Harvard Sailing Team is a New York City

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group featuring 5 women and 4 men. The team performs weekly in

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and their popular

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, VH1's Best Week Ever, ComedyCentral.com, College Humor, New York Magazine's Vulture blog, Funny or Die, Andrew Sullivan's blog, The Comic's Comic, Cosmo Magazine, Jezebel, Gawker, Sesame Street and TimeOut NY. Winners of the 2011 Nightlife award for Outstanding Comedy Group, I the Friar's Club Film Festival competition, ''Improvisation News'' 2011 INNY Award for Best in Sketch Comedy and the 2007 ECNY award for Best Sketch Comedy Group, they perform their hit live show every Friday night at The PIT. They have appeared live at Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, the Kennedy Center, Caroline's on Broadway, National College Comedy Festival, The PIT, Charleston's Piccolo Spoletto Festival, Chicago SketchFest, Toronto SketchFest, New York Comedy Festival's Best of Sketch Show, SketchFest NYC and at the UCB NY and UCB LA. They perform in argyle sweaters and Converse sneakers. Harvard Sailing Team is Jen Curran, Clayton Early, Faryn Einhorn, Katie Larsen, Adam Lustick, Billy Scafuri, Chris Smith, Rebecca Delgado Smith and Sara Taylor. The sketch group is not affiliated in any way with Harvard University or its sailing program. The group was founded by Chris Smith, a graduate of

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, and Billy Scafuri, who graduated from

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, but both of whom are from

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'', 2005-06-24, p. B2. Not one of them attended

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, and none of them sail. They first performed in

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. Their second appearance at the Charleston Comedy Festival was named Best Return Engagement. Individually Harvard Sailing Team members can be seen on television, in feature films, award-winning

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, and national

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. Although they're comedians, many in the troupe are also experienced dancers, choreographers, and singers.

Awards

Winner: 2011 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Comedy Duo or Group. Winner: 2010 Friars Club Film Festival Competition. Winner: 2011 Improvisation News INNY Award for Best in Sketch Comedy Winner: 2007 Emerging Comics of New York Award for Best Sketch Comedy Group.Borden, Jane
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'' blog, 2008-01-29. Retrieved on 2008-07-10.

References

External links

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