2026 SHOWCASE

Comedy Roll 2026 — Participants

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

✅ Alyse Paquin

Dark

You must parody or reference a famous scene from another movie

✅ Brandon Cliburn

Dark

✅ Brian Farstvedt

Dark

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

✅ Demetrius Dennis

Absurdist

Your film must include an intentionally bad transition between two scenes

✅ Dominick Todero

Dark

Receive 5 points

✅ Hannah Roll

AbsurdistSlapstick

You must include three puns in your film

✅ Jon Metzger

Absurdist

✅ Julia Huff

Slapstick

Your film must include subtitles even if it's in English

✅ Leonard Palmeri

Dark

A character must state the moral of the story out loud before the film ends

✅ Marcy Keedle