2026 TEAMS

Comedy Roll 2026 — Participants

#	Name	Genre	Pun-ishment
01	✅ Albert Krakosky	Spoof	Your film must include a musical number
02	✅ Alyse Paquin	Dark	You must parody or reference a famous scene from another movie
03	✅ Ana Gjorgjevski	Dark	—
04	✅ Brandon Cliburn	Dark	—
05	✅ Brian Farstvedt	Dark	A background character must visibly not know what to do and stay in the shot anyway
06	✅ Courtney DeRoche	Spoof	—
07	✅ Demetrius Dennis	Absurdist	Your film must include an intentionally bad transition between two scenes
08	✅ Dominick Todero	Dark	Receive 5 points
09	✅ Floyd Jones	Dark	You must have a fake product in your film
10	✅ Hannah Roll	AbsurdistSlapstick	You must include three puns in your film
11	✅ Jake Johr	Meta	—
12	✅ Jared Stephens	Dark	—
13	✅ Jon Metzger	Absurdist	—
14	✅ Julia Huff	Slapstick	Your film must include subtitles even if it's in English
15	✅ Leonard Palmeri	Dark	A character must state the moral of the story out loud before the film ends
16	✅ Marcy Keedle	Meta	All dialogue must be improvised — no written lines allowed
17	✅ Michael Pickard	Slapstick	—
18	✅ Mike Madigan	Silent	Character must reveal they're being filmed, accidentally or not
19	✅ Miranda Cole	Spoof	Your entire film must take place in one location. If indoors, only one room may be used
20	✅ Mitchell Kaufman	Absurdist	Your character's wardrobe must look randomly generated, like a video game avatar
21	✅ Skippy Rose	Absurdist	—
22	✅ Stefan Lindhal	Slapstick	You can only use two actors total — no background actors, no extras
23	✅ Talitha Barkow	Dark	—
24	✅ Tamar Reynolds	AbsurdistMeta	You must include three puns in your film
25	✅ Taylor McKean	Meta	—
26	✅ Ted E Dee	Dark	A line of dialogue must be repeated 3 times, with a different meaning each time
27	✅ Thomas Savage	Dark	—
28	✅ Tim Wilson	Spoof	—
29	✅ Tony Francisco	Silent	Your film must be shot in one continuous take
30	✅ Zachary Ruda	Absurdist	—

✅ Albert Krakosky

Spoof

Your film must include a musical number

✅ Alyse Paquin

Dark

You must parody or reference a famous scene from another movie

✅ Ana Gjorgjevski

Dark

✅ Brandon Cliburn

Dark

✅ Brian Farstvedt

Dark

A background character must visibly not know what to do and stay in the shot anyway

✅ Courtney DeRoche

Spoof

✅ Demetrius Dennis

Absurdist

Your film must include an intentionally bad transition between two scenes

✅ Dominick Todero

Dark

Receive 5 points

✅ Floyd Jones

Dark

You must have a fake product in your film

✅ Hannah Roll

AbsurdistSlapstick

You must include three puns in your film

✅ Jake Johr