Five Hour Comedy Intensive with Eddie Brill

This one-day, 5-hour intensive is designed for existing stand-up comedians to perform their set, ask questions, collaborate, and receive feedback from comedy legend Eddie Brill.

• Perform your set
• Ask questions and get feedback
• Collaborate with other comics

About Eddie Brill:

Eddie Brill is a legendary stand up comedian and comedy booker, as well as a supporter of the Catskills Comedy Festival. He has performed in 46 of the 50 states and in England, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, France, Holland, Dhaka and Hong Kong.

For seventeen years he worked on The Late Show with David Letterman as the audience warm-up and, for eleven of those years, as the Stand Up Comedy Talent Coordinator. He has taped more than 100 TV shows in six different countries, including ten appearances on The Late Show and an Emmy-nominated episode of the FX series "Louie." He is a 3-time MAC award winner for Outstanding Male Comic in NYC.

He has hosted and performed for hundreds of corporate events, including ESPN, Glaxo Welcome, Hyatt Hotels and BMC Software, and has performed on stages including The Shrine Auditorium and Radio City Music Hall. He has been the audience warm-up for shows including the "Dana Carvey Show," "Madigan Men," "This is Your Life" and, for a short time, early episodes of "Saved By The Bell." He has appeared in films including "30 Years To Life" with Tracy Morgan and provided voice work for animated series such as Comedy Central's "Dr Katz" and ABC's "Science Court."

Eddie produces and helps book stand-up talent worldwide. He was the architect and, for the first ten years, the creative director of the "Great American Comedy Festival" honoring Johnny Carson in Norfolk, Nebraska, and he assisted in booking U.S. acts for the international TV show "The World Stands Up." He also ran the "Paper Moon" comedy club in NYC and, along with Norman Lear in 1978, helped create one of the first college comedy writing departments at Emerson College in Boston. He helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop (founded in 1976) and currently teaches a stand-up comedy workshop worldwide. He is often called upon to help punch up film and comedy scripts.

He hosts, performs and helps raise money for many benefits, including The Roberto Clemente Foundation, The David Ortiz Children’s Fund, Sisters in Survival (women with breast cancer), Juvenile Diabetes, The American Cancer Association, and with Reader’s Digest and St. Jude on Stand-Up for the Children.