Comedy Club Breaks Stand-up Record
Comic Strip Live Broke Guiness World Record for Longest Comedy Show
History was made on the Upper East Side of New York City, as a hundred comedians performed at the Comic Strip Live to set the world record for the longest comedy show in the world. Comic Strip Live Comedy Club teamed up with Guinness’ Book of World Records and Red Bull to event, which raised donations for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.
A hundred popular comedians from all over the United States of America converged at the tiny, dim comedy club to perform for twenty to thirty minutes apiece, for fifty hours. The event hosted by William Stevenson, who hosted all fifty hours, kept the audience well entertained.
Beginning Tuesday, June 3 at 8:30 and ending Thursday, June 5 at 10:30 the audience enjoyed for the entire 50 hours of the world record attempt, a professional comedian on always on the stage.
Though there wasn’t always a crowd in the small club, there was always audience members present. One audience was going for the unofficial longest comedy show audience member; he consumed the most coffee and Red Bull.
The comedians included Jeff Ross from NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman, Tony Rock from CW’s All of Us, Lisa Landry, Jason Andors from HBO’S Bad Boys of Comedy and Dave Attell. Jeff Ross took up an hour of the 50 hours on Wednesday night of the attempt to preview his HBO special that he was set to perform and record in Atlantic City.
Another highlight from the night was when comedian Paul Mecurio went on for his set and whipped out his camera to film the audience. An Indian in the audience entertained Paul Mecurio for five minutes of his set, declaring that he is a “convenience-store Indian not a casino Indian.” To which Mecurio replied “It's interesting to me that you have no sense of self-worth!”
The event was not for the race, gender and politically sensitive, but for those who are willing to donate. All of the contributions from the World’s Longest Comedy Show went to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is one of the leading organizations for helping armed officers and their families. Beginning in 2000 under the sponsorship of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, and establishing itself as an independent non-profit organization in 2003, the Fund has provided close to $60 million in support for the families of military personnel lost in service to the United States of America, and for severely wounded military personnel and veterans.
A hundred percent of contributions raised by the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund go towards programs that aid ex-military and military personnel of the United States armed forces.
