The 5-day Cabo Comedy Festival, which kicked-off on Wednesday, September 30 and underwent Sunday, October 4, featured over 65 of America’s leading stand-ups, with another 25 of the leading comics from Mexico handy to execute programs in Spanish. The event was produced by LA-based the Zaring Group and also Wind Entertainment and sponsored by the Los Cabos Tourism Board.Saturday evening was a night of highlights, with truth star Whitney Port (The Hills and also The City) and also her bachelorette party in tow to take part in the laughter. Famous stand-up comedienne Elayne Boosler was awarded with the event’s ‘Giant of Comedy’ Award by her long-time pal and also well known talent manufacturer Claudia Cagan, and also comic Ben Morrison was chosen as the standout entertainer of the Jack Rollins Breakthrough Talent Competition, in which 20 ‘opening act’ level comics performed on Thursday and also Friday nights, with the leading 5 acts from each evening re-competing on Saturday before a panel of entertainment industry experts including Cagan, LEG partner Judi Brown-Marmel and also writer/producer Hillary Rollins (the competitors was named for iconic manager/producer Jack Rollins, who recently died at 100 years old). Morrison made an area on AXS television’s Gotham Live, fairly a prize for an up and also coming entertainer.
The Cabo Comedy Festival partnered with Levity Entertainment Group and also Sirius/XM, with Levity producing a ‘ideal of the fest’ emphasize show for Sirius/XM, that will certainly broadcast in the coming months on their comedy networks. The program features performances by Ahmed Ahmed, Ben Gleib, Drew Lynch, John Fugelsang, Francisco Ramos, Lil Rel, Derek Gaines, Tiffany Haddish and also Aida Rodriguez, among others.
The shows took place at neighborhood hotspots Desperados Cantina as well as La Divina, with the after celebrations hosted at Cabo’s top celebrity hangout, Baja Junkie. A section of the earnings of the Comedy Festival advantages DIF Los Cabos, a charitable company which sustains children as well as families in demand.
Zaring Group creator John Zaring has three years of experience in celeb occasion manufacturing. The firm has been advertising Mexico via special events as well as celeb appearances given that 2007.
Levity Entertainment Group (LEG) is an integrated amusement firm that produces and also distributes material across numerous systems. The business preserves four main divisions: live, monitoring, manufacturing, as well as digital. Their goal is to be one of the most extensive worldwide media source for their clients and also companions.
Los Cabos, located at the tip of the 1,000-mile long Baja Peninsula, is house to acclaimed resorts, resorts, championship fairway, renewing health facilities, first-rate sporting activity angling, and was the host city for the G20 Summit of global leaders in 2012. With a special landscape of dramatic desert as well as white sand coastlines, Los Cabos is an exotic retreat within very easy reach of many U.S. as well as Canadian cities.
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