Comedy finals on Saturday
The final round in RooftopComedy’s first National College Comedy Competition will take place at 7:45 p.m. Saturday at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colo.
The competition will be Web cast live at www.RooftopComedy.com/college. Viewers can vote to determine the funniest college student in the stand-up and short-film competitions.
Among the four finalists in the short-film competition is Enid resident Mark Potts, a senior film/video studies and professional writing major from the Unversity of Oklahoma. You can watch Potts’ short film “Icescraper” by clicking here.
More than 600 stand-up comics and short-filmmakers participated in the RooftopComedy contest through 32 on-campus competitions (including one at OU), 16 regional semifinals and two online voting rounds.
Here are the other finalists:
Stand-up comedy
· Kathleen O’Brien, senior English education major at University of Virginia from Montclair, Va.
· Tim Ball,senior sociology major at Duke University from Dallas, Texas.
· Reid Faylor, sophomore biology major at Xavier University from Fort Wayne, Ind.
· Mary Sasson, junior English major at UNC from Pittsburgh.
Short film
· “Icescraper,” Mark Potts
· “Car Phone,” by Dan Perrault, junior acting major at Emerson College from Hingham, Mass.
· “The Breakup,” by Amos Vernon, senior peace and conflict studies major at UC Berkeley from Chapel Hill, N.C.
“Actor Hunters: Ep.1 Pt.1,” by Matthew Schwartz, senior theater/government major at Skidmore College from Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.
-BAM
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