Green Faces

Green Faces is Australia's most popular audience voted comedy competition held at the Canberra Irish Club each year. 

Since it's inception in 1997, Green Faces has had over 600 competitors, given away over $45,000 in cash and has had over 12000 people attend!!! 
It is for new or budding comedians to enter with the only criteria being that the entrants CANNOT earn more than $150.00 average per week over one year from comedy.

There are 9 Heats. 3 from Sydney, 3 from Melbourne, 1 from Adelaide, 1 from Brisbane and 1 from Canberra.


The 2012 season is over, however keep an eye on the green faces facebook page for updates. 

 

 

 

 

 

Prize

1st Prize:
$2500.00 cash plus a weeks bookings (Thursday-Saturday) at the Sydney Comedy Store or The Sit Down Comedy Club in Brisbane.

2nd Prize:
$750 Cash plus a minimum three Gigs.

3rd Prize:
$500 Cash

Structure

As a rough outline, this is how the evening will be run and the people who will be involved in the night:

  1. The Host will be a professional comedian who will hold the whole night together.
  2. Six contestants each Thursday night, except for the grand final where there will be Ten. The Host will introduce the evening to explain what's going on to the audience and hold the show together - perform for 8-10 minutes. Each of the contestants will then perform for up to ten minutes. In between each contestant the host will come back out and using his/her discretion will introduce the next contestant to the stage or rev the crowd back up before introducing the next contestant. There are two quick breaks - after the first three comedians (10 - 15 minutes) and then while the voting forms are collected. After the second break the Host will perform for 15-20 minutes and then introduce the winner for the night and close the show. The winner of each heat goes directly into the final.
  3. For their vote to count the audience simply mark one box.
  4. The heats are audience voted. If there are any discrepancies the Judges decision is final.
  5. For the Grand Final the audience votes and judges votes are worth 50% of the total score.

2012 Winners

  1. Khaled Khallafella (VIC)
  2. Sean Woodland (NSW)
  3. Suns of Fred (WA) & Amos Gill (SA)

Previous Winners

Date Winner Runner Up
2011 The Stevenson Experience James Moffett
2010 Moataz Hamde Ben Lomas
2009 Anne Howe  
2008 Jay Sullivan Brian Chandler
2007 Tom Gibson Oliver Phammovanh
2006 Troy Kinne (VIC) Dave Eastgate
2005 Sean Baxter (QLD) David Thornton (VIC)
2004 Richard Marks (VIC) Janelle Koening (VIC)
2003 Brett Nichols (NSW) Average (SA)
2002 Big Brother Little Brother (NSW) Em O'Lochlin (SA)
2001 Ross Janetski (QLD)  
2000 Jason Starrett (NSW)  
1999 Anh Do (NSW) Dave Williams (VIC)
1998 Marty Wilson (NSW) Tom Gleeson (NSW)
1997 Steve Hughes (NSW) Joe Avati (NSW)