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2022 Challenge Winner – Rosco Nash
Congratulations Rosco Nash from FL. for winning the Clean Comedy Challenge 2022 and $1000 in Hollywood last night. Finalists were Moody Molavi TN. Queen Aaliyah Ford N.C. Lisa Gilbert Ca. and Darin Thompson Utah. A Wonderful night. GOD BLESS TO ALL THE GROUP WITH GOOD...
2021 Challenge Winner – Griffin Sciarria
Congratulations to Griffin Sciarra for winning Leslie Norris Townsend’s Clean Comedy Challenge 2021!
2020 Challenge Winner – June Colsen
In Nashille at Third Coast Comedy Club, June Colsen won the Clean Comedy Challenge 2020! What a fun time!
2019 Pasadena Challenge Winner – Andrea Caspari Spears
Andrea Caspari Spears came to the world famous Ice House in Pasadena, California and outlasted all the competition to win the 2019 Pasadena Comedy Challenge.
2019 Nashville Challenge Winner – Clint Hall
Clint Hall is the winner of the 2019 Nashville Clean Comedy Challenge at Third Coast Comedy Club in Nashville.
2018 Carson City Challenge Winner – Heywood Banks
After winning the Nashville Scholarship Challenge and qualifying to enter another 2018 Challenge for free, Heywood Banks out of Michigan made the most of his opportunity and won the entire thing in 2018! Joining Heywood in the finals were Rodney Norman out of Salt...
2018 Chicago Challenge Winner – Rhonda Corey
Rhonda Corey from Rhode Island won the 2018 Chicago Clean Comedy Challenge in near Chicago, Illinois at the Comedy Shrine. It was a great competition and showcased talent from all over the country! But in the end, Rhonda prevailed. The 2018 Chicago Challenge was...
2018 Nashville Challenge Winner – Heywood Banks
HEYWOOD BANKS from Michigan wins the Clean Comedy Challenge Nashville 2018 at The Third Coast Comedy Club, Nashville, TN. Leslie Norris Townsend, producer/COMIC brought, The Clean Comedy Challenge in it's 9 year of challenging all Comics to work Funny and Clean to...
LEARN ABOUT FORMER JUDGES
Linda Belt
Linda Belt will be judging The Clean Comedy Challenge 2023 in RI. Linda Belt is a New Jersey native (a comedy routine in itself). She moved to CT in 1987 where she became a suburban pillar of the community attending PTO meetings and baseball games. Linda became very...
Rodney Norman
Rodney Norman will be judging The Clean Comedy Challenge 2023 in RI. If you have been on social media you have seen his face. His videos have garnered millions of views worldwide and his style (or lack thereof) is catching on. Honest and unassuming, his humor will...
Bob Nelson
Watching a Bob Nelson live performance is like watching several different types of top comedians all rolled up into one. Characters like the lovable nerd Eppy Epperman, punchy boxer Jiffy Jeff and chicken rancher Wilby Stuckinson are as funny and memorable as any you...
Sam Kwasman
Sam Kwasman was a judge for The Clean Comedy Challenge in 2022. Sam is a veteran actor/comedian. From a professional dancer in movies such as "Mame" with Lucille Ball and stage musicals like "Hello Dolly" with Martha Raye and the "Music Man" with Van Johnson, he...
Bob Fisher
Bob Fisher, owner of The Ice House Comedy Club, was a judge for The Clean Comedy Challenge in 2022. Bob took over The Ice House in 1978 and is now the oldest standup comedy club in the country. One of the first artist Bob booked to perform at The Ice House was Robin...
Gerry Bednob
Gerry Bednob was a judge for The Clean Comedy Challenge in 2022. Gerry has co-starred as "Bling Bling Shelton" in the VH1 comedy series Free Radio and recurred on shows such as Wilfred (TV series) and Playing House. He has appeared in films The 40-Year-Old...
Jimmy Brogan
Jim Brogan is the son of John and Anne Brogan. He was born in New England, but at the age of six moved to Chicago and then to Cleveland. In a short period, he saved enough money with a paper route and a pyramid scheme to pay for his parents to join him. Jim grew up...
Steve Mittleman
Steve's earned a rep as one of the best comedians around... He started touring in 1980 and has kept audiences laughing ever since. Comic Relief producer, Bob Zmuda: "One of the funniest I've worked with." Appearances on The Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson &...