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👉 Partnerships

Festival Partnerships

Perhaps you run a comedy festival or know someone who does. Or, maybe you're a comedian who is interested in discovering festivals to apply or volunteer your time. It could be that you run a music festival or cultural event and are interested in adding quality comedy to your bill. Whatever the case, we'll have you know the World Comedy Foundation is excited to be advancing our mission to provide a one-stop platform for all things festival comedy, including:

digital festival representation
email blasts to our members about festival submission deadlines
custom enrollment and submissions portals for festivals to review EPKs and communicate with festival applicants
branding, promoting and producing bootcamps for new and curious players in the festival space
assembling and managing festival volunteer teams
production partnerships
next level swag campaigns
auxiliary festival events including but not limited to daytime meetups and swaps, community pop-ups, and more

The World Comedy Foundation's BFF label is still in its underground incubation stage now as we focus on our introductory comedian campaigns. Want to declare your fest? Email us

Moving Forward...

The World Comedy Foundation's festival mission is as follows:

Leverage the WCF's digital resources to support festival producers and comedians for posterity
Enhance awareness and connectivity and grow positive culture among all players in the comedy festival space
Broker new relationships to add comedy to the bills of existing festivals
Help fill in programming gaps to grow festival brand presence and strengthen comedian and community experience around comedy festivals everywhere

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For Active Comedians

Designed with the performer in mind, you can customize your own public WCF pages directly from your phone. Bio, Media, Tour Dates, Reviews, Contact, Mailing List and more. A smart and dynamic Electronic Press Kit+ integrated with the WCF Mobile Web.

Professional Affiliation

Contextualize your work among the ranks of other professional comedians and comedy labels worldwide. You can even choose your own affiliate URL or direct traffic to your World Comedy Foundation mobile web page from your own third-party domain.

A Living Legend

The World Comedy Foundation is carving out a rich and intuitive space to document and preserve the history of performers like you so that it can become visible and valuable to the world at large. When you share your content with the WCF, you contribute your mark to that story.

Collective Visibility

Sharing a platform means members' fans can discover you, and your fans can discover them! Grow awareness of your brand and capture new audiences worldwide. All roads lead back to the World Comedy Foundation, your home for live comedy on the internet.

Audience Capture

Every comedian needs a mailing list! Your WCF mobile web is brimming with opportunities for fans to follow you, share their contact with you, send you a message, and even leave reviews for you to share.

A World of Our Own

The World Comedy Foundation is the first and only organization uniquely driven to build a community for comedy here, there, and everywhere. There's no telling what good we can do when we take initiative together. Join up and become apart of the World Comedy Foundation today.

Content Integration

When you upload content to the WCF, we integrate it with front pages for live comedy in hundreds of major cities. Plus, the public can access your mobile web directly from venue pages and find the additional info they need to enjoy the show and stay in touch.

Social Features

Our members are selected on an ongoing basis for social media features as well as in mailers to WCF members, stakeholders, and local audiences worldwide. Plus, once your content joins the WCF archive, there's no telling where it may pop up. It's the living history of comedy!

Brand Partnership Guide

Are you the owner of a comedy label or a comedy-adjacent product or service? Would you like to utilize or talent pool, digital platform, or publishing avenues to reach an audience of comedians and comedy lovers around the world?

Let's chat!

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Your Own Website!

Designed with the performer in mind, you can customize your own public WCF pages directly from your phone. Bio, Media, Tour Dates, Reviews, Contact, Mailing List and more. A smart and dynamic Electronic Press Kit+ integrated with the WCF Mobile Web.

Professional Affiliation

Contextualize your work among the ranks of other professional comedians and comedy labels worldwide. You can even choose your own affiliate URL or direct traffic to your World Comedy Foundation mobile web page from your own third-party domain.

A Living Legend

The World Comedy Foundation is carving out a rich and intuitive space to document and preserve the history of performers like you so that it can become visible and valuable to the world at large. When you share your content with the WCF, you contribute your mark to that story.

Collective Visibility

Sharing a platform means members' fans can discover you, and your fans can discover them! Grow awareness of your brand and capture new audiences worldwide. All roads lead back to the World Comedy Foundation, your home for live comedy on the internet.

Audience Capture

Every comedian needs a mailing list! Your WCF mobile web is brimming with opportunities for fans to follow you, share their contact with you, send you a message, and even leave reviews for you to share.

A World of Our Own

The World Comedy Foundation is the first and only organization uniquely driven to build a community for comedy here, there, and everywhere. There's no telling what good we can do when we take initiative together. Join up and become apart of the World Comedy Foundation today.

Content Integration

When you upload content to the WCF, we integrate it with front pages for live comedy in hundreds of major cities. Plus, the public can access your mobile web directly from venue pages and find the additional info they need to enjoy the show and stay in touch.

Social Features

Our members are selected on an ongoing basis for social media features as well as in mailers to WCF members, stakeholders, and local audiences worldwide. Plus, once your content joins the WCF archive, there's no telling where it may pop up. It's the living history of comedy!

Or so we've been told...

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Hi there. I'm Joli, the creator of this platform.

I just want to take a moment to thank the thousands of comedians who have participated in our programming, given their time to volunteer in our databases, and are advancing our mission now with boots on the ground in in every major city. We are the funkiest village, and we've got what it takes. Thank you for all you do.

Want to volunteer? Email us.

Enjoying the view from my favorite ancient volcano, Arthur's Seat, in Edinburgh, Scotland (2010)

The 3volution.me and ha.cool domains join the World Comedy Foundation family as performer landing pages and development work continues on Laugh.Social and the global Laugh Map. Donate today to support our mission into 2023 and beyond.

The World Comedy Foundation is declared on the banks of the Mad River in Dayton, OH.

Thee 2nd Annual Comeday 2021 International Joke Day Comedy Marathon features more than 100 comedians from around the world, including a special show by The World's Best Laugh.

Laugh Social and Comedy Ink begin incubation on the Rampantly platform.

Rampantly's Virtual Las Vegas 420 Comedy Festival welcomes more than 175 comedians to perform in 15 features and 20 breakout comedy shows. The festival features Bromitas, Foreign Objects, The Nice Guy's Show, Splitsville, Chalk Talk, Rich Chassler's Comedy Bible Friday Night Spectacular, No Man's Land, Red Mic, Blue Mic, Comedy Bureau All-Stars, and special shows by Hot Breath! and Comedy Therapy New Jersey. The Green Mic Show makes its debut!

Rampantly members round out the year with their third and final marathon event, a ball drop count-down comedy show ringing in 2021 across all four continental US time zones.

Following the success of Comeday 2020, Rampantly members rally to pull off another epic marathon event, Halloweek 2020. The event brings more than 150 comedians together online to perform in 28 hours of live-streamed comedy shows over four days time.

Rampantly officially kicks off platform membership with the 1st annual Comeday 24-hr International Joke Day marathon. Nearly 300 comedians list to perform.

Programming moves online and operations take root in the Oberlin Egg outside Cleveland, OH. By the end of our first 6 months of operation, we will run more than 100 virtual comedy mics and slot more than 500 comedians.

The Rampantly Underground Comedy Network is born in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA, as a radical experiment in organic cross-promotion among rising talent on social media.

Field research expands across the continental US with focus on Austin, TX, and Eugene, OR.

We begin as a glitch in the space-time fabric of the Budd Company in modern day Strawberry Mansion, Philadelphia, PA. Birthplace of the bazooka and the Pioneer Zephyr, the Budd's interiors now serve as the interior of the WCF's Rampantly metaverse.

A Brief History

(as told by Mama Jojo)

The platform that is known today as the World Comedy Foundation first established itself in Spring of 2020 as the Rampantly comedy network. Building on an idea I had while living as a digital nomad in Los Angeles in Summer 2019, I launched the Rampantly brand as a radical experiment in collective self-promotion among indie comedians.

My goal at the time was to explore the ways in which up-and-coming performing artists could harness the tide of the new social media sharing economy to raise all their ships together. I began with an Instagram account, where I shared and tagged content from my favorite comedians. Before I knew it, those comics--among them Beth Stelling, Mike Birbiglia, Julio Torres, Nick Nemeroff, and Claire O'Kane--were reposting and engaging my account, and their fans were following me back. I was a comedy promoter! The Rampantly label was born.

Believe it or not, this website was once a page for just one, solitary comedy show, and that show was called Blue Mic. I launched the first Blue Mic show on May 19, 2020. The Blue Mic was a live digital mic that invited quarantining comedians to perform five minutes. For signups, I built a simple template on this website. Signups for each Tuesday show show would open at midnight on Wednesdays. We quickly found ourselves maxing out the list in minutes. By the end of our seventh weekly show, we had already played host our first live stream marathon for International Joke Day, enrolling 285 registered performers from 100+ cities who performed back-to-back sets for 24 continuous hours... Rampantly, indeed ;)

(You can check out the archived version of the original Rampantly site here.)

With the amazing success of our initial launch, suddenly comedians all over social media had heard of the Rampantly brand and were contacting me to ask how they could be involved. I quickly taught myself how to create dynamic webpages and hook them to databases. From there, I continued to invite my original Blue Mic comedians to launch shows for themselves on the platform using a template of the original Blue Mic website. By December 2020, I had designed the Rampantly meme machine, which generated custom show promotion for each comedian to instantly screenshot and share on social media. We were profit-sharing our ticket sales and hosting quarterly live-streamed comedy marathons with even more invited comedy labels from coast to coast. In just 18 months, the platform had grown to house more than 80 shows. At our height before the world began to "opened up again" in Summer/Fall 2021, we were collectively producing 20 weekly digital comedy mics hosted by comedians all around the USA and abroad.

All in all, our initial incubation period saw us slotting nearly 7k acts on nearly 700 comedy shows. Thanks to our savvy data capture, these records have now become folded into the heart of the World Comedy Foundation archives... including more than 1,000 hours of tape.

Moving Forward...

In just three years time, we've ramped up this platform from serving a member base of 1,800 comedians with nightly live digital comedy mics to now housing and expressing data on local comedy mics, venues and performers in more than 300 cities. (We call this the World Comedy Foundation mobile web.) Rather than producing these shows as the Rampantly comedy network, we've brought the Rampantly mark into the public domain and are now evolving the shared infrastructure so that comedians and comedy producers can collectively represent themselves and their labels, and even run their own independent shows on the World Comedy Foundation platform if they so choose.

Our platform succeeds thanks to the participation of comedians and audience like you! We invite you to explore our mobile web, to opt in to representing yourself and your comedy here, and to reach out to us with partnership ideas, growth opportunities, and any and all feedback you may have! You can contact me directly via the chat widget in the bottom corner of this screen, text me at (424) 275-7273, and email me at worldcomedyfoundation@gmail.com. Our current, honorary ombudsman for member relations is one and only comedy legend Eddie Pepitone.

It is our ultimate goal that the World Comedy Foundation can firmly establish itself as the 21st century digital crossroads for live comedy on the internet. But to make this dream a reality, we need your help. It's time for us to assemble a sustaining board of directors, kickstart a capital campaign, and execute our business plan to scale our mission. I hope you'll consider joining today and contributing to the cause!

And of course, we invite you to make a donation to the World Comedy Foundation. One-time donations can be made via Paypal to @laughtertothepeople. To contribute a sustaining donation, please reach out to us directly at worldcomedyfoundation@gmail.com. Donations are not yet tax-deductible.

Want to check out our mobile web? Navigate the tabs above to discover and contribute your data to the family of participatory labels that comprise the World Comedy Foundation family of brands. For a one-time donation, you can activate your own WCF social stack today. This is also the first step to applying for full performer representation.

And as always, thank you for everything you do to bring comedy to your communities. Let's do what we can to make live comedy a global past time again! The future of humanity may very well depend on it!

Your friend and champion,

my friend,

Joli Elizabeth Reichel

August 11, 2023

Hi there. I'm Joli, the creator of this platform.

Want to volunteer? Email us.

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Apply yourself.

The WCF is currently beta testing performer pages with our existing pool of founding member comedians.

To be notified of our public launch,
create a free member account.

Digital Tour Valet

Want to hit a homerun on your upcoming tour? For a sliding donation of $10-40/mo. we'll assign you a devoted Digital Tour Valet to take care of maintaining the digital side of your Tour Calendar for you. They'll keep your shows up to date so you can share your WCF links for your audience to RSVP. And they'll also guarantee that your dates are cross-posting to each and every venue page on Laugh.Social, so your dates are discoverable to comedy fans browsing your city. You can send us dates however's most convenient for you. Some comedians send us their monthly show flyers with all the dates listed in one place; others message or text us when they get booked.

And now that you know your website is current, you can direct fans from your show to check you out online, RSVP for your shows, join your mailing list, and even leave you a testimonial or review. It's that easy on the World Comedy Foundation mobile web.

Transcription Services

Want a record of your performance, word for word? Dial in your delivery with WCF Transcription services. Email us for rates laughtertothepeople@gmail.com

Flowers on the Kill

Did we mention.... We're all comedians? Are you planning to kill* at your next show? For your timely donation of $3/stem with a minimum order of 50 stems (please give us two weeks advanced notice) we will assign a World Comedy Foundation volunteer to hand out your choice of our signature yellow flowers to your audience members as they let out at the end of your next show!

*Do not be alarmed! This is a figurative comedy term that means "bring down the house," as it were.

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DISCOVER THE WCF MOBILE WEB

You can learn more and become involved with all of our current initiatives and explore archives of our past initiatives in the WCF Underground. To access the Underground, create a free member account and follow the instructions sent to you via email. If you're already a sustaining member, you can enter the Underground here.

The WORLD COMEDY FOUNDATION is a first-of-its-kind digital engagement and collective representation platform and a one-stop shop for comedians, comedy shows, festivals, and venues to represent themselves and engage with comedy audiences from more than 300 cities worldwide. Wikipedia meets Facebook meets Yelp meets Bumb--alright, pup! Let's keep our eyes on the prize here! Laughter to the people!

Here's what we're up to this season!

Coming soon!

STEP 1: REPRESENT! A one-time donation of $10 is all it takes to establish your record in the World Comedy Foundation database and earn a social stack. Whether comedian or comedy lover, now's the time to join our public supporters! Share your 3volv.me/ and 3volution.me/ links to lead your audience to the WCF and enjoy link-backs to your landing page from your name mentions across the WCF metaverse.

Learn more

STEP 2: Show us what you got!

For performers, producers, hosts, and housers of live and live digital comedy entertainment! For a sustaining donation of just $10mo, become discoverable on the WCF mobile web with your own professional, one-page website at ha.cool. Complete with public bio and headshots; tour dates; tagged photos; and your best video! You can even hook your ha.cool page to your own custom URL!

Be discoverable at ha.cool and open the pathways to begin adding your comedy data to the WCF database. We'll even express your tour dates and link your content across additional, relevant venue and city pages on the WCF mobile web.

Ha... Cool! Learn more

STEP 3: Make your work shine.

For comedians and producers seeking professional affiliation for themselves and their shows. On an application basis and with a sustaining donation of $15/mo., earn your comedy.foundation landing page, where you can share up to three of your best videos and all the photos you'd like, collect and display fan reviews, reply to booking inquiries, maintain your fan base, upload and tag photos of shows, venues, and comedians in your network, and more!

Learn more!

Check it out!

You're gonna love this! As a sustaining member at our Talent level, you will soon have the option to maintain your own show pages on Laugh.Social, the World Comedy Foundation's global open mic map! And it's all in one place! Simply hook your mic listing and add tour dates from your show's Laugh.Social page to instantly list features and mics, and even add dates to your acts' WCF tour dates!

That's right... we're the member generation, and we're here to take the comedy world by storm. Join now. #laughtertothepeople

And we aren't through yet! Stay tuned in the coming months as we launch our RAMPANTLY producer portal, where sustaining producers will be able to house their mic and show labels on their own custom websites and activate the WCF's proprietary RAMPANTLY machine to serve their performing acts with instantaneous, customized promotional memes, list, book, and produce their shows, and integrate new media to bring the crowd and keep them engaged!

Seeking comedy festivals? Seeking talent submissions? Big Fun Fest is in development by WCF members now to be your one-stop shop for festival promotion across social media. We organize and share festival data with our members so they have what they need to be involved. Click the icon to contact us today and add your festival's details.
We also mobilize volunteers and have great swag!

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Want to explore the WORLD COMEDY FOUNDATION Underground?

Click here to create a free user account.

Much of the information on our mobile web is publicly accessible via links that our members share to their audiences all over the internet.... But you'll have to find them yourself! It's the great breadcrumb trail of comedy!