BREAKING: The semifinalists just finished competing. In order, they were Alien Warrior, Corey Manning, Denise Ramsden, Landry, Ryan Dalton, Brandon Vestal, Jason Dudey, Dave Williamson.
Advancing to the finals (in just about an hour) will be Landry, Ryan Dalton and Dave Williamson. (That’s the order of finish, by the way.) Congratulations to the winners. And, from what we hear, everyone smoked the room and it was difficult to determine the winners.
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We attended last year’s WSOC as guests of organizer Joe Lowers. We joked at the time that were imported into Las Vegas to act as “observers” during the competition. (We weren’t sure what, if any, our function was… but we had a swell time and our coverage can be found here, here, here.)
We looked forward to this year’s WSOC. After all, we live here in Vegas now. And it would be a good opportunity to try out our FujiFilm FinePix S2950 “bridge” camera.
We hung out at the Alexis Park on Monday night and snapped some pics. We also hung out last night (Friday) when what appeared to be the entire WSOC contingent converged on Big Al’s Comedy Club at the Orleans. Those pics are also below. You may notice that there’s a big gap in there… a lot of stuff missing. We’ll explain that in another post. Meanwhile, enjoy the visuals.
Brad Reeder, Marcus Ryan, Eric Shantz
Joe Lowers, Adam Gropman, at the Alexis Park
The Male Half, Will Lopez, The Female Half
Artsy shot… That’s Joe Lowers… singing… a Bob Seeger tune.
The S2950 has a setting for turning beautiful people into oil paintings! In this case, The Female Half and International Sensation Tanyalee Davis!
A panorama shot of the horde at Big Al’s on Friday night.
That’s Edomonton’s Lars Callieou worshipping The Comedy Bible.
It’s Mat Black and Geechy Guy feigning amazement at the Comedy Bible
Lars Callieou, Scott Porteous, Vic Alejandro, Ben Proulx
Ben Proulx finding an inventive way of reading The Comedy Bible
Debbie Praver, Denise Madsen, Jason Dudey
Tanyalee Davis poses with The Comedy Bible as Rob Seven looks on indifferently.