- Austin Comedy
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
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. - Heckle Guides
How to Do Your First Open Mic: Signing Up, Your Five Minutes and What Not to Do
Find a mic, learn how that room signs people up, arrive early with three to five minutes you've timed out loud, and get off when the light comes. - Austin Comedy
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
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
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. - Austin Comedy
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. - Austin Comedy
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. - Austin Comedy
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
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. - Austin Comedy
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
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.