Stand-Up Comedy Websites

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

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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.

Distinct from standupbergen.no, which is the club itself; this is the city-wide listings site.

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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.

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Independent, non-commercial database of Danish comedy venues, shows and performers covering around sixty venues nationwide, from Copenhagen and Aarhus to Bornholm.

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Daily-updated calendar of stand-up shows across Oslo, covering roughly a dozen venues including Latter, Josefine Vertshus, Dattera til Hagen, Cosmopolite and Chateau Neuf. The most complete single view of the Oslo scene.

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Swedish stand-up network site with club listings that link straight to Billetto and Tickster, plus comedian profiles and articles.

Closely tied to Big Ben Standup and mixes original editorial with SEO-style content; useful as a listings index rather than as journalism.

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Icelandic-language stand-up listings and performer booking, covering monthly clubs in Mosfellsbær and Hafnarfjörður and the Tilraunauppistand new-material nights.

Dated site build; day-to-day updates are largely pushed to Facebook.

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Aggregates stand-up gigs across the Helsinki metropolitan area, indexing more than forty venues and clubs including Apollo, Semifinal, Kapsäkki and Teatteri Forum.

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Open, crowd-submitted national calendar of Finnish stand-up gigs with venue maps, where organisers submit their own shows.

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Guide to Copenhagen-area comedy clubs and open mics, covering around twenty venues including Comedy Zoo, Knock Knock, Christiania Comedy Club, Bartof and Lygten Station.

Punycode domain for standupkøbenhavn.dk; returns 454 to plain curl but serves normally in a browser.

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Norwegian self-service ticketing platform widely used by small venues and independent comedy promoters.

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Finnish stand-up ticket shop that doubles as a club directory, with a club index and per-city pages listing Helsinki rooms such as Freda 51, Munkkiklubi and Sam's Comedy Club.

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Bergen-founded event ticketing and payment platform used by Norwegian comedy promoters, including Standup Stavanger, and by venues across Europe.

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The main Danish ticket seller for large comedy tours and theatre-scale shows.

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Norway's main ticket seller, with a dedicated stand-up category used by Latter, Stand Up Bergen and most touring Norwegian comedians.

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The main Swedish ticket seller for large comedy tours, and the primary ticket channel for clubs such as Maffia Comedy.

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Widely used Swedish ticketing platform for clubs, comedy nights and festivals.

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Major Finnish ticket vendor covering club, theatre and festival events including stand-up.

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Norwegian ticketing platform used by bars and small venues, and one of the ticket sources listed on the Oslo stand-up calendar.

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Iceland's main ticket vendor, selling uppistand and stand-up tickets alongside other events. midi.is redirects here.

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Four-day Finnish stand-up festival running since 2009 across venues including Paasitorni, G Livelab, Apollo and Vanha Ylioppilastalo.

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English-language Stockholm comedy festival spanning stand-up, improv, sketch and musical comedy, drawing acts from across Europe and the United States.

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Comedy festival at SALT in central Oslo, mixing stand-up with improv, game shows, parody and live podcasts.

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Annual open-access fringe festival in Reykjavík running since 2018, with a substantial stand-up strand and membership of the Nordic Fringe Network.

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Norway's largest stand-up festival, run by Reis Deg Komikerklubb over three days each August at Josefine Vertshus in Oslo across a tent stage, a club stage and a newcomers' stage.

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

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

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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.

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Denmark's first and largest comedy club, open since 1993 on Kompagnistræde in Copenhagen with a main room and the smaller Undergrunden. Runs a Wednesday open mic and a separate strand of English-language shows.

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Bergen comedy club running Friday shows at Dogtails on Torget with local acts and visiting British headliners.

Site is live but had no upcoming date posted when checked; may be running intermittently.

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Comedy-night brand running rooms in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim under separate local chapters.

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Oslo promoter running club nights at Agora, Brygg, SALT and Chateau Neuf, themed formats such as gong shows, and free beginner workshops.

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Norwegian operation running comedy clubs, tours and beginner stand-up courses, with regular nights at Kulturpuben in Lillestrøm.

standupkurs.no redirects here.

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Copenhagen club on Strøget running Danish and English shows and three weekly open mics, including an English-language mic on Tuesdays.

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Oslo's main comedy house at Aker Brygge, open since 2004 and operated by Stand Up Norge. Its club stage runs five comedians a night from Tuesday to Saturday alongside a touring main stage.

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Twenty-year-old Stockholm club playing weekends year-round at Clarion Hotel Sign by Norra Bantorget.

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Stockholm's best-known stand-up bar, running since 1989 with shows Tuesday to Saturday, plus stand-up courses and a comedian booking service.

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Bergen venue at Øvre Ole Bulls plass that hosts Stand Up Bergen's weekly club nights alongside touring comedy and music.

The live domain is olebullhuset.no; olebullscene.no does not resolve.

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Swedish alternative stand-up club running nights in Malmö, Stockholm, Uppsala, Jönköping, Landskrona and Lund, and co-organiser of the Swedish stand-up awards gala.

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Swedish stand-up club chain with resident rooms in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, started in 2004 in Gamla Stan.

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Norway's oldest and largest stand-up club, founded in 1994 on a democratic, open-microphone model and running over 120 shows a year in Oslo. It also runs newcomer nights, courses, the Stå Opp award and the Stand Up Deluxe Festival.

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Bergen's main stand-up club, running for over twenty years. Club nights on Thursdays and Fridays at Lille Ole Bull, plus the Tuesday Humorlaboratoriet new-material night at Børskjelleren.

Returns 454 to plain curl behind its WAF; confirmed live and current by fetching the page.

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Founded in 1998 and the oldest stand-up club outside Oslo, operating as both a club and an artist agency for the Trondheim region.

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Trondheim stand-up club playing regular nights at Antikvariatet, Lager11, Stammen and Habitat.

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Stavanger's leading club, with more than twenty active comedians and around a hundred shows a year, monthly Friday club nights at Folken and weekly Standup i Grottene open mic and training nights.

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English-language comedy club started in 2018, based at Scandic Klara in Stockholm with rooms in other Swedish cities, booking touring British and American acts.

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Two-day weekend beginner stand-up course in Oslo run three times a year by Reis Deg Komikerklubb, ending in a performance.

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Norwegian encyclopaedia entry on the form and its history in Scandinavia.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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Danish touring comedy promoter founded in 2012, placing Danish comedians into venues nationwide and also running a children's comedy strand.

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Norwegian stand-up's own industry award, handed out by Reis Deg Komikerklubb since 1996 and voted on by the comedians themselves.

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Finnish national promoter running clubs and tours in Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Oulu, plus cruise shows and visits by international headliners.

Returns 403 to plain curl behind a bot filter; confirmed live by fetching the page.

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Sweden's main stand-up awards gala, running since 2014, with categories including best club, best newcomer and comedian of the year.

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Gothenburg comedy booking and production company representing a roster of Swedish comedians and co-organising the Swedish stand-up awards gala.

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Bergen promoter and booker running stand-up nights around the city and booking comedians for corporate and private events nationally.

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Bergen comedy company organising stand-up shows and humour formats and booking comedians for events, selling tickets to its own nights.

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Norway's largest comedian booking agency, over twenty years old, operating as the booking arm of Latter for corporate and private events.

Both standup.no and standupnorge.no redirect to this page.

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Bergen-based agency hiring out comedians and compères across Norway, from short sets to full multi-comedian shows.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Interactive map of more than 200 UK comedy clubs, regular nights and festivals, maintained by the Live Comedy Association. Covers open mics and new-material nights alongside paid rooms.

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City-by-city index of UK open mics, new-material nights and paid spots, where comedians apply directly to promoters through the platform. Free for both acts and bookers.

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Searchable directory and map of UK open mic nights, covering comedy alongside music and spoken word. Events are user-submitted and free to list.

Multi-discipline, so comedy is one category among several; lower signal than Open Comedy for stand-up specifically.

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

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The main Irish ticketing platform for comedy tours and large venues including Vicar Street and 3Arena.

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The dominant UK ticketing platform for arena and theatre comedy tours. Also publishes an editorial comedy guide covering touring acts and clubs.

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Editorial comedy guides and what-is-on picks for London.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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

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

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

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

Canonical domain is fringefest.com; dublinfringe.ie does not resolve.

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The world's largest arts festival, held each August, and the single most important month in the stand-up calendar. Open access: any performer who finds a venue can register a show.

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Week-long October comedy festival in Galway, previously branded the Vodafone Comedy Carnival.

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Scotland's largest comedy festival, held across Glasgow venues each March.

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Ireland's best-known comedy festival, held in Kilkenny over the June bank holiday and long a fixture for Irish, British and North American stand-ups.

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February comedy festival across Leicester and Leicestershire, home of the Leicester Comedian of the Year award. Its former operator, Big Difference Company, entered liquidation in August 2026 and a new delivery model was being arranged.

Governance in flux as of September 2026; the domain is comedy-festival.co.uk, not comedyfestival.co.uk.

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Independent spring festival in mid-Wales, long favoured by comedians for testing new work in a small, informal setting.

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Registered charity running the original donation-model, free-entry strand of the Edinburgh Fringe across roughly fifty partner venues.

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

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Platform for women and non-binary people in comedy, running the Funny Women Awards, stand-up courses, live nights and a writers' room.

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Promoter running comedy since 1998 with rooms in Brighton, Manchester and London, the long-established New Act of the Year competition, and the Edinburgh and Brighton Free Festivals.

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UK-founded network of comedy creators and writers with broadcast credits, connecting members with brands and productions.

Has pivoted toward brand and creator work; no longer primarily a crowdfunding or listings platform.

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

This is Bruce Dessau's site; brucedessau.com does not resolve.

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Daily industry news on UK and US stand-up.

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

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Reliable reviews and reporting on live comedy, festivals, and trends.

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

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Stuart Goldsmith's long-form craft interviews with working stand-ups about writing process, career structure and the mechanics of the job.

comedianscomedian.com now redirects to stuartgoldsmith.com; link the /podcast path.

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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.

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

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

Use comedyawards.co.uk; the similar-looking edcomedyawards.com is a parked domain.

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Free-to-join membership body for UK grassroots live comedy - comedians, promoters, venues and festivals - which publishes an annual sector survey and runs Live Comedy Day.

Only the .co.uk domain resolves; livecomedyassociation.org and .com do not.

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Volunteer-run alternative Fringe awards whose panel reviews every eligible comedy show and passes sponsorship money directly to artists. A separate organisation from the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

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

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

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The comedy department of one of the UK's largest talent agencies, listing represented comedians and comedy writers.

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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.

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Official Comedy Central site with show pages, clips and schedules, and the historical home of the network's large stand-up special and Comedy Central Presents archive.

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US comedy club guide organised by state and city.

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Long-running American comedy database with comedian profiles, tour dates, ranked lists and a comedy club directory. Its club index is the most usable part.

Often described as an open mic finder, but it has no open mic section; /open-mics returns 404.

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Searchable archive of stand-up comedians with biographies, works, and clips.

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250+ US comedy clubs including improv and sketch theatres, with venue detail pages.

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Indie NYC show listings that include a steady stream of alt-comedy nights.

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Los Angeles comedy listings, reviews and scene coverage run by Jake Kroeger, tracking the city's independent and club shows.

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

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

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

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Canadian gig feed covering open mics, new-material showcases and paid spots, filterable by city. The most stable published index of Canadian mics.

Canadian inventory is thinner than the Australian feed; most Canadian mic lists circulate privately on social media.

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Free comedy open mic listings across the US and Canada, with search and submissions.

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Map view of nearby open mics, handy for planning a route across several rooms.

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Comedian-maintained Minneapolis/St Paul mic list — the model for a good local list.

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

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

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Example city page for the secret-show format.

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Eventbrite's US comedy category, where most independently produced and small-room American comedy shows sell tickets.

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Independent and grassroots stand-up events, including the smallest rooms.

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The dominant US primary ticketing platform for theatre- and arena-level comedy tours.

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The main Canadian ticketing platform for arena and theatre comedy tours, with a dedicated comedy browse category.

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Curated NYC comedy listings with venue write-ups.

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The Montreal-founded Just for Laughs group, the largest international comedy festival organisation, running editions in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney and Europe plus its ComedyPRO industry market.

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Toronto edition of Just For Laughs, previously branded JFL42, with its own line-up and ticketing.

Use this host; jfl42.com sits behind a Cloudflare challenge and is superseded.

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West-coast Canadian edition of the JFL festival brand.

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Netflix's large multi-venue Los Angeles comedy festival, with line-up, venue and ticketing information on its official site.

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Annual November festival across New York clubs and theatres, pairing arena headliners with club showcases.

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San Francisco's large multi-venue January comedy festival, spanning stand-up, sketch, improv and reunion shows.

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Annual Manitoba stand-up festival built around themed galas, several of which have been broadcast by CBC.

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

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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.

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Paste's comedy section, covering stand-up specials, comedy television and festival reporting with regular critical reviews.

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The A.V. Club's comedy tag archive, covering specials, comedy television and stand-up news.

/c/comedy redirects to the homepage; /tag/comedy is the working archive path.

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Sean L. McCarthy's comedy industry news and review site, tracking bookings, specials, festivals and the business of stand-up.

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Comedy news and long-form interview site covering stand-up, specials, podcasts and the club scene.

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New York Magazine's comedy vertical and the largest mainstream US outlet for stand-up criticism, reviews and reporting. It absorbed Splitsider's staff and archive.

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Deep catalogue of full clean sets and specials.

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

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

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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.

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The United States' national museum dedicated to comedy, in Jamestown, New York, holding comedian archives including the Joan Rivers joke file and running the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival.

Use comedycenter.org; nationalcomedycenter.org serves an expired TLS certificate.

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Round-up of comedy schools beyond the two coastal hubs.

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Los Angeles sketch and improv school with a long list of well-known alumni.

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Media archive in New York and Los Angeles holding a large searchable collection of television and radio comedy, including stand-up broadcasts and variety programming.

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Chicago-founded comedy theatre and training institution with houses in Chicago, Toronto and New York, and the standard reference for the improv and sketch pipeline that feeds stand-up careers.

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Structured improv, sketch, and stand-up curriculum in New York and Los Angeles.

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Maintained list of notable American comedy clubs, useful for cross-checking venues.

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

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

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

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Large independent US live entertainment promoter that routes and books national stand-up comedy tours, with a public comedy tour and artist listing.

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

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User-maintained calendar of English-language comedy events in Berlin, with a newsletter and iCal and Google Calendar feeds.

The site itself warns that listings are not guaranteed accurate; check with the venue.

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Listings hub for English-language stand-up shows and open mics in Paris.

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Polish stand-up portal with a comedian catalogue, video rankings and event listings across thirty-one Polish cities, linking out to ticket sellers.

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The largest French-language comedy festival, held in Montreux each November.

Use the apex domain; www.montreuxcomedy.com fails TLS hostname verification.

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

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

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

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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.

comedyestonia.ee redirects to a hosting page; use the .com domain.

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Home club of the Comedytrain collective at Amsterdam's Westergasterrein, and the foundational institution of Dutch stand-up.

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International English-language comedy club in Berlin running shows most nights of the week.

cosmiccomedy.de fails TLS validation; comedyclubberlin.com is the working canonical domain.

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Hungary's dominant stand-up organisation and venue network, selling tickets to its own nationwide programme.

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Producer running English-language stand-up in Brussels since 2012, with shows, line-ups and ticketing.

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Madrid chain of live monologue venues operating since 1998, with a programme and video archive.

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Athens stand-up club running several shows a night from established Greek comedians.

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Paris comedy club founded by the comedian Fary in a space designed by the artist JR, programming French stand-up.

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Prague's first stand-up club, in Mala Strana, with most shows in English and some in Czech.

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Long-running German stand-up brand that began in a Cologne launderette and now runs a nationwide live tour alongside broadcast and online output.

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Germany's best-known stand-up chain, with clubs in Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf plus touring shows, selling its own tickets.

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Pan-European producer of English-language stand-up shows across nineteen countries, working with more than forty partner venues from Lisbon to Tallinn.

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Bulgarian stand-up network with clubs in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas and Varna, running shows, open mics and a comedy festival.

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Promoter bringing international and English-language stand-up to Vienna since 2013.

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Barcelona's English-language comedy club across two nearby venues, with regular shows and an open mic.

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Historic Marais café-théâtre and a core Paris venue for one-man shows and French stand-up.

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One of Ukraine's largest stand-up projects, with a Kyiv venue running near-daily shows plus touring in Ukraine and across Europe.

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

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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Italian stand-up community site with comedian profiles, reviews, news and an event calendar. The closest thing Italy has to a dedicated comedy desk.

Returns 403 to plain curl. The page loads, but the most recent article seen when checked was from October 2024, so treat it as an archive rather than a live news feed.

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

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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City-by-city guide for performers to English-language comedy venues and open mics across roughly ten European cities, naming each venue and its site.

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

Returns 403 to plain curl; the page loads and lists 2026 festival dates.

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Australian comedy tour-date and show directory aggregating stand-up tours and festival shows, linking only to official ticket sellers.

Operated by the agency Token Artists rather than an independent editorial team.

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

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Day-by-day directory of around thirty-five Melbourne open mic and curated comedy rooms with addresses and start times, distinguishing walk-up from booked rooms. Actively maintained, with closed rooms marked as such.

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National Australian gig feed filterable to open mic, showing walk-up and new-act nights across the country, plus a promoter posting flow.

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New Zealand's main event listing and ticketing aggregator. Its comedy category is the most complete single view of NZ stand-up shows nationwide.

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Australian independent-venue ticketing platform widely used by comedy clubs and festival shows.

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

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January fringe festival with a large comedy programme.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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Australia's largest comedy festival and one of the three biggest in the world alongside Edinburgh and Just for Laughs. Also the parent body for Raw Comedy, Deadly Funny, Class Clowns and the national Roadshow.

melbournecomedyfestival.com.au is a parked domain; comedyfestival.com.au is the real site.

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New Zealand's national comedy festival, run by the NZ Comedy Trust across Auckland and Wellington each May.

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Annual Sydney festival across venues including the Enmore and Factory theatres, which also runs a showcase tour through regional New South Wales.

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New Zealand's only full-time professional comedy club, on Queen Street in Auckland. Its site doubles as the national comedy hub, with a gig guide, comedian profiles and the weekly Raw Comedy Quest open mic heats.

classiccomedy.co.nz does not resolve; comedy.co.nz is the live site and covers club, Quest and national guide.

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The Melbourne festival's national open mic competition for new stand-ups, run through state heats to a national final. The main entry point for beginner comics in Australia.

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Australia's best-known comedy management and touring agency, representing a large roster of Australian stand-ups.

The live domain is token.com.au; tokenartists.com.au does not resolve.

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Secret-location stand-up shows where neither venue nor line-up is announced until the day of the show, operating in more than two hundred cities across North America, Europe and Australia.

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Catalogue of stand-up specials and albums in the style of Letterboxd, with ratings, reviews, watchlists and streaming availability across more than a thousand comedians.

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Free platform combining a comedian directory of over thirteen thousand profiles with a gig board where bookers post spots and acts apply directly. Covers the UK, US, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

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A-Z list of working stand-up comedians worldwide, useful for name checks and research.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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Clubs, bars, and theatres running stand-up nights, browsable by location.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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Comedian-to-fan platform hosting comedian profiles, tour dates and direct fan channels, with a browsable comedian index.

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Index of comedians and their specials, good for tracking a performer’s released work.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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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.

Genuinely global taxonomy, though listing density and freshness outside North America are uneven.

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App-first open mic finder covering clubs and cities worldwide.

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Thousands of comedy, music, and all-arts open mics searchable by city or date on a map.

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Open mic directory covering the UK, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with venue, night and sign-up details.

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Stand-up open mic directory giving the night, start time, sign-up method and cost for each mic, with a 'tonight' view across more than fifty cities.

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Artist-following model that increasingly covers touring comedians.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file. Live check on 2026-09-19 returned 403/406 to automated clients (bot wall); the page loads normally in a browser.

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

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Self-serve ticketing platform used worldwide by independent comedy promoters and room-runners, with a dedicated onboarding path for comedy shows.

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Not-for-profit ticketing platform operating in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, US and Canada, which directs its booking-fee profits to education charities.

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Track comedians and get alerts when they announce dates in your city.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file. Live check on 2026-09-19 returned 403/406 to automated clients (bot wall); the page loads normally in a browser.

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Mainstream tour listings and direct ticket links across many markets.

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Traveller-oriented guide to the biggest comedy festivals by region.

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Hand-maintained calendar of comedy festivals and their submission windows.

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The main Reddit community for working and aspiring stand-ups, covering open mics, material, bookings and the business, with a beginner-oriented wiki.

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Fan-facing Reddit community for sharing and discussing stand-up clips, sets and specials, complementary to the practitioner-focused r/Standup.

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Newsroom covering live stand-up as a business: comics, venues, festivals, tours and the working-comic economy, published by the Open Comedy platform.

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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.

comedybangbang.com no longer resolves; the Earwolf show page is the live canonical home.

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

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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.

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

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

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Marc Maron's interview podcast, running since 2009, with a deep archive of long conversations with stand-ups about their careers and craft.

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

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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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.

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Credits and release data for stand-up specials — the canonical source for air dates.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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Maintained table of every Netflix original stand-up special with comedian, release date and running time. The most complete public list of the largest commissioner's output.

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Comedian’s write-up comparing Badslava and MicMaps, and how to plan a night of multiple mics.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file. Live check on 2026-09-19 returned 403/406 to automated clients (bot wall); the page loads normally in a browser.

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Wikipedia's main article on stand-up, covering the form's history from music hall and vaudeville to the modern club and special era, plus regional traditions and terminology.

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Overview and list of comedy festivals worldwide.

Imported from the curated /directory index when external-resources.ts was folded into this file.

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How open mic culture works, and where it came from.

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

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Where the industry actually watches: notable rooms and showcase nights.

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The International Fringe Festival Association, with a searchable database of fringe festivals worldwide, a calendar and a touring planner for building multi-festival routes.

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

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

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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.

Music-first product, but comedy is a supported artist category.

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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.

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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.

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Hong Kong comedy directory with a calendar filterable by day, show type, venue and district, plus comedian profiles and booking.

Loads fine, but the most recent date markers seen were from 2024; treat the calendar as possibly stale. It is nonetheless the only working Hong Kong comedy hub found.

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India's main live-events ticketing platform and de facto comedy listings source, with per-city comedy pages carrying Canvas Laugh Club and other venue line-ups.

Used because Canvas Laugh Club and most Indian comedy venues have no working site of their own.

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Stand-up category of Brazil's largest event ticketing platform, and the practical nationwide listing of Brazilian comedy shows.

Used because the dedicated Brazilian comedy sites tested were parked or placeholders.

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

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

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Singapore's longest-running weekly English-language stand-up night, booking international headliners.

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Long-running Gulf comedy circuit bringing British and international comedians to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and neighbouring cities every month.

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Tokyo's only dedicated stand-up venue, with shows in English and Japanese every night.

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

The site is mid-rebuild and states that its Melville Comedy Club is closed; the agency contact details are current.

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Mumbai talent and content company central to Indian stand-up, handling comedian management, specials production and live tours.

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