All SCTG shows are pre-booked via email only.  There is no on-site sign-up. 

DO NOT CONTACT THE VENUE  Phone calls/emails/etc to the venue are not accepted as sign-ups for our shows.  All show slots are booked via email only to CurtShackelford@verizon.net.

When emailing requests, please put the Venue name and date requested in the subject header, “i.e. Ri Ra Wed. 10/26″.  You will receive a confirmation email indicating a spot is available.  If you do not receive a confirmation reply to your email request within 4 hours, there are no spots available for that show. 

A reminder, phone calls to the venue are not accepted as sign-ups.  All sign-ups must be through and confirmed by CurtShackelford@verizon.net.

FIRST TIMERS:  Trying Stand-up for the first time?  Please email CurtShackelford@verizon.net to sign-up.

VETERANS (more than 1 year experience):  New to the area or passing through town, please email us YouTube video link of your standup act.  If you’ve submitted videos before and did not hear from us, please submit a new video after 6 months more experience. 6 months time can sometimes result in a huge leap in the quality of your act.  Please email online YouTube video links and avails to CurtShackelford@verizon.net

We run 3 weekly comedy open mic shows in the DC-MD-VA area.

These amateur night open mikes are  great places for a newbie to perform standup comedy in front of a live audience for the first time.

Most open mic amateur nights are held in noisy “open” main areas where you’ll be competing with TV’s, video games, phones ringing, bartenders making drinks, people who came to chat with friends and are not interested in hearing your comedy, etc—all the normal noise you here in a typical bar.

This “background noise” will make your job of capturing the crowds attention all the harder, adding to the already stressful situation of performing standup comedy for the first time.

For standup comedy to work, it must be done in a properly structured  environment.

 Our shows are held in separate “dedicated” rooms that are distraction-free and filled with focused , behaved audience who are there specifically to see comedy, so they won’t be chatting away only paying half-attention.

There are many other open mics in the DMV area, but ours are the best.

Ask any veteran comic in the DC area and they’ll tell you our shows are the “best rooms in town” for a newbie trying standup comedy for the first time.

 Our Wednesday and Thursday night open mics at Ri Ra Irish Pub in Arlington, Virginia and the Topaz Bar and Hotel in DC have 10-12 spots ranging from 3-10 minutes.

Our Saturday night feature show at the Hyatt in Bethesda, Maryland includes a paid MC spot, 1 paid 15-minute feature spot and 1 paid 30-minute headliner spot.  We also offer 2 unpaid 3 minute spots for first-timer “newbies” as one of our Bright New Faces that go on just before the feature and headliner. 

Please submit requests and/or online YouTube video links to curtshackelford@verizon.net.  Please indicate the venue and date requested to perform in the subject header.  If you do not receive a confirmation email back, there is not a spot available for that show, please send a new reqeust.

We encourage Veteran comics to please email us a YouTube online video link that we can watch of a recent performance.  We’re always looking for hilarious new comics to perform at our paid Saturday night Hyatt show and to add to our talent pool for Private Party Gigs.

Curt Shackelford
www.StandupComedyToGo.com
Email:CurtShackelford@verizon.net
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“It’s all in the delivery”