The organizers of several of the city’s stand-up open mics (The Famous International Variety Show, Comedy X-Change, Rittenhouse Comedy, and Center City Comedy) have put together a seventy comedian tournament-style stand-up comedy competition to coincide with college basketball’s March Madness this month. Across four nights each week, the first seventy will be narrowed down to 40 the first week, to 16 the second, then to eventually to the Elite 8 on the third week, who will compete in the finals — taking place at the end of the month at Mad River in Manayunk.

The first round began this week, with eighteen competitors being narrowed down to ten on each night at The Famous International Variety Show Sunday and Comedy X-Change on Monday. Here are the results from Sunday night:

Ian Fidance
Jamil B
Tommy Pancrazio
Shea McGiveny
Jason Falco
Steve Slaughter
Matt Reiss
Dan Knabb
Tim Ryan
Brandon Ketchup Wilson

And from Monday night:

Jon Delcollo
Steve Lichtenstein
Noah Houlihan
David Agekum
Alex Gross
Dave Primiano
Pat Barker
Erin Mulville
Sean Preston
Jess Carpenter
Continue reading March Madness Stand-up Competition in full swing.