Open Mic

Thinking about trying stand up comedy? Ready to take the leap? We’re proud to have a supportive staff and an awesome group of comics performing on our open mic, so relax, grab some friends and come have a great time. Read below for sign up instructions.

If you’re not ready yet, the show’s free so come by, hang out, grab a drink, talk to some of the comics, and check out the show.

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Here’s how the open mic works. We have open mics 7 nights a week, 365 nights a year.

Check the Website for the exact start times. They are different depending on what’s going on at the club. To be on the mics shows you need to sign up ahead of time. Do not call the box office with questions about the open mic list.

If you just want to watch the open mic just show you. No tickets needed, just show up with valid, state issued photo ID. We’re 21+ for the open mic.

Our Open Mic sign ups take place on Instagram. Use your mobile device to find Mad House Comedy Club on Instagram. If you’re having problems finding us use the search function to search for @madhousecomedyclub Find the most recent Mic Sign Up Reel.

The Mad House Open Mic Performance Week runs Mon thru Sunday. The SIGN UP DAY is on the Sunday PRIOR to the week starting.

Please pay careful attention when requesting to perform on Sunday’s. Example. If sign up to perform on all 7 nights of the week on Sunday The Sign Up Day…you’d be signing up for Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat and the FOLLOWING Sunday. You can’t sign up on Sunday the Sign Up Day and then show up to the club that same night to perform.

If you want to perform on the mic shows, follow these steps:

  1. Find the current sign up reel on the Mad House Instagram page.
  2. Make a comment with your first and last name. If you use a stage name, give us your real first and last name along with the terrible stage name you go by.
  3. Tell us which nights you want to perform.
  4. Repost mic sign up on your Instagram story and tag us at @madhousecomedyclub.
  5. Do not call the comedy club for anything. Step 4 is soooo easy. All you have to do on this one is NOT call pick up your phone and call the comedy club :)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Everyone gets up. If you sign up you’ll go onstage.

You can sign up for one night, some nights, or all 7 nights.

The line ups are done right before the show. We don’t accept requests to go up early or late.

Just tell us which nights you want to perform.  Nothing extra. No need for a “please”, or “anything available” or “Tuesday or Wednesday whatever works”.

We need your first and last name, so we know who’s onstage. We don’t know your IG handle and we don’t want to stop and search for a real name.

Last important note. Don’t call the comedy club for any open mic questions. Ever.

Here are a couple sign-up examples.

GOOD

Bill Burr – All 7 nights

Kevin Hart – Mon, Thurs, Sat.

Scott Thompson aka Carrot Top – Mon only

BAD

Hi Mad House. I’m working Tues and Wed, but I might get off early Wed. Can I get a late spot-on Wed and an early spot Tuesday and also Friday if you have room. Just let me know. Make the host bring me up as FRRRT. My friends know me as FRRRT. Anyway, let me know.

LESS IMPORTANT, BUT USEFUL, NOTES:

Don’t call the box office with open mic questions. Scientific studies have shown conclusively there is a connection between calling the box office with open mic questions and a sudden onset of a rare form of airborne gonorrhea.

If you’ve missed the sign-up time, there is a second way onto the open mic shows. You can physically show up at the club, and sign up in person, on the “alternate list”. The alternate list is not a guarantee. When comedians who have spots on the show don’t show up, or we have extra time, the host will pull comedians from the alternate list. Sometimes they make it through the entire alternate list, and sometimes they don’t get to it at all. The alternate list is made available for sign-up a short time before the start of open mic . To use the alternate list, you have to physically be at the club, you can’t add your name via phone/email etc.

The Mad House bookers will be at the Mad House Open Mic most every Tuesday. Here’s what that DOES NOT mean. The bookers will be at the club but not necessarily sitting down in the audience watching every set. They won’t be there to give feedback, notes or advice on everyone’s sets. If you do great onstage one night that won’t necessarily mean they’re lining up to make you a regular. If you bomb, don’t worry, that doesn’t mean you’re in the doghouse. The bookers are at the club to see who’s showing up, trying hard and, of course, who’s consistently killing it onstage. They will select those comedians for other opportunities at the Mad House such as becoming a Mad House Regular, hosting opportunities, spots on other shows at the Mad House.

  • Sets are usually 3min but could be a little longer depending on how many comedians we have on the shows.
  • Sets are uncensored
  • If you go over the time you will be played off stage.
  • Check in with the host when you arrive at the club.

There is no two drink min for the open mic shows, and there is never a two drink min for any performing comedian at the Mad House Comedy Club regardless of the night or show.

Last and most important.

PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE COMEDY CLUB PHONE NUMBER WITH OPEN MIC QUESTIONS.