A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Comics
The stand-up people behind the city's comedy scene
"...The original Funniest Person in Austin (as in the contest's first winner in 1986), this..."
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March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
A Guide to Austin Stand-Up
Who makes the jokes, where you can see them, and who keeps the scene running in a city where laughing matters
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Stand-up Comedy: The Tweet & Lowdown
Chris Cubas and Kath Barbadoro hashtag it out
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April 27, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Podcasts
So local you don't have to leave your house
"...Chris Cubas is undoubtedly one of Austin's busiest comics, with national TV appearances and gigs all..."
March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Carina Magyar
A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Venues
Where to find the funny in town
"...Cap City Comedy Club 8120 Research, www.capcitycomedy.com..."
March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Annual Events
Festivals aren't just for music and film
"...Funniest Person in Austin Contest..."
March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Behind the Scenesters
The people behind the people behind the mic
"...She started at Cap City Comedy Club as a waitress in 1985, moonlighting from her..."
March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
A Guide to Austin Stand-Up: Showcases
Laughs on the regular
"...Dr.) has been an anchor of the city's weekly stand-up schedule since 2013, but when founder Katie Pengra decided..."
March 31, 2017 Arts Feature by Carina Magyar
SXSW Comedy: Loud Village Live Stand-Up Showcase
L.A. comics offer a tasting menu of approaches to stand-up
"...It’s a funny thing, stand-up at 6pm. You have an hour or so of..."
March 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Rosalind Faires
Austin’s Longest-Running Stand-Up Showcase Ends After a Decade of Making Stars
Sure Thing is a wrap at 512
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Sept. 29, 2023 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez
Stand-Up Comic Tai Nguyen's Improbable Rise to Hilarity
Vietnam-born comedian on insecurity and his shot-in-the-dark TV special
"...filming an hourlong TV special at the Stateside. In stand-up comedy, this is like an expansion franchise winning the..."
Sept. 15, 2017 Arts Feature by Carina Magyar
Stand-up's Best Medicine Show
The Comedians of Comedy provide stand-up's best medicine show
"...Austin hasn't gone this agog for a live revue by..."
March 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham
Brently Heilbron's Stand Up Empire Signs With PBS
New show to bring ACL-like coverage of Austin's comedy scene
"...Last time we told you about local comedy mover-and-shaker Brently Heilbron, it was because of his emo..."
Dec. 11, 2015 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Tony Hinchcliffe's Stand-up Racism
Kill Tony host spews slurs at fellow comic Peng Dang
"...As he finished his set at a Big Laugh Comedy show in Austin last week, Dallas stand-up Peng Dang..."
May 13, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Bryan Gutmann: A Stand-Up Guy
Telling jokes at a mic has always been the main thing for Bryan Gutmann
"...Bryan Gutmann has been a staple of the Austin comedy scene for over a decade. He recorded his..."
April 22, 2016 Arts Feature by Ashley Moreno
A Stand-Up Guy
Steve Martin didn't just incorporate a banjo into his early comedy routines for a laugh
"...frustrated comedian for a father, I recall Steve Martin's Comedy Is Not Pretty! (1979) as one of the first..."
April 23, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder
“It’s a Really Big TikTok”: Texas Ex Connor Wood Talks First Stand-Up Tour
Comedian wraps Fibs and Friends tour May 23 at Cap City
"...on the platform, where he boasts 800,000 followers, the UT-Austin advertising alum actually moved to Hollywood to work in..."
May 22, 2024 Arts Post by Carys Anderson
The 2-D Stand-Up
Matthew Inman is The Oatmeal
"...the angry, grumpy one – but that translates to comedy, apparently."..."
March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Where Comedy Lives
Austin stand-ups have a complex – and it's called the Sandstone Apartments
"...In the heart, of course, that's where comedy truly lives: in the frequently complex, sometimes substance-enhanced, occasionally..."
Nov. 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Bianca Del Rio Targets Austin in It’s Jester Joke
Nothing’s off-limits in her comedy tour, at Moody Theatre Nov. 7
"...in town. Season six RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and comedy drag queen Bianca Del Rio sashays back into Austin..."
Oct. 30, 2019 Qmmunity Post by A. Micah Mills
Cap City Comedy Club Closes
COVID closure shutters the venerable stand-up home for good
"...Yesterday, Cap City Comedy Club, the venue that's kept you – and all..."
Sept. 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires
Funniest Person In Austin Contest
The competition's so fierce for the 2009 finals, it's not even funny ... but it is!
"...peepers are grazing this text, the Funniest Person in Austin competition for 2009 will be nearing the finals stage..."
May 15, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival
In Austin's newest festival, stand-up finally gets top billing
"...It isn't that stand-up gets no love from Austin's festival scene. Comedy and..."
Feb. 3, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
When Is Austin Comedy a Sure Thing?
Maybe on a Wednesday, definitely on a Saturday
"...It’s Wednesday again in Austin, Texas. And even on a Wednesday – because you..."
Feb. 3, 2016 Arts Post by Spencer Beghtol
Comedy Wham's Top Five Moontower Just for Laughs Big Names
The Austin comedy podcast's Five for Laughs: Headliners Edition
"...Austin's Moontower Comedy Festival celebrates 10 years and a new..."
April 8, 2022 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez
Making Tragedy Funny Again at Moontower Comedy
Stand-ups pull punch lines out of personal traumas
"...At last year's Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, headliner Maria Bamford spoke openly about..."
April 21, 2017 Arts Feature by Sean L. Malin
The Ups and Downs of Comedy
Hanging with the stand-ups for a look into the life
"...that's unlikely) before we sat down with four local stand-ups to ask what it's like – what are the..."
Dec. 31, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Can Cap City Comedy Club Reclaim Its Throne?
The Austin comedy institution is back, but it returns to a radically changed stand-up scene
"...I published a farewell love letter to Cap City Comedy Club when, after 35 years as a cultural icon,..."
July 29, 2022 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez
East Austin Comedy Club Is a Proving Ground for Stand-Ups
Austin's newest home to humor aims to be a funny, intimate hangout for locals
"...last several years have seen a boom in the Austin comedy scene, and now there's another entrant into this..."
July 29, 2022 Arts Feature by Rod Machen
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival 2018: Picks
In the bounty of improv, sketch, & stand-up, some of our picks
"...the final dog days when the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival shows up to provide a week of comic..."
Aug. 28, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires
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