Comedy Shows in Philadelphia, PA

Punch Line Philly is on Laurel Street. It books the way a full-time club does: weekend headliners, weeknight sets, and a Callback Bar listing for the smaller bills. The Fillmore is also in Fishtown, so a music-hall date and a club date can land in the same neighborhood on the same weekend and still be different rooms. When the show is a seated theater night, the listings move to the Kimmel Cultural Campus, The Met in North Philadelphia (the old Metropolitan Opera House), or the Theatre of Living Arts on South Street. Those buildings host standup when a tour routes through the city. They are not the weekly club.

If you are choosing a night out, the club is the dependable option and the theaters are the nights you plan around a specific name. Fishtown can be busy on a show night, and South Street is its own walk, so the venue on the row is worth reading before you treat every Philadelphia date as the same trip.

The club calendar moves during the week. The FindStandup alert on this page covers the city. Use it if you want an email when Punch Line or one of the theaters adds a date.