The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival has unveiled its list of top up-and-coming comedians in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, who are set to participate in the New Faces of Comedy showcase later this week. The event is a traditional launch pad for major Hollywood talent like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani and Jimmy Fallon.
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars: Tara Reid, Harley Wallen, Calhoun Koenig, Aphrodite Nikolovski, Dennis Haskins, Victoria Mullen | Written by Nancy Oeswein | Directed by Harley Wallen
Starring and directed by Harley Wallen, and written by Nancy Oeswein, Bennett’s Song follows two very modern families and a young girl with big music dreams. Starring Tara Reid, Harley Wallen, Aphrodite Nikolovski, Dennis Haskins, Calhoun Koenig, and Victoria Mullen, the film is a very timely celebration of diversity, love and acceptance.
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Starring and directed by Harley Wallen, and written by Nancy Oeswein, Bennett’s Song follows two very modern families and a young girl with big music dreams. Starring Tara Reid, Harley Wallen, Aphrodite Nikolovski, Dennis Haskins, Calhoun Koenig, and Victoria Mullen, the film is a very timely celebration of diversity, love and acceptance.
Bennett’s Song tells the story of a widower, Sam Bennett (Harley Wallen) and divorcee, Susan Song (Aphrodite Nikolovski) finding love against all odds. Their unconventional romance, which sees two very unique and diverse families with seven kids each collide with their not-so-pleasant next door neighbor (Tara Reid), who throws a wrench in the big music plans of the very independent Pearl (Calhoun Koenig), in this story of a a not-so-normal American family in the 21st century.
- 8/17/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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