Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy during his teen years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998.

With his deadpan humor, he won the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest at 16 years old.

The Lochaber Yacht Club on Achintore Road, Fort William Is a Community Amateur Sports Club and was founded in 1954.

* Lions Clubs International Amateur ( Ham ) Radio Club Station custodian Lion Ajoy VU2JHM

Amateur radio operators began experimenting with packet radio in 1978, when-after obtaining authorization from the Canadian government-Robert Rouleau, VE2PY and The Western Quebec VHF / UHF Amateur Radio Club

* QRP Amateur Radio Club International

* Strategic Air Command Memorial Amateur Radio Club

* ADC Theatre, venue of the University of Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Club

Staines Swimming Club founded in the early 1900s and affiliated to the Amateur Swimming Association is based at Spelthorne Leisure Centre and provides competitive swimming from inter-club level up to national level.

Amateur sports car racing throughout the United States is sanctioned by clubs such as the Sports Car Club of America.

After his victories at the Olympic Games in Sweden, on September 2, 1912, he returned to Celtic Park, the home of the Irish American Athletic Club, in Queens, New York ( where he had qualified four months earlier for the Olympic Games ), to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union's All-Around Championship.

Boston is home to a successful swimming club, Boston Amateur Swimming Club.

K0GRL is still the call sign of the Strategic Air Command Memorial Amateur Radio Club.

The first Stanley Cup Champions: The Montreal Hockey Club ( affiliated with the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association )

Sweetland and Ross first presented the trophy in 1893 to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association on behalf of the affiliated Montreal Hockey Club, the champions of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada ( AHAC ), since they " defeated all comers during the late season, including the champions of the Ontario Association " ( Ottawa ).

NRA organized a team through a subsidiary Amateur Rifle Club.

* Fisher Downside Amateur Boxing Club, Bermondsey, London, UK

Newport Country Club was one of the five founding clubs of the United States Golf Association ; it hosted the first U. S. Open and the first U. S. Amateur, both held in 1895.

The Newport Country Club hosted the 1995 U. S. Amateur Open, made notable by Tiger Woods ' second of three consecutive wins of said Open.

In 1866 he was one of the founders of the Amateur Athletic Club, now the Amateur Athletic Association of England, one of the first groups that did not require amateur athletes to belong to the upper-classes in order to compete.

Lancaster's swimming club is ' Lancaster Amateur Swimming and Waterpolo Club ' and they compete in a variety of competitions in the North West. They train at Salt Ayre, and at Lancaster University Sports Centre.

Folkestone Invicta Football Club was formed in 1936 and played in the Eastern Section of the Kent Amateur League ( now the Kent County League ), taking over the Cheriton Road ground in early 1991 after the demise of the old Folkestone F. C.

* Milngavie and Bearsden Amateur Swimming Club

Some titles of past exhibitions have included Nature & Nurture: Exploring Human Reproduction from Pregnancy through Early Childhood, Private Eyes: Amateur Art from The Kinsey Institute Collections, Eros in Asia: Erotic Art from Iran to Japan, and Sex and Presidential Politics .< ref > The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Inc..

The observatory's other sponsors include Le Sueur Manufacturing Inc., which provided the Astro-Pier on which the telescope is mounted ; Software Bisque, which provided TheSky software ; Vince Lanzetta of East Coast Observatories ; Adirondack Video Astronomy ; High Point Scientific ; Technical Innovations ; and the Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Association.

Increasing interest in music and the arts reflected in the creation of several clubs, including The Andophians, The Exploits Amateur Theatre Company, the Northcliffe Drama Club ( 1951 ) and Another Newfoundland Drama Company Inc. ( A. N. D.

* 1993 — Merger of Canadian Radio Relay League with Canadian Amateur Radio Federation to form Radio Amateurs of Canada, Inc.

** A device for raising and lowering antennas, manufactured by GlenMartin, Inc., primarily used by Amateur Radio enthusiasts

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

) Amateur linguists note here that Pursewarden, in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, stammered when he spoke of his wife, which is hardly surprising in view of their disastrous relationship.

Deane Beman, the National Amateur champion, and all the metropolitan district champions, including Bob Gardner, the amateur title-holder, also will receive awards.

Amateur astronomers watch the night sky during the Perseids | Perseid meteor shower.

Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the sky, and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars.

Amateur astronomy is usually associated with viewing the night sky when most celestial objects and events are visible, but sometimes amateur astronomers also operate during the day for events such as sunspots and solar eclipses.

Amateur astronomers often look at the sky using nothing more than their eyes, but common tools for amateur astronomy include portable telescopes and binoculars.

Amateur astronomers use a range of instruments to study the sky, depending on a combination of their interests and resources.

Amateur astronomers also use star charts that, depending on experience and intentions, may range from simple planispheres through to detailed charts of very specific areas of the night sky.

Amateur astronomers often like to keep records of their observations, which usually takes the form of an observing log.

Amateur astronomers engage in many imaging techniques including film and CCD astrophotography.

To recognize this, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific annually gives Amateur Achievement Awards for significant contributions to astronomy by amateurs.

Amateur astronomers often contribute toward activities such as monitoring the changes in brightness of variable stars and supernovae, helping to track asteroids, and observing occultations to determine both the shape of asteroids and the shape of the terrain on the apparent edge of the Moon as seen from Earth.

* Albert G. Ingalls ( 1888 – 1958 ), editor of Amateur Telescope Making, Vols.

Amateur dramatics is the performance of plays or musical theater, often to high standards, but lacking the budgets of professional West End or Broadway performances.

* Amateur Poker League, a U. S. based amateur poker league that feeds into the World Poker Tour

* Amateur Softball Association, in the U. S.

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

As a reward, Federko was drafted 7th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft.