The Blue Ridge Comedy Festival is a weeklong comedy competition held in beautiful Bristol TN/VA.

The comedy competition will consist of three rounds

Preliminary Rounds

December 9 - 12

Comedians will perform 5 minutes

Semi-Finals

December 13

Comedians will perform 10 minutes

Finals

December 14

Comedians will perform 20 minutes

Winners determined by a panel of judges, along with an audience write-in vote that will count as 20% of the total score.

$1,000 Prize to the Festival Winner, $500 to the Runner-up, $250 each for 3rd and 4th place.

2024 Festival Performers:

Tooky Kavanagh (Cambridge, MA)

Jared Hazen (Bristol, TN)

Ben Frank (Brooklyn, NY

Yoshee So (Atlanta, GA)

Genia Dulot (Los Angeles, CA)

Benji Rothman (Toronto)

Keith Marcell (Knoxville, TN)

Nathaniel Booher (Bristol, TN)

Skyler Champagne (Johnson City, TN)

DeJahzh Hedrick (Winston-Salem, NC)

Nathan Carlson (Sparta, VA)

Mack (Chuckey, TN)

Andrew Stein (Atlanta, GA)

Ian MacDonald (Brunswick, ME)

Dennison Sleeper (Columbus)

Neill Lynskey (NY, NY)

Zach Williams (Memphis, TN)

Nadine Donnachie (Richmond, VA)

LA Preston (Roanoke, VA)

Madison Bergstedt (Greensboro, NC)

Jason Reel (Marion, NC)

Devin Papayiannis (Cape Coral, FL)

Matt Tamburrino (Atlanta, GA)

David Piontkowski (NY, NY)

Ethan Justice (Greensboro, NC)

Raine McKee (Kingsport, TN)

Chase Hutton (Bristol TN/VA)

Muhammad Saahir (Bloomington, IN)

Randall Moore (Charlotte, NC)

Owen Vacheron (Washington DC)

Greg Capra (Durham, NC)

Meredith Kerr (Bristol, VA)

Ashley Saturday (Chattanooga, TN)

Andy Frampton (Charleston, WV)

Brook Jolley (Sparta, TN)

Sasha Goldman (Raleigh, NC)

JT Cole (Greensboro, NC)

Mike Byrd (Charlotte, NC)

Seth Kerman (Winston-Salem, NC)

Jake Leamon (Johnson City, TN)

Camera Shy

Daniel May
Tony Loud
John Dollar

2023 Blue Ridge Comedy Festival Finals

2023 Blue Ridge Comedy Festival Winner!

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