Laugh After Dark ComedyFest: Day 2

Laugh After Dark ComedyFest 2026 returns to Las Vegas October 26–28, celebrating five years of independent comedy. The festival runs across two venues: live stand-up at L.A. Comedy Club inside The STRAT, and comedy film screenings and select events at THIRD Street in the Las Vegas Arts District.

Below is the ComedyFest programming happening at THIRD Street. Festival Passes and Day Passes are available through Eventbrite. For the full festival schedule across both venues, visit the official ComedyFest schedule.

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Workshop: From Stage to Screen

12:00 – 2:00 PM

INSTRUCTOR: Michelle “Chelle T” Turner

Take your comedy career beyond the stage and explore what it takes to make the jump to television and on-camera opportunities. This workshop will break down how the skills you develop as a stand-up comedian can translate to the screen, how to position yourself for new opportunities, and what you can do to expand your career beyond live performance.

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Workshop: PUNCH-UP LIKE A PRO: HOW TO FIX YOUR OWN WRITING

12:00 – 2:00 PM

INSTRUCTORS: Keisha Zollar and Andrew Kimler

Great writing is rewriting. This workshop teaches you how to punch up your own material (or others) using techniques from writers’ rooms: alt jokes, heightening, specificity, and cutting what doesn’t serve. You’ll take a piece of your own writing and make it undeniably better in the room.

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Screening: Comedy Series & Episodic

2:00 – 2:45 PM

Somebody Help Greg (pilot)
Edward Dovlatyan
A year after his divorce, Greg has lost his practice, his apartment, and his marriage — though he’ll tell you the last one is fine. With his livelihood hanging in the balance and his ego freshly shattered, Greg attempts to rebuild his life from the ground up, one pizza delivery at a time.

SANDWICHED
Meg Swertlow
Caught between her insatiable Gen Alpha child and her boundary-lacking Baby Boomer parents, a burnt-out Millennial Mom tries to reclaim her sanity.

Cancel Me
Avery Koenig
Cynical TV host Kat is desperate to escape her hit home renovation show, Break It or Buy It. But no matter how hard she and her team try to sabotage it, the ratings keep climbing—while an ambitious new intern is determined to save the show.

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Screening: Comedy Special

2:00 – 3:30 PM

COMEDY SPECIAL

Alyssa Poteet: The Train To Your Mom’s House
Alyssa Poteet, Philip Williams, Orchid Cameron
Caught between the progressive life she built in Los Angeles and the conservative family that raised her, Alyssa Poteet has always had a front-row seat to America’s cultural divide. In her debut half-hour special, she takes on controversial stances with the hope of finding some common ground. But when her DNA test uncovers a long-lost relative conceived after a five-man orgy somewhere in her family tree, she realizes the line between “us” and “them” has always been a lot blurrier than anyone wants to admit.

Frankie Blair Presents: LAUGH RIOT
Frankie Blair
Frankie Blair Presents: Laugh Riot is a stand-up comedy special hosted by Tahir Moore and featuring comedians Keon Polee, Heidi Heaslet, and Sherwin Arae. Filmed in Hollywood, California, the special delivers an evening of sharp, relatable comedy and diverse perspectives while showcasing both established and rising comedic talent. Created and executive produced by Frankie Blair, Laugh Riot celebrates the power of laughter to bring people together through an unforgettable night of stand-up entertainment.

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Workshop: The Comedy Clinic™ Live: How to Build a Profitable Comedy Career

2:00 – 3:30 PM

INSTRUCTOR: Charlie Mac

In this fast-paced, practical workshop, Charlie breaks down the business skills every comedian needs to turn stand-up into a sustainable career.

Learn how to define your comedic brand, create content that gets noticed, professionally approach bookers and producers, grow your fanbase, sell tickets and merch, negotiate better rates, and plan successful tours. Charlie will also cover the mindset, discipline, and strategy behind building both a one-year and five-year career plan.

Attendees will leave with actionable tools and a clearer blueprint for building an audience, getting booked, making money, and taking control of their comedy career.

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Screening: Comedy Shorts 3

2:55 – 3:50 PM

COMEDY SHORTS 3

ROBO SAPIANS
Sam Clark, Olivia Miller
Robot anthropologists Olivia and Gus Henderson are on a mission to prove that delivery robots are worthy of species status and protections.

Double Delivery
Imani Vaughn-Jones
The Nelson sisters are throwing a baby shower, and things ​take a hilarious turn for the worse when the man delivering ​their food happens to be their long-lost deadbeat dad.

The Environmentalist
Aaron Bailey
An interior designer’s documentary falls apart when her tree-hugging brother moves in with her and her fiance.

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Screening: Comedy Horror

4:00 – 5:00 PM

28 Kegs Later
Preston Tompkins
During the zombie apocalypse, two unsuspecting heroes discover the secret to not getting bit: You have to get drunk. They throw the biggest party in town to save as many people as they can.

Severed
Megan Duffy
In a dystopian world, a woman makes an important discovery.

Fake News Movie
Jeffrey Michael Bays
Based on SiriusXM’s “Not From Space.” While channel surfing you stumble upon a cable news broadcast with live coverage of alien contact but it’s unclear whether one of the channel’s sponsors is involved.

FRANKSLIST
Christine Celozzi
A simple interview spirals into a nightmare of bizarre encounters and escalating chaos.

Tasty Bones
Ronald Short
Out at a campfire late at night, a man drunkenly stumbles to the edge of the woods to relieve himself. As he does, he starts to absentmindedly whistle. Something in the woods whistles back.

Penelope
Fiona Rene
On her 666th day, undead misfit Penelope scrambles to build an army of the undead to impress her demanding father. Her ragtag recruits force her to confront the pressures of approval and never feeling good enough.

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Admission is first come, first served and subject to venue capacity. A pass does not guarantee entry to every event. All events subject to change — check the official ComedyFest schedule for the latest times.

THIRD Street Arts & Media Incubator — 814 S 3rd St, Las Vegas, NV 89101