Riot Comedy Festival <\/a>will take over Montrose for the city\u2019s largest comedy festival. Expanding this year to include shows at The Riot\u2019s second base in Conroe, the comedy festival will feature over 50 performers \u2013 including a number of up-and-coming comics \u2013\u00a0as well as parties, contests, podcast tapings, and a BBQ cook-off. <\/p>\nBased in the upstairs bar at Montrose gastropub hotspot, Rudyard\u2019s, The Riot is one of the city\u2019s premier comedy destinations. Here, The Riot hosts nightly comedy events ranging from stand-up, to showcases, open mics, roasts, and more. In 2023, the club launched its very own comedy festival. <\/p>\n
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The festival, running from April 1 \u2013 April 4, 2026, will stage over 50 performers heavily featuring local-favorite stand-ups and comics from the new-fledged Austin comedy scene. Featured comedians include: <\/p>\n
Timmy No Brakes (Kill Tony)<\/p>\n
Matthew Broussard (Tonight Show)<\/p>\n
Tommy Pope (Stuff Island, Tires)<\/p>\n
Andy Huggins (America\u2019s Got Talent)<\/p>\n
Isabel Hagen<\/p>\n
Shawn Gardini (Matt and Shane\u2019s Secret Podcast)<\/p>\n
Lemaire Lee (Matt and Shane\u2019s Secret Podcast)<\/p>\n
Festival shows will be headquartered at The Gordy. Shows will also take place at Riot Comedy Club, as well as nearby venues including Sterling Theater, AvantGarden, Edmonson Gallery. New to this year, the festival will host shows at GuadalaHarry\u2019s its newly opened secondary location in downtown Conroe. <\/p>\n
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Special events lined up for the 2026 Riot Comedy Festival include live podcasts and improv, interactive games, and 2026 Riot National Comedy Contest. On Saturday, April 4, the festival will host its second annual All-You-Can\u2013Eat BBQ Cookoff starting at 3 pm. <\/p>\n
Saturday will also see The Official Unofficial Pub Crawl kicking off at 11:45 PM at Moxie Hotel Downtown. <\/p>\n
Tickets to The Riot Comedy Festival in Houston are now available through the club\u2019s website. Individual shows, day passes, and weekend passes are all available for purchase. Most of the comedy shows are 21+ unless advertised otherwise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: @theriotcomedy For its fourth year, the Riot Comedy Festival will take over Montrose for the city\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1068,4037,56,58,57,18013],"class_list":{"0":"post-228520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-barbecue","9":"tag-comedy","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-party"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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