Zanies Nashville Comedy Club, Nashville
Comedy club · Nashville, Tennessee

Zanies Nashville Comedy Club, TN: Shows and Booking

2025 8th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37204

The short answer

Zanies Nashville Comedy Club is a comedy club in Nashville, Tennessee, at 2025 8th Avenue South. Shows run nightly; tickets $16–$54 all-in, 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 bookedEmail a 5–10 minute clip, a paragraph about yourself and your comedy, stage references, venues played and the headliners you have featured for to submissions@zanies.com; the booker replies if there are openings source ↗
ShowsNightly source ↗
RoomMain Showroom up to 300 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 ↗
  • Showcases require previous stage experience and book in advance; submit at the start of each month. source ↗
  • To be considered, work the city's open mics and have a good clip. source ↗
The tape it wants
  • Send a 5–10 minute clip. source ↗
  • Showcases: email a 5-minute clip and at least one checkable stage reference to boxoffice@zanies.com. source ↗
Its other 3 rules
Hearing back
  • The booker gets in touch only if there are openings. source ↗
House rules
  • Include a paragraph describing yourself and your comedy. source ↗
  • No open mic at Zanies; Nashville has many elsewhere. source ↗

From the club's own pages, read 25 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$16 to $53.75 in the main room, fees and taxes included source ↗
Age18 and over to attend, 21 to drink, unless a show says otherwise; valid photo ID required (college IDs not accepted) source ↗
MinimumTwo items per person; any food or drink counts, with or without alcohol source ↗
PhonesPhones and smart watches go in Yondr cases, usable in the phone areas; no photos or recording without the club's and the artist's consent source ↗
ParkingFree in the lots behind the club, around 809 South Douglas Avenue behind the Dollar General, and on adjacent streets; 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

Zanies Nashville Comedy Club has its own D.O.C. page, with the room's photo, its house rules and the night planner: where to eat, the trip there and home, and what the night costs.

Zanies Nashville on D.O.C. → The club's site ↗

Seen running on its own site, 23 September 2026.

Near Zanies Nashville Comedy Club

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 25 September 2026; fans' facts read 30 September 2026