Mardi Gras Live Stand Up Comedy Challenge Featured Eddie Brill

Veteran comic Eddie Brill was part of the first ever Mardi Gras Stand Up Comedy Challenge in September 2011. Eddie helped turn the Dawg House Sports Bar into the hottest stand up comedy club in the Fort Lauderdale area. Hundreds of comics competed for a chance to win $5,000 and open for comedy legend Paula Poundstone at our world famous Hollywood Florida Racetrack on October 22nd, 2011.

In addition to Hollywood Florida's favorite son Eddie Brill, the five qualifying rounds were headlined by different stand up comics who each perform 40 minutes of Live Stand Up Comedy. Our hilarious hosts included Lady Roz G, Marion Grodin, Sarge and Michele Balan. Bobby Collins performed his one of a kind live stand up comedy routine, which was THE Fort Lauderdale Stand Up Comedy Attraction of the Year.

Eddie Brill Headlined THE Fort Lauderdale Stand Up Comedy Attraction of the Summer

Eddie Brill is a well-respected and very funny stand-up comedian here in the USA and abroad. He has been a regular on the comedy scene in England since 1989. Eddie also works regularly in Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, France, Holland and Hong Kong.

He was born and raised in New York...and re-raised in Hollywood, FL.
For the past eleven years and counting, has worked on the Late Show with David Letterman. He is the audience warm-up and Talent Coordinator for the comedians who appear on the show.

He has taped more than 100 television shows in six different countries. He is also a 3-time MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabaret and Clubs) for Best Male Stand-up Comic in NYC. He has hosted and performed for hundreds of corporate events...including ESPN, Glaxo Welcome. Hyatt Hotels and BMC Software. He performed on some of the greatest stages in the world including The Shrine Auditorium and Radio City Music Hall. He has been the audience warm-up for many 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 numerous films as an actor...most recently, 30 Years To Life with Tracy Morgan. He has used his voice talents in many animated series including Comedy Central's Dr Katz and ABC's Science Court.

Eddie produces and helps book stand-up talent all over the world. He is the creative director of the wildly successful Great American Comedy Festival. It honors Johnny Carson in his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska. Along with Norman Lear in 1978, he helped create one of the first ever college comedy writing departments in the country at Emerson College in Boston. He also helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop, founded in 1976 and continuing to thrive today.