Tickets On Sale Now for SketchFest NYC

SketchFest NYC is pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for this year's seventh anniversary Festival. SketchFest NYC will run from June 8 - 11, 2011 at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre; 307 West 26th Street. Individual Tickets will cost $10, with nightly passes costing $40, and Full Festival Passes $100. Half priced tickets are also available with a valid UCB student ID.

Thirty-six different groups from around North America including the Whitest Kids U Know, Marvel Comics, and The Rejection Show, will converge on The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Each night, New York audiences will experience the absolute best sketch comedy from around the United States. For a complete list of groups and performance times, please see the following pages.

As previously announced, as part of the seventh anniversary celebration of SketchFest NYC, there will be the following Featured Shows:

Whitest Kids U Know -- The sketch group began in 2000 at New York's School of Visual Arts. After college the group set up shop at the Lower East Side bar Pianos. They performed weekly shows until 2006 when they sold their sketch show to the cable network Fuse. Their fifth and final season can now be seen on IFC. The Whitest Kids will be performing a rare live show, as well as a panel moderated by Steve Heisler from the Onion AV Club looking back at five years of their TV show.

URDB - Live! -- An open platform for world records, built on a belief that everyone can be the world's best at something. Launched in 2008, the site hosts over 6,000 user-generated records submitted from 50+ countries. Named "Best Oddball Night" by New York Magazine, their live events have featured records set by the likes of Reggie Watts, Morgan Murphy, AJ Jacobs, Arden Myrin, Mark Malkoff, Jon Friedman and M. Doughty.

Channel 101 -- At Channel 101, the destiny of TV entertainment is in your hands! During this monthly screening, new five-minute mini-TV shows from the best comedians and filmmakers in NYC battle it out for the right to be turned into a series. The top five shows become the new "prime time" lineup for the following month; losing shows are canceled! Wouldn't it be great if all television worked this way? Come vote for your favorite!

The Rejection Show -- A comedic based event that embraces the rejected and "turned down" material of writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and other artistic types whom display their creative and personal "failures" live on stage. This year, The Rejection Show will present the audience favorite ‘SketchFest NYC Closing Night Craptacular', where SketchFest NYC groups present their most ridiculous and outrageous sketches.

Marvel Comics Presents "What The?" -- Action figures = CHECK! Stop Motion Animation = CHECK! Marvel Mayhem at its best = ehh....Come see the mental midgets that make the monthly mighty marvel ‘mation "What The?"

In addition, the following Featured Shows have joined the line-up:

The ONN Panel -- An inside look at the making of IFC's Onion News Network TV Show!

101.9RXP Presents Sketch Rocks! -- Hosted by 101.9RXP's Jimmy The Greek, SketchFest presents the best sketch comedy performers who totally rock!

Comedy Central Digital Showcase -- Matt McCarthy hosts this session of delight featuring videos from Sidecar Comedy, The Selwyn Brothers, Rachel Feinstein, new tech talk-show "The Download" hosted by Jordan Rubin and Molly McAleer, and the premiere of "Kid Farm," starring Pete Holmes as the father of one of those giganto freakshow TLC families.

Secret Screening - It's not so secret if we tell you about it, but trust us, this is a film premiere you won't want to miss!

The last six years of the Festival have been a huge success, featuring over a hundred different sketch comedy groups from across North America, sold-out shows, standing ovations, and industry attendance from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, HBO, MTV, VH1, IFC, Fuse, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land/Nick at Nite, Discovery Channel, Just For Laughs, Miramax, Tribeca Films, William Morris, ICM and many more.

The Seventh Annual Festival will be held June 8-11, 2011, and is currently sponsored by 101.9 RXP FM, Atom: Comedy Central Web Originals, The Friar's Club, The Onion, The Sound of Young America, and UCB Comedy.

If interested in being a sponsor, please contact us at info@sketchfestnyc.com, with "Sponsor" in the subject line. Past sponsors include: Lifetime, American Airlines, Back Stage, AMC, 23/6, Crackle, Red Bull, New York Press, Animal Planet, and many more.

SketchFest NYC is Executive Produced by Alexander Zalben, with Becky Poole, ElizaBeth Lawrence, Marni Zalben, Shayna Ferm, Jon Pack, Jason Kalter, and Stefan Lawrence. For more information, please visit the festival website at SketchFestNYC.com.

WHAT: SketchFest NYC

WHEN: June 8, 9 and 10 at 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, 10PM, 11PM & MIDNIGHT;
June 11th at 1PM, 2:30PM, 4PM, 6PM, 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, 10PM, 11PM & MIDNIGHT

WHERE: Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre; 307 West 26th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues

TICKETS: TICKETS: $10, Individual Tickets; $40, Nightly Passes; $100, Festival Passes; Online at UCBTheatre.com. Industry and Press Passes Available On Request.

 

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