2026 Riot Comedy Festival
THE OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD CELEBRATION OF COMEDY LANDS IN HOUSTON MARCH 25-28, 2026
30+ SHOWS & 4 VENUES
All-You-Can-Eat BBQ Cookoff
30+ SHOWS & 4 VENUES
Shows at The Riot Comedy Club and The Gordy (Stages) in Montrose plus two new satellite venues in North and West Houston.
50+ PERFORMERS
All-You-Can-Eat BBQ Cookoff
30+ SHOWS & 4 VENUES
Past headliners include Chris Redd, Sam Tallent, Bobby Kelly, Rocky Dale Davis, Casey Rocket, Gionmarco Soresi, Hans Kim, Chad & JT, Catherine Blanford, Jermiah Watkins, Caitlin Pellufo, and more! LIneup announcements Fall 2025.
All-You-Can-Eat BBQ Cookoff
All-You-Can-Eat BBQ Cookoff
All-You-Can-Eat BBQ Cookoff
Catch the Festival Day Party, Bar Crawls, and other fun events Including our 2nd annual BBQ Cookoff featuring all-you-can-eat BBQ from Houston's Best Pitmasters.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
FROM THE PRODUCERS OF THE RIOT COMEDY CLUB
The Riot Comedy Festival is coming back for its forth year in Houston, TX from March 25-28, 2026. The Riot Comedy Festival is an annual community event created by the founder of The Riot, award-winning comedian and entrepreneur Brian Gendron. Alongside his team of associate producers and dozens of volunteers The Riot Comedy Festival puts on over thirty comedy shows including famous comedians, standup, podcasts, improv, music, a national comedy contest, and more.
The vision for the festival is to connect fans with comedians through a fun and intimate experience and to bring the comedy industry to Houston. This years festival has expanded but remains in the Montrose neighborhood!
We will be hosting shows at The Riot Comedy Club located above Rudyards and at The Gordy Theatre (Stages) a short walk from the club, or you can catch a ride on the Cool Bus between the venues throughout the festival. We anticipate adding two Satellite venues in west & north Houston.
We have a lot of fun activities planned this year throughout the weekend including exclusive parties and our second annual all-you-can-eat Riot Comedy & BBQ Cookoff on Saturday, March 28th 2-5pm on The Gordy Lawn.
Our Venues
We are excited to return to The Gordy in 2026!
Festival headquarters is at The Gordy with food and vendors in the lobby, onthe front lawn for our BBQ Cookoff event. We will host shows in the 160-seat "black box" comedy room, and a 300-seat Comedy Theater.
Sterling Theater at The Gordy
An intimate 330-seat theater that is perfect for our big headliners.
The Riot Comedy Club
This 150-seat comedy room is regarded as one of the best small venues in the country by nationally touring headline comedians
Our 2025 Sponsors & Partners
