3rd Annual Comedy Festival in Akron, OH

Festival will include the best comics from around North America and shows will be held across the city of Akron!

The RubberCity Comedy Festival is the 3rd annual comedy festival in Akron, OH and will be held on May 3rd -6th, 2023. Showcases will be held at Funny Stop Comedy Club which provides comics exposure at a highly regarded comedy club and satellite shows will be held in various locations around Akron, OH.

The City of Akron boasts a vibrant comedy and arts scene that features multiple performance venues and centers around the Funny Stop Comedy.

As Northeast’s Ohio’s premier comedy showplace, the Funny Stop Comedy Club provides the best comedians available on the circuit today. Repeatedly voted as the “Best Venue for Live Comedy in Northeastern Ohio,” the Funny Stop Comedy Club features many different comedians over the years including Seinfeld, Dennis Miller, Steve Harvey, Tim Allen and many others performed at the old Hilarities. The Funny Stop has helped continue the tradition with regular appearances from comics like Joe Machi, Pablo Fransisco, TJ Miller, Jim Florentine, Don Jamieson, Basile, Mark Anthony, Pauly Shore, Carlos Mencia and Rich Vos, among many others, as well as Cleveland comics including Tammy Pescatelli, Mike Polk Jr., and Bill Squire.

Aside from the comedy scene, Akron is surrounded by abundant greenery, featuring multiple outdoor entertainment venues, and adjacent to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Akron is a playground for active travelers.

The festival will be headlined by some of the best up-and-coming comics touring today and includes featured acts from all around North America.

Schedule:

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

5:30pm: Happy Hour

Rubber City Comedy Festival $10 Happy Hour Show featuring carefully selected festival comics from across the country. Ticket includes drink ticket.

Location: Barmacy - Akron

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8:00pm - 9:00pm: Chevy Terrill

Debuting at Funny Stop Comedy Club as part of the Rubber City Comedy Festival is "Big" Chevy Terrill! Chevy Terrill is a Comedian from Akron, Ohio.  He has a mild case of Cerebral Palsy.  He didn’t let that stop him.  His little brother always told him “Man, you’re funny as hell!”
That pushed him to start writing jokes and performing.  Chevy started at his hometown club, The Funny Stop Comedy Club in 2006 and has been at it ever since.

Location: Funny Stop - Cuyahoga Falls

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10:00pm: Free Late Night at Matinee

Rubber City Comedy Festival Free Late Night Show featuring carefully selected festival comics from across the country.

Cost: Free

Location: The Matinee in Highland Square - Akron

10:00pm: Laugheasy

Rubber City Comedy Festival Free Late Night Show featuring carefully selected festival comics from across the country.

Cost: Free

Location: Baxter’s Speakeasy - Akron

Thursday, May 4, 2023

5:30pm: Happy Hour

Rubber City Comedy Festival $10 Happy Hour Show featuring carefully selected festival comics from across the country. Ticket includes drink ticket.

Cost: $10

Location: Barmacy - Akron

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7:00pm - 8:30pm: Ben Palmer

Please welcome comedian Ben Palmer to Funny Stop Comedy Club for the Rubber City Comedy Festival!

About Ben: Ben first started writing humor online via a MySpace blog when he was 19. He fell in love with the joy of seeing people’s positive reactions to his blog posts. At 21, he performed his first stand-up comedy set at Funny Stop Comedy Club in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He continued to do stand-up comedy in Cleveland, Akron, and Kent, Ohio for three years and then moved to Atlanta, GA where he became a regular at the comedy clubs and underground shows. It was in Atlanta where he fused his two passions of humor writing and stand-up comedy into a live show. At 30, Ben moved to Los Angeles to further pursue his career and work on his live show. He performed at Comedy Central Stage and became a regularly booked act at one of the biggest comedy festivals in the world, San Francisco Sketchfest. The show features his trolling of hateful trolls on corporate Facebook pages, posing as a city government to air sarcastic gripes about bureaucracy, making up fake cases to get on court TV, and pretending to be a journalist to get reactions from billionaire CEO’s and unethical multilevel marketing companies. In 2020, Ben’s TikTok videos began to gain popularity. His TikTok videos have over 500 million views collectively. He now tours comedy clubs, theaters, coffee shops, colleges, and venues around the country. Prior to becoming popular on TikTok, his work had been featured in countless news publications and online media outlets.

Location: Funny Stop - Cuyahoga Falls

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10:00pm: Laugheasy

Rubber City Comedy Festival Free Late Night Show featuring carefully selected festival comics from across the country.

Cost: Free

Location: Baxters Speakeasy - Akron

Friday, May 5, 2023

5:30pm: Happy Hour

Rubber City Comedy Festival $5 Happy Hour Show featuring carefully selected festival comics from across the country. Ticket includes drink ticket.

Cost: $5

Location: Barmacy - Akron

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7:30pm - 9:00pm: Emma Dalenberg

Funny Stop Comedy Club welcomes comedian Emma Dalenberg featuring as part of the Rubber City Comedy Festival!

About Emma: Emma Dalenberg approaches her sets with good vibes, a genuine love to connect with her audience, and a lack of storytelling boundaries. Beginning her career in Minneapolis MN, she has now performed all around the US and overseas. In 2022, she started her year as a 'Racket Magazine Minnesota Comic to Watch’, produced and hosted the 3 times sold out and Star Tribune featured Underground Roast Battle, opened a Don't Tell show for Michael Che, and shared the stage with Dave Attell at Acme Comedy Club. August 2022, she moved to Germany. Within 6 months, she became a regular in the Berlin comedy scene and toured with a solo show through Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, and got deported. Now back in the United States, Emma is bringing her goofy semi sober energy to whichever stage in the country she can stand on. Social: @emmadcomedy

Location: Funny Stop - Cuyahoga Falls

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9:30pm - 11:00pm: Craig Peters - Funny Stop

Location: Funny Stop - Cuyahoga Falls

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11pm: Ad Hom Attack Show

The Ad Hominem Attack Show- Cleveland’s only roast battle showcase. Festival Comics go head to head in a competition of wit and cruelness. Not for the easily offended.

Cost: $10

Location: Barmacy - Akron

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Saturday, May 6, 2023

1pm: Spotlight Showcase

Rubber City Comedy Festival $10 Showcase of Comics from Across the Country. The ticket includes a drink ticket.

Cost: $10

Location: Barmacy – Akron

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3pm: Spotlight Showcase

Rubber City Comedy Festival $10 Showcase of Comics from Across the Country. The ticket includes a drink ticket.

Cost: $10

Location: Barmacy – Akron

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5pm: Boast Rattle

A very dumb idea / roast-style COMPLIMENT CONTEST.

Created a few years ago and hosted by Kyle Ayers, comedians compete to see who can compliment one another in this showdown of sweetness, this clash of consideration, this barrage of benevolence. Playing off of the idea of roasts, Boast Rattle has two comedians go head-to-head, delivering alternating blows of the nicest order. Two rounds. One lucky crowd member who gets some on-the-spot boasting. One Champion of Charity, Master of Magnanimity.

Boast Rattle has been featured in the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Kennedy Center in DC, New York Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Moontower Comedy Festival, and more. It has traveled coast to coast, and featured Andy Kindler, Martha Kelly, Eugene Mirman, Aparna Nancherla, Jo Firestone, Scott Adsit, John Early, Amy Miller, Nikki Glaser, Kate Berlant, Janelle James, and more.

Broast Rattle

Includes Drink Ticket

Location: Barmacy – Akron

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7:30pm - 9:00pm: Brian Kenny

Funny Stop Comedy Club welcomes comedian Brian Kenny as a feature of the Rubber City Comedy Festival!

About Brian Kenny: BRIAN KENNY is a gentleman, scholar, diabetic, and comedian that has appeared on Fox, can be seen on Hulu, and can be found yelling at audiences until they enjoy themselves all over this great country. His "Reese's Pieces" clip from Fox's Laughs has been viewed over 7 million times.  He is the co-host of the Pound Town Podcast for Barstool Sports, and Ten Cent Beer Life. He is an obnoxiously proud native of Cleveland, OH that has beautiful blue eyes, and a beard that is 98% perfection. He loves you very much, and knows that deep down you love him back.

Location: Funny Stop - Cuyahoga Falls

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9:30pm - 11:00pm: Kyle Ayres

Funny Stop Comedy Club welcomes comedian Kyle Ayers as a feature of the Rubber City Comedy Festival!

About Kyle Ayers: Kyle Ayers is a comedian writer, actor, and producer. You may have seen his standup on CONAN, or somewhere else if you’re really into standup. He is the creator of Boast Rattle, a Compliment Contest, the head-to-head comedic compliment show. Boast Rattle is also its own show on SiriusXM, running regularly. It was also developed into the TV show “Nice One!” on Quibi, which Kyle is Executive Producer.

Location: Funny Stop - Cuyahoga Falls

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BEST OF FEST Award AND AFTER PARTY immediately following

Date: May 4 - 6, 2023

Location:

BARMACY Bar and Grill, 804 W Market St, Akron, OH 44303

Funny Stop Comedy Club, 1757 State Road, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223.

Baxter’s Speakeasy, 22 N High St, Akron, OH 44308.

The Matinee in Highland Square, 812 W Market St, Akron, OH 44303.

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