Open Mic Field Notes: Cap City's $5 Tuesday Mic at the Domain in Austin
Austin's oldest club runs a curated Tuesday mic across from a steakhouse: free to sign up, five bucks to watch, and only when the calendar allows.Austin Comedy Weekend Picks: Anthony Fuentes, a Roast Battle and TexAss
A crowd-work comic in the Red Room, an 11 PM roast battle, a queer stand-up and drag night, a Sunday matinee and a showcase built like a ladder.Room Report: ColdTowne, the Austin Improv Theater UCB Bought Before the Condos Did
Katrina evacuees started it next to a video store. Now it belongs to the Upright Citizens Brigade, the tickets run $10 to $19, and the parking is free.Austin Comedy This Week: Leanne Morgan, Nurse John and Mark Normand
Two Netflix hours in a Cedar Park arena, a working nurse at Bass Concert Hall, Mark Normand at Cap City and Jay Larson's wrong number on Seventh Street.Austin Comedy News: Out of Bounds Signs Off, Kevin McDonald in Limbo, Piven at Cap City
The festival closes tonight at Esther's, a Kids in the Hall founder is cancelled on one website and booked on another, and Ari Gold moves north.Austin Comedy History: Esther's Follies, a Pool Hall Fire and the Ritz Before Rogan
Two UT dropouts opened a comedy show in a Sixth Street pool hall on April Fools' Day, 1977. It burned, moved four times, and outlasted nearly everything around it.Austin Comedy Weekend Picks: Alvin Kuai, D'Lai and a Puppet at Out of Bounds
A Comedy Cellar regular in the Red Room, a Saturday matinee, Out of Bounds' last big night and a show that starts at 11 PM on purpose.Open Mic Field Notes: Java & Jokes, Sunset Strip's Afternoon Coffee Mic in Austin
Three afternoons a week, a Sixth Street club above a chicken joint lets comics bomb by daylight, over coffee, and still make it home for dinner.Austin Comedy This Week: Yamaneika Saunders, Jimbo's Joan Rivers and Out of Bounds
A Hacks writer at the Creek, a Drag Race winner doing Joan Rivers, a festival 24 years old and a Día de Muertos night on Sixth Street.Comic to Know: Ali Musa, the Austin Impressionist Who Survived the Juggalos
Tucson's 2020 Best Comedian moved to Austin in 2021, drew six Kill Tony bucket pulls, and headlines the Velveeta Room on Nov. 14 for $20.Austin Comedy News: Out of Bounds' 20th Fest, Still Standing's Waitlist and Ron Funches
Austin gets two comedy festivals in three weeks: one sells you a $22 seat in a small room, the other charges $129 and bans the chair.Austin Comedy Weekend Picks: Craig Robinson, Terror Terrace and a Velveeta Spooktacular
Halloween lands on a Saturday, the clocks go back Sunday, and Darryl from The Office costs less on the holiday than the night before.Room Report: The Creek and the Cave, the New York Club Reborn in Austin
A New York transplant on East Seventh with a $10 pro-versus-amateur cage match, a free Sunday mic and a bar that stays open past your judgment.Dave Chappelle in Austin: Karmageddon Night Two and 14 Years of Surprise Shows
Chappelle plays the Moody Center again tonight, phones locked away. Austin has been his favorite place to show up unannounced since 2012.Austin Comedy History: Bill Hicks, Sane Man and the Laff Stop's Strip Mall
In 1989 a friend with a public-access camera taped Bill Hicks in a north Austin strip mall. The tape outlived the club, the building and Hicks.Austin Comedy News: The Hideout's Outpost, Chappelle's Phone Jail and Ali Wong
Austin's longtime downtown improv house is still looking for a home, Chappelle locks up your phone for two nights, and Halloween comes early to Lavaca Street.Comic to Know: Doug Mellard, Austin's 2006 Funniest Person, Back at Cap City
The Plano kid who learned stand-up at UT, won the city's big contest and left for LA plays Cap City's Red Room Wednesday night.Comic to Know: Trey Galyon, the Austin-Made Anti-Hero Coming Home to the Velv
He started in Austin in 2000, left for New York in 2008, and on November 6 he's back on Sixth Street for twenty bucks.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.