The Shorty Awards and the New York Comedy Festival in association with Comedy Central are teaming up to launch the first ever competition to find the best #emergingcomedian producing short-form content across Twitter, Facebook and social media.

Voting will take place from October 10th-November 4th in preparation for the biggest week of comedy of the year, the New York Comedy festival. Beginning on November 9th all over NYC performances by Bill Burr, Louis C.K. , Ricky Gervais, Kathy Griffin, Jo Koy, Bill Maher, Norm Macdonald, Tracy Morgan, Russell Peters, John Pinette, Sarah Silverman, and Wanda Sykes will leave you LOLing like never before.

If you know the next emerging comedian on Twitter and social media nominate them now for a chance to win the first ever #EmergingComedian Shorty Award in partnership with the New York Comedy Festival. The winner will be honored at the Laugh More NYC show hosted by Elvis Duran on Sunday, November 13 and given ten minutes to perform standup in front of the crowd. Do your tweets have what it takes?

The details of the rules for our social media voting platform can be found here: http://shortyawards.com/rules. To become a finalist, you must be able to guarantee that you can be in New York City during the New York Comedy Festival November 9-13. Winners for this award will by chosen by the Comedy Jury of the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts and Sciences.