August is no laughing matter … until it is. That’s in the final dog days when the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival shows up to provide a week of comic relief from the heat, politics, going back to school, whatever. We’re talking improv, sketch, and stand-up by hundreds of mirthmakers from Austin and all across the country at multiple locations. Out of Bounds – shorthand: OOB – is already in full swing, but here are a few recos for the remaining nights:
Thu., 9:30pm, Hideout Downstairs
L.A. stand-up Audrey Stewart, Minneapolis improv duo MAYHEM, and Austin’s Girls Girls Girls doing Broad Ambition, the improvised Eighties women’s workplace musicalFri., 8:45pm, Hideout Downstairs
The Wolf, a Groundlings offshoot from L.A. with Edi Patterson, Jim Rash, Jeremy Rowley, Kevin Kirkpatrick, and Mitch Silpa, and longtime local troupe Midnight SocietySat., 10pm, Fallout Theater:
Kids These Days, a sketch group with producers/contributing writers from The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, and Full Frontal; local heroes the Knuckleball Now; and San Antonio improv troupe COACHSun., 9pm, Fallout Theater:
Gina Yashere from The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Austin’s local all-Asian-American improv troupe Y’all We Asian, and Portland’s heavy metal improvisers Death HammerThis article appears in August 31 • 2018.