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The Seattle International Comedy Competition (Best Of - NYE)

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Safe travels in the weather! The show will start promptly on time, and we encourage you to arrive 30 minutes early to allow for parking, health & security check-in, and any other delays as your get to your seat. Late arrivals will be held in the lobby until appropriate intervals. We look forward to seeing you at the theatre!

This performance is the ‘Best Of’ NYE show.

OPENER: Phillip Kop, Comedy Competition finalist

HEADLINER: Christina Walkinshaw

HOSTED BY Robert Pidde, representing Fox Productions

ABOUT CHRISTINA WALKINSHAW

Christina Walkinshaw is a Vancouver born stand up comic now living in Los Angeles. Her half-hour comedy special often repeats in the middle of the night while you’re sleeping. She’s been nominated for multiple Canadian Comedy Awards, performs on CBC’s “The Debaters,” and has a top selling album on itunes called “It’s Taking A Long Time To Become Famous…” She’s appeared at Just For Laughs, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Glasgow Comedy Festival, and has entertained troops overseas. In general, she chooses to avoid mushrooms and marriage.   

The Seattle International Comedy Competition is the REAL “Last Comic Standing.”

  • 26 Days

  • 22 Shows

  • 18 Venues

  • 32 comedians from the U.S., Canada, UK, and Japan

  • Over $15,000 in cash prizes

  • It’s America’s biggest touring comedy festival

The 2021 Seattle International Comedy Competition start the first week of November and ends in December

There are two, Preliminary rounds of 16 comedians; each comedian gets 5 minutes to impress. The Preliminary rounds consist of five shows, and a combination of entertainment industry and celebrity judges and audience reaction determines who moves on when each performer’s five best scores are tallied.

The Top Five comics from the Preliminaries make the Semi-finals; all the Semi-finalists win some cash, and get to compete for the title by performing for 10 minutes nightly for fiev shows.

At the last Semi-Final show the Finalists are announced. Five comedians get to go big, and five get to go home. After two days to recover and plan, the Final round begins the fourth week of November. After visits to theaters in Whidbey, Vashon, Kirkland, Bremerton and Seattle, we will have a new champion.

SCHEDULE & TICKETS

DEC 31 | 7:30 PM
$30 All Seats

Christina Walkinshaw

Earlier Event: December 21
SOUL-stice Soiree with Doctor Savage
Later Event: January 5
Art Talks: Imogen Cunningham

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.