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Thursday, September 27, 2012

LAUGHayette FUNstival

For the last couple of years, my friend Tim has wanted to do a Lafayette comedy festival. He successfully accomplished his goal a couple of weeks ago at the first ever LAUGHayette FUNstival. He sums up the experience really well over at his blog.

Finally, on September 15 – after two years of existence – Ad Liberation hosted our festival. The First Annual Laughayette Funstival went from 6-10:45 pm and featured eight different comedy groups and seven standup/variety acts. There was a cheesy joke competition and a free raffle. At its biggest, the audience was around 80 people (maybe a little more). At its smallest, around 30. It went 45 minutes over time. It started 15 minutes late. Last minute changes to the lineup had to be made because of travelling difficulties or miscommunications. It was awesome.

I do give myself some credit for putting this festival on. I feel I was a major driving force behind it, and I handled much of the communication and booking for the event. However, the other members of Ad Liberation came together for it in a big way. Between inviting out of town groups, designing advertisements, running the merch table, managing check-ins, running the A/V equipment, handling music, telling butt jokes, introducing acts, pulling raffle winners, and picking up a wayward troupe in a last-minute van ride, there is no way this would have been as successful a night had it not been for my friends in Ad Lib. Plus, our set was awesome. Good job, everyone. Can’t wait for next year.

My favorite act was Shauvon McGill taking a modern spin on the old Pen15 joke and proposing a new business venture, but he inadvertently mistook the LAUGHayette FUNstival for the John Larroquette FUNDstival.

Also I did some more improv with Ad Liberation.

The night was a huge success and it could never have happened without the dedication and hard work that Tim put into it.

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