Austin Comedy This Week: Nick Mullen, Joanne McNally and a Velveeta All-Star Run
Rogan's sold out, Kill Tony's sold out, and the rest of Austin is open for business at prices that won't require a second mortgage on a Mueller condo.
By the Heckle Desk · · 3 min read
Every week in Austin a few thousand people try to get into the Comedy Mothership and a few thousand of them find out it's sold out. This week is no different. Kill Tony on Monday: sold out. Joe Rogan and Friends on Tuesday and Wednesday: sold out. Joe DeRosa both Friday shows: sold out. The Mothership has become the only business on Sixth Street that turns people away sober, and it does it with a government ID check at the door, like a bank or the afterlife.
The good news is that the rest of the town has a stacked week, and most of it you can still buy a ticket to. Cap City has a Thursday-through-Sunday run that would be a festival in a smaller city, the Creek and the Cave has an Irish headliner who sells out arenas back home, and the Velveeta Room is throwing five shows with five different lineups and calling it an All-Star Weekend, which is the most honest thing a Sixth Street bar has said since Prohibition.
A note on Cap City before you drive anywhere: the club's own pages now list it at 11506 Century Oaks Terrace, not the old Research Boulevard address, and your GPS may not have heard the news. It's 18 and up with a two-item minimum, and any two menu items count, so you can satisfy it with two orders of fries and still call it a night out. Ticket prices show at checkout, fees included, which is the ticketing industry's way of letting you find out the bad news privately.
Next week Dave Chappelle brings Karmageddon to the Moody Center on October 26 and 27, so if you're saving your money, save it now. He has spent six years telling roughly the same people what he thinks of roughly the same people, so at least you know what you're paying for, which is more than most Austin landlords can say. As the old Texans used to say, a full house is a fine thing until you notice you're standing outside it.
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Nick Mullen · Cap City Comedy Club · Fri-Sun, 7 PM and 9:15/9:30 PM
Mullen hosted Cum Town, a podcast whose name we've printed once and will now never print again, and now does The Adam Friedland Show; his special The Year of the Dragon came out in December 2023. Shows Friday at 7 and 9:15, Saturday and Sunday at 7 and 9:30, plus a bonus Monday the 26th. Resale sites are already asking triple digits, so buy from the club.
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Joanne McNally: Pinotphile · The Creek and The Cave · Fri-Sat, 7 and 9 PM
The Irish comic brings her new hour about situationships, revenge and frenemies, which in Dublin passes for a wholesome family evening. She's done Taskmaster and co-hosts My Therapist Ghosted Me. 21 and up at 611 E 7th St; price at checkout, all sales final.
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All-Star Weekend · The Velveeta Room · Thu 8:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 and 10 PM
Five shows, five lineups of comics with SXSW and Moontower credits, mixing headliners and up-and-comers at 521 E 6th St. The club hasn't posted names, so it's a blind date, which on Sixth Street is a tradition older than the plumbing. No refunds, only credit for a future show.
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Ali Macofsky · Cap City, The Red Room · Fri-Sat, 7:30 and 9:45 PM
She was the first regular to clear 100 episodes of Kill Tony and made her late-night debut on Colbert in 2024, so this is the cheap seat to the thing that's sold out across town. Same 18+ rules and two-item minimum as the main room.
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Kanan Gill · Cap City Comedy Club · Thu, 7:30 PM
One of India's most prominent stand-ups, known for careful writing and a calm stage presence, premiering a new hour on his 2026 tour. One show only, so Thursday is the night.
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Bottom of the Barrel · Comedy Mothership, Little Boy · Tue, 7:30 and 10:30 PM
Comics pull audience-written suggestions out of a barrel and have to work with them. It's the one Mothership show on Tuesday you can still get into, and the barrel, unlike Rogan, takes questions. 21+, two-drink minimum, original buyer must show ID.
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F*** This Week · Fallout Theater · Mon, 8 PM
A BYOB improv hour where one audience member vents about their week and the cast turns it into a show. $14 online, $18 at the door, 616 Lavaca St. Cheaper than therapy and you can bring a six-pack.