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Moontower Comedy 2018: Full Lineup, Schedule

With 20 days to go before it cranks up the laughs, the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival has released its ultimate list of 100-plus comics, with several last-minute add-ons, including Insecure's Amanda Seales, The Daily Show's Dulcé Sloan, musician Ted Leo, and a host of local stand-ups, among them Baskets breakout star Martha Kelly.

12:42PM Fri. Mar. 30, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy Review: The Comedian’s Comedian

At Sunday's SXSW taping of The Comedian’s Comedian, host Stuart Goldsmith described his show like this: “I take one headliner at a time and go really deep into their creative process. At about the 40-minute mark, I try to find out if they’re depressed. And if not, I convince them they are.” First up: James Davis.

5:20PM Tue. Mar. 13, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy Review: Jo Firestone & Friends

Jo Firestone opened her SXSW Comedy showcase with crowd work, asking the audience who else they’d seen. Answer: Elon Musk and Lena Dunham. “Those people are here, and you chose to come to this?” she joked. Everyone was glad they did because surprise guest Jeff Ross joined an already great lineup.

6:02PM Mon. Mar. 12, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Singin’ in the Rain in the Park

Pease Park

Wonder Women of Country (album release) at The 04 Center

Storytelling and Fantasy Worlds: Ehigbor Okosun with Ali Hazelwood at Central Library

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

SXSW Comedy Review: The Randown With Robin Thede

Robin Thede, former head writer of The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, and current host of her own late-night show, The Rundown, recorded an episode of The Randown, the show’s new companion podcast. First topic: Trump. Or as Thede put it: “The current president being sued by a porn star.”

2:20PM Mon. Mar. 12, 2018, Ashley Moreno Read More | Comment »

SXSW Comedy: Your 2018 Lineup

Tradition has March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb, but here in Austin there's also a part when March goes full hyena, laughing like crazy, and that's all due to SXSW Comedy. The 2018 lineup shows just why that's so with the presence of such comedy greats as Rachel Bloom, Jim Gaffigan, Nick Offerman, James Adomian, and … Dick Cavett?

3:05PM Tue. Feb. 27, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Moontower Comedy 2018: Podcast Fever!

Podcasts have been a steadily growing presence at the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival in recent years, and it appears that the Moontower masterminds have been listening to how many of you are listening to all these audio series, because they've just announced that they're cranking the podcast dial up to 10 for the seventh fest this April.

5:00PM Wed. Feb. 21, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Moontower Comedy 2018: Still More Headliners

We've been getting a steady stream of acts for the seventh Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival since October, with more than 40 names dropped to date. Now comes the final headliners, and they include: Tig Notaro, Jo Koy, Nikki Glaser, and An Evening for the Comedy Resistance, featuring David Cross.

10:00AM Wed. Jan. 31, 2018, Robert Faires Read More | Comment »

Comedy, This Month!

What? No, uh, of course this isn’t comprehensive. This is just a heads-up about some major acts (or maybe-not-quite-major-as-such-but-we-totally-love-’em) coming your way in February.

10:30AM Mon. Jan. 29, 2018 Read More | Comment »

Austin’s Funniest People Recap 2017

This Year in Review show at Spider House Ballroom on Thursday night, listen, it’s one of those can’t-miss deals.

5:00PM Tue. Dec. 26, 2017, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

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