chance of getting in at a festival and spending a week in New Orleans, stop reading this and get to submitting already.

Here’s Your Chance To Actually Be on and Compete in “@midnight w/Chris Hardwick”

January 28, 2015

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(via Splitsider)

All those perfectly worded tweets for #HashtagWars might not be mostly in vain after all.

@midnight with Chris Hardwick is now going to scout people who use the hashtag #PointsMe all over social media including Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine, etc.

The show will have a team combing through submissions to find the funniest people that might have a shot to go head-to-head with the @midnight regulars.

Get all the details over at Splitsider.

TruTV Taking Submissions on Tumblr for Unscripted Comedy Series For Their Big Deal Contest

December 12, 2014

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Taking some cues from Amazon, the newly rebranded TruTV has teamed up with Tumblr to find their next unscripted comedy series.

The Big Deal Contest is taking on 2-3 min. video submissions for an unscripted comedy that include a 1-page treatment featuring likable, authentic characters.

TruTV is currently taking submissions all the way until Jan. 8th, 2015 and will announce two winners later that month.

Get more details and enter here.

Submissions for 2015 Bridgetown Comedy Festival Now Open

November 24, 2014

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One of our favorite comedy festivals The Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, OR is raring up for their 2015 edition and if you want to possibly be one of their performers, you can now make a submission as an individual performer or a show a la Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, Set List, etc.

For now, the submission fee is discounted at $20 until Jan. 11th and it goes up to $25 until Feb. 1st. Bridgetown will then take place May 7th-May 10th.

If you want to submit, do so here.

The 2015 Webby Awards Are Now Taking Submissions

September 11, 2014

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The 19th Annual Webby Awards are coming up in a few months and they’re now taking submissions for all their categories where your funny video, web series, Twitter account, etc. could, in a way, win the Internet.

The early deadline is Oct. 24th and the final deadline is Dec. 20th. The submission fee is high, ranging from $150-$595 based on what you’re entering, it might be worth it if you win and get a statue at the big ceremony.

If you want to enter, do so here.

Submissions Are Now Open For Project Greenlight

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HBO’s Project Greenlight is back with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and looking for a brand new director. They are now taking submissions all the way until 8:59:59PM PST Aug. 8th.

Read all the details and rules here and then submit to hopefully be the next to direct, fingers crossed, another comedy or dramedy (Battle of Shaker Heights was the finished product of Project Greenlight). By the way, you can also submit to be part of the judging process starting Jul. 30th.

The Streamy Awards Are Taking Submissions

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The Streamy Awards Are Taking Submissions

The Streamy Awards is in its 4th year in recognizing excellence in online streaming content, given how wide and varied it is. In fact, as online video is so expansive, they will be taking submissions for nominees in addition to choosing some via panel.

Submissions are open from now until July 27th and yes, there’s a Vine Comedian category.

Salt Lake City’s Comedy Carnivale Is Back and Taking Submissions

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Salt Lake City’s Comedy Carnivale Is Back and Taking Submissions

From July 1st to September 5th, Salt Lake City’s Comedy Carnivale, it taking submission for its second year. You can submit for stand-up, improv, sketch, and film with the small submission fee of $25. The festival itself will take place in late September, specifically the 25th-28th.

Sounds like a pretty good deal to us.

Fox and NYTVF Announce Comedy Script Alumni Competition for Pilot Development

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Fox and NYTVF Announce Comedy Script Alumni Competition for Pilot Development

If you’re an alumni of Fox’s annual Comedy Script Contest at the New York Television Festival, you have a chance to submit to a special alumni competition that will promise a commitment to a pilot presentation to the winner.

The stakes are thankfully higher than they have been in the past, but you also have to be alumnus of the contest in years previous.

Project Greenlight Is Back and Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Are Again Taking Submissions

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Project Greenlight Is Back and Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Are Again Taking Submissions

Though it’s been quite some time since Project Greenlight existed, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are bringing it back at HBO and looking for a great director via submissions.

Given that it’s a series where you not only get to direct a feature, but It follows you through that process, it might be worth your while.

Amazon Studios Is Again Taking Submissions for Your Comedy Series Project

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Amazon Studios Is Again Taking Submissions for Your Comedy Series Project

When Amazon Studios first sought to make a round of comedy series, they were open to submissions and now they’re in another development cycle, they’re looking for more genre comedies, dramadies, dark comedy, and other such projects along those lines.

At the very least, if you make it to being a pilot, people will get a chance to see it.

Enter Your Comedy Short Into Ryan Singer’s “Flick My Clip”

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Enter Your Comedy Short Into Ryan Singer’s “Flick My Clip”

The amazing Ryan Singer has been putting together, for years now, his own personal film festival of sorts by taking submissions and then showcasing them at various other festivals.

He calls it Flick My Clip and so long as you have a comedy short that’s under 5 min., has no copyrighted music, submitted by July 7th, hasn’t been previously submitted, then you should submit. So far, Flick My Clip will run at FilmDayton Festival and The Cincinnati Film Festival.