Top 10 Austin Comedy Stories

New fests, new venues, and big returns

"...Austin's longest-operating comedy club shuttered after 30-plus years in a dark dilapidated..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Valerie Lopez

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

SXSW Comedy: Your 2017 Lineup

Making you laugh this March: Cenac, Sykes, Odenkirk, Hardwick, & more

"...Laugh lovers who have been holding their breaths waiting to..."

Feb. 21, 2017 SXSW Post by Robert Faires

Comedy Wham’s 200th Interview and Sixth Anniversary

Local epicenter of comedy celebration shines amidst the Fallout

"...Lopez is about to record her 200th interview for Comedy Wham, the Austin-based powerhouse of comedy-scene reporting. It’ll be..."

Jan. 18, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Moontower Comedy 2018: Ali Siddiq

The Houston comedian on taking his act back behind bars

"...the Houston comic, who's in town for the Moontower Comedy Festival, got his first hour-long special for Comedy Central,..."

April 19, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Comedy: The Laugh Button Live

This show was the year's Holy Grail of comedy

"...way into Esther’s Follies on Monday night for The Laugh Button Live showcase will gently smile to themselves and..."

March 18, 2015 SXSW Post by Russ Espinoza

Local Married Couple Flaunts Public Comedy Habit

Chloe and Lane Ingram are ... Chlane

"...So, there’s that married comedy duo in town, Chloe and Lane Ingram, who perform..."

June 20, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Big Short

The financial meltdown of 2008 is treated with terrific comic spin

"...attack. But then, McKay is also the co-founder of comedy site Funny or Die – a name that suggests..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Local Comedy Gets a New Buzz at the Buzz Mill

New Seventh Street venue wants to make you laugh your nights away

"...Buzz Mill lounge aims to be an epicenter of comedy...."

Jan. 14, 2022 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Live Comedy Clubs Are Coming Back

NYC's the Creek & the Cave moves to ATX, Cap City gets revived

"...Get ready to laugh again. This week, just days apart, two live comedy..."

Feb. 11, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Improv Comedy’s Full Spectrum

Treating social anxiety one laugh at a time

"...borderline traumatic. So it would seem that attempting improv comedy for anyone diagnosed with autism would be impossible...."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Moontower Comedy: Jen Kober

Hairy lesbian tales on the comedy trail from the Louisiana comic

"...comedian Jen Kober is in town for the Moontower Comedy Festival, and she's loaded with chewy SweetTarts...."

April 23, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

SXSW Comedy: Your 2015 Lineup

Schumer, Harmon, Bell, and SNL lead this year's laugh-makers

"...Laugh lovers who have been holding their breaths waiting to..."

Feb. 23, 2015 SXSW Post by Robert Faires

Moontower Comedy 2020: Wave 3

Marlon Wayans, Chris Fleming, and more inked as headliners

"...Hang onto your boards, laugh surfers! Moontower Comedy Festival has suddenly sent a new..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Moontower Review: New Faces of Comedy

Auditioning comics go wild in six minute slots

"...he was safe: as the MC of the Moontower Comedy Just For Laughs New Faces show last night, he..."

April 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

The New Girls of Comedy

'Mom' and 'Trophy Wife' signal the next era of television

"...It’s interesting how characterizing a TV comedy as “broad” has evolved into a culturati slight...."

Oct. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Comedy Out the Wazoo and In Your Weekend: Now!

Unless you'd rather just, what, twiddle your thumbs until Moontower?

"...You know the Moontower Comedy Festival's coming up fast...."

April 9, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

ATX Television Fest: Fox Comedy Block

'The Mindy Project,' 'Raising Hope,' and 'New Girl' stars speak

"...day of programming started early with the 135-minute Fox Comedy Block at the Alamo Ritz, where creative talent from..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Summer of Laugh

This Year, Austin Comics Got Really Hot

"...sound exciting, particularly when you have nothing but a big, fat pencil and wide-lined paper to work with. For..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

The Ups and Downs of Comedy

Hanging with the stand-ups for a look into the life

"...It's not easy, making people laugh...."

Dec. 31, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Stinkin' International Improv & Sketch Comedy Festival 4

"...this festival. It's about being funny, about making you laugh. It's a hoot, no joke...."

April 2, 1999 Arts Feature

All Over Creation: A Brief History of Laugh Riots in Austin

As April overflows with comedy festivals, an overview of Austin's celebrations of funny

"...all the ongoing hilarity in Austin's large and varied comedy scene – Esther's Follies, Master Pancake, Punch!, No Shame..."

April 13, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Finding the Funny in Bleak Times at Moontower Comedy

A Q&A with stand-ups Akaash Singh and Paul Varghese

"...anxiety and despair 24/7? Well, the age-old idiom of "laughter is the best medicine" couldn't be more true. I..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Arts Feature by Neha Aziz

Moontower Comedy 2019: Joel Kim Booster

The L.A. comic on the politics (and bravery) of being hot

"...was Asian), listen to his wry and rollicking 2017 comedy album, Model Minority, watch his Comedy Central stand-up special..."

April 24, 2019 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

BS3 Improv & Sketch Comedy Fest Schedule

"...Lone Star Comedy (Dallas, TX)..."

April 17, 1998 Arts Feature

What to See When You Aren't Catching Moontower Comedy's Big Shows

"...Anybody attending the 2019 Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival could easily obtain their full share..."

April 19, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Art & Comedy Events Streaming This Weekend

When I hear the word “culture,” I reach for my mouse

"...2) Friday night’s got that increasingly star-studded Isolation Comedy Showcase from Comedy Wham, featuring some of the best..."

April 17, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Circus of Life

Books Editor Clay Smith and Litera columnist Ric Williams handicap which of the 200-plus international poets attending this year's Austin International Poetry Festival will be best bets.

"...But this is all by way of introducing the Big Circus of Life that is the Austin International Poetry..."

April 19, 2002 Books Feature by Ric Williams

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..."

May 13, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Moon Over Broadway

"...You thought making sausage wasn't pretty. Next to making comedy, grinding up meat and stuffing it into casing is..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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