Comedy Resources Directory

Aalborg's dedicated comedy venue with weekly shows and a Thursday open mic.

Dedicated Aarhus comedy club on Europaplads with stand-up, open mic, improv and English-language shows, plus comedian booking.

Oslo and Akershus listings covering comedians, venues, and recurring nights.

Aggregated calendar of stand-up and humour shows in Bergen across Ole Bull Scene, Lille Ole Bull, Børskjelleren, Forum Scene, Cornerteateret and other venues, with direct ticket links. Also lists beginner courses and the recurring English Comedy Club night.

Stockholm club on Södermalm claiming shows every day of the year, whose site also carries a reference section on Swedish stand-up history and clubs.

English-language stand-up in Reykjavík, with weekly shows and open mics at Utopia and Snorrabar plus online ticketing. The most active English-language comedy operation in Iceland.

Reference database of British comedy across TV, radio, film and live performance, with a large searchable archive of shows and performers. Its live section covers tours, clubs and festivals.

Their own hand-built link directory of comedy sites — the closest thing to a comedy web index.

The UK's long-running comedy trade site, with daily news, reviews, a comedian directory and a national gig guide. Widely treated as the paper of record for the English-language live comedy business.

Chortle's A-Z of comedians with biographies, review archives and upcoming dates. Useful for identifying acts and tracing their reviewed history.

Chortle's index of current UK comedy tours, listing each touring show with its dates and venues. The most complete single view of who is on the road in Britain.

Directory of German-speaking comedians with profiles and links, billed as the most complete overview of the German-language scene.

Week-by-week listing of live comedy nights across New Zealand, including the regular open mic and new-act rooms.

Online and remote open mics — the pandemic-era circuit that never fully went away.

User-submitted open mic directory browsable by country, state and city across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa, covering comedy alongside music and poetry.

City-level list of Los Angeles open mics with venue, day, start time and sign-up details.

City-level list of New York open mics with venue, day, start time and sign-up details. The densest single page of NYC mics.

A good example of Badslava’s per-city depth, and one of the strongest US mic scenes.

Artist-following model that increasingly covers touring comedians.

Comedy-only ticket marketplace covering stand-up tours and club shows, organised by comedian and by city.

Dense per-city calendar; a good template for what city coverage should look like.

Mobile-first ticketing platform operating across the UK, Europe and North America, widely used by comedy clubs and touring comedy shows.

Example city page for the secret-show format.

The Fringe Society's official box office, through which the large majority of Edinburgh comedy shows are sold each August.

The southern hemisphere's largest arts festival and Australia's biggest open-access comedy marketplace, with open registration for performers.

England's largest open-access arts festival, running May into June with a substantial stand-up programme and open registration.

Open-access London festival held each August across Camden venues, used by comedians as a cheaper alternative or warm-up to Edinburgh.

Belfast's main multi-arts festival, with a consistently strong comedy strand. The principal festival platform for stand-up in Northern Ireland.

Dubai's annual comedy festival, programming international headliners alongside regional acts.

Sixteen-day open-minded performance festival across Dublin each September, programming comedy alongside theatre, dance and cabaret.

Lagos comedy producer running club shows, a comedy conference and filmed specials.

The BBC's free resource for scriptwriters, with a library of produced comedy scripts and regularly opened submission windows and schemes.

English-language comedy producer in Paris running weekly shows, whose site also takes performer sign-ups for open spots.

Amsterdam improv theatre and comedy club running English-language shows nightly, with a long alumni pipeline into American comedy.

Berlin's first international alternative comedy stage, a sixty-seat theatre and bar in Neukölln programming English-language stand-up, improv and open mics.

Estonia's main stand-up promoter and management outfit, running shows, tours, open mics and workshops in Tallinn and Tartu in Estonian, Russian and English.

Insider account of Berlin’s English-language scene, now one of Europe’s densest mic circuits.

Comedy news, reviews and interviews edited by critic Bruce Dessau, covering UK stand-up, tours and the Edinburgh Fringe.

Daily industry news on UK and US stand-up.

Nationwide live reviews, with very heavy Edinburgh Fringe coverage each August.

Alt-comedy listings and coverage for New York and Los Angeles.

Comedy section of the Canadian music and culture magazine Exclaim!, covering tours, specials, festivals and Canadian comedians. The closest thing Canada has to a dedicated comedy news desk.

Scott Aukerman's improvised character-comedy podcast on the Earwolf network, a landmark of the comedy-podcast format and a launchpad for alternative comedy performers.

Comedy podcast network founded by Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich, hosting a large slate of comedian-led shows and their archives.

Vulture podcast in which a comedian plays one joke and then breaks down how it was written and refined. The hub page also collects Vulture's written comedy criticism.

Worker-owned podcast network carrying several long-running comedy shows, funded by listener membership rather than advertising alone.

Podcast in which Mike Birbiglia and a guest comedian workshop unfinished material on mic, showing joke development rather than finished sets.

Richard Herring's long-running live-recorded comedian interview podcast, with a deep episode archive, tour dates and an associated book club strand.

Well-produced sets from their secret shows, updated constantly.

Deep catalogue of full clean sets and specials.

Decades of festival sets, free to watch — one of the largest stand-up archives online.

Live open-mic format with on-stage feedback — instructive to watch as a new comic.

Practical guide to finding and working open mics if you are starting from zero.

Comparison of the main NYC and LA schools, with costs and curriculum notes.

Semester-long for-credit academic programme in comedy writing, performance, history and theory, taught at the Second City Training Center with credit from Columbia College Chicago.

The Fringe Society's guidance for performers on registering a show, choosing a venue, budgeting and marketing. The standard starting point for a first Edinburgh run.

Country-by-country rundown of European stand-up, handy for non-English-language scenes.

IMDb's keyword-filtered index of titles tagged stand-up comedy, filterable by year, rating and title type. The fullest credits and metadata source for specials and concert films.

Casting calls, industry guides, and paid-gig listings that include comedy work.

British Comedy Guide's professional arm for comedy writers and stand-ups, with craft features, open opportunities and competitions, and a contacts directory.

The historic Edinburgh Fringe comedy prizes, formerly the Perrier Awards, covering Best Comedy Show, Best Newcomer and a Panel Prize.

Multi-city US club chain — a good reference for how a modern club books a week.

National US club network with a shared booking calendar across venues.

Historic Hollywood club and chain, with an open-mic and showcase pipeline.

Comedy media company founded in 2016 specialising in producing, distributing and marketing stand-up specials and albums across streaming, audio and YouTube.

Comedy management, live promotion and television production group with London, Los Angeles and New York offices, representing and touring a substantial stand-up roster.

Independent comedy production and distribution company releasing stand-up specials, comedy films and albums, with a press section tracking industry coverage.

South Africa's most prominent comedy brand and booking agency, based in Johannesburg and supplying comedians for live and corporate events.

Barcelona comedy agency and promoter representing Catalan comedians and producing the Festival Hilària.

Major UK comedy management and live production company representing a large roster of touring stand-ups.

Free tour-date management and fan-notification platform used by touring comedians as well as musicians. Dates entered once syndicate to partner listings and streaming profiles.

Joke-writing and set-management app that organises bits into sets, tracks set and per-joke timing, records audio and logs audience reaction. Web and iOS.

Web app for managing stand-up material: a joke library, setlist builder and a live mode with performance timer and stage notes for use on stage. Has a free tier.

Subscription streaming service for UK stand-up, with on-demand specials and short sets plus livestreams from comedy clubs and festivals. States that half of membership revenue goes to acts and venues.