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2023 Challenge Winner – Steve Smargon
Congratulations winner, Steve Smargon of Michigan won the $1000 purse. 3 days of Comedy Bootcamp...unmatched in a small nurturing environment! GOD BLESS TO ALL THE GROUP WITH GOOD HEALTH & SUCCESS.
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...
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Ricky Mokel
Ricky Mokel, the "gifted idiot", is an optimistic, country-type fellow who, shockingly, can sound like an intellectual when he wants to. Starting in January, 2000 until the Covid lockdown in March, 2020, Ricky Mokel delighted audiences as the featured funny-man in One...
Sonya White
Sonya White combines Southern charm with city-wise street smarts to create a show that won her multiple appearances on Star Search (CBS), promo spots on Last Comic Standing (NBC), featured role and national tour in Southern Fried Chicks (CMT), nomination for ‘Best...
Heath Hyche
Heath Hyche uses stand-up comedy, quick-change costumes, original music, unique props and video to take the audience on a one-of-a-kind journey through his vivid imagination full of manic characters. Heath’s television credits include “The Tonight Show”, Jeff...
Jim McCue
A mixture of witty “A-list material” and his ability to work off-script has earned Jim McCue the title “Boston’s King of Crowd Work!” It’s not only his height of six foot six that makes Jim stand head and shoulders above club comedians of the “stick-to-the-script”...
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...