Local queer comic Angelina Martin hosts ColdTowne's weekly standup showcase that attracts all the best jokesters around.

Live at ColdTowne

C﻿oldTowne's Youth Program, Excused Absence Comedy, brings back its fully improvised, interactive, original improv comedy show for kids, performed by an adult cast with the help of the audience.

Story Starts: Interactive Improv Show for Kids & Their Adults

Revel in summer camp nostalgia at this comedy show hosted by queer comic Brandi Davis.

Cabin Fever Comedy

Howdy pardner: Here's a big Texas-sized comedy show featuring all the best queer comics in Austin. Hosted Sarah Spear.

Texass Queer Comedy Showcase

C﻿oldTowne's youth program, Excused Absence Comedy, wraps up the season of its fully improvised, interactive, original improv comedy show for kids, performed by an adult cast with the help of the audience.

The hilarious Irielle Wesley brings back this stacked comedy lineup to the Coldtowne stage.

The Talent Show

Throw on a costume and join ColdTowne's youth program for an interactive, improvised comedy performance featuring a cast of fantastic adult comics incorporating audience suggestions into slightly strange characters and (not very) scary stories.

Somewhat Strange: A Halloween Improv Show For Kids

Incredible improv fun for kids and adults, featuring Jill Benjamin (Nickelodeon’s Henry Danger & Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally) and Suzi Barrett (Disney Channel’s Roll With It and Kirby Buckets).

Double B! An Improv Show for Kids

Rustle up some gay ol' laughs with "comedy cowgal" hosts Sarah Spear and Alyssa Spatola at this queer comedy showcase.

Find queer comics aplenty in this lineup featuring Clayton Maderia, Ava Smartt, Moe Christine, and Aira Juliet. Jose Da'Hype guest hosts.

Texass Queer Comedy Show

Host Jose Da’Hype has been coordinating comedy shows for a while now, so attendees of this Black History Month show can be assured of many, MANY laughs. But if you checked out the lineup, you’d already know that: Genivive Clinton, Adrienne Brown, Zsaknor Powe, Mike T., Charlie Mac, Daniel West, Joy Melan, Charles Adams Jr., Bernard White, Will Williams, and Aaron Cheatham, all punching pure comedy K.O.s from dusk ’til dawn. Nab your ticket early for a cheaper price, or wait to snag one at the door for a cool $15. Whatever you do, don’t miss this concentration of Black Austin’s immense comic talent. – James Scott

Your Favorite Cuzins

You know the legendary O. Henry Pun-Off, where lexophilic individuals compete with well-wrought wordplay for braggin’ rights in the realm of linguistic legerdemain? Imagine that sort of action in a comedy-club setting, except it’s not human against human – it’s human versus AI! Watch as local warmblooded wordsmiths wreak whatever havoc they can against the cold and cunning skills of ChatGPT, with prepared pieces and impromptu punmongering, in a series of prize-strewn games featuring humans Alison P. Tugwell, Blake Blauserman, Dav Wallace, Lisa Sperry, and Steve Lovelace. Bonus: live music from Henry Invisible. – Wayne Alan Brenner

Byte Night

Of course the unstoppable comedy entrepreneurs of ColdTowne are going to leverage romantic synergy with a rom-com show that works lovey-dovey Hollywood tropes for all they’re worth this month, right? This one stars an all-Black cast of seasoned improvisers – Rudy Armstrong, Mykel Jewel, Tauri Laws-Phillips, Christian Lewis, Lex Okeke, Rochelle McConico, Irielle Wesley, and Terrence Yon – bringing the unscripted hijinks to movie-format hilarity, as directed by Jennifer Rosario, each Saturday in February.  – Wayne Alan Brenner

Meet Cute

Howdy, pardner. You look to be thirstin’ for a drop of precious gay comedy in our city. We-ll, I’m here to deliver some excellent news to ya: There’s a show ’round these parts what’s rustles up a lineup of hilarious queer so-and-sos every month that’ll have you snortin’ yer 10-gallon clear off yer head. This week’s assortment features Jose Da’ Hype, Tina Youkhana, Zig Metzler, Curtis McCosker, and Lina Green, with special guest host Derek Kopswa. Now, how’s that wet yer whistle, cowboy? – James Scott

TexAss: A Queer Comedy Show

An ATX Sketch Fest pass may be the best bargain for a guaranteed good time over Memorial Day weekend. Celebrating its 15th year, ATX Sketch Fest provides audiences with five days of scripted comedy acts from Austin, Portland, L.A., NYC, D.C., and Toronto. Headliners include Chris Grace of Superstore, PEN15, and Broad City, and Joan & Raft, who’ve written for Netflix, HBO Max, and Comedy Central. In addition to performing, Grace, Joan & Raft, and Woody Fu will lead workshops on musical improv, writing, and character development. Local favorites performing include Clara Blackstone, Juicebox, Big Fart, and The Floor Is Lava. Single-show tickets are available, but for this much talent, why not spring for the $69 (heh heh) pass? Check – or sketch – it out at atxsketchfest.com. – Valerie Lopez

ATX Sketch Fest

Comedy gets lassoed by sweet, sweet woke-ism at this stand-up showcase highlighting diverse voices in Austin's comic scene, hosted by Chris Bryant and Evan Rabalais. This month's lineup includes Cat Swanter, Clayton Maderia, Carlton Wilcoxson, Ajit Krishnamoorthy, and Arielle Isaac Norman.

Woke Cowboy

Back just in time for Pride, here's the fully improvised romantic comedy where three couples explore the love they share: platonic, romantic, and otherwise. Perfect show to bring that messy situationship to, huh?

Sextet: Improvised Love Stories

You know who’s funny? Drag performers! So it’s a no brainer to catch this storytelling series that’s running all June-long, where each show features a special guest drag artist telling their tales along with a cast of stellar local improv comics. He-he, haw-haw, and all that.

All Made Up

It’s all fun and games until art imitates life – then it’s even MORE fun and games! The local comedy crewmates of ColdTowne take this new Broadway hit and give it an Austin welcome. With Kat Williams and Kyle Romero in starring roles, direction by Matt Alspaugh, music by Ritika Bhattacharjee, and choreo by Sarah J. Bartholomew, comedy and musical theatre fans will delight alike in this onstage silliness. Catch a show or two during its run that lasts through July 20. – James Scott