Comedy club · Dayton, Kentucky

Commonwealth Comedy Club, Dayton, KY: Shows, Open Mic and Booking

522 5th Ave, Dayton, KY 41074

The short answer

Commonwealth Comedy Club is a comedy club in Dayton, Kentucky, at 522 5th Ave. Shows run Friday and Saturday headliners every week (from 7:30 PM, often two shows), some Thursdays and Sundays, and The Workshop on Mondays; tickets free–$41, 18 and over. For comics, it runs an open mic (Mondays, 7:30 PM) and publishes how to get booked.

On stage soon

Lineups belong to the club and the comedians, and can change; the listing has the last word. More shows in Kentucky on the Comedy Calendar →

For comics

Open micMondays, 7:30 PM — The Workshop, the club's free, curated open mic — Sign up in person from 6:00 to 6:45 PM; not everyone who signs up gets on, and newer comedians can wait weeks or months for a first spot source ↗
Getting bookedNational or regional headliners with credits, a strong social-media following and a proven draw in Cincinnati: email talent@commonwealthcomedyclub.com. Others work the area's open mics and The Workshop; showcase spots, usually on Thursday and Sunday evenings, come by invitation source ↗
ShowsFriday and Saturday headliners every week (from 7:30 PM, often two shows), some Thursdays and Sundays, and The Workshop on Mondays source ↗
Room100-seat theater source ↗

Per the club's own site, read 29 September 2026.

What the room asks of comics
Each rung: what it asks and pays
  • Local comics get stage time through a passed system with a roster of paid regulars, not by submission source ↗
Hearing back
  • Not everyone who signs up gets on; newer comics may wait weeks or months for a first Monday spot, and should keep coming source ↗
On stage
  • Step one: get up regularly at open mics around Cincinnati and the region before anything else source ↗
Open mic and new talent
  • The Workshop (Mondays) is a free, highly competitive, curated open mic; in-person sign-ups 6:00 to 6:45 PM source ↗
House rules
  • After a while at The Workshop, comics may be invited onto showcases (usually Thursday and Sunday evenings), which test longer sets and whether they can bring people out source ↗

From the club's own pages, read 29 September 2026 — hover a rule for its exact words, or open its source. Where two of its pages disagree, both are here.

More stage time: Stage Time has open mics by night, and the Gig Board has calls for comics posted by the rooms themselves.

For fans

TicketsFree (The Workshop) to $41.11; most headliners $22.17 to $27.43 source ↗
Age18 and over; under 18 with an adult source ↗
PhonesSilence phones; no video recording source ↗
ParkingFree street parking (please avoid 5th Avenue), two free city lots within a block, and free parking on 6th Avenue source ↗

As the club's own pages give them, read 30 September 2026 — tap or hover a source for its exact words. Not published there: a minimum.

Club Etiquette: how to be the table the room loves →

Plan the night

The night planner builds an evening around Commonwealth Comedy Club: where to eat before, the trip there and home, and what the night costs.

Plan a night here → The club's site ↗

Seen running on its own site, 29 September 2026.

Near Commonwealth Comedy Club

Comedy clubs in Kentucky → · The Club Directory, coast to coast →

The Club Directory is also in the back of the D.O.C. book, Stand-Up Comedy: From Writing to Touring — $29, over 1,000 pages.

Updated 2 October 2026 · the club's facts from its own site, read 29 September 2026; its rules for comics read 29 September 2026; fans' facts read 30 September 2026