Hey college students – put down the Ramen and the Natty Ice and pay attention:

We want you. To make us funny films.

Rooftop Comedy is tickled to present the National College Funny Film Competition, a reel funny, reel rewarding filmmaking contest for the co-eds. Can you spot the wordplay? Good. English 101 paid off.

The four funniest films will be screened at the 2010 Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, and, of course, so will the filmmakers! Screened for TALENT!

Oh man.

We should probably leave the funny up to you guys.

Submit your funny films HERE. Deadline is October 12, so get on it like it’s a freshman and you’re wasted.

Posted: September 17th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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Submit your film now and get in on the laughter, the voting and the prizes. You decide which students win a VIP trip to the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival to compete for the title of Funniest Filmmaker.

Funny Film Requirements:
- Must be a college student
- Must be funny
- 5 minutes max
- Entry is unlimited and totally FREE
- Must be submitted by October 12, 2009

What’s that? It’s cold, hard cash that you crave? Create a video for Microsoft Office Live Workspace and you could win $1,000 and serious bragging rights.

To submit your funny film or find out more about the competition, click here.

Posted: September 11th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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On this edition of A Tight 5ive with Punchline Magazine’s Dylan Gadino, 2008’s Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival Comic’s Comic Award winner Robert Hawkins discusses his new lip cactus, performs some impromptu poetry, and wears a funny hat in the process.  Enjoy!

Posted: August 12th, 2009 under A Tight 5ive, Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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Episode 28 brings us to the third and final LIVE podcast from this year’s Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival. Special guest and fellow Denzel lover Ty Barnett chimes in on the The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 edition of ‘Denzel News’. Also, Lisa Landry and ‘Best of the Fest’ winner Moshe Kasher stop by and discuss all sorts of fun stuff. Check it out!

Subscribe to the show on iTunes and keep an eye out for more episodes coming soon.

Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition, Cool stuff from Rooftop Comedy.
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Because oral history sounds much cooler than primary drunken source.

It’s been a couple of days (a week anniversary since Aspen 09 occurred, to be precise) and after much soul searching, Twitter reviewing, photo looking, and piecing together hazy memories, I will attempt to bring you my account of what happened on those legendary three days that will live forever in myth. If you’d rather live Aspen through pictures, than words, feel free to check out our Facebook gallery or Flickr feed!

I dare you to try and read all of this, after the jump!

Posted: June 18th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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The plane we were supposed to take out of Denver was delayed for an hour. This effectively meant that we were to miss our connecting flight to Aspen. The next flight out of Aspen wasn’t until 9:30 at night. Annie and I decided to make the three hour drive in a rented Ford Explorer to Aspen.

Here is a photo of Annie’s reaction to making that drive:

We end up missing the first show (for an in-depth recap of last night’s show, check out Punchline Magazine coverage of our festival).

The semi-finals of the NCCC were a great success, and when all was said and done, Emerson from the East and University of Minnesota from the Midwest will be duking it out for the national title of America’s funniest college team this Saturday. And as always, you can check out the live stream on Saturday (6:45,p Mountain Time) over at the Rooftop Comedy Aspen page.

Also, after the after party, an impromptu rendition of Smashmouth’s All Star was sung by some of the college kids. Video hopefully to come soonish.

Posted: June 12th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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The Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festivals is in full effect! Why are you here and not watching the stream? Improv Mafia is opening up the NCCC Semi-Finals! Be sure to vote on your favorite college team to make to it to the finals on Saturday!

Cal? Emerson?
Minnesota? Florida?

Your votes count!

http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/events/aspen/live

And if you miss this? Be sure to tune in all weekend for more streamed acts of hilarity!

Posted: June 11th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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The next time you see me blog, I’ll be in Aspen, or in the Denver Aiport waiting for my connecting flight to Aspen. Either way, the time for Aspen is NOW!

Be sure to tune in to our live stream of the Festival, thanks to our friends over at Revision3! Peep the schedule for deets.

I’ll be tweeting on the ground at Aspen (@RooftopComedy), taking photos, blogging, and hopefully doing some stuff with Ustream. Hopefully.

Posted: June 10th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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This is it. We are coming up on the season finale of this year’s National College Comedy Competition, with an impending showdown between the funniest four stand-up teams and funny films vying to be the national champions of chuckle. They are:

Stand-Up Teams
UC Berkeley
University of Minnesota
Emerson College
University of Florida

Funny Films
It’s been a year
Danny and the Page
Obamarama
A Cartoon by Jesse Fernandez

Posted: May 19th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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Check out the latest National College Comedy Competition update!

Posted: April 29th, 2009 under Aspen and the National College Comedy Competition.
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