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4th Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival Finals

Last Saturday, the 4th Annual Hong Kong Comedy Festival concluded with American Christopher M winning the Chinese competition and hometown Hong Kong local Andrew Chu winning the English competition.
This was the third year in a row that I’ve covered the festival, and during that time its been a privilege not only to document the growing local comedy scene, but also to hang out with some of the funniest dudes in Hong Kong.
Congrats also to GB Labrador (from the Philippines), Chris Musni, Rifat Karlova (from Turkey) and Matina Leung for winning 2nd and 3rd place for the English and Chinese Finals respectively.
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Last minute notes scribbled backstage

The Godfather of Hong Kong standup, Jami Gong

Shecky Wong, HK International Comedy Festival headliner

People’s Liberation Improv perform A Nightmare On Elgin Street


Daniel Chong

Smita Venkat

Steven Ng

Tama Churchouse

Ladies love Ryan Hynek

GB Labrador

15-year old phenom Connor Savage

2010 Chinese competition winner Christopher M

2010 English competition winner Andrew Chu

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4th Annual HK International Comedy Festival Preliminaries

The English preliminary rounds of the 4th Annual HK International Comedy Competition wrapped up last weekend at the TakeOut Comedy Club in the Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. I went to my first Hong Kong Comedy Festival event 2 years ago, and its been great to see the list of comedians grow and competition get stronger.
Before every round of the competition, there is always a sense of nerves in the green room as club owner Jami Gong goes over the rules and comics finish last minute prep. But they all brought their “A” game for the prelims. Good luck to all the remaining comedians for the finals this weekend!
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Noel Gascon just flew in from Manila (and boy are his arms tired)

Vivek Mahbubani’s one man show

TakeOut veteran Kay Ross

Kiwi comedian (and musician) Nick Rado

Relative newcomer Tonia Yim

Earl Young, USA

Ambidextrous Chinese and English comic, Matina Leung

Shady Mahesh scopes out the competition

Competition judges

Canadian ventriloquist, Michael Harrison

Bring on the finals!

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Yvonne and Michael’s engagement – Central Park, New York

Before heading to Montreal to shoot Yvonne and Michael’s wedding, I had a chance to grab both of them after work in New York on a Friday afternoon to take some engagement session photos. We decided to walk around what is probably one of the most photographed areas of the city, Central Park. But since I started my photography professionally after my move from New York, I never really had a chance to properly photograph it. So I was particularly excited to get some pre-wedding portraits with the green foliage background and various architecture that is much harder to find in Hong Kong.
We hung out around the Bethesda Fountain area, where Yvonne and Michael showed off their ballroom dance skills (I later found out that the waltz was rehearsal for their first dance)!
More to come from the wedding day shortly…
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