If you're one of the thousands of Austinites who DON'T work at an ice cream factory, we've got a great way for you to beat the Monday blahs: head out to the Cap City Comedy Club for the 3rd Annual Funniest Filmmaker in Austin contest, hosted by writer/comedian/filmmaker/handsome devil Matt Bearden....

In your mouth you have these things called taste buds. The amazing thing is that everyone’s buds are different--even people who came out of the same birth canal. For example, we lurv broccoli and begged for it as a child. But our siblings, and this guy, hate it. Taste buds don’t make sense. Tastes buds are kinda like humor receptors; everyone’s sense of what is good is different, and thankfully no one can tell us......

The Funniest Filmmaker in Austin contest returns to Cap City Comedy Club, with semifinals emceed by Bryan Gutmann, winner of the 2007 Funniest Person in Austin contest NYC's uber-scenesters The Misshapes hold court at Beauty Bar with Riot in Belgium and KidIndie Zilker Park hosts the very last installment of KGSR's Blues on the Green, featuring Marcia Ball & Band DJ Mel spins the killer 80s jams at the quarterly Rock the Casbah dance......

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You think you're funny, huh? Think you know how to make movies? Think you know how to make people laugh with a movie? Well, if you're not deluding yourself on any of those counts (or if you'd like to discover whether or not you're delusional), you should totally get your camera and your FinalCut rolling and start perfecting your entry for the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin contest. Sponsored by the Austin Film Festival and......

Remember that Lazy Sunday parody you did after you couldn’t get The Chronic-what-cles of Narnia out of your head? Or the remake of the Sabotage video you did using your old Starsky & Hutch action figures? Well, funny guy/gal, Cap City Comedy Club and the Austin Film Festival have synergized to give you the chance to flex your inner Benigni with the Funniest Filmmaker in Austin Competition! Get your funniest film on tape and send......