The history of the Dallas COmedy Festival
Tim Meadows at DCF2011
The Dallas Comedy Festival is an annual celebration of improv, sketch, stand up and short film comedy. Now in itʼs fourth year, the Dallas Comedy Festival continues to recruit top notch comedy acts from all over the United States for one week packed full of shows, workshops, and parties.
The Dallas Comedy Festival began in 2010, when improv greats Jill Bernard (Huge Theater, Minneapolis) and Joe Bill (iO, Chicago) signed on to headline the festival and blew the crowds away with their nationally touring act, SCRAM! With over 25 acts in the inaugural year, the festival garnered attention from the press and the Dallas arts community as a “Must See” event that year.
The 2011 Dallas Comedy Festival was met with tremendous growth. Over 45 comedy acts appeared at the festival that year, with an impressive lineup of headliners. David Razowsky (Second City/Steppenwolf, Chicago) and Molly Erdman (Second City, Sonic Commercials) performed together in a show that is still one of the most talked about shows in the history of the Dallas Comedy Festival. They were joined by Uncleʼs Brother, featuring Joe Canale (Second City), Brad Morris (The League, Cougartown), and Time Meadows (Saturday Night Live, Mean Girls). Tim Meadowsʼ stand up and improv show drew such a crowd it warranted two more encore performances at the Four Day Weekend Theater in Fort Worth the following night.
In 2012, DCF procured five of the top working improvisational comedians in the business today. Frank Caeti (MadTV, Second City) and Matt Craig (Saturday Night Live) brought the house down with their national touring sketch comedy show, FrankenMatt. Rich Talarico (Key and Peele), Bob Dassie (MadTV), and Craig Cackowski
(Community), performed their trademark LA-based improv comedy show, Dasaraski for a standing room only. Both FrankenMatt and Dasariski performed in a first ever joint improv show on closing night, and they now perform together in Los Angeles after their time here at DCF.
With over 68 comedy acts, 7 workshops, and five days of shows and parties, the 2013 Dallas Comedy Festival promises to be the biggest comedy festival to date for the city of Dallas and great exposure of the arts and live performance to the entire DFW community.
We'd like to thank all of our advertisers and sponsors for their support of the festival. But this festival can't happen without the help of our amazing team. Thank you to all the staff, faculty, performers, and volunteers who help make Dallas Comedy Festival such an amazing week for comedy in Dallas. You are all amazing people and we couldn't do it without each and everyone of you.
Thanks for supporting comedy.
The Dallas Comedy Festival began in 2010, when improv greats Jill Bernard (Huge Theater, Minneapolis) and Joe Bill (iO, Chicago) signed on to headline the festival and blew the crowds away with their nationally touring act, SCRAM! With over 25 acts in the inaugural year, the festival garnered attention from the press and the Dallas arts community as a “Must See” event that year.
The 2011 Dallas Comedy Festival was met with tremendous growth. Over 45 comedy acts appeared at the festival that year, with an impressive lineup of headliners. David Razowsky (Second City/Steppenwolf, Chicago) and Molly Erdman (Second City, Sonic Commercials) performed together in a show that is still one of the most talked about shows in the history of the Dallas Comedy Festival. They were joined by Uncleʼs Brother, featuring Joe Canale (Second City), Brad Morris (The League, Cougartown), and Time Meadows (Saturday Night Live, Mean Girls). Tim Meadowsʼ stand up and improv show drew such a crowd it warranted two more encore performances at the Four Day Weekend Theater in Fort Worth the following night.
In 2012, DCF procured five of the top working improvisational comedians in the business today. Frank Caeti (MadTV, Second City) and Matt Craig (Saturday Night Live) brought the house down with their national touring sketch comedy show, FrankenMatt. Rich Talarico (Key and Peele), Bob Dassie (MadTV), and Craig Cackowski
(Community), performed their trademark LA-based improv comedy show, Dasaraski for a standing room only. Both FrankenMatt and Dasariski performed in a first ever joint improv show on closing night, and they now perform together in Los Angeles after their time here at DCF.
With over 68 comedy acts, 7 workshops, and five days of shows and parties, the 2013 Dallas Comedy Festival promises to be the biggest comedy festival to date for the city of Dallas and great exposure of the arts and live performance to the entire DFW community.
We'd like to thank all of our advertisers and sponsors for their support of the festival. But this festival can't happen without the help of our amazing team. Thank you to all the staff, faculty, performers, and volunteers who help make Dallas Comedy Festival such an amazing week for comedy in Dallas. You are all amazing people and we couldn't do it without each and everyone of you.
Thanks for supporting comedy.
