Milwaukee Comedy Festival founder and organizer Matt Kemple looks happy as he sits in his office in the Underground Collaborative….I compliment him on the festival making it into its eighth year, and he smiles. ”Eight is great.” And so is the festival itself, Wisconsin’s largest comedy event and, increasingly, a popular national festival. Since its inception in 2006, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival has gained notoriety from all corners of the United States, and has more acts vying to perform than ever before. ”For the 2012 festival, we had 60-some submissions,” Kemple said. “This year we had 130, easily twice as many. And these submissions came from everywhere. In the past we’d maybe have one submission from New York City one year and then one from Los Angeles the next year. 2013 is the first year that we received submissions from every big city, every corner of the United States, from New Hampshire to Florida, the South, San Francisco, San Diego, and Canada.”
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