The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 10th anniversary of the Moontower Comedy Festival will happen in person this September. Produced by the Paramount Theatre and sponsored by Cap City Comedy Club, which itself is preparing to resurface this fall in a new location after shuttering its longtime home during the pandemic, Moontower 2021 has a …
Unless Adam Eget is pranking both me and his longtime colleagues at The Comedy Store, the club’s longtime booker has announced — on April 1 — that he has left Los Angeles for Austin to run the new comedy club that Joe Rogan plans to open in Texas’s capital city. …
Austin’s comedy scene is hotter than perhaps it ever has been, and that’s despite an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that infected Dave Chappelle last month during his run of shows in the Texas capital. The venerable Cap City Comedy Club, which had to close temporarily then permanently its longtime home anchoring …
Sad but true. Cap City Comedy Club, Austin’s shining beacon for stand-up and experimental comedy since 1986, has closed for good. Here’s the letter that went out this afternoon… Dear Austin Comedy Lovers, We laughed until we cried. We are devastated to announce that we have to close the club. …
Austin’s Paramount Theatre has gathered some all-star comedians together to put on a big ol’ benefit fund-raiser to help out fellow Texans flooded and hurting from Hurricane Harvey. Ron White, Iliza Shlesinger, Chris D’Elia and more will perform on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, at The Paramount for The Harvey Relief …
It’s one thing to say you’re going to “keep Austin weird.” It’s another to call your festival the Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival, and five years in, be able to not only look back on all of the big names you’ve attracted and celebrate it via sizzle reel, but also …
The Austin comedy scene in the heart of Texas has been hot and getting hotter over the past decade, and in the most recent years, Montgomery Wayne Seitz was at the heart of its growing potential for aspiring comedians, creating an array of open mics and bar comedy shows across …
The Dave Chappelle comeback is now complete. After touring with Funny or Die’s summer Oddball Festival amphitheater tour, holding down a residency at Radio City Music Hall and more than a year of theater dates across North America, Chappelle recorded his stand-up for a special over the weekend at Austin …
Jimmy Kimmel and company enjoyed Austin and SXSW so much they’ve already booked a return trip for 2015! “We had so much fun in Austin last year, we’re doing it again. This time we might never come back,” Kimmel said. ABC announced today Jimmy Kimmel Live will broadcast five nights, …
Rick Perry, you’re on notice! Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will head to Austin, Texas, for a week of shows leading up to Election Day 2014, broadcasting in the capital city where the indicted Texas governor still rules. “Democalypse 2014: South by South Mess” will be taped …
