Tim Ball, a 2008 Duke graduate, emerged the winner after the Final Rounds of the Stand-Up competition took place in a live broadcast on Saturday, May 31st from the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, CO during the Inaugural Aspen RooftopComedy Festival. 

The RooftopComedy National College Comedy Competition hosted 32 On-Campus competitions, 16 Regional Semi-Final contests and 2 Online Voting rounds of competition that narrowed down the 600+ comedians and short-film makers to just 4 in each category, all of whom went head-to-head on Saturday night. Votes were cast by both the online and Wheeler Opera House audiences. 

Ball's surprise victory came after he placed 2nd during the Regional Semi-Final round.  The sociology major was later voted back into the competition during an online voting round of all Runners-Up for the 1 'Wild Card' slot to go on and win the title of "Nation's Funniest College Student."

"We are thrilled," CEO Will Rogers said in a statement. "The response to the competition has been so positive that we are already planning next year's to be twice as large." 


Here's the list of finalists, including links to their hysterical performances and films:

Final Four Stand-Up Comics
Winner: Tim Ball, Duke University
Runner-up: Kathleen O'Brien, University of Virginia 
Runner-up: Reid Faylor, Xavier University
Runner-up: Mary Sasson, UNC Chapel Hill 

Final Four Filmmakers
Winner: "Car Phone" by Dan Perrault, Emerson College 
Runner-up: "Icescraper!" by Mark Potts, University of Oklahoma
Runner-up: "The Breakup" by Amos Vernon, UC Berkeley
Runner-up: "Actor Hunters" by Matthew Schwartz, Skidmore College