LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Funny Or
Die Presents The Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival
announced today that they have partnered with nine leading brands
to present the world's biggest comedy tour. The brand partners
named today include a returning brand — REDD's Apple Ale —
as well as eight brands new to the tour: DIALS, Southern
Comfort, 3 Musketeers, HP, FX,
Lyft, truth® and Fandango. The 18-city Oddball
Comedy Festival, which is too big to be contained by four walls,
kicks off under the stars on Aug. 28
at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City,
Missouri and wraps up at the Gexa Energy Pavilion in
Dallas, Texas on Oct.
18.
Also new this year to Oddball is Funny Or Die's 'Oddball
News Team' who will be cruising in a nostalgic 1978 van
capturing exclusive coverage of the festival at various dates. From
travel log videos on the road, to interviews with the comedians, to
man-on-the-street reporting, Funny Or Die's Oddball News Team will
be on site asking the hard-hitting questions that people care
about. In addition, select Oddball fans who post pictures to
Instagram with the hashtag #oddballnewsvan have a chance to
win ticket upgrades. Content from the Oddball News Team will be
featured on www.funnyordie.com/oddball.
The official 2015 mobile app for the Oddball Comedy Festival
will be powered by DIALS, a new Los Angeles-based tech startup that recently
launched its own new mobile scheduling app, DIALS®.
DIALS has rethought the mobile calendar and transformed the
old, hard-to-read "list view" of your schedule into an
elegantly designed new "clock-based" view of your day.
The Oddball mobile app will feature the tour schedule, a
first look at the final lineups and set times for each city,
and offer special exclusive discounts and seating upgrade
opportunities to those Oddball fans utilizing the app.
"We are excited to have our tour schedule app powered
by DIALS. If comedians are the disruptive 'square pegs in
round holes', then DIALS is the disruptive 'round peg in
a square hole' when it comes to calendaring. We look forward to
having them power more of our festival schedules," said
John Reese, Oddball's
producer. "We are so happy to be partnered up with Oddball,
considering we ARE the oddball of the calendaring world,"
said Dials co-founder and CEO Thomas Scriven.
The free Oddball app becomes available on iOS at the Apple App
Store, and for Android at Google Play, on Aug. 27.
Oddball is excited to welcome back REDD's® Apple Ale for
a third straight year with the REDD's Apple Ale Festival Stage. The
REDD's Apple Ale Festival Stage will feature Big Jay Oakerson as
the host of the stage, where he will introduce local talent from
each market.
"REDD's is excited to partner with Oddball again, it's been an
incredible ride and the tour just keeps getting better," says
Anup Shah, marketing director,
REDD's Apple Ale. "We can't wait to see the REDD's Festival
Stage hosted by Big Jay Oakerson treat our fans to the best local
comedy there is. REDD's is about Picking Different, and REDD's is
helping give people a way to enjoy comedy in a different
way." REDD's will bring its crisp apple ale taste to Oddball,
with giveaways and other surprises.
Joining forces for the first time, Southern Comfort
(SoCo) and the Oddball Festival invite you to laugh out loud all
tour long with a "ShottaSoCo." "At Southern Comfort, we don't take
ourselves too seriously. We're comfortable being Southern Comfort,"
says Jennifer Powell, brand
director, Southern Comfort. "We couldn't think of a better way to
bring our 'Whatever's Comfortable' attitude to life than to
partner with an event that doesn't take themselves too seriously
either."
Like the Oddball comedians, Southern Comfort proudly celebrates
self-comfortableness and the right to be yourself. During the tour,
not only will SoCo be showcasing the recently redesigned
contemporary packaging bottle, but will also be offering consumers
an opportunity to win free tickets to events as well as hosting
on-site activations to win prizes and, of course, to sample the
tour's exclusive cocktail — the SoCo Punchline.
Another new addition to the Oddball family, HP, will
be hosting The Sprout Experience Tour to show attendees the world's
first fully-integrated desktop 3D scanning solution. Sprout
specialists will demonstrate how anyone can grab an object from the
physical world, manipulate it in the digital world and bring it
back to life. It's simple. It's fun. It's revolutionary.
FX is joining the Oddball Comedy Festival this year in
celebration of Denis Leary's hit new
comedy Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll. Airing on FX on
Thursdays at 10 p.m. e/p,
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll stars Leary as "Johnny Rock," the lead singer of a legendary
early '90s New York band called
The Heathens who broke up on the brink of stardom. 25 years later,
Johnny's getting the band back together, only now it's led by a
massively talented young singer named "Gigi" (Elizabeth Gillies) who also happens to be the
daughter Johnny never knew he had.
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll also stars John Corbett, John
Ales, Robert Kelly and
Elaine Hendrix.
Lyft has come on board as the official rideshare partner
for the Oddball Comedy Tour. Lyft is an app for welcoming,
affordable rides within minutes, allowing you to "request and go."
Use the code ODDBALL and your first Lyft ride, up to $20, is free in the following markets: West Palm
Beach, Atlanta, Chula Vista, San
Francisco, Irvine,
Austin and Dallas.
You may have heard of the "rule of three" in comedy, but did you
know that Musketeers follow it, too? That's why 3
MUSKETEERS® Chocolate Bar is pleased to announce its
sponsorship of Funny or Die's Oddball Comedy and Curiosity
Festival. At every stop on the tour, consumers will be invited to
stop by the 3 MUSKETEERS® tent for free samples, to interact with 3
MUSKETEERS® socially through a fun Musketeer-themed photo-op, and
to find out why 3 MUSKETEERS® is the perfect combination of
chocolate, fluffy and musketeer!
truth joins Oddball for the first time as
well. "Leveraging creativity is one of the key ways that this
generation can end tobacco for good and the Oddball Comedy and
Curiosity Festival is one way for us to share that message with a
broad audience," said Eric Asche,
chief marketing officer of the public health organization that
directs truth and has recently introduced plans to
be called Truth Initiative. "At this festival we're
able to arm teens with the facts, inspire them to rally together,
and provide them with tools they can use to bring the teen
smoking rate from 8% to zero — together we can #FinishIt for
good."
Fandango, the nation's top digital destination for
moviegoers and fans, is joining the third installment of Oddball
Comedy Festival. As part of the partnership, select attendees
will receive front row seat upgrades, courtesy of Fandango
VIP.
About Funny Or
Die
Funny Or Die launched in April 2007
and has grown into a premier comedy brand and production studio
known for creating award-winning, high-quality content with a
global audience of more than 70 million. Funny Or Die's social
media division produces content for over 15 platforms and is the #1
comedy brand on both Twitter and Facebook. Funny Or Die is the top
destination for celebrity-driven comedy videos and highly topical
political commentary. Funny Or Die's founders are Gary Sanchez
Productions (Will Ferrell,
Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy), and Creative Artists Agency
(CAA). Judd Apatow is also a
principal partner.
About DIALS
DayDials, Inc. (d/b/a DIALS) is an
LA-based tech startup company founded in 2013 by longtime
entertainment executive Thomas
Scriven (CEO) and celebrated Reddit artist Dante Orpilla (CCO/Defender of User
Experience).
The non-Oddball calendaring app, DIALS®, is currently
available as a public beta for iOS users in the Apple App store.
www.DialsApp.com. With its at-a-glance
visualization of your upcoming events, and its simplified entry and
edit process for all your important meetings, calls and
tasks, plus in-app chat with other meeting
attendees, DIALS® is the easiest and best on-the-go way to
manage your time.
About MillerCoors
Through its diverse collection of
storied breweries, MillerCoors brings American beer drinkers an
unmatched selection of the highest quality beers steeped in
centuries of brewing heritage. Miller Brewing Company and
Coors Brewing Company offer domestic favorites such as Coors Light,
Miller Lite, Miller High Life and
Coors Banquet. Tenth and Blake Beer Company, our craft and
import division, offers beers such as Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy from sixth-generation Jacob
Leinenkugel Brewing Company and Blue Moon Belgian White from modern
craft pioneer Blue Moon Brewing Company, which celebrates its 20th
Anniversary this year. Tenth and Blake also operates Crispin Cider
Company, an artisanal maker of pear and apple ciders using
fresh-pressed American juice, and imports world-renowned beers such
as Italy's Peroni Nastro Azzurro,
the Czech Republic's Pilsner
Urquell and the Netherlands'
Grolsch. MillerCoors also offers pioneering new brands such
as the Redd's Apple and Redd's Wicked Apple franchises and Smith
& Forge Hard Cider. MillerCoors seeks to become America's
best beer company through an uncompromising promise of quality, a
keen focus on innovation and a deep commitment to
sustainability. MillerCoors is a joint venture of SABMiller
plc and Molson Coors Brewing Company. Learn more at
MillerCoors.com, at facebook.com/MillerCoors or on
Twitter through @MillerCoors.
For more information about Redd's, visit
www.ReddsAppleAle.com or the social media pages at
www.Facebook.com/ReddsAppleAle and
www.Twitter.com/ReddsAppleAle.
About Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort®, a fruit,
spice, and whiskey flavored liqueur, was created in New Orleans by bartender M.W. Heron in 1874. Today, it is enjoyed by
friends in over 100 countries around the world and continues to
grow as an icon brand. Please visit us at SouthernComfort.com and
facebook.com/southerncomfort.
Please Drink Responsibly.
Liqueur, 35%-50% Alc. by
Vol., Southern Comfort Company, Louisville, KY ©2015
About FX
FX and FXX are home to some of the funniest
shows on television, including It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie and
Archer. Married follows
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll on FX on Thursdays at
10:30 p.m. e/p. The final season of
The League and second season of You're the Worst
premiere on FXX on September
9th. And next year look for the new FX comedies
Baskets, starring Zach
Galifianakis, and Better Things, starring
Pamela Adlon, while Cassius and
Clay, a new animated comedy from the creators of Archer,
is heading to FXX.
About Live Nation Entertainment
Live Nation
Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment
company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live
Nation Concerts, Live Nation Media & Sponsorship and Artist
Nation Management. For additional information, visit
www.livenationentertainment.com.
About truth
truth is the most successful
and longest running national youth smoking prevention campaigns.
The campaign exposes the tactics of the tobacco industry,
the truth about addiction, and the health effects and
social consequences of smoking. truth gives teens
facts to make their own informed choices about tobacco use and
inspires them to use their social influence and creativity in the
fight against tobacco. The campaign is credited with preventing
hundreds of thousands of teens from starting to smoke, and is
working to make this the generation that ends smoking for good. To
learn more, visit thetruth.com. truth is part
of a national public health organization dedicated to achieving a
culture where all youth and young adults reject tobacco. In
September the organization will officially change its name
to Truth Initiative. To learn more about their
work speaking, seeking and spreading the truth about tobacco,
visit truthinitiative.org.
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