Comedy

Fringe Cabaret brings you the best in comedy, magic, music, storytelling, dance, circus, and all around good fun. Each show features new performances from shows participating in the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival, special guests, raffles for free stuff, and a sexy host!

Do I wank too much? Why are first dates so awkward? Why can’t my boyfriend make me cum? Witty and unapologetic, Hot Thoughts says the quiet part aloud; giving voice to the quirky, intense and, at times, perverted thoughts women have but often aren’t able to say.

Can't decide which shows to see? Our experienced independent judges go see a ton of productions across every genre, then we select, and present highlights from, five different top shows at each Pick of the Fringe performance. 9th smash year! 2 Time - HFF Best Cabaret and Variety Nominee.

In a movie theater in the 1960s, a conversation breaks out that connects Hamlet, Einstein, Allen Ginsberg and... the ultimate truth of the universe. Join us for a surreal, fascinating, mysterious, and above all, hilarious evening traveling through spacetime with this amazing ensemble cast.

25 plays in 60 minutes. Hold on to your butts. A “Bracingly Paced Tour De Force” – LA Weekly

The world is so chaotic that time itself has broken. Two families from 1971 and 2021 live in the same house simultaneously. The families must learn from each other in order to bring wisdom, compassion and empathy back to their own time period to help them heal their respective family dysfunction.

Desert Weeds is a dark comedy about four friends who wake up trapped, buried up to their necks, in a harsh desert. They struggle to survive and solve the mystery of how they got there all while keeping their fragile alliance intact as old wounds are opened and long simmering resentments resurface.

It’s Christmas Eve 2009 and Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC has a decision to make. An original musical parody of A Christmas Carol & It's A Wonderful Life by Valen Shore & Alison Zatta. Music direction by Taylor Williams (Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton). Sound design by Josh Millican (Six, The Band's Visit).

Serious About Comedy presents, "The Talent Show: A One-Woman Experience." Laura Lee Walsh, the one-woman, hosts the show as herself and will transform into 6 characters who are participating in the talent show. The audience votes for the winner! It's interactive, funny, and a family-friendly show!

Written and performed by transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn (co-writer/lyricist/composer/producer of Top of the Fringe winner "My Big Fat Blonde Musical"), "Asexuality! The Solo Musical" is an autobiographical musical comedy about Rebecca's pre-transition life.

45 minutes. 2 words. 1 performer. A physical comedy spectacle. 🏆 WINNER: Best Comedy, 2022 Hollywood Fringe Best of Broadwater, 2022 Hollywood Fringe Hollywood Fringe Scholarship, 2022 Hollywood Fringe Craziest Solo Show, 2019 Crazy Woke Asians Solo Performance Festival www.aterribleshow.com

🏆 WINNER OF THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE SCHOLARSHIP: An immersive comedy experience that's part clown show, part game show, part philosophical discussion on humanity. By Natasha Mercado

Brand new full length show about The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem's rise to worldwide fame in Greenwich Village at the beginning of the 60's American Folk Revival. Friends with Bob Dylan. Josh White and Odette, they changed Irish folk music forever. Their story and 21 of their biggest hits.

Emma and Richie are breaking up, and they’ve decided the best way to celebrate the occasion is by throwing a Viking Funeral for their dead relationship. But their funeral plans are thrown into chaos when they accidentally bring two real Vikings back from the dead.

“OFFICIAL WINNER OF THE HOLLYWOOD ENCORE PRODUCERS’ AWARD” In "Trust me, I'm from Essex", Essex born Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett will take you on a journey through life growing up in Essex and making the jump to Los Angeles. A one woman solo musical.