Green Faces

Green Faces is a comedy competition conducted at The Canberra Irish Club every year

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.

Keep an eye on the green faces facebook page for announcements.


Registrations for 2011 have now closed.

 

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!!! This is the 15th season and we expect it to be the biggest one yet!!!!!

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

2011 Dates

Booking information: www.canberraticketing.com.au or 02 6275 2700

Date

Host

Heat
July 7 Kitty Flanagan as seen on 'The 7pm Project' Melbourne - Winner: James Moffett
July 14 Akmal as seen on 'Good News Week' Sydney - Winner: Sacha Marx
July 21 Jimeoin as seen on 'Good News Week' Brisbane
July 28 Steve Abbott as seen on 'Good News Week'
 Adelaide
August 4 Bev Killick star of 'Busting Out' Canberra
August 11

Tahir as seen on Fat Pizza & The Footy Show

 Melbourne
August 18 Dave Thornton as seen on 'The 7pm Project' Sydney
August 25 Mikey Robins as seen on 'Good News Week' Melbourne
September 1 Peter Helliar star of 'I love you too' Sydney
September 8 Grand Final
  
September 15 Best of  

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 plus five shows throughout various Sydney venues.

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 which is to be contested on Thursday 4th September.
  3. For their vote to count the audience simply mark one box.
  4. As it is an audience voted competition if there are any discrepancies the Judges decision is final.

2010 Winners

  1. Moataz Hamde
  2. Ben Lomas
  3. Ronnie Chieng

Previous Winners

Date Winner Runner Up
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)