How many days did you sit around daydreaming as a kid, wondering what could be the best job in the world? Astronaut, firefighter, rock star, President…. All of these are aspirations that fit the title of being the perceived “coolest” jobs in the world.

Roy Wood Jr. is a professional prank caller. How about that? Well, he’s actually a professional stand-up comic nowadays, but he started his career as a jokester doing what so many dinner hour telemarketers do inadvertently- ticking people off. “I did pranks for about six years on morning radio and I knew I was getting great laughs then. On a whim I put some of the tapes of these calls on my website with no real expectations of them doing anything major for me, just something to pass time and get content on my website. I did that for three years straight twice a month and got five or 600 hits a week with them,” he says.

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iO was born out of necessity; giving a home, a form, and a direction to the natural evolution of improvisational comedy. By the time iO was founded in the early 80’s, improvisation had become both popular and stale. Dozens of companies were performing the now-standardized games that had been in use since the 50’s. There was a yearning from within the community to do more with the burgeoning artform that was palpable, and it was iO that harnessed and refined it.

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Judah Friedlander is the Champion. The champion of what, you ask? The World, of course. Champion of the world of what? Duh, he’s World Champion of The World. C’mon, he’ll tell you that himself.

“I’ve never been nervous in my whole life dude, it’s all cool,” he says in his semi-monotone and flatly confident voice. As a supporting player on NBC’s hit series “30 Rock” (with Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin), a

healthy stand-up career and a boatload of feature film roles under his belt, Judah has been the beneficiary of some great show biz exposure. Now, he gives an exclusive in-depth look into his undeniably interesting world for readers of Campus Activities® Magazine.

According to his website, the champ is well over 7 feet tall. He came across his first fortune as just a boy of three, when he found an errant million-dollar bill. He is a 12th degree black belt on over 4500 different forms of martial arts and a former player for both England and Brazil’s National Soccer teams. He is a former Navy S.E.a.L. and wears a prosthetic head. And that’s all before breakfast.

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Your school has a chance to be selected for a free day of fun, learning and laughs for your audience! Headline comedians and invaluable information for your students at no cost to you! Read on!
The Trojan Evolve Campus Comedy Tour is an integrated experience designed to reach, engage and entertain college students while arming them with sexual health facts and the resources they need to protect their sexual health. This fall they’ll be stopping at ten to twelve college campuses, bringing with them some of today’s top comedic talents, and an important message directly to an at-risk population.

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The 2008 Campus Activities® Magazine Readers’ Choice National Campus Entertainment Awards recorded the largest vote in the industry’s history. The final tally was 12,216 votes, more than SIX times that of 2006 and nearly 2,000 more votes than 2007. The surge in voting came from the convenience of students being able to vote online. Online voting began in 2007 and this year the system was coordinated with vote verification by email address.

The trend toward LIVE NOVELTY continued for 2008, but all categories experienced increases in buyer participation. Legendary Small Venue performer, Jason LeVasseur was nosed out by less than ten votes by Sean McConnell. Only 20 votes separated Best Music Performance winner Recycled Percussion from second place winner

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There are some institutions embedded so deeply inside the world of comedy that, while they are pillars of the modern-day “funny”, many people don’t even know they exist. Most people are familiar with “Saturday Night Live!” but you didn’t think the stars of that show just walked on and became overnight sensations did you?

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As a college market favorite for years, Mike Super has entertained thousands of students and been an unequivocal success in his field. Now, millions of people around the country have had the chance to experience the ‘SUPERnatural’, as Mike won NBC’s recent “American Idol” style mentalism competition and was crowned THE “Phenomenon.”

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Those of you who didn’t see this season of “Last Comic Standing” may not recognize the man officially named the BEST stand-up comic in the world, but perhaps you remember him as the Dodge Hemi guy (”That thing gotta Hemi?”) or maybe from his regular supporting role in the hit sitcom “Rodney”. Either way, all you need to know about Jon Reep is that he is all-pro when it comes to comedy and voters around the world backed up that claim with his recent “Last Comic Standing” win.  Jon has been in the comedy game for longer than you might think,

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Amy Schumer is now what you might call an overnight sensation. Going from an class clown to hitting the clubs and being featured on national television in just a matter of a couple of years, Amy is on the fast track to comedy greatness. Last Comic Standing was more successful than ever this year

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As the brand new host of this summer’s hottest comedy, Bill Bellamy helps to prove once again that “Last Comic Standing” has found a winning formula. This season takes the competition not only to several cities in the U.S., but countries across the globe too as the judges scout new talent in Canada, the U.K. and Australia.


Host Bill Bellamy takes the reigns from Last Comic 4 emcee, Anthony Clark and so far has proven he has the electric personality necessary to make this season of LCS the best yet.


While Bill certainly isn’t making his first foray into the television game, it does seem to be his first great chance to become a household name. “It’s an incredible opportunity that just kind of landed at my doorstep. I really didn’t foresee this and I

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