50 First Jokes is a comedy show started by John F. O'Donnell in New York City. Since 2007, this annual event has been the highly anticipated, first big kickoff event of the year and has franchised out to LA, New Orleans, Austin, Denver, and Ann Arbor, MI.
On January 9th, 2015, John-Michael Bond brought the show to Atlanta for the first time. Held at the wonderful Hangar in Old Fourth Ward, the room was packed wall to wall with audience members and comedians alike to watch 50 of ATL's best tell the first joke they've written in the new year. It was one of the biggest turnout's for a indie show in Atlanta, and one hell of a good time. Congrats to John-Michael for putting on a fantastic show!
Other comics performing included: Ian Aber, Nathan Baine, Marlan Ballard, Greg Behrens, Paige Bowman, Jody Bufkin, Keith Cameron, Olivia Cathcart, Austin Chardac, Justin Clements, Anthony Driver, Trey Dunn, Brian Emond, Max Fine, Corey Forrester, Shaunak Godkhindi, Justin Harris, Rob Haze, Joseph Highsmith, Michael Humphrey, Dan Immke, Travis Jones, Joe Karg, Shannon Kelley, Lace Larrabee, Rob Lear, Chris Ledford, Laura Lewis, Andrew Markle, William Miracle, Neel Nanda, Amber North, Nathan Owens, Molly Pease, David Perdue, Phoebe Perry, Joe Pettis, Ben Popkin, Neal Reddy, Joel Ruiz, Kevin Saucier, Caroline Schmitt, Samm Severin, Ronndell Smith, Jeffrey Stephenson, Dayne Swerdling, Justin Thompson, Evan Valentine, Dan Weeks & Andew Wright.
Photos by Olivia Cathcart, Paige Bowman, David Perdue & Jessica Hale Cowin respectively
