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Alf LaMont is a comedy nerd who serves as Chief Content Officer and head of Comedy at Adler Integrated Marketing and was previously VP of Marketing and Development at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles.
He likes science and hates cats.

Alf LaMont is the Chief Content Officer and head of Comedy at Adler Integrated Marketing and previously he was the VP of Marketing and Development at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Alf's work on comedy and technology has been featured on Laugh Button, Laugh Spin, Venues Today, The Comic's Comic, Connectedcomedy.com and and Fifteen Minutes Media where he was referred to as a “Rising star of Social Media”. Alf has also been a featured speaker at Sports and Entertainment Venues Tomorrow Conference, Pac Net, 140 Conferences in NY and LA, South By Southwest 10' 11' 12' , The Gravity Summit, Social Media Week Los Angeles , Internet Week NY, The Digital Media Conference West, and The USC Anenberg School Center for The Digital Future.

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A Degree in Stand Up: Coming to a College Near You

(2) Comments | Posted February 21, 2013 | 7:14 PM

I remember sitting in my office in 2010 and reading Doug Stanhope's evisceration of stand-up comedy classes. I remember it very clearly, in fact, because at the time I was deep into strategizing how a "traditional" comedy club could become the next Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater. UCB was...

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2012 Holiday/Fauxliday Calendar

(1) Comments | Posted November 28, 2012 | 5:55 PM

Thanksgiving Thursday was the official start of Black Friday this year as retailers across the country opened for 24 hours and even extended sales into Small Business Saturday. As the dawn broke on Cyber Monday, a panic begins as our attention suddenly turns to the split day of Giving Tuesday/Mobile...

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Facebook's Squeeze on Brands Is Gnarly, But Ultimately 'All Good' You Guys

(0) Comments | Posted November 16, 2012 | 6:14 PM

There's been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over Facebook's recent shift to "Promoted Posts" and professionals seem to be split as to what it means for the future of the platform.

One one side we have people like Dangerous Minds, who called the changes " THE...

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Cats: Help End a Vicious Interspecies Scam

(7) Comments | Posted June 14, 2012 | 6:29 PM

Internet, world, take a knee. We need to have a real talk. This is one of those moments where we all have a breakthrough. Where we look at obstacles ahead and change the tide. This is that moment in Braveheart where Mel Gibson says that non antisemitic stuff and people...

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The Best Music Video About Facebook's IPO You'll See Today

(2) Comments | Posted May 18, 2012 | 5:26 PM

It's not only Friday, it's Facebook IPO Friday!

What better way to celebrate the end of the week/canonization of Mark Zuckerberg by Wall Street than with a little music from well-meaning people who want to thank Facebook?!

On the Thank You Facebook Song Facebook page, writer

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A Legendary Comedy Club Turns 40

(2) Comments | Posted April 26, 2012 | 1:25 PM

If there is a cathedral for the relatively young art of stand-up, if there is a La Scala for comedy or a Louvre of Comedy history, the black, bunker-like building on The Sunset Strip with the chasing lights and the classic marquee is it.

The Comedy Store,...

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Turn Left? The Lack of Right-Wing Comedians

(433) Comments | Posted March 26, 2012 | 4:15 PM

At the SXSW Interactive Festival this year, I moderated a panel goofily titled "Political Humor 2.0: Teh Internetz is Leaking." The panel was populated by lovely, funny brilliant people with political points of view: Carol Hartsell of Huffington Post Comedy, Rory Albanese of The Daily Show, and Sara Benincasa of...

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