Austin Comedy This Week: Yamaneika Saunders, Jimbo's Joan Rivers and Out of Bounds

This is a good week to see comedy in Austin, and a bad week to try to figure out who's playing the Comedy Mothership. I went to its website to check, and the site asked me to prove I wasn't a robot. I watched a spinning circle make up its mind, a fitting welcome to a club built by a podcaster who asks his guests whether anything is real. So here is everything else, which turns out to be plenty.

The headliner I'd drive for is Yamaneika Saunders at the Creek and the Cave. Her credits include Hacks, a show about a comic who hates everyone, and she's a WGA award winner, the Guild's way of saying she can hate everyone on deadline. Cap City has Ron Funches all weekend and, on Wednesday, a winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars doing a parody of Joan Rivers, a woman who would have had a lot to say about the outfit.

Thursday through Sunday the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival takes over several stages. KUT reports it started in 2002 and this is its 20th edition, the gap being a hiatus, which in festival years is roughly how a man in his sixties describes his marriage. Its producers told KUT they're pretty sure it's the longest-running multi-stage comedy festival in the country. Pretty sure is the official confidence level of this city, used for everything from festival records to whether the light rail will ever arrive.

Housekeeping: Cap City's event pages now list it at 11506 Century Oaks Terrace, 18 and up, two items per person in the showroom. The Creek is 21 and up, all sales final. The Velveeta doesn't refund either, only credit for a future show, which is how the city's longest-running club has outlasted the condos rising around it like weeds with a leasing office. Most prices appear only at checkout, so you can take the bad news in private.

An old Texan told me you can judge a town by what it does on a Wednesday night. In Austin it pays good money to watch a drag clown play Joan Rivers, who made a career of insulting the people who paid to watch her. A town that keeps that tradition alive is a town worth living in, provided you can still afford the rent.