1. One of the world’s coolest comedy festivals, Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival, just announced their final wave of performers including:
- Langston Kerman
- Amy Miller
- Kristin Rand
- Stephen Agyei
- Mara Wiles
- Kevin O’Brien
- Allison Rose
- Harris Alterman
- Hayden Kristal
- Rosalie
- Sammy Anzer
- Andres Becerril
- Edward Bell
- Austin Black
- Katie Bowman
- Ben Bryant
- Christie Buchele
- Janae Burris
- Liv Carter
- Matt Cobos
- Georgia Comstock
- Anthony Crawford
- John Davis
- Nic Dean
- Joshua Emerson
- Brad Galli
- Morgan Gallo
- Luke Gaston
- Brent Gill
- Steven Gillespie
- Gabby Gutierrez-Reed
- Shanel Hughes
- Michael Isaacs
- Mitch Jones
- Ali Kareem
- Dē Kelley
- Ben Kronberg
- Lane Lonion
- Nathan Lund
- Zac Maas
- Jose Macall
- Andie Main
- Danny Maupin
- Kate McLachlan
- Miriam Moreno
- Jeff Nelson
- Nancy Norton
- John Novosad
- Hannah Popkin
- Zach Reinert
- Noah Reynolds
- Patrick Richardson
- Lee Robinson
- David Rodriguez
- Kelsey Rosen
- ShaNae Ross
- Jacob Rupp
- Derrick Rush
- BK Sharad
- Sam Sisson
- Mike Stanley
- Jeff Stonic
- Eeland Stribling
- Kate Strobel
- Brian Sullivan
- Geoff Tice
- Steve Vanderploeg
- Matt Vogl
- Elliot Weber
- Lizzy Wolfson
- Salma Zaky
So many more great comics are billed for Sept. 21st-23rd and you really go get more info, make plans, and get tickets here.
2. The one and only Bill Burr is going on a world tour that stretches from the UAE to Budapest to Vegas. You might want to get tickets sooner rather than later at billburr.com/tour.
3. Very quickly, Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott‘s Bottoms is astounding and hysterical and a great wake up call to the genre of high school, coming-of-age comedies and so many other things. We’ll give more thorough thoughts later, but definitely take advantage of National Cinema Day and go see one of the funniest, most badass films of 2023.
4. Once a curiosity in and around smaller comedy theaters in NYC, Titanique has not only played on Late Night with Seth Meyers, but has gone Off-Broadway and has just added LA comedy staple, Drew Droege, to its cast (Theater Mania).
5. If live comedy is set up right, there’s nowhere in the room that comic can’t hear you talking, which you shouldn’t be doign (in case you didn’t realize that).