New South Comedy Festival

Tickets are live for the Southeast’s longest-running comedy festival. Individual tickets are available for all 16 festival shows, or see every show (a $175 value), with this Full Festival Pass for only $50!

As we are right in the middle of planning our host theater’s 12th annual 12-hour Greenville Comedy Marathon on July 19th, we are also getting ready to open up submissions for this year’s New South Comedy Festival running November 5-9th! Here’s a look at a few of our headliners/instructors that have already been booked for […]

Day 1 of the 11th annual New South Comedy Festival starts tonight! Over the next 5 days, we’ve got over 100 stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy performers from across North America (that’s right, we’ve gone international)! Reserve your seat for shows are workshops now!

13 shows. Over 75 performers. Countless laughs. From November 13-17th, improvisers, stand-up comedians, and sketch comedy guests from across North America will converge on Greenville, SC for the 11th Annual New South Comedy Festival. You can purchase individual tickets to each show or use this pass to see all shows! Seating is limited and general […]

While we’re hard at work reviewing all the awesome performer submissions, we’re excited to announce some of our improv headliners: BASSPROV! For over 20 years, legendary improvisers and teachers Joe Bill and Mark Sutton have performed as Bassprov playing characters Donny Weaver (Sutton) and Earl Hinkle (Bill). As they fish in their improvised ‘boat’ on […]

Applications are open for performing in the 11th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. For 10 years we have brought hundreds of comedy acts like North Coast, Magnet Tourco, Jill Bernard (Drum Machine), Julian McCullough, Magic Negro, Pop Roulette, Coworkers, Sister’s Three, Craig and Carla Cackowski, Thunderstood, Seth K. Thomas (Defiant Thomas Brothers), […]

The 10th annual New South Comedy Festival will feature over 150 stand-up, improv, sketch, and musical comedy performers from across the country from November 2-11th, 2023! Shows are workshops are online now so reserve your seat!

Applications are open for performing in the 10th annual New South Comedy Festival in Greenville, SC. For 9 years we have brought hundreds of comedy acts like North Coast, Magnet Tourco, Jill Bernard (Drum Machine), Julian McCullough, Magic Negro, Pop Roulette, Coworkers, Sister’s Three, Craig and Carla Cackowski, Thunderstood, Seth K. Thomas (Defiant Thomas Brothers), […]

The 9th annual New South Comedy Festival will feature 20 stand-up, improv, sketch, political, and musical comedy shows with guests from across the country from November 3-12th! Go here for individual tickets or our $50 all-festival pass (over $300 value)! Also, our guest comedy workshops are filling up fast, but all have a few spots […]

With our performance tickets about to go live, we wanted to announce the instructors for the 1st week of the festival. Two of our workshops are already sold out (our Teen and College classes), but we’ve got tons of improv, stand-up, and writing classes all festival long! For a full description and links to register […]