Missoula Squares, hosted by Betty Sparrow
w/ Charley MacornSunday, January 8 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 General Admission // $5 for Working Comedians (Door Only) A live reboot of the classic game show, with your favorite local comedians! The Squares are populated with some of your favorite local comedians: Sarah Aswell, Maddy Halland, Kev Hamm, Crystal Koosman, James Johnson, Jackie Rapetti, Tim Miller, Ferdinand Po, and Abby Gillespie. Betty Sparrow is your hostess with the mostest, and Charley Macorn will be opening the show! This is truly the best way to spend a Sunday evening in January, so come on down – why don’t you? *Working Comedians receive a 50% discount on tickets at the door. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Chris Gethard: A Father and The Sun
Saturday, February 4 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $18 Advance // $22 Day of Show // 18+ Chris Gethard is a comedian, actor and author. He’s the host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast, which was recently adapted into a 4-part series streaming on Topic, the former host of The Chris Gethard Show, and wrote and starred in the HBO special Career Suicide. He also hosts the podcast New Jersey Is The World, a celebration of his home state. In June 2021, Comedy Dynamics released Chris’ new comedy special, Chris Gethard: Half My Life, which is a hybrid tour documentary and stand-up special shot in a variety of DIY spaces and independent venues all over the country in 2019. Chris has been seen on television shows such as Space Force, The Office, Broad City, Parks and Recreation, and Inside Amy Schumer. He’s also been seen in films such as The Other Guys, The Heat, Ghostbusters, Anchorman 2, and was one of the stars of Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice. Chris can most recently be seen in the HBO Max documentary Class Action Park. Chris is also the author of the books Weird NY, A Bad Idea I’m About to Do, and Lose Well, and and the founder of Planet Scum, an online comedy venue for the country’s best underground comedians. https://chrisgeth.com/ For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Revival Comedy Night for Families for a Livable Climate
Saturday, December 17 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 Join Families for a Livable Climate for Revival Comedy Night at the ZACC and enjoy an evening of laughs and connection to benefit their organization and their climate outreach work in Montana. Featuring a fantastic line-up of Montana-based comedians, including Betty Sparrow, Tim Miller, Kev Hamm, Karissa Speroski, Nick Hyde, Mars Sandoval, Sarah Sandoval, Rale Sidebottom, Shelly Howls, Renee LaMie, Ferd Po, and Rale Sidebottom. Hosted by Sarah Aswell. Families for a Livable Climate creates community for climate action, empowering families to advocate for a livable future. FLC hosts community events and educational opportunities, including Decarbonize Your Money, which has resulted in the divestment of $1.5 Million from fossil fuels by Montana families over the last two years. FLC advocates for clean and affordable energy, co-leads the Montana Climate Stories project, publishes The Changing Times, and helps build skills for Montanans to communicate about the climate crisis across differences. FLC recently became a #beyondplastics affiliate organization and looks forward to tackling the plastics problem in Montana. *Working Comedians receive a 50% discount on tickets at the door. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Revival Comedy Night – Annual Sock Drive for the Poverello Center
Thursday, November 17 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 The leaves are falling and the air is crisper – and that means it’s time for Revival Comedy’s biggest show of the year! Each November we gather the best comics in town for a huge celebration, all centered around collecting warm socks for the Poverello Center. Our goal is to make sure that no one at the Pov is worried about their sock supplies running out until spring, and that every person who might not always have a place to go at least has warm toes through Montana’s cold winters. In addition to comedians joking for Good, this is a variety show that will include music and special guests. The price of your ticket goes directly to the Pov (after ZACC’s operational costs), and we heavily encourage people to bring in warm, new socks to donate. We need socks for both men and women, and the warmer the better. If you have other new, useful stuff to donate to the Pov (hats, gloves, toiletries, etc.) please bring those things as well – we love it all! Learn more about the Poverello Center at https://thepoverellocenter.org/. *Working Comedians receive a 50% discount on tickets at the door. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Revival Comedy Night for Soft Landing Missoula
Thursday, October 27 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 Come laugh along with Missoula’s best standup comedians to raise money for Soft Landing Missoula! Revival Comedy and local comedians are excited to support Soft Landing’s work through this special fundraiser comedy night, featuring sets by – Sarah Aswell, Shelly Howls, Thomas McClure, Serena Palmer, Ferd Po, Maddy Halland, Kyle McAffee, Jackie Rapetti, and hosted by Casey Chapman. Soft Landing will be there too, with some delicious baked sweets from their United We Eat chefs available. Bring cash to tip the chefs! Soft Landing Missoula is a community-based nonprofit committed to working with refugee and immigrant families as they build new lives in Missoula. Soft Landing serves more than 300 clients through efforts including a community center, youth programming, culinary programming, and community outreach and education.Learn more about Soft Landing at https://softlandingmissoula.org/. *Working Comedians receive a 50% discount on tickets at the door. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Revival Comedy Night for Girls on Shred
Thursday, September 15 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10* GOS is a local org that offers free skateboard and snowboard clinics to femme, non-binary, and transgender participants across the state. Proceeds go to safety gear and travel expenses so we can spread the love to as many rural communities as possible. Revival Comedy will be supporting their efforts in September with a fundraiser for the non-profit, with a line-up including Crystal Koosman, Katherine Hosebin, Gigi Janotta, Cory Demers, Cody Trogdon, and Gracie Pisano. Come laugh at stand-up comedians who love to raise money for our favorite organizations doing good in Missoula!*Working Comedians receive a 50% discount on tickets at the door. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Revival Comedy Presents Michael Glatzmaier
Wednesday, September 14 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 Hosted by Sarah Aswell and featuring Ian St. Onge! Michael Glatzmaier is a musical comedian who creates songs on the spot based on audience suggestions mixed with stand up comedy. He has performed his show through out the US, Canada, Europe in theatres, comedy club and festivals like SFIT, Bumbershoot and the Seattle International Comedy Contest. Michael has an album online called mostly improvised and recently released a comedy special on Dry Bar Comedy. https://michaelglatzmaier.com/ **Michael will also be hosting a musical improv comedy workshop at the ZACC on Wednesday, September 14 in the afternoon from 3-5 PM. For more information and to purchase a workshop spot visit: https://www.zootownarts.org/event-details.html/event/2022/09/14/musical-improv-workshop-with-comedian-michael-glatzmaier-i-can-t-sing-/395680. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Revival Comedy Night for the Susan Wicklund Fund
Wednesday, August 31 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $20 It’s Revival Comedy’s FIFTH birthday party! That’s right: for five years, we’ve been offering free comedy workshops to marginalized genders and helping people across the state get on stage to tell jokes. We’re celebrating by showcasing women, nonbinary, and trans comedians in Montana who make the world a funnier place — and by raising money for our all-time favorite Montana organization, the Susan Wicklund Fund. Especially now, with our abortion rights in peril, it is vital to support Montana’s abortion fund, which has helped hundreds of people pay for their abortions and the related costs of travel and lodging, and we’re ready to fight. The night will feature some of Montana’s best comedians, including Becky Margolis, Jackie Rapetti, Margi Cates, and Charley Macorn, as well as some brand new and emerging voices, including Casey Chapman, Renee LaMie, Selena Palmer, and Alexa Hansen. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/. Funds raised will support the Susan Wicklund Fund, a nonprofit organization based in Montana providing financial assistance and medically accurate information to people needing abortion care. To learn more, visit: https://www.susanwicklundfund.org/.
Revival Comedy Presents Brad Wenzel
Sunday, August 14 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 With opener Sarah Aswell! Brad Wenzel is most known for his non sequitur style of joke telling. His offbeat one-liners, dry delivery, and unassuming presence are what set him apart from other comedians. A product of the Detroit comedy scene and now residing in Los Angeles, Brad has made 3 stand-up appearances on CONAN. Brad’s debut album Sweet Nothings was released on Jack White’s label, Third Man Records and can be heard on Sirius XM. Other credits include: first place at the Great American Comedy Festival, “New Faces” at the Montreal Just For LaughsFestival, and Bob & Tom. bradcomedy.com For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Revival Comedy Night to Benefit the James Welch Native Lit Festival
Friday, July 22 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 In July, Revival Comedy is raising money for the James Welch Native Lit Fest — which is welcoming some of the best writers of our time to Missoula, including Louise Erdrich, Tommy Orange, and Terese Marie Mailhot (!!). To celebrate the festival, and help offset the costs, we are welcoming our favorite native *comedy* writers to the ZACC — and it will be a night to remember. Featuring Ferd Po, Mars Sandoval, Austin Valley, Lenny Peppers, Thomas McClure, Sarah Ann Sandoval, Adrian Jawort, Charlie Mulluk, and Andy Nemec. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
