Originally Posted by Mark Kaufman
Looks like the channel for Comedy is going byebye. Too bad, I've entered it every month since it started. Not enough entrants.

Hi Mark. Where did you get this info? I went to Ourstage when I read your post and couldn't find anything to confirm this. I also checked the amount of entrants in Comedy(143) and found that the Spoken Word/Perf. Poetry had only 133 - less than Comedy. Reggae only has about 183.
I agree with Brian about the prizes being too much. That only invites dishonest, organized voting. The comedy category also seems to invite younger contestants who aren't really serious about a career in doing comedy, performing novelty songs. etc. - who were just entering as a gag. And because they were in an age group were friends generally have more time to do self-indulgent things, they could have their PC posses vote them to the top or vote down the real competition.
Having said that - I did notice some real talent in the comedy genre - there are some entertaining artists there. It would be a shame to totally remove such a category. If financing prizes is a concern, combining several categories and eliminating repetitious categories may improve things. There would be apples to oranges competition - but isn't that the way it is in the industry anyway?

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