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Film and Writing Festival for Comedy. Showcasing best of comedy short films at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Plus, showcasing best of comedy novels, short stories, poems, screenplays (TV, short, feature) at the festival performed by professional actors.

WINNERS: December 2025 COMEDY Festival

A showcase of the best COMEDY films in the world today. AUDIENCE AWARDS:Best Feature Film: We Sock – End of the WorldBest Short Film: The Fugly DucklingBest Direction: Vapor TrailsBest Performances: The Countdown Vapor Trails, 11min., USADirected by Matt JenkinsMandy has just given Jethro an ultimatum, quick vaping or else. His friend Chuck thinks its… Continue reading WINNERS: December 2025 COMEDY Festival

COMEDY Poem: .com, by Sophia Adams

I know a girl with a flip-phone and I am jealous of that. She doesn’t have to go on Twitter–I mean X, sorry–and see porn gifs. She doesn’t know that Ted Cruz liked a step-mom video on 9/11. I think that should go on the ballot, she has the right to know.

COMEDY Poem: Mom, Please, Mom, by David Brooks Ellis

It’s great to be a man. Men have all the power, masculinity! patriarchy! FREEDOM! There are no female voices, could you imagine? All that nagging, whining, bad driving. Women quiver, bow to us kings, oppressors of innocent, women, and children. Therefore, it’s only right that all men shall be destroyed, it’s their fault, our fault… Continue reading COMEDY Poem: Mom, Please, Mom, by David Brooks Ellis

COMEDY Poem: “BUT I DON’T EAT MEAT, BOSS”, by Arda Ünal

A Hunter Parrot dwells on its prey. PIERCING, BLOODY TALONS An excited wah hypes on, A voice; soft, almost soothing, quotes a naturalist, Camera cuts to the parrot’s eyes, WILD, CUNNING EYES The bird talks, IT IS UNHEARD. “Just eat it already,” thinks the documenter, Zooms in, trying to create some tension. Can imagine people… Continue reading COMEDY Poem: “BUT I DON’T EAT MEAT, BOSS”, by Arda Ünal

COMEDY Poem: It’s Funny Because It’s True, by Ricky Jude Barker

She orders a salad, I go for a roast beef sandwich— the table a peace treaty between greens and gravy. We’re joking about the choir, how altos drift like shopping carts, how sermons sometimes wander too. I tease her about converting zombies; she tells me to quit watching zombie movies. “Never,” I retort. The waitress… Continue reading COMEDY Poem: It’s Funny Because It’s True, by Ricky Jude Barker

COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: Tom Hanks Must Die!, by Evan Neill

When a bitter nobody becomes convinced that Tom Hanks is the cosmic reason his life sucks, he drags a new friend on a chaotic cross-country mission to confront destiny-and maybe punch America’s dad in the face. CAST LIST: Narrator: Julie Sheppard Margaret: Val Cole Jeff: Sean Ballantyne

POETRY Reading: Krispy Kreme by Derrick J. Johnson

Performed by Val Cole: —- POEM: Where are my Krispy Kremes? Did someone take them away? Hot and fresh and slowly glazed, I must embrace the great sensation. Where are my Krispy Kremes? For I’ve watched they as they were made. Jelly filled, chocolate covered, or Bavarian crème, The variety of a great sensation. I’ve… Continue reading POETRY Reading: Krispy Kreme by Derrick J. Johnson