A first open mic: a comic at the microphone under one light, a small room listening
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Open mic comedy in Dallas, TX

13 open-mic nights a week and 2 more on some weeks at 10 rooms in Dallas, from each room's own listing: the next two weeks night by night, then every room's weekly night and how to get on.

Dallas's open mics at a glance

10 rooms in Dallas run open mics on their own listings: Dallas Comedy Club (Sundays, Wednesdays and some Tuesdays), El Jefe Cigar Lounge (some Saturdays), Liquid Zoo (Thursdays), Oakcliff Social Club (Tuesdays), One Nostalgia (Sundays), Reno’s Chop Shop Deep Ellum (Mondays and Thursdays), Shark’s Comedy Club (Thursdays), The Nines Deep Ellum (Wednesdays), The Statler (Tuesdays) and The Wine Therapist (Mondays).

Tuesday and Thursday are the busiest nights, with 3 rooms running a mic; Friday has none on the listings.

How the rooms take comics, in their own words: 8 take a list on the night, 3 take sign-ups online or by email and 1 draw names from a bucket. Each room's exact way in is under "How to get on" below.

Elsewhere in Texas: Austin (36 a week), Houston (27 a week), Fort Worth (10 a week), Denton (3 a week), Carrollton (2 a week) and Plano (1 a week, 1 more some weeks).

Every mic here links its room's own listing, the place to check a night before you go, and "Plan this night" builds the evening around it: dinner near the room, the trip there and the ride home after a late list.

Open mics in Dallas, night by night

No dated open mic on the rooms' own listings in Dallas in the next two weeks; the weekly nights below still run.

Every week in Dallas, room by room

Each room's regular mic night and how to get on, in its own words.

Before you go up

How the night works, the ribbing that comes with being new, and why you bring a set rather than wing it: open-mic etiquette, thick skin and staying power →

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