All About That Bass: Moontower Just For Laughs Takes Over UT, Adds Headliners
By Richard Whittaker, January 25, 2024, 12:00pm, All Over Creation
Moontower Just For Laughs Austin may be a mouthful of a name for the comedy festival, but its lineup just got equally loaded, with a whole new roster of headliners for 2024 and a new massive venue addition.
The festival (April 10-21) has been a Downtown constant since its days as the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, well before its 2021 merge with the prestigious Just For Laughs. The fest already announced two new big venues for the 2024 program, with Shane Gillis performing at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park and Andrew Schulz at the Moody Center. Now the Bass Concert Hall on the UT campus is being added to their inventory.
Of course, with a big venue you need big acts, and the festival has just added Bass headline sets from Daily Show correspondent, stand-up comedian, and actor Ronny Chieng, and Saturday Night Live alum Tim Robinson, creator of the brilliant and unhinged Netflix series I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson.
Not that this means Moontower is overlooking its original home at the Paramount Theatre, with the addition of the star and creator of Emmy-nominated multi-cam sitcom The Ms. Pat Show, Ms. Pat. She joins an already packed headliner roster that includes Margaret Cho, Mike Birbiglia, Kathy Griffin, Marc Maron, a reunion of era-defining troupe The State, and a special screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with star Alan Ruck.
The fun doesn’t stop there. There will be more SNL veterans with Chloe Fineman and Sarah Sherman at the Paramount, and the newest member of the cast, Chloe Troast, working the clubs. If you’re at the Paramount, a quick stagger to the Stateside keeps the laughter going. Not only will roastmaster general Jeff Ross be in town with his new and surprisingly personal show Take a Banana for the Ride, but Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star and co-creator Rachel Bloom is bringing a bit of Broadway as her one-woman musical comedy Death, Let Me Do My Show comes from the Great White Way to Congress Avenue.
Also added today:
• Emmy-nominated writer Josh Johnson (Josh Johnson: Up Here Killing Myself)• Alingon Mitra (The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Adam Ruins Everything)
• Conner O’Malley (HBO’s How To with John Wilson, Joe Pera Talks With You)
• Andrew Orolfo (The Late Late Show with James Corden)
• Andy Kindler (The Late Show with David Letterman, Everybody Loves Raymond)
• Jay Jurden (The Problem With Jon Stewart)
• Jeremiah Watkins (Scissor Bros podcast)
• Joyelle Nicole Johnson (HBO’s Crashing, Netflix’s Hasan Minhaj’s Patriot Act
• Katherine Blanford (Cheaties podcast)
Moontower Just for Laughs Austin 2024 runs April 10-21. Tickets, passes, info, and full list of all the comics added today and already announced at austintheatre.org/moontower-comedy.
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