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SpecialMojo Brookzz’s debut Netflix hour “I Know You Lying” drops Tuesday/
SNLShane Gillis hosts Saturday, with Rosalía as musical guest/
FestivalAtlantic City Comedy Festival takes Boardwalk Hall Oct 9–10/
FestivalMilwaukee Comedy Festival runs all week, Oct 5–11/
PodcastKill Tony #791 with Jim Norton + Anthony Cumia is up/
Late NightJordan Klepper hosts The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday/
Free SpecialKerry Godliman’s “Bandwidth” is free on 800 Pound Gorilla’s YouTube/
NetflixSam Morril’s new hour “Incorrect” is streaming now/
Doc“Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” lands on Netflix Oct 16/
ClubsBristol’s Blue Ridge Comedy Club closes Oct 30 after five years/
SpecialMojo Brookzz’s debut Netflix hour “I Know You Lying” drops Tuesday/
SNLShane Gillis hosts Saturday, with Rosalía as musical guest/
FestivalAtlantic City Comedy Festival takes Boardwalk Hall Oct 9–10/
FestivalMilwaukee Comedy Festival runs all week, Oct 5–11/
PodcastKill Tony #791 with Jim Norton + Anthony Cumia is up/
Late NightJordan Klepper hosts The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday/
Free SpecialKerry Godliman’s “Bandwidth” is free on 800 Pound Gorilla’s YouTube/
NetflixSam Morril’s new hour “Incorrect” is streaming now/
Doc“Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” lands on Netflix Oct 16/
ClubsBristol’s Blue Ridge Comedy Club closes Oct 30 after five years/

Esther's Follies.

Every Heckle column, list and take about Esther's Follies, newest first.

3 pieces
  1. Austin Comedy

    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.
  2. Austin Comedy

    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.
  3. 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.
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