Be Part of Cap City Comedy Club’s
21st Annual “Funniest Person in Austin”
Contest
Do you think you’re
funny?
More importantly, do you like money
and fame?
Well, Cap City’s 21st Annual
‘Funniest Person in Austin’ Contest might
be right up your alley. And it’s just around the
corner and it might even lead to life on easy street!
This year’s top prize includes
$1000.00 and the chance to be seen by Hollywood bigwigs
from the “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”
and “Comedy Central” (maybe you’ve
heard of them).
This year’s contest, hosted
by former F.P.I.A. winners, including but not limited
to, Brendon Walsh, Nancy Reed, Mario DiGiorgio, and
2005 winner John Ramsey, begins Tuesday, April 4th,
2006 here at Cap City Comedy Club, so if you’re
from Austin and you have 5 minutes of rip-roaring, side-splitting,
knee-slapping, A-plus material…get your bad little
self down to the club and pick up an entry form!
And if you don’t have what it takes to get up
on stage in front of 300 strangers and potentially bomb,
come be part of our awesomely amazing audience!
Tickets are $5.00 and reservations
are recommended.
The fine print :
Contestants must be from Austin
or the surrounding area. Qualifying zip codes are
787, 786, 789.
You must perform at least 5
minutes, but no more than seven minutes during preliminary
rounds. No exceptions!
In order to qualify to compete,
some contestants may be required to submit a five-minute
audio/video tape or provide references from funny
people.
Material must be original.
If it is not, you will disqualified and everyone will
hate you.
In order to compete, entry
forms plus a $15.00 fee must be submitted to the Capital
City Comedy Club by Monday, March 27th, 2006. All
finalists this year will automatically receive a professional
copy of their final set
Please submit any headshot/bio
information you may have from newspapers and such.
Semi-Final & Final Rounds:
There will be four to six preliminary
rounds depending on the amount of entries. Preliminary
rounds will begin on Tuesday, April 4th and then continue
on each Monday in April and May.
Three contestants selected from
each round will compete in the semi-finals, which will
be in May.
From the semi-final round, contestants will be selected
to perform ten-minute sets on the final night. The Grand
Prize this year is $1000.00, Second place finisher receives
$500 and Third place receives $250.00.
NBC’s “Last
Comic Standing” hits Austin
Come be part of comedy history here at
Cap City on Thursday, March 2nd - and by ‘comedy history’
we mean line up outside with 200 other hopefuls who all think
they are funnier than you. Yep, “Last Comic Standing”
is holding real, live, open auditions at Cap City in March,
where you will not only have the rare opportunity to be seen
by people who actually know funny your bright and shiny face
may be broadcast on national television. Your parents would
be so proud!
And for all of you who don’t crave
the limelight, but like to at least be in the same room as
it - we will host an 8pm showcase that night of the best of
the best of the best from that days auditions. Please call
the club for details and reservations. 512-467-2333.
Thursday is College
Night
Hey there broke college kids, drop that
Ramen and pick up your student i.d. - because every Thursday
is college night at Cap City. Not only do you get off campus
for one night, you also get to see expensive, name brand comedy
for $3.00! And before you try to see Jerry Seinfeld with your
student i.d., keep in mind that this offer excludes special
events.
Join us for Mish Mash
Tuesdays
Every Tuesday here at Cap City we invite
half a dozen of our favorite Austin comics to perform with
that week’s headliner, whether you like it or not, so
there.
And as if that isn’t enough, tickets
are half price and we run happy hour specials the whole night!
So if you’re jonesin’
for some local flavor followed by nationally renowned comedy,
Tuesday Mish Mashes are for you.
Reservations are recommended, so please
call ahead.
Buy Cap City Tix Online
When we launched this fabulous website,
about the only important element of the site that wasn’t
operational was the section created to enable you to buy tickets
online--the one labeled, not coincidentally, “Buy Tickets
Online.”
Well, we did subsequently put the TicketWeb
mechanism in place, so now it is possible to purchase tickets
online for just about any Cap City show. Indeed, many of you
have already used this feature, so you know it’s pretty
darn convenient and easy:
You simply pick your night, pay for your
tickets online--including a modest TicketWeb fee for the service--and
turn up at the club, where your tickets are waiting. TicketWeb
is a greatly respected, enormously experienced operation that
was established in 1995.
Facilities that use their online ticketing
services include the Louvre Museum in Paris, the New York
City Fringe Festival,The Bowery Ballroom, the New York Museum
of Modern Art, the San Francisco Symphony and a long list
of music, comedy and other venues in New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, elsewhere in the states, and in the U.K.
Throw in an extra three bucks per ticket
and you can reserve your seat from our online seating chart.
No more sitting in the rafters for you or your loved ones!
So give it a whirl, and if you have any
questions about this, please call the club (512-467-2333).