Comedy club · Nashville, Tennessee

The Lab at Zanies, Nashville, TN: Shows and Booking

2019 8th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37204

The short answer

The Lab at Zanies is a comedy club in Nashville, Tennessee, at 2019 8th Avenue South. Shows run nightly; tickets $17–$36.75, 18 and over, two-item minimum. For comics, it advertises no open mic but 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 Tennessee on the Comedy Calendar →

For comics

Open micNot advertised on its site
Getting bookedAs for Zanies Nashville: email a 5–10 minute clip, a paragraph about yourself, stage references, venues played and the headliners you have featured for to submissions@zanies.com source ↗
ShowsNightly source ↗
RoomAn intimate 100-seat theater; private events up to 100 guests source ↗

Per the club's own site, read 23 September 2026.

What the room asks of comics
How to get booked
  • List stage references, venues you've performed at and headliners you've featured for. source ↗
The tape it wants
Hearing back
  • The booker gets in touch only if there are openings. source ↗
House rules
  • Include a paragraph describing yourself and your comedy. source ↗

From the club's own pages, read 27 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

Tickets$17 to $36.75 on the Lab shows it listed, fees and taxes included source ↗
Age18 and over unless the show says otherwise (21 to drink); photo ID required, college IDs not accepted source ↗
MinimumTwo-item minimum per person; any food or drink counts, with or without alcohol source ↗
PhonesPhones and smart watches go in locked Yondr pouches for the show (you keep the pouch; phone-use areas are available); no photos or recording source ↗
ParkingFree in the lots behind Zanies, around the house at 809 South Douglas Avenue behind the Dollar General, and on the streets nearby; the Shell station and the lot across 8th Avenue tow source ↗

As the club's own pages give them, read 30 September 2026 — tap or hover a source for its exact words.

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

Plan the night

The night planner builds an evening around The Lab at Zanies: where to eat before, the trip there and home, and what the night costs.

Plan a night here → The club's site ↗

Open, according to its own website on 23 September 2026. Listed then: Roast Battle League: Nashville, Friday 30 October 2026, 9:15 PM (doors 8:45 PM).

Near The Lab at Zanies

Comedy clubs in Tennessee → · 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 23 September 2026; its rules for comics read 27 September 2026; fans' facts read 30 September 2026