Sticks and Stones Comedy Presents: THE QUEEN OF LONG ISLAND COMEDY PALMA FLORENTINO + HAMPTONS COMEDY FILM FEST!

The Hamptons Comedy Film Festival presents a highly curated showcase for the best in comedy -- shorts, features, tv pilots, web series, filmed sketch comedy and animation -- for our Hamptons audiences, often filled with entertainment industry. We allow for rolling submissions and present our selected films at our beautiful comedy club theatre at Sticks and Stones Comedy Club. Hamptons Comedy Festival was established in 2000 and was sponsored by HBO. Many comedians performed in the Hamptons, including Ed Helms, Judy Gold and Joy Behar. The NY Friars Club presented a comedy award here, in honor of Soupy Sales. The HCF presented the Hamptons Comedy Film Festival, showing shorts and features - including Sarah Silverman's earliest film Who's the Caboose? directed by Sam Seder. After many consecutive years of the HBO Hamptons Comedy Festival, the festival organizers moved to LA and began producing live comedy with performers like Marc Maron and Maria Bamford at venues like UCB. Now, the Hamptons Comedy Festival is presenting live comedy and screening selected comedy shorts and features each week at Sticks and Stones Comedy Club theatre in Southampton, NY.

Joe Winchell is a Sag Harbor local who graduated from Pierson High School with all C’s. Joe's been doing comedy for 6 years, but he was no stranger to the road or stage as he spent most of his twenties acting and doing live theater. Since trading in Shakespeare for a microphone, he’s had the pleasure of performing at Broadway Comedy Club, Gotham Comedy Club, Comix Roadhouse at Mohegan Sun and Governors Comedy Club.

ROB WHITE is comedy's best kept secret, but not for long! A Long Island native full of surprises, Rob is known as an expert tattoo artist as well as a business suit-wearing, stand-up comedy standout.

Rob's comedy style is an energetic, fast-paced delivery where he shares his tales of tattooing, modern life, and other bizarre observations. He performs all over the Tri-State area and beyond – including overseas in Dublin, Ireland at the Bulmers Comedy Festival. Along with his opportunities to travel, Rob also was recently awarded first place in the Nassau County Comedy Contest.

When Rob is not performing comedy, he is working as owner and operator of The Black Duck Tattoo Company in Selden, New York alongside his wife, Dianna. With Rob’s 20+ years of tattooing, he was recently published in a book entitled “In The Shadows – The Peoples History of NYC Underground Tattooing.”

Outside of the comedy stage and tattoo shop, Rob enjoys painting, writing, cigars, and running. Fun fact: Rob completed the Suffolk County Half Marathon and is training for the New York City Marathon at the end of 2024.

Incredible curated lineups of Headliners & cutting edge talent from NYC, LA, and Long Island! Doors open 30min before Showtime! We have snacks, drinks, live music, art gallery and great vibes for you to enjoy before the comedy show! (lineup subject to change)