New York's 6th Annual Funniest Reporter Show

Ryan McCormick and his partner Mark Goldman of Goldman/McCormick PR are geniuses at creating exciting events. Six years ago while Ryan was working for the legendary comedy club The Comic Strip, he came up with the idea of doing a NY’s Funniest Reporter Show to raise money for charity, and he pulled it off. In recent years he does it with his partner Mark Goldman, and it gets bigger and better every year.

Jeffrey Gurian with Courtney Friel from Fox News Channel, who he mentored for the contest, and who made the top three!

It’s since become an annual event raising money for one worthwhile cause after another. Some years it was for Wounded Warriors. Another year it was to raise money for our soldiers overseas to be able to call home. This year it was to benefit The Humane Society of NY.

(L-R) Lauren Sivan, Courtney Friel, Wendy Diamond holding Lucky Diamond, and Adam Shapiro at The Comic Strip!

I’ve had the privilege of working both as a judge as I did last year along with Judith Regan and Dennis Hof, and as a mentor as I did with NBC’s Cat Greenleaf of Talk Stoop fame, Taryn Winter Brill who was a Features Reporter on GMA at the time, and Courtney Friel from Fox News Channel, and all three of them came in in the top 3.

This year’s show featured Jane Velez-Mitchell from Headline News, writer Abby Ellin, Greg Mocker from WPIX 11, Wendy Diamond from Animal Fair Magazine, Julia Melim from Hollywood TV, Adam Shapiro from Fox Business News, Courtney Friel the entertainment reporter for Fox News Channel and this year’s winner Marlaina Schiavo from HLN’s Nancy Grace show.

And last year’s winner Lauren Sivan came and did a guest spot while the judges were busy tallying the votes!

Jeffrey Gurian with Jane Velez-Mitchell from Headline News Network outside of The Comic Strip after the show!

Julia Melim from Hollywood TV on stage doing her comedy thing at The Comic Strip!

Jeffrey Gurian giving Wendy Diamond some support before her set at The Comic Strip!

Jeffrey Gurian with Valerie Roman of Goldman/McCormick, who helped so much in making sure the evening went smoothly!

Greg Mocker from WPIX 11 on stage killing it at The Comic Strip! He gave me props for my hair!

Check out the video of the event right here:

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