January 2012
1 post
RE: laff.austinimprov.com
Hello,
I’d like to wish Happy New Year to you and your family.
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December 2011
1 post
LAFF 2012
It’s Coming Up!
Submissions soon!!!!
January 2011
3 posts
Get Your LAFF On!
The Ladies Are Funny Festival is now entering its fifth year! LAFF will be held May 5-7 in Austin TX. Submissions are open for any act that celebrates women in comedy or explores women or gender issues. Your act need not be exclusively female to be considered! We are looking to expand the reach of LAFF and include a larger variety of acts as well as a more diverse array of performers. ...
Kicking It Off
The ladies and gents of the LAFF production team had an amazing meeting this morning. Gents you say? Yes, there are men involved in the making of Ladies Are Funny Festival, and they’ll play a very important role in this our 5th year. While we love ladies, and also love gender and we love questions. What the hell is a lady, anyway? What makes a lady a lady, is it all about the gender? The...
LAFF 2011
Ladies Are Funny Festival 2011 is now accepting submissions!!!!!
Spread the word you funny ladies!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDZTdmY2RGhYWlVqVjNwZHB3Vm5HM2c6MQ
May 2010
22 posts
LAFF Photos by Jon Bolden →
Photos are starting to come in from the festival. Check back on this link to see some sweet pics by our very own Jon Bolden.
Podcast Interview with LAFF Producer Shana Merlin... →
LAFF Photos Saturday May 8, 11pm →
Saturday 11pm - Headliner Show Girls Girls Girls (Improv: Austin, TX) Selene Luna: I Don’t Care Anymore (One Woman Show: Los Angeles, CA
Photos by Roy Moore
LAFF Photos Friday May 7, 8pm →
Friday 8pm Battle Axe (Improv: Austin, TX) Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting (Sketch: New York, NY) Hysterikilly (One Woman Show: New York, NY)
Photos by Roy Moore
LAFF is a Wrap!
A huge thanks goes out to all our staff, volunteers, partners, talent, and fans for making the 4th Annual Ladies Are Funny Festival such a success.
Stay tuned for postings of photos, videos, and memories.
"Wiener with a View" tonight at 9 p.m.
One woman show based on the true story of how the Wienermobile saved comedian Robin Gelfenbien’s life.
“4 stars” - Time Out New York
“The highlight of next month’s Fringe Festival” - New York Magazine
Check out this show tonight - you’ll have a bunderful time!
FREE BEER AT LAFF!
I heard the keg for the LAFFter Party is getting there early tonight and there will be free beer for audiences at the 7pm, 9pm, and 11pm shows! What?!
LAFF Improv Classes Today! →
Come on down to SVT this morning for some sweet improv learning. There’s still space in both classes!
11AM - 1PM
Salvage Vanguard Theater Main Stage 2803 Manor Rd (map/directions)
Amanda Rountree: Keepin It Real
1PM - 4PM
Salvage Vanguard Theater Main Stage 2803 Manor Rd (map/directions)
Carolyn Castiglia: Rhyme Time with CKC
Buy Your Tickets for LAFF!
Pre-sales are strong for tonight, so buy your tickets at http://laff2010.eventbrite.com/
FRIDAY 8PM
Battle Axe (Improv: Austin, TX) Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting (Sketch: New York, NY) Hysterikilly (One Woman Show: New York, NY)
FRIDAY 10PM
Lapcox (Improv: New York, NY) Real Housewives of Philadelphia (Improv: Philadephia, PA) Sara Benincasa (One Woman Show: New York, NY)
LAFF in the Austin Onion AV Club →
I love love LOVE this article Erik Adams wrote for the local Onion AV Club.
Of periods and self-deprication: 4 false stereotypes about female comedians disproved at LAFF By Erik Adams May 6, 2010
LAFF on News8Austin's Arts Minute →
Check out images of LAFF past in this televised shout out to Funny Ladies!
LAFF on KUT Radio →
We heard LAFF was mentioned on air yesterday on KUT. If anybody has the link or more info, let us know!
LAFF in the AIC Newsletter →
Austin Improv NewsletterLAFFGreetings, This week brings about The 4th Annual Ladies are Funny Festival (May 5 - 8, 2010), the biggest week of the year for Women in Comedy in Texas. LAFF features stand up comedy, improv comedy, sketch comedy, musical comedy, one woman shows and more. This year’s featured acts include comedian, model, actress, and burlesque performer Selene...
LAFF in the Austinist →
Preview: Ladies Are Funny Festival [Comedy / Improv]
Ladies Are Funny Festival
Tonight the Ladies Are Funny Festival (LAFF), which is in its fourth year of production, takes over Salvage Vanguard Theater. LAFF, running through Saturday night, has expanded over the last few years to include more nights of shows featuring a bigger line up of female comedians and performers from all over the map,...
LAFF in the Austin-American Statesman →
LAFF spreads: 4th fest even bigger
photo by Chris Voelker
By Katy Ballard
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 10:41 a.m. Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Published: 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, May 5, 2010
This Wednesday isn’t just another hump day as we trudge into the latter part of the week. It’s also the kickoff of a four-day comedy festival that celebrates fearless women.
The Ladies...
Cinco de LAFFO!
LAFF starts tomorrow with local all women improv from
Firth and Arjet
Sarah 7
Girl Embassy World Team
Wednesday 8pm at The Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd
Followed by our first LAFFter party, just a mile down the road at Amy Averett’s house.
Ay Caramba!
COUNTDOWN TO LAFF: Delilah Dix!
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! Next to be placed under the spotlight is the incredible Delilah Dix!
The following in an excerpt from her SHELARIOUS website! (http://www.laughatamy.com)
“Oh, hi! I didn’t see you there. Let me tell you about myself. I’m originally from the Bay Area in California....
LAFF OR BUST!
Packing a pink bubble space gun, a horned opera hat, boa’s, microphones, Line 6 loop machine, sparkle, tutu, choir robe, “Killy’s brain bag”, ziplock bag labled “YOUR DNA”, super panties, Depends, gold boots, rubber chicken all in a carry-on suitcase WITH my “regular” clothes so I can check my hanging bed set/prop…should be fun times at airport...
LAFF Headliner Sara Benincasa on Women's Radio →
Sara gives a great interview to Women’s Radio, including shout outs to LAFF, Out of Bounds Comedy Fest, Austin’s 2009 Mayoral Race, Amy’s Ice Cream and more…
Here’s more about the interview:
Join Brian Ball, Host of WomensRadio Music Review, in welcoming one of the funniest ladies to grace the airwaves in a long time – Sara Benincasa!
“I love radio and women and...
COUNTDOWN TO LAFF: Erin Judge
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! Next to be placed under the spotlight is the delightful Erin Judge!
Erin is a comedian, writer, and caffeine enthusiast based in Brooklyn, New York. Her stand-up pokes fun at gender, sexuality, pop culture, and anything else the universe throws her way. Erin appeared on the third...
Register Now for Classes at LAFF →
We have two awesome classes on Saturday May 8th and registration is open at http://laff.austinimprov.com/classes.html
11AM - 1PM
Amanda Rountree: Keepin It Real
Sincerity, emotional connection, and believability in scenework.
1PM - 4PM
Carolyn Castiglia: Rhyme Time with CKC
Learn the art of freestyle rap from a pro.
April 2010
20 posts
I can’t WAIT to get down to Austin and party and laugh with all these rad ladies!!
Hysteri-KILLY! A One Freak Show
Check out my website (www.KELLYBDWYER.com) for more about me and what I do and then come see me LIVE on May 7th at 8pm at LAFF!! It’s gonna be hot, Austin!
COUNTDOWN TO LAFF: Brooke Van Poppelen
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! Next to be placed under the spotlight is the brilliant Brooke Van Poppelen!
College drop-out and former snarky record store clerk Brooke Van Poppelen is a NYC based stand-up comic, writer and actress who finally had enough guts to get off her bar stool and start telling jokes into a...
LAFF in the Austin Chronicle: Ladies Are Funny... →
Ladies Are Funny Festival
Hot double-X action is a LAFF riot!
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER If you ask any of the Girls Girls Girls, Austin’s all-female, all-singing improv comedy troupe, if ladies are funny, they’ll tell you: “Yes!” Hell, they’ll probably singit, an entire chorus of an answer, all off-the-lacy-cuff and accompanied by a jazz-trained keyboard player. This...
COUNTDOWN TO LAFF: Jaime Lee
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! Next to be placed under the spotlight is the delightful Jaime Lee!
Upon graduating from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005, Lee moved to New York City to fill the stand-up publicist position at Comedy Central. Today she is one of NYC’s fastest emerging comedians. In...
Countdown to LAFF: Allie Rolison
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! Next to be placed under the spotlight is: Comic ALLIE ROLISON! Allie grew up in Waxahachie, TX as the gay daughter of a conservative Southern Baptist preacher which has provided an abundance of comedic material. In Waxahachie there are more churches than restaurants, more cattle than...
I chatted with Amanda Rountree from Chicago about...
For this episode of the LAFFcast, I talked to...
I Have Never Been To Austin!/Shopping Saves Lives
Where is the best place in Austin to get a used/second hand pair of cowboy boots? Sadly, I have killed mine. Even sadder, they died a slow and possibly painful death (not 100% sure cowboy boots can feel, but if there is any wearable item that can experience pleasure and pain, it would be cowboy boots)
Anyhoo, I need a new-old pair to wear at LAFF and then on to certain death on the streets of...
Countdown to LAFF: Firth and Arjet!
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! Today we’re gonna tell you all about: Selena Coppock!
Comedian, writer, and improviser. She has trained at ImprovOlympic (Chicago), The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (NY), and ImprovAsylum (Boston). She has participated in the Boston Comedy Festival (2006, 2007, 2008), the New...
FOUR YEARS!
It just hit me today that I’ve been working with the lovely ladies of LAFF for the past four years and I was knocked right out! Sappy post, yes, but I”m so thrilled to have been a producer of this festival! Just yesterday you were a baby, and now, four years later LAFF is practically ready for Pre-K! Mama is proud, y’all!
Anyway, I can’t wait to get you bishes down here...
Countdown to LAFF:
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! Next to be placed under the comedy spotlight is: Girl Embassy World Team!
“Join Sariah Jo, Agnes, Blodeuwedd, Rosita, and Miloska in their mission to empower young girls through clean, delightful comedy and upbeat, riveting dance. Vesta Global Entertainment’s worldwide sensation...
I Bought My Plane Ticket To Atlanta (instead of...
But do not fret!! With a simple $150 flight change fee and a 50 minute phone call reasoning, pleading, fake crying and then trying to use “sexy voice” BEGGING Expedia not to charge me this “idiot fee” explaining that I was not an idiot-that I was in fact, DRUNK and both cities DO start with an A…and..well, and doesn’t that difference MEAN ANYTHING TO THEM THERE...
Countdown to LAFF: Firth and Arjet!
As LAFF is quickly approaching, we’ll be giving you the goods on all of our ladies, one day/one group at a time! And to kick us off let’s focus on the fabulous Firth and Arjet:
“Firth & Arjet is the duo Jessica Arjet and Kristin Firth from Austin, TX. They have been Firth&Arjet since January, 2007. Their beginnings were winning a series of Cagematch competition shows...
Sneak Peek: BYOT and have it Screen Printed at...
Here’s a sneak peek at something new for LAFF this year: Bring your own T-Shirt for a *Free* screen printing. Fancy!
More info coming soon….
For our second podcast, I sat down with Leah Moss,...
For the first ever LAFF podcast, producer Valerie...
Bust Magazine Features LAFF →
Check out this month’s Bust Magazine: For Women With Something To Get Off Their Chests for a blurb about LAFF in their Events section. Look for the April/May issue with Tracy Morgan on the cover and turn to page 16 to see us there!
More info about Headliner Selene Luna's new show!
At 3’10”, Selene Luna is a small package with a big presence. A comedian, actress and burlesque star, praised by The New York Times as, “a polished spitfire,” Luna is bringing her new one-woman show, I Don’t Care Anymore to the 4th Annual Ladies Are Funny Festival for one night only. Audiences will recognize Luna from Vh1’s The Cho Show, a performance that landed her a LOGO...
Big Headliner Announcement
Selene Luna comedian, model, actress, and burlesque performer will be headlining LAFF this year, performing her one woman show, “I Don’t Care Anymore” http://www.seleneluna.com/
March 2010
2 posts
LUST for LAFF is Sunday April 18th, 2pm at Mueller... →
Ladies Underhand Skillet Toss
Fundraiser for the Fourth Annual Ladies are Funny Festival
Sunday April 18th, 2pm at Mueller Lake Park Meadow
Skillet Toss and Bake Sale
This New England country fair event has been reinvented Austin-style for maximum laughs at this fundraiser for the fourth annual Ladies Are Funny Festival. Ladies and gentlemen will compete to see who can throw a heavy...
LAFF is 7 Weeks Away
We just had our big staff meeting and things are getting in to gear. Starting with setting up this tumblr account to everyone can add info, pics and updates to the festival site.
See you May 5 - 8, 2010!