Helena Comedy Festival
November 12–14, 2026 · Helena, Montana
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Three nights of stand-up in downtown Helena, headlined by Xander Beltran, Reena Calm and Myq Kaplan.
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Five shows on sale now — the first of many more across the three nights, announced here as they are confirmed.
Thursday, November 12
Stand-Up Showcase at Mad Murray Brewing
6:30 PM
Mad Murray Brewing
685 Barney St, Helena, MT
Friday, November 13
Stand-Up Showcase at Mt. Ascension
6:30 PM
Mt. Ascension Gastropub
317 Cruse Avenue, Helena, MT
Saturday, November 14
Every show is ticketed through Eventbrite.
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Xander Beltran
Thursday, November 12
8:00 PM · The Mill
Xander Beltran is a nationally touring comedian based in the Bay Area by way of Oxnard, California. He builds his sets out of vivid characters, impressions and animated act-outs, wrapped around a laid-back delivery that makes the turns land harder. He has been seen on Hulu, PBS and FOX, and his clips have found a wide audience online.
Reena Calm
Friday, November 13
9:00 PM · The Mill
Reena Calm is a national touring headliner who came up in Chicago and has since made audiences laugh in all fifty states. A pun-slinger whose material is autobiographical, silly and charmingly inappropriate, she studied at the Second City Training Center and went on to teach there. Her debut album CALMEDY reached #1 on the comedy charts and airs on SiriusXM, and she has opened for Maria Bamford, Arsenio Hall, Eddie Pepitone and Doug Benson. The Chicago Tribune calls her terrific.
Myq Kaplan
Saturday, November 14
9:00 PM · The Mill
Myq Kaplan is a comedian of rapid-fire wordplay and existential puns who has been performing stand-up for more than twenty years. He has appeared on The Tonight Show, Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Seth Meyers, and was a finalist on Last Comic Standing. His half-hour Comedy Central Presents was followed by the Netflix hour Small, Dork, and Handsome, and his album Vegan Mind Meld was one of iTunes' top ten comedy albums of the year.
Neeloy Banerjee
Neeloy Banerjee is a British-Indian and a newly minted American citizen, who confuses most people he meets because he sounds like Hugh Grant but looks like Hugh Grant's IT support.
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Joey Brawner
Joey Brawner jr is a Bartender and Comic who spent his best years telling jokes in Dive bars on Colorado's front range.
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Jaren George
Hailing from the bustling streets of New York City and now living in Portland, OR, Jaren George brings a fresh and dynamic energy to the stage.
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Diana Graham
Diana Graham is a young comic who has performed all over the US in the last 8 years, in 11 festivals and 15 states.
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Alexa Hansen
Midwesterner living on the west coast. Alexa grew up in a big family in small town Michigan. Her comedy is absurdist and full of personal blunders, none of them boring.
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Will Hill
Will Hill is a Chicago based comic who brings over seven years of comedic experience to the stage, delivering observational humor and relatable story telling that quickly locks in a crowd.
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Misty Hurt
Misty Hurt is a Kentucky-based comedian who brings Southern charm, relatable storytelling, and clean comedy to every stage.
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Jennifer Jane
Jennifer Jane is a British-American stand-up comedian with a gloriously candid, delightfully unhinged style. Her storytelling and observational humor digs into her own questionable life choices, finding big laughs in places you'd least expect.
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Zack Jarvis
Zack Jarvis has been performing stand up comedy around Montana for over a decade.
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Carol Johnson
Performing six years. Comic Strip Live NYC with Mark Normand and Michael Rapaport, Laughing Buddha Comedy Showcase with Janeane Garofalo, opening for Andy Bumatai at Stand Up Honolulu…
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Young Kim
About 3 years into the comedy scene in NYC, Young Kim has already performed at Joe's Pub and at Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater!
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Jeredon Kuehn
Jeredon is a comedian based in Minneapolis by way of Oklahoma (the classic pipeline). He jokes about his background, his anxieties, and his faults through a light-hearted lens, which aims to be self-deprecating without being a big ol' bummer.
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Hunter Lloyd
Hunter Lloyd is a stand-up comedian known for sharp observational humor and an original voice shaped by an unconventional career path.
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Nick Malizia
Nick Malizia is a comic from San Luis Obispo who turns his embarrassing moments into comedy everyone can enjoy.
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Nick Meier
Nick Meier is a Southern Oregon comedian who hails from the Midwest. You’ll get the feeling that a family member is telling jokes in your living room with enough presence that even the kids listen.
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Chip Nicholson
Chip Nicholson is an award-winning comedian, actor, and voiceover artist selected for the 2026 Just For Laughs New Faces Showcase Auditions.
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Maureen Nolan
Maureen Nolan is a stand-up comedian, producer, and event host based in Chicago, IL originally from New Jersey. She is a topical/anecdotal comedian but has often been billed as an "alt comedian" due to being gay as hell.
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Sergio Novoa
Sergio was born in Nicaragua. He moved to the U.S. to escape war. After careers as a personal trainer and entrepreneur, he finally embraced his true passion—stand-up comedy.
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Krista Patronick
Krista Patronick has been performing comedy throughout New England since 2023. After the death of her husband in 2022, Patronick brings a “hot young widows club” perspective to her comedy.
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Cooper Patterson
Cooper here returning to Helena after a wonderful time! Got new jokes and stories to tell.
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Lori Peck
Lori Peck is a comedian based in Seattle. She was selected to be in the Up Next Showcase at The Emerald City Comedy Club.
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John Sartori
John is a writer, actor, comedian and guy from New York City. He has been featured on the Daily Show, Disney’s Hamster & Gretel, and in various videos for Dodo Kids, Universal Kids, MTV, College Humor and more.
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Vinny Seeram
Vinny Seeram is a stand-up comedian based in New York City. His comedy draws from his experiences growing up as a second generation immigrant in The Bronx, and his observations on politics, race, and culture.
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Elizabeth Selin
Elizabeth Selin wasn't allowed to go trick-or-treating as a child, and you can tell.
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Clayton Smith
Clayton Smith is a stand up comedian and writer in New York City. He’s performed at the New York Comedy Festival, Portland Maine Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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JD Stephens
Can be summed up in a few words, husband, father, veteran, and drunk. A big mouth from a small town.
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Elisha Tan
Elisha Tan is a San Francisco–based comedian who made history as the first Singaporean to headline the iconic Punch Line San Francisco.
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Donna Tannehill
Donna Tannehill is an Arizona-based stand-up comedian who has performed at Tempe Improv, House of Comedy, and in the Helena Comedy Festival (2025), as well as venues across Arizona, California, Montana and Wisconsin.
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Amanda Taylor
Amanda Taylor is a comedian and writer based in Missoula, MT. As a chronic over-sharer, she enjoys sharing vulnerable details of her life with strangers and is grateful that comedy provides an appropriate avenue to do so.
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Leah Tiscione
Leah Tiscione is a comedian based in Livingston, Montana! She hosts and created the weekly Comedy Owl Open Mic in Livingston, runs a monthly comedy showcase at Katabatic Brewing, and has…
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Garrett Titlebaum
Midwest darling Garrett Titlebaum heads west for his first shows in Montana this fall after a great string of opening for some great headliners.
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Daniel Umthun
Dan’s jokes are painstakingly handcrafted in small batches with smoked peat and aged in sherry oak casks for 12 years.
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Jessie Vrba
Jessie Vrba is a comic based in Iowa. She’s a regular host at Punch Up Comedy, has been featured on Don’t Tell Comedy pop ups, producer for Kiss Off comedy battle, co-producer for Giggles…
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Julie Weidmann
Witty, insightful and irreverent, Julie Weidmann is a Los Angeles based stand up comedian. Her comedy style is observational with a glimpse of the absurd and strongly influenced by her background in theatre and sketch comedy.
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Forrest Wheeler
"Like a bizzaro Andrew Santino" - the best compliment I've ever gotten. From a drunk guy in Austin Texas, where all wisdom resides.
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Dan Yourg
Dan Yourg is a San Diego-based clean stand-up comedian known for his dry, relatable storytelling and smart observational humor.
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