HK International Comedy Festival

The HK International Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival in Hong Kong.

Founded by The TakeOut Comedy Club Hong Kong in 2007 for English and Chinese-speaking comedians resident in Hong Kong, the festival has expanded to include comedians from all over the world. There are separate English and Chinese language competitions. The festival also includes a night featuring improvisational comedy.

The 2016 festival will take place between October 13 and November 5.

Winners[]

Hong Kong International Comedy Competition (English Competition)
Year	Host	Winner	1st Runner Up	2nd Runner Up
2007	Paul Ogata	Tom Schmidt	Chris Musni	Dean Rainey
2008	Tom Cotter	Vivek Mahbubani
2009	Kerri Louise	Ashley Strand	Stuart Schofield	Umar Rana
2010	Shecky Wong	Andrew Chu	GB Labrador	Chris Musni
2011	Butch Bradley	Tama Churchouse	Jinx Yeo	Alex Milner
2012	Ruben Paul	Rishi Budhrani	Joanna Sio	Turner Sparks
2013	Paul Ogata	Jason Leong	Jim Brewsky	Ryan Hynek
2014	Tom Cotter	Jim Brewsky	Alex Milner	William Childress
2015	Gina Yashere	Drew Fralick	Turner Sparks	Garron Chiu & Benjamin Quinlan (Tie)
2016	Paul Ogata	Hannan Azlan	Ben Quinlan	Garron Chiu
2017	Ahmed Ahmed	Ben Quinlan	Andrew Chu	Garron Chiu
2018	Barry Hilton	Garron Chiu	Storm Xu	Andy Curtain
2019	*No show held due to Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong International Comedy Competition (Cantonese Competition)
Year	Winner
2007	Vivek Mahbubani
2008	Fab
2009	Yebi Hu
2010	Chris M
2011	Chan Lok Tim
2012	Fab
	*2012 was the final year for the Cantonese portion of the Comedy Festival

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