Myq (Mike) Kaplan has appeared on the Tonight Show, Conan, Letterman, James Corden, Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Kamau Bell’s Totally Biased, Last Comic Standing, and America’s Got Talent. He has a half-hour special on Comedy Central, a one-hour standup special on Amazon called “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” and a new 2023 Dry Bar special called Live From The Universe. Basically, he’s amazing and you should come see him.
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The Lounge has a 2 Drink minimum but, don’t worry, we have LOTS of options both with and without alcohol. Prices range from $3-$10. Get tickets here on the website! Due to processing fees, they are $5 more at the door!
Please arrive at least 20-30 min before show time to allow for seating, table service, and shenanigans.
Join us for a live Starbelly Student Showcase! Marvel at stunning belly dancing by our talented students at a fabulous, intimate venue!
Doors open at 6pm, the show begins at 7pm
Tickets are $15 online, $20 at the door.
Described by Jay Leno as "the best joke writer in America" and by British comedian Gary Delaney as the best joke writer in the world, Emo Philips has performed over seven thousand stand-up shows in comedy clubs, colleges and theaters, including a multi-week run at the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End. In 2018 & 2022-23, Emo toured with "Weird Al" Yankovic (over two hundred concerts across three continents); Emo will forever remember the standing ovation he received at Carnegie Hall.
Emo has released comedy albums on the renowned Epic label; has had numerous cable specials (including an hour-long one on HBO); has performed stand-up many, many times on network television in America, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and the UK; has appeared in films (most notably as the table-saw demonstrator in UHF and as Salvador Dali in Weird: the "Weird Al" Yankovic Story); has lent his distinctive voice to audio books (including a 2023 collection of poems by Bob Odenkirk) and to animated TV shows (such as Slacker Cats, Doctor Katz, Adventure Time and Home Movies); and (which would've blown ten-year-old Emo's mind) has even been published in Mad Magazine; but his first love, stand-up, remains his true one.
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The Lounge has a 2 Drink minimum but, don’t worry, we have LOTS of options both with and without alcohol. Prices range from $3-$10. Get tickets here on the website! Due to processing fees, they are $5 more at the door!
Please arrive at least 20-30 min before show time to allow for seating, table service, and shenanigans.
Boise-based drummer John Priddy brings the sound of 1960s jazz and bebop to life with a modern edge. His show honors the tradition while keeping it fresh, blending classic repertoire with his own original compositions.
Priddy's training runs deep. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts under Joe LaBarbera, longtime drummer for Bill Evans. Before that, he attended ArtsWest, where he studied with world-class musicians including Kobie Watkins, drummer for Sonny Rollins, and Grammy Award-winning bassist Clark Sommers.
As a bandleader for the past two years, Priddy has built a show that balances swing, history, and fresh ideas: a night of jazz that feels both timeless and alive.
Need a laugh right before/after the big family banquet? Or maybe you want to skip the family time altogether. Whether you are an Orphan, living far from family, or maybe just can’t stand them, you are always invited to Friendsgiving. This Queer-centered comedy show is a great way to get some of the best medicine in the world: Laughter! And we have 2 masters of the art to administer your dose:
Ally J Ward is a queer and trans stand up comedian, improviser, and storyteller out of Portland, Oregon. She is a self-described dumb baby and good girl. In 2024, she was named one of the "Hottest Queer Comedians of Today" by Out Magazine as part of their Big Happy Comedy Tour. In 2025, the Willamette Week named her Portland's Funniest Person. She has appeared at Bumbershoot, The Moth Grand Stage, and hosted Dan Savage's HUMP film festival. She has featured for comedians Ian Karmel, Juno Birch, Gabriel Rutledge, Steve Hoffstetter, Rachel Scanlon, and Rosebud Baker. Her dry, petty wit lends her comedy to a more narrative approach covering her trans, queer, fat, and kinky identities.
Andy Iwancio is a trans gal comedian from Seattle (by way of Baltimore). With her ten years of comedy she brings a witty, sardonic and slightly profane style to her jokes about navigating marriage, having a disability.
Her full-length comedy album “Better Living Through Femmistry” was released on the legendary label Kill Rock Stars in 2024 charting at #1 on the itunes comedy chart and #1 on the amazon comedy charts. In 2025 her EP "Old School" for Burn This Records charted at #2 on itunes comedy chart and #1 on the Amazon comedy chart.
She has opened for Kyle Kinane, Whitmer Thomas, James Adomian, Gareth Reynolds, Josh Gondelman and Cameron Epsosito.
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The Lounge has a 2 Drink minimum but, don’t worry, we have LOTS of options both with and without alcohol. Prices range from $3-$10. Get tickets here on the website! Due to processing fees, they are $5 more at the door!
Please arrive at least 20-30 min before show time to allow for seating, table service, and shenanigans.
Have you ever wondered what the forbidden offspring of Charlie Day and SpongeBob SquarePants would look like on stage? That’s Austin Von Johnson! A nerdy, golden retriever, ADHD boy from a small town. He has the vibe of everyone’s naive little brother you brought to the party just to see what he’d do. Everyone burns calories during his performances, and even more if he tangents too hard! You’ll love his energy, storytelling, and little comedy Easter eggs. Just don’t forget to slam a pre-workout before the show!
Austin has opened for big-name comedians like Kyle Kinane, Chad Daniels, Zoltan Kaszas, and many of your favorite social media sensations!
Aaron Woodall is as charming and delightful on stage as he is honest and vulnerable. His ability to effervescently share all of life's sad disillusions with a sense of wide-eyed excitement got him named one of Conan O’Brien’s Comics To Watch at the New York City Comedy Festival.
You can find his "hilarious and heartwarming" 2024 special Cry For Me Daddy streaming on YouTube. He also has two specials on streaming now on Dry Bar Comedy and Comedy Dynamics, and his aptly-named 2020 album WOODALLALONE is available for purchase on Bandcamp. He has a viral TikTok but he doesn't like to talk about it.
In 2018 he co-started and co-hosted the incredibly personal and somehow popular Mormon and the Meth-Head podcast, which resonated with mentally-ill listeners around the world. He was invited later that year to the New York City Comedy Festival, being named to the Comics To Watch showcase, and getting to open for Bert Kreischer at the historic Town Hall theater. He has participated in numerous festivals and competitions, never winning any of them. His jokes have been seen on FOX, Hulu, Dry Bar Comedy, Epix, and the Boise, Idaho Army Navy Surplus Store's website (this is true, apparently).
Boise's only full-time comedy venue. The Comedy Lounge brings comedians you've seen on TV and in movies to an intimate club setting where every seat is a good one. From Netflix specials to late-night sets, our headliners have national credits — but here, you're just feet from the stage. It's stand-up the way it was meant to be experienced: live, close, and loud with laughter. Check the lineup and grab tickets before shows sell out.
Paul Conyers is a comedian from the San Francisco Bay Area who has been doing stand-up since 2016—right before that one election. Remember that? A famously chill time when everyone was totally relaxed and ready to laugh, so he figured, why not.
He grew up in Sacramento, California (which is not the Bay Area, please stop saying it is). He moved to Oakland to try playing college basketball, where the real comedy happened. He was bad. He scored zero points on Senior Night, despite having a Steph Curry–sized green light to shoot as much as he wanted. Nothing fell.
He usually got decent laughs from the bench, so he decided to give comedy a real shot.
The Lounge has a 2 Drink minimum but, don’t worry, we have LOTS of options both with and without alcohol. Prices range from $3-$10. Get tickets here on the website! Due to processing fees, they are $5 more at the door!
Please arrive at least 20-30 min before show time to allow for seating, table service, and shenanigans.
Doors: 6:00 PM | Show: 7:00 PM