Events & Activities

MRI (Masters of Rap Improv) is Sacramento Comedy Spot’s only freestyle rap improv show. The cast of MRI gets a one-word suggestion from an audience member to inspire a freestyle rap, then performs improvised scenes based on the rap. If you like hip hop and improv, this is the show for you!

YOU! The Musical is a completely improvised musical inspired by your suggestion of a title. Everything in the show is made up on the spot—lyrics, music, dancing -- everything. Each 60-minute performance features a full story with heroes and villains, sidekicks, and allies.

Northern California watercolor artists Dale Laitinen, Carolyn Lord, Barbara Nechis, and Juan Peña are nationally known for their landscape paintings. Each artist works in a California Regionalist Style with a unique interpretation, and has been working in this medium for most of their adult lives. Landscapes and watercolor have a natural affinity to transmute atmosphere and form into works of vibrant beauty.

These artists come from varied backgrounds but show a mastery of the medium by the quality of their work and for their inclusion in: corporate and private collections; popular magazine publications; books; DVDs; and watercolor society memberships. They are also renowned local and national watercolor instructors and are sought after as jurors. All have studied with some of the noted icons of watercolor painting.

The application of watercolor on paper is an exacting and temperamental medium. To create highlights and to support a feeling of luminosity, the white of the cotton paper must be preserved. Color can be built up through translucent glazes with dark paint laid over light to give complexity to the composition.

The idea for this show arose from the desire of curators Allison Spreadborough and Jennifer Tachera to invite these four esteemed Northern California artists to the Sacramento area to showcase a sample of their interpretations of the landscape genre.

Claude Duplat -- All Eyes on Linda: This one man show includes his current work pushing boundaries with photography and photos reflecting movement through daytime time exposures. Claude feels that he has come full circle; having created large woven photos in his darkroom, and now creating his images digitally at home in his lightroom.

Michael Radin -- Foiled Portraits: Michael’s process is to play with the camera until some idea intrigues him enough that he embarks on a project that may last for many years. His work reflects his fascination with images that bend reality and challenge the way we have traditionally looked at things.

His work has been shown in various galleries, both nationally and internationally, and it was published in the 100th Anniversary issue of Lenswork. Robert Frank included Michael in his 1996 book Thank You.

Laszlo Bencze -- Last Stop Roseville: When Laszlo Bencze’s brother-in-law, George, was a kid in New Hampshire his father, fed up with life, would threaten the family by saying, “I’m going to Roseville.” Everyone understood Roseville, California as the end of the line, as far away as you could get. Those words always scared little George.

In 2010 Bencze moved to Roseville. He looked around and noticed that other than the giant Union Pacific rail yard, it was not much different from the little Ohio town where he had grown up.

Kennedy Gallery celebrates Surrealism in an exhibit that features the art of Tomte, Hill and Tiesler. This exhibit features works from over twenty resident artists inside three floors of open studios in the heart of Midtown’s entertainment district.

Welcome to Arranged Improv, where improvisers are paired up using the Y.E.S.A.N.D. 3000 Super Computer and forced to put on the best improv set possible. Each show will feature brand new duos, never before seen on stage. The Super Computer has downloaded hours and hours of improv shows from the past eight years and will meticulously pair up two random performers that have never been on a duos team before. And at the end of each set, the computer will grade its choices. Hosted by Chris Emery and Y.E.S.A.N.D. 3000.

Why go home and watch TV on one's own streaming service when one can watch something on Sacramento Comedy Spot's? Improv and Chill will take audience suggestions and make up an episode from one of the audience's favorite TV genres, right on the spot.

Kennedy Gallery celebrates the best and brightest in Modern Abstracts. This Kennedy Gallery event features works from over 20 resident artists inside three floors of open studios in the heart of Midtown’s entertainment district.  This Second Saturday features extended hours and a full-service no-host bar.

Byhalia, Mississippi is a an edgy, new comedy from Evan Linder, writer of the smash B Street hit, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. In Byhalia, Jim and Laurel are a young married couple, struggling with employment, parental interference, and the impending birth of their first child. But when something happens that turns their world upside down, can they find their way back to each other? This southern-fried-merry-go round will have audiences rooting for our heroes while wiping away tears of laughter.

Dark. Literate. Mildly classy. Plus lasers. And swearing. Squad Patrol is Comedy Spot’s live, main-stage sketch comedy show, similar to Saturday Night Live and Key and Peele.

Enter a world of stories told through jokes: cat detectives; sexual tension on construction job sites; the horror of bats and banana slugs; Casio keyboards; bears and lady boys; time machines; Mr. Trollywhiskers; judicious use of nerd references; Chuck E. Cheese flashbacks; the pathos of good grammar; space hamsters. All theatrically expressed through flamboyant costumes, cardboard props, original songs and videos, sound effects and gratuitous spot-lighting, and of course, verbose language replete with the swears.

Geek Out Comedy Show is a mixture of improv, stand-up and sketch comedy about all things geeky. Let the inner nerd out! Participants get discounts on beer all night when they wear anything geek or cosplay!

Sacramento's premiere late 90s/early 2000s pop song cover band is back for another dose of nostalgia! Hear some of the best hits from the days of TRL, Dunkaroos and Tamagatchis. Bust out the pookah shell necklaces and frost those tips, it is gonna be tight!

The ExperiMentalists present a fun and entertaining night of exploration into the unexplained mysteries of the mind. Using their highly developed mental and intuitive abilities, three mentalists will demonstrate incredible feats of extrasensory perception (ESP), mind reading, and impossible predictions. They will have you asking the question, 'is this real?'

Diversity is a comedy showcase comprised of many different comics of different ethnicity’s and backgrounds with one common love, comedy.

Performers:
-Marcus Mangam (Host)
-Kris Tinkel (Headliner)
-Danny Luna
-Ricco Da Great

Byhalia, Mississippi is a an edgy, new comedy from Evan Linder, writer of the smash B Street hit, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. In Byhalia, Jim and Laurel are a young married couple, struggling with employment, parental interference, and the impending birth of their first child. But when something happens that turns their world upside down, can they find their way back to each other? This southern-fried-merry-go round will have audiences rooting for our heroes while wiping away tears of laughter.

Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school, fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband, the school’s Headmaster, they’ve largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first century. But when their only son sets his sights on an Ivy League university, personal ambition collides with progressive values with convulsive results.

Michael Stevenson will direct this 2018 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards Winner for Outstanding Play. The cast will feature returning Capital Stage favorite Amy Resnick, and debuts from Michelle Champoux, Elizabeth Dimon, Jacob Flekier, and Richard B. Watson.

Who Dis is a game show hosted by Brian Crall. Panelists are shown random pictures, and then they have to explain who that person is and how they know them. The panelist with the best response wins that round! The panelist with the best score at the end of the show, uh, wins.

Since 2013, Real Live Comedians has brought the country’s best comics to venues all over California for a thrilling night of hot, live stand-up comedian action that will blow audiences' minds!

Jason Mack hosts the best comics from TV, the biggest comedy festivals and the best local clubs and crummy dive bars.

In The Gateway Show, four comics hit the stage and do their best sets, then they go to an undisclosed location to get way too high, only to come back in and attempt to do another set completely baked. Hosted by Billy Anderson.

Note: Sacramento Comedy Spot wants audiences to have a great time at the show! They also hate to be a buzzkill, but heads up that they are unable to allow smoking inside or in front of the Comedy Spot building.

Please join Chasten Gold Nonprofit for their first annual Shamrock'n Roll Festival and Beer Garden! The day schedule services a St. Patrick's Day family-friendly event filled with music and entertainment, raffles and giveaways, delicious food trucks, themed arts and crafts, and carnival games the whole family will enjoy. Hosts will also lead the crowd in hourly 'Minute to Win It' games for groups to win extra prizes during the festival! A beer garden, including wine and green beer, will be available for all Ages 21+!

The adult-only evening festival (Ages 21+) filled with even more fun and drinking, of course! Our evening event will also include a beer garden, including wine and distilled drinks and a beer pong tournament!