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COMEDY REVIEW

Leifer, Liebman take spotlight at Women in Comedy Festival

Wendy Liebman and Carol Leifer faced the challenge Saturday night of living up to top billing at the 4th Annual Women In Comedy Festival, a five-day event that featured an impressive array of 225 performers, covering stand-up, sketch, improv, storytelling, and musical comedy. They are veterans with mainstream recognition - Liebman’s one-hour Showtime special ”Taller on TV” aired in January and ex-”Seinfeld” writer Leifer won a Writers Guild Award in February for an episode of ”Modern Family.” But supporting comics Kelly MacFarland, Erin Jackson, and Erin Judge almost matched them laugh for laugh.

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