{"id":13973,"date":"2015-08-20T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiolollipop.org\/?p=13973"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T14:21:19","slug":"thanks-for-your-support-radio-lollipops-9th-annual-improv-comedy-night-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/?p=13973","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for Your Support: Radio Lollipop\u2019s 9th Annual Improv Comedy Night Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Radio Lollipop Improv Comedy Night moved to its new home at Stage 305 in Magic City Casino for its 9<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> annual event. With more than 500 attendees, the venue was packed with guests ready for some serious laughs!\u00a0 Thanks to the support of its sponsors and guests, Radio Lollipop raised over $60,000 at the event, with 100% of proceeds benefitting the patients of Radio Lollipop.<\/p>\n<p>No stranger to the Radio Lollipop Improv stage, the evening was hosted once again by DJ Laz and his fabulous co-host Kimmy B of the DJ Laz Morning Show. We also had live music provided by DJ Tony the Hitman. The night featured a variety of comedic talent from Have-Nots Comedy. Among them was Adrian Mesa who told the crowd his unique and NSFW way of making chicken and waffles. Comedienne Kim Manfre spoke the truth as she expressed how \u201cEvery diet tastes like \u2018I wanna be fat!\u2019\u201d.\u00a0 Headliners included Comedy Central\u2019s Mike Britt from <em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt <\/em>and Miami\u2019s Nery Saenz, who proudly proclaimed \u201cAin\u2019t nobody want to lay their head on a bag of rocks\u2026 shout out to the cushiony guys!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No Improv would be complete without the giving away of prizes! Special thanks to our sponsors for making these prizes possible:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Event Sponsors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HITS 97.3<\/li>\n<li>Infinity Sound Production, Tony the Hitman<\/li>\n<li>Magic City Casino<\/li>\n<li>Rhoni &amp; Ned Tannebaum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Opener Event Sponsors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dolphin Mall<\/li>\n<li>Gables Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Grand Prize<\/strong> <strong>Donors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Express Travel<\/li>\n<li>Gray\u2019s Travel<\/li>\n<li>Viva Travel<\/li>\n<li>Walt Disney World<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thanks to all our additional prize donors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actors\u2019 Playhouse<\/li>\n<li>Bala Vinyasa<\/li>\n<li>Batch Gastropub<\/li>\n<li>Clevelander Hotel<\/li>\n<li>Coconut Grove Sailing Club<\/li>\n<li>El Dorado Furniture<\/li>\n<li>Elements Salon and Studio<\/li>\n<li>Gables Dental Services<\/li>\n<li>Mandarin Oriental Brickell<\/li>\n<li>Miami Children\u2019s Museum<\/li>\n<li>Miami Marlins<\/li>\n<li>and Mrs. Scott Miller: Miami Dolphins tickets<\/li>\n<li>Paradisium Center for the Healing Arts<\/li>\n<li>Pardo\u2019s Peruvian Cuisine<\/li>\n<li>Prime One Twelve<\/li>\n<li>Rosa Mexicano Restaurants<\/li>\n<li>Sofitel Luxury Hotel<\/li>\n<li>Shula\u2019s Hotel &amp; Golf Club<\/li>\n<li>The Capital Grille<\/li>\n<li>The Cheesecake Factory<\/li>\n<li>The Spa at Shula\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>The Tides South Beach<\/li>\n<li>Umberto\u2019s Italian Restaurant<\/li>\n<li>Uni-K Wax Center<\/li>\n<li>Xtreme Bowling &amp; Karting<\/li>\n<li>Zoo Miami<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong><u>2015 \u2018Host a Studio Night\u2019 Supporters: (all are Paparazzi level unless specified)<\/u><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GSK (Pop Star Level)<\/li>\n<li>Brain Tumor Awareness<\/li>\n<li>FIU Alpha Xi Delta<\/li>\n<li>Home Financing Center<\/li>\n<li>Play Action Sports<\/li>\n<li>Raise Me Up Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Amigos Near<\/li>\n<li>Hopeful Heroes<\/li>\n<li>MCHF President\u2019s Cabinet<\/li>\n<li>Alma Jennings Foundation (Rock Star Level)<\/li>\n<li>Joey Moreno as Superman<\/li>\n<li>Hispanic Police Officers Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Radio Lollipop Improv Comedy Night moved to its new home at Stage 305 in Magic City Casino for its 9th annual event. With more than 500 attendees, the venue was packed with guests ready for some serious laughs!\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/?p=13973\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}