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Filipino Comedians in Singapore
Laugh Off Asia in Singapore
Singapore, get ready for one of the funniest comedy shows in Asia. The Comedy Cartel will be in Singapore this November 18th & 19th to perform with the funny comedians of Comedy Masala at The Arts House on 1 Old Parliament Lane. These guys are the best of the Philippines and now they are showing their talents to the rest of Asia.
Show your support by watching the show. Get your tickets early at BYTES. Tickets sell for S$26 and S$14.
The Comedy Cartel comedians representing will be Tim Tayag, GB Labrador, and Raffy Taruc. Representing the Singaporean Comedy Masala contingent are Fakkah Fuzz, Rishi, and Jinx. Show your support and watch the show! Guaranteed to be hilarious.
GB’s Back in Singapore
comedy masala
Our very own GB Labrador will be back in Singapore to perform in the Comedy Masala on October 25th. Show the brother some love and support. Come watch and wear a mustache.
Stand Up Comedy at AVenue in Makati
comedy cartel performs stand up at Capone's in Avenue
This March 18, 2011 at 7pm, the international group of Pinoy stand-up comedians called the Comedy Cartel will be performing their brand of humor at Capone’s for a very good cause. Divina Comedia: Laugh Your Way From Inferno to Paradiso is a fundraiser organized by L’amour and Mighty Maits for the benefit of Mighty Minds.
Capone’s is located in the A-Venue Mall in Makati City along Makati Avenue. Door charge is P250. Please call or text Richel 0922-8187592 for tickets and reservations.
I’m a fan of these Comedy Cartel guys and you will have a fun time laughing at their jokes or just laughing at them.
Comedy Cartel Hits The Establishment
If you like smart, mostly English, point-of-view Filipino standup comedy, then check these guys out. Watch the trailer.
4th Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival
4th annual HK comedy festival
Support some of our very own Comedy Cartel members as they perform in this year’s Hong Kong International Comedy Festival. Although, the site claims to be the first full time comedy club, it’s actually not. Details below.
Get ready for The 4th Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival
Oct 6-16! Main events include SHECKY WONG (from Comedy Central) and
The 4th Annual HK International CHINESE and ENGLISH Comedy
Competitons!
For the English Competition, there will be over 40 comedians (11
overseas comedians flying in from England, USA, New Zealand, Pakistan,
Singapore, South Korea, The Philippines, and China) compete! Tickets
on Sale soon!
Get ready for The 4th Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival
Oct 6-16! Main events include SHECKY WONG (from Comedy Central) and
The 4th Annual HK International CHINESE and ENGLISH Comedy
Competitons!
For the English Competition, we will have over 40 comedians (11
overseas comedians flying in from England, USA, New Zealand, Pakistan,
Singapore, South Korea, The Philippines, and China) compete! Tickets
on Sale soon!
All details on www.hkcomedyfestival.com
4th Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival and Competitions
hi comedy fans!
TakeOut Comedy is excited to announce the schedule for The 4th Annual
Hong Kong International Comedy Festival from Oct 6-16!
This year, we welcome back SHECKY WONG (as seen on Comedy Central,
Showtime, MTV)! He helped open our club in Feb 2007 and we are excited
to see his return. He is one of the godfathers of Asian American
standup comics. He has been on the comedy scene since the 1980’s,
appearing on numerous TV shows and on the national comedy club
circuit.
We will also have VIVEK MAHBUBANI (2007 Chinese and 2008 English HK
Funniest Comedian) perform his FIRST English One Man show!
We will as always also have Open Mics, Improv by Peoples Liberation
Improv, a Free Standup Comedy Workshop, and our growing Chinese and
English Standup Comedy Competitions!
We have grown tremendously since our first festival in 2007,
especially our English Standup Comedy Competition! Last year, we had
30 contestants representing 16 countries compete for $20,000HK in cash
prizes! The Finals last year had 9 comics representing 9 different
countries!
This year, we hope to more international as now we have $40,000HK in
cash prizes for the competitions!
If you want to compete, please go to www.hkcomedyfestival.com and
download the application. The deadline is Sept 1, 2010.
THANKS and all details are on www.hkcomedyfestival.com!
cheers and its great to bring more laughter to HK and Asia!
jami:)
TakeOut Comedy Club HK
www.takeoutcomedy.com
(852) 6220 4436
Take Out Comedy in Hong Kong
take out comedy
There’s a comedy club in Hong Kong called Take Out Comedy in the Soho district that is run by comedian Jami Gong, who moved from New York to Hong Kong to start out this club. This room is a very intimate room with just a small stage and chairs arranged in a way that people have no choice but to pay attention to the comics. In fact, the place doesn’t even sell drinks or food. It just sells pure comedy. The comedians are of different races and they have English nights and Cantonese nights (and I think even Mandarin but you’ll have to check). The comics range from experienced headliners to newbies just starting out.
The owner and host Jami claims it’s the first comedy club in Asia, but there was actually another club in Manila called The Comfort Room, which opened in 2002 and closed after a couple of years that was actually the first real comedy club in Asia, if you don’t count the gay comedy clubs in Malate and Quezon City. The audience is usually composed of expats from different countries and some local Chinese people. They are very receptive and are hungry for laughs, which is always good for comedians with good material and a bag of chips. Some Filipino comedians that have performed there include Kevin Camia, Tim Tayag, Chris Musni, Noel Gascon and Marlon Olivan. If you’re an experienced comedian passing through town, just contact Jami and ask for a guest set. If you suck and are not that funny yet, then it might be better to just pay the entrance and just watch. Either way, you’ll have fun. Afterwards you can eat and drink in the Soho area.
The Comedy Cartel Tonight at Spicy Fingers
A group called the Comedy Cartel will be performing tonight at Spicy Fingers in Greenbelt 2, Ayala Center, Makati. The show starts at 8:30PM. They perform straight point of view stand up comedy. The entrance is P150 with a free drink. That’s damn cheap if you ask me. Tonight’s line up includes:
- Kel the Magician
- GB “mustache” Labrador
- Eri “cosmo boy” Neeman
- Marlon “virgin” Olivan
- Ryan “he’s so mean” Puno
- Tim “matapobre” Tayag
I hope you can catch them as they are opening up the minds of the youth of the possibilities of comedy in the Philippines. In fact, there is a group from Singapore that’s eyeing them to perform abroad. Catch them before they become OFWs and enslaved by $$$.
Comedy Cartel: the Filipino Comedy Revolution
the core of the comedy cartel
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a revolution happening in the comedy scene and it’s being led by a group called the Comedy Cartel. The group was originally formed a couple of years ago when two Filipino American stand up comics named Tim Tayag and Allan Manalo were judging JackTV’s Lafapalooza and had all these new comic talents but had no direction. So one night, while Al and Tim were hosting a late night radio show for peanuts, they thought of creating an organization that would pool all the powers of these stand up comics – the newbies, the oldies, and the weirdos. And the name they thought of was the Comedy Cartel because they just liked the drug and mafia reference, even though these 2 guys’ only violent experience was when some Middle Eastern men danced with them in a club (actually that was just Al’s experience).
The group expanded and included comedians such as Alex Calleja, Marlon Olivan (consistent runner-up in comedy contests), Red Ollero, Ryan Puno, Noel Gascon (Lafapalooza 2 champion), Ryan Rems, Derf Hebrado, Victor Anastacio (Lafapalooza 1 champion), Richie Fernandez (Cool Center champion), Eri Neeman (MTV VJ), GB Labrador, Chino Liao, Eric Villarama, JB Dela Cruz, Trian Lauang, Marcelle Fabie, and others (sorry if I missed anyone but I think I got pretty much everyone covered). The groups is – as far as I know – the only gang in town that does point of view comedy. In a land dominated by gay comedy bars and insult comedy, Spicy Fingers in Greenbelt 2, Ayala Center, Makati serves as the home nest of these western style comics. In fact, Spicy Fingers has developed quite a reputation for its Monday night comedy that even comedian Jo Koy (who has his own show on Comedy Central) and other comedians from Hong Kong and Canada have dropped by to do guest sets. You can catch the Comedy Cartel every Monday night at around 8pm. You can make reservations by contacting Ecircle Entertainment at +63.2.5339316 or texting +63.922.8596144
Some nights are showcases wherein you will get to watch anywhere from 10 to 15 comedians performing short sets. Some nights are theme nights, wherein you get to see 5 comedians doing longer sets with a headliner. Check with eCircle Entertainment which nights are the ones with more English speaking comedians (in case you don’t understand Tagalog) and which nights are more Tagalog friendly.