{"id":1839,"date":"2015-09-28T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2015-09-28T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:38:03","slug":"contest-crowns-bakersfields-best-comedian-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/contest-crowns-bakersfields-best-comedian-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest Crowns Bakersfield&#8217;s Best Comedian of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday September 27th was a great night for stand up comedy in Bakersfield. Over 100 people packed into the Rocket Shop Cafe for The 2nd Annual Oil City Comedy Jam, a comedy contest to crown the Bakersfield&#8217;s top comedian of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The show was Oil City Comedy&#8217;s 6th straight sold out monthly show. The field of 16 comedians did their best 4 minute set, and those sets were judged 1-10 on categories such as material, crowd reaction, and professionalism. The 8 judges included locals such as Joe Schaffran, organizer of the Local Bakersfield&#8217;s Rock and Rod&#8217;s Festival, Cesareo Garasa, writer for The Bakersfield Californian and drummer for legendary local band Mento Buru, hypnotist Brian Parks,and even Fat Paul, head of security at Sandrinis Bar.<\/p>\n<p>The champion was Margaret Haggard who edged out the 2nd place finisher Chris Flail by just one point. The show gained attention from local news channels KGET-17 and ABC-23, and stories featuring the Royal Rumble we&#8217;re aired on both channels.<\/p>\n<p>Oil City Comedy hosts an open mic every Thursday at Rocket Shop Caf\u00e9 and a Showcase show the last Saturday of each month. Like their page on Facebook for more info.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/taft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1840\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/taft-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"taft\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/taft1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1841\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/taft1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"taft1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday September 27th was a great night for stand up comedy in Bakersfield. Over 100 people packed into the Rocket Shop Cafe for The 2nd Annual Oil City Comedy Jam, a comedy contest to crown the Bakersfield&#8217;s top comedian of 2015.  The show was Oil City Comedy&#8217;s 6th straight sold out monthly show. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}