Festival Schedule & Tickets
1st Week - September 16 - 18
Zach Abeyta
Friday, September 16
Blackout Tonight!
North Fourth Art Center
7:00-7:45pm
$15
Blackout Theatre presents New Mexican-inspired hilarousness! Come see Albuquerque's funniest theater company present an evening of all-original sketch comedy!
Funny Fiesta's Variety Show
North Fourth Art Center
8:15-9:45pm
$15
Some of the funniest performers from Albuquerque and beyond showcase their hilarious acts. Everyone is sure to see something they love in this showcase of burlesque, sketch, dance, improv, and more!
Featuring:
Wayward Comedy
Timmy Booth
Whiskey Rose Knight
Bit-Sized Bit-Prov
What the Hell Happened in San Francisco?
The Magic of Bryan Lambe
Mountain Coast Improv
The Box Performance Space
8:00-8:45pm
$15
Jeanette Cerami and Megan Miles create hilarious scenes on the spot and based on your suggestions! Megan has studied improv and sketch in NYC at Upright Citizens Brigade, and loves to freestyle rap. Jeanette has her improv, stand-up, and sketch training from Chicago (Second City, iO, Annoyance) and sketch writing from UCB LA. She recently moved back to her birthplace of Albuquerque and performs regularly at The Box ABQ.
The Show
The Box Performance Space
9:00-9:45pm
$15
Albuquerque's best improv company presents a night of hilarious, made-up-on-the-spot comedy! The Show will take your suggestions and weave them into expertly crafted scenes that will leave you laughing in amazement!
Saturday, September 17
Funny Fiesta's Variety Show
North Fourth Art Center
6:00-7:30pm
$15
Some of the funniest performers from Albuquerque and beyond showcase their hilarious acts. Everyone is sure to see something they love in this showcase of burlesque, sketch, dance, improv, and more!
Featuring:
Leslie Nesbit and Friends
Timmy Booth
Whiskey Rose Knight
Bit-Sized Bit-Prov
What the Hell Happened in San Francisco?
The Magic of Bryan Lambe
Blackout Tonight!
North Fourth Art Center
8:00-8:45pm
$15
Blackout Theatre presents New Mexican-inspired hilarousness! Come see Albuquerque's funniest theater company present an evening of all-original sketch comedy!
Comedy Quick Change
North Fourth Art Center
9:15-10:45pm
$15
In a celebration of both art forms, comedians and drag queens pair up for a one-of-a-kind show. Comedians perform and the Drag Royalty do their thing, but there's a twist....in the second half of the show, they SWITCH! Comics become Queens & Kings and Drag Royalty become comics!
Featuring:
Charles Herrera
Tsunami Couture
Timmy Booth
Jen Tri Fi
The Show
The Box Performance Space
9:00-9:45pm
$15
Albuquerque's best improv company presents a night of hilarious, made-up-on-the-spot comedy! The Show will take your suggestions and weave them into expertly crafted scenes that will leave you laughing in amazement!
Movie Dub
featuring Reefer Madness
North Fourth Art Center
4:00-5:30pm
$15
To celebrate legal cannabis in New Mexico, festival comics will riff on this classic bit of propaganda that helped make it illegal in the first place!
Sunday, September 18
Big Feelings with Gigi Bella
North Fourth Art Center
6:00-6:45pm
$15
Inspired by her best-selling book of poetry, the 10th ranked woman poet in the world gives her thoughts on love, olive garden and the comings and goings of Pete Davidson. This showcase of original poetry, comedy, and music has been enjoyed all over the country and promises to be more bombastic, alive, and hilarious than ever with sparkly outfits, a live band and award-winning material in tow. A wild, glittery romp you won't want to miss!
Blackout Tonight!
North Fourth Art Center
7:15-8:00pm
$15
Blackout Theatre presents New Mexican-inspired hilarousness! Come see Albuquerque's funniest theater company present an evening of all-original sketch comedy!
Funny Fiesta's Variety Show
North Fourth Art Center
8:30-10:00pm
$15
Some of the funniest performers from Albuquerque and beyond showcase their hilarious acts. Everyone is sure to see something they love in this showcase of burlesque, sketch, dance, improv, and more!
Featuring:
Leslie Nesbit and Friends
Wayward Comedy
Timmy Booth
Whiskey Rose Knight
Bit-Sized Bit-Prov
The Magic of Bryan Lambe
Myq Kaplan
2nd Week - September 22 - 25
Thursday, September 22
Open Mic
Dry Heat Comedy Club
6:15-7:15pm
FREE
Come test out some jokes and hear brand new jokes from festival comics at the Funny Fiesta's official open mics! Open Mics are free and first-come-first-serve
Super Stacked Show
Dry Heat Comedy Club
7:45-9:15pm
$15
A Super Stacked show jam-packed with 15 hilarious comics! With so many comics packed into one lineup, you're sure to leave laughing!
Featuring:
Jamar Hall (Host), Tripp Stelnicki, Elijah Williams, Robert Eyster, AJ Mathews, Rusty Rutherford, Isabel Madley, Jake Otero, Hannah Howard, Caryn Carson, Danger K Varoz, Ian Ty Jamerson, TJ Jones, Evan Galpert, Esther Corker, Jovian Henio, Courtney Foster and festival headliner Myq Kaplan
Festival Headliner:
Myq Kaplan
The Historic Lobo Theater
September 23, 2022
8 - 9:30pm
$25
Myq Kaplan is a comedian named Mike Kaplan.
He has been seen on the Tonight Show, Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Seth Meyers, in his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents special, and in his own one-hour special on Amazon, Small, Dork, and Handsome.
He has been a finalist on Last Comic
Standing and has appeared on America's Got Talent. His album "Vegan Mind Meld" was one of iTunes' top 10 comedy albums of the year, and his newest album "A.K.A." debuted at #1. The New York Times called it "invigoratingly funny" and included it among its five "coronavirus best new comedy specials"..."to remind you of the old normal." And here we are in the new weird!
With local legend Zach Abeyta hosting and the hilarious Anastasia Washington opening, this is the must-see event of the festival.
$25
Special VIP
Table Tickets:
Table for 4 includes dinner, a bottle of champagne for the table, and table service throughout the show
$250 (per table)
Friday, September 23
Saturday, September 24
Riff-a-Palooza
Inside Out
1:00 - 3:00pm
$15
Festival comics will riff on each other's jokes in this wild, unpredictable, and hilarious outdoor show!
Sight Gag
Dry Heat Comedy Club
6:30-8:00pm
$15
Everyone loves jokes--even robots! In this show we take a comedian's set and, with the use of an art Artificial Intelligence app, we turn it into art!
Featuring:
Sarah Kennedy (Hosting)
Myq Kaplan
Kristin Lytie
Kadeem Fuller
Charles Herrera
Hannah Howard
Courtney Foster
Rusty Rutherford
Green Chile Show
Dry Heat Comedy Club
8:30-10:00pm
$15
Part of the Funny Fiesta's Red or Green series! It's always a tough choice between red and green chile and the same goes for our Red Chile and Green Chile shows! Packed with some of the festival's best comics, either show is certain to entertain and leave you laughing out loud!
Featuring:
Tyler Lovely (Host), Anastasia Washington, Kadeem Fuller, Ron Ferguson, Christian Mangual , AJ Mathews, Robert Eyster, Kate Anella, Mike Ogden
Queerly Funny
Dry Heat Comedy Club
10:30-Midnight
$15
An evening of queer comedy at its finest! Hosted by the incomparable Tsunami Courure and with an incredible lineup, this show will leave you laughing from the first joke!
Featuring:
Tsunami Couture (Host)
Ryan Rogers (Headlining Queerly Funny), Carla Vasquez, The Magic of Bryan Lambe, Sarah Kennedy, Zach Funk
Super Stacked Show
The Box Performance Space
6:30-8:00pm
$15
A Super Stacked show jam-packed with 15 hilarious comics! With so many comics packed into one lineup, you're sure to leave laughing!
Featuring:
Jake Boor-Morris (Host), Richard, Wolfson, Tyler Lovely, Mijen Alijnovic, Matt Storrs, Chuck Parker, Zach Funk, Em Brown, Joshua Emerson, Dan Bublitz, Carla Vasquez, Caleb Mulkey, Sam Alvarado, Tsunami Couture
Red Chile Show
The Box Performance Space
8:30-10:00pm
$15
Part of the Funny Fiesta's Red or Green series! It's always a tough choice between red and green chile and the same goes for our Red Chile and Green Chile shows! Packed with some of the festival's best comics, either show is certain to entertain and leave you laughing out loud!
Featuring:
Chuck Parker (Host), Matt Storrs, Clark Jones, Em Brown, Elijah Williams, Rick Bryan, Isabel Madley, Caryn Carson, Festival Headliner Myq Kaplan
The Dark Show
The Box Performance Space
10:30-Midnight
$15
Dark Humor told by some of the Festival's best comics. This show will leave you wondering "Why am I laughing at that!?"
Featuring:
Caleb Muleky
Sam Alvarado
Joshua Emerson
Kristin Lytie
Tripp Stelnicki
The Show
The Box Performance Space
9:00-9:45pm
$15
Albuquerque's best improv company presents a night of hilarious, made-up-on-the-spot comedy! The Show will take your suggestions and weave them into expertly crafted scenes that will leave you laughing in amazement!
Open Mic
Dry Heat Comedy Club
5:00-6:pm
FREE
Come test out some jokes and hear brand new jokes from festival comics at the Funny Fiesta's official open mics! Open Mics are free and first-come-first-serve
Open Mic
Dry Heat Comedy Club
6:15-7:15pm
FREE
Come test out some jokes and hear brand new jokes from festival comics at the Funny Fiesta's official open mics! Open Mics are free and first-come-first-serve
The Christie Buchele Show
Dry Heat Comedy Club
10:00-11:30pm
$15
Christie Buchele is an accomplished standup comic from Denver, Colorado. Making a name for herself by sharing the heart-wrenching and hilariously raw realities of being a woman with a disability. Christie has been featured on Viceland's, Flophouse; Hidden America with Jonah Ray; Laughs on Fox; and First Look on NBC.
Hosted by Zach Funk, this show will leave you rolling in the aisles!
Fill & Wes Show
The Box Performance Space 7:00-7:45pm
$15
Winners of Best Burque 2019. The Fill & Wes Show. Two men one mind. In each unique free-form improv show, Fill & Wes explore their boundless dynamic, delve into the abstract without limits of space and time, and maintain grounded relationships within absurd circumstances.
The Blue Show
The Box Performance Space
10:30-11:45pm
$15
Is raunchy humor your thing!? Then we have the show for you. Eight comics present their dirtiest, adultiest jokes to make you blush and laugh. Hosted by the incomparable Kate Anella.
Featuring:
Kate Anella (Host)
Em Brown
Christian Mangual
Danger K Varoz
Mary Byrd
Rick Bryan
Ryan Rogers
Ron Ferguson
The Show
The Box Performance Space
9:00-9:50pm
$15
Albuquerque's best improv company presents a night of hilarious, made-up-on-the-spot comedy! The Show will take your suggestions and weave them into expertly crafted scenes that will leave you laughing in amazement!
Sunday, September 25
Brunch-Off
Kosmos Restaurant
11:30am-12:30pm
$15
Join some of the best comics from around the country and enjoy some delicious brunch at the same time! It's a win-win combo!
Featuring:
Caryn Carson (Host)
Joshua Emerson
Dan Bublitz
Kadeem Fuller
Festival Headliner Myq Kaplan
Zach Abeyta & Friends
Dry Heat Comedy Club
7:30-9:00pm
$15
Zach Abeyta is a stand-up comedian and Bboy from Albuquerque New Mexico. His comedy style is just as expressive as his dance moves. Combining creative wording with physicality on stage, all while telling you about growing up in Albuquerque. Zach has produced and ran shows across New Mexico. Appeared on TV, magazines, headlined comedy festivals, and has opened for Steve-O, Chris Kattan, and Kelsey Cook.
Featuring:
Zach Abeyta (Host)
Caleb Mulky
Robert Eyester
Isabel Madley
Josh Emerson
Sarah Ann Meyers
Tyler Lovely
Tripp Stelniki