D.O.C. Talent Agent · the Class of 2027 comedy draft

The Class of 2027 rookie pool: rising comedians you can draft

Who is in it

70 comedians who have been billed in a comedy club's own lineup and never as its headliner. Draft twelve of them before the close, mark one as your Long Shot, and in five years the Class is judged on who became a headliner.

The draft closes at 11:59 p.m. Central on 31 December 2026.

See the pool → Your Class of 2027 draft

The rule: who can be drafted

A comedian is in the rookie pool when, on the night the pool is read, all four of these are true. The pool is read again every night from the listings of 219 Club Directory rooms, so a comedian can join it or leave it until the draft closes; then it is frozen with the drafts.

  1. Their SUCDb record says they are working now.
  2. A Club Directory room’s own listing, or its ticket seller’s page, has billed a show with them named in its lineup: among its performers, or in its title. D.O.C.’s appearances store has kept every show read at a Club Directory room since 1 October 2026.
  3. No listing in the store has billed them as headliner: first in a show’s lineup, or alone on its bill.
  4. Their SUCDb record holds no stand-up special and no comedy album: an hour of their own is a headliner’s mark.

It is a rule, never a vote or a pick by D.O.C.: being billed in a published lineup is the measure. A comedian billed as headliner leaves the pool, and the day and the billing are shown below; a pick of theirs already in a draft stands.

The pool

Who has left the pool

About the pool

By D.O.C. Editorial. The pool is read from D.O.C.'s appearances store, every show listed by a Club Directory room's own listing since 1 October 2026, and from SUCDb, D.O.C.'s database of stand-up comedians. A comedian the rooms bill who has no SUCDb record yet joins the pool once the record is written. Each card says where they were last billed in a lineup and their next listed show. D.O.C. Talent Agent is a free game: no wagering, no prizes, no fee to be listed. "Agent" is a game word; nobody here represents or books anyone.

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