Concept
The Comedy Canon
A development premise for recognising the people, work, and moments that shaped comedy.
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The Comedy Con — Comedy is bigger than a stage.
Comedy is bigger than a stage.
Onstage. On screen. In headphones. On the page. Behind the work. The Comedy Con is being built for people who want the whole thing.
In developmentLocation TBADates TBA
One email gets you the official word the moment anything is actually confirmed. The survey is where you tell us what this thing should be.
Production wallIn developmentDates, location, and programming not yet announcedFirst Access open for official updates
What isTheComedyCon
Every way into comedy.“Comedy is bigger than a stage. We're building a gathering the size of the thing.”
Every way into comedy.
Comedy lives everywhere: in clubs and writers' rooms, on screens and in headphones, in old recordings, dog-eared books, group chats, and lines people repeat for decades.
We're building a gathering around the performance and the process, the finished work and the story behind it, the history people carry with them and the discoveries they make in the room.
- Live work
Sets, showcases, recordings, readings, and performances built for the room.
- On screen
Screenings, episodes, pilots, deep cuts, and the stories behind them.
- On mic
Live audio, recordings, and conversations that usually happen away from the audience.
- How it gets made
Writers, performers, directors, producers, crews, and the decisions behind the finished thing.
- The long memory
Artifacts, archives, exhibits, and the lineage behind what people are doing now.
- Try the work
Workshops, games, open formats, and ways to participate instead of only watching.
Where to go next
Pick your way in.
The working blueprint
One medium was never going to cover it.
Our working blueprint spans performances, recordings, screenings, conversations, exhibits, workshops, archives, and new work worth finding early.
- Live work
- On screen
- On mic
- How it gets made
- The long memory
- Try the work
See the work. Hear how it got made. Find the people who care about it as much as you do.
Explore the FormatFor people who don't stop at the finished joke.
The people who follow the writer. Remember the episode. Replay the bit. Read the credits. Want to know what influenced what — and what might happen next.
Come for the form you know by heart. Find the part of comedy you didn't know you were missing.
The ambition
The reason to be in the room.
We're designing for ideas that cannot be reduced to a clip: unexpected combinations, conversations that go further, physical pieces of comedy history, and discoveries made before the recap exists.
Concept
You Had to Be There
A development premise for small-room, phones-away programming.
Concept
Cold Read
A development premise for live table reads of material audiences rarely hear out loud.
New · Interactive concept map
Pick a door.
Walk the floorplan, collect stamps in your passport, and find the room we did not put in the navigation. 0/7 rooms found
Pick a door
A rough plan of the con as we keep arguing about it. No venue is confirmed and none of these rooms exist yet — but every door here goes somewhere real on this site.
Not to scale. Not to anything.Open · Door 1Main StageThe big room. Headliners, reunions, the sets people will argue about on the way out.Open · Door 2Program BoardEvery format we're prototyping, pinned up and rewritten weekly.Open · Door 3Box OfficeThe window. Nothing on sale yet — First Access is how you hear when tickets become real.Open · Door 4Partner RowOpen slots along the concourse. Every one of them is still unclaimed.Open · Door 5News WallThe drop wall. Real milestones only, posted the moment they're real.Sealed · Door 6The Green RoomLocked. 7 more areas to explore and the door gives.
Your route through the map is recorded in a passport on this device only. Nothing is sent anywhere and you can wipe it from inside the passport at any time.
Status
Still taking shape. Deliberately.
We're developing the first edition before making promises about its details. Dates, location, tickets, and programming will be announced when they're real.
Latest confirmed milestone · Platform
The doors are open. The calendar isn’t.
First Access and the audience survey are live. Dates, location, lineup, programming, tickets, partners, and funding are not being announced.
First Access
Know when it gets real.
Dates, location, tickets, programming, and ways to take part — the official word, sent when it's confirmed, and nothing while there's nothing to say. Just your email.
Already in? The survey is the other half. It feeds programming, ticket ranges, travel and city thinking, and the experience itself — no single answer decides anything.