Seattle SketchFest

SketchFest showcases the talents of local favorites from around the Emerald City. Get ready for the most innovative and original local sketch comedy acts in Seattle at Unexpected Productions’ Market Theater. Make friends, laugh, and enjoy a drink as you watch scenes about a cool new buddy who erupts from your chest, a totally human baby, a 911 operator who has interesting priorities, and many more

Since its inception in 1999, SketchFest Seattle has pioneered sketch comedy festivals worldwide. Our mission is to elevate sketch comedy as a performing art by providing a platform for groups to showcase their talent to Seattle audiences and to facilitate networking opportunities with other performers, writers, and professionals in the comedic arts.

Thursday 9/24

7:00 PM:

Honey Roasted Hams

We blend written material with structured improv, self-referential humor, and light audience participation. We are often parodied versions of ourselves in absurd situations.

Fastball Bob

A sweet, dumb idiot sings country songs about baseball, and songs about hotdogs, and at least two songs beer. But, really, it’s all a metaphor for life… but also baseball.

Dirtbar

Dirtbar's shows are a blur of laughs where each sketch flows into the next like some sort of David Lynch fever dream. This trio of irreverent weirdos hit the ground sprinting until their time is up. Want to know how a bird can mess up a basketball game or Aldous Huxley's opinions on peer pressure? How about a cult for the color maroon? Whether you like it or not, there's something here for everyone. Strap in and let's go!

Friday 9/25

7:00 PM:

Pig Time Boys

After an introductory hype-up oink chant with the audience, several sketches in a row punctuated with music and quick changes. Most of the humor is on stage rather than projector-based or digital sketches. All of our sketches are through the lens of absurdity.

Cam Wyllie

The Collection has arrived.  Canada’s Sketch Comedy Maniac, Cam Wyllie, returns with a brand new half hour of solo sketch comedy shaped by years of performance at the highest level.  Precise. Controlled. Stupid as hell.

A lineup of his freshest, dumbest, and most impactful work yet, Cam Wyllie: The Collection channels joyful chaos through earnest, unhinged characters clinging to hope as their worlds fall apart around them. 

WINNER: Best of the Fest, Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival

Come see why audiences across North America have fallen in love with Cam Wyllie, and why they keep coming back for more, year after year.  Believe in the nonsense. This is the beginning of Cam Wyllie’s Ultradumb™ Era, and you’re invited to the grand unveiling.

Field Trip

Since 2022, Field Trip has delighted audiences across America with their signature so-dumb-it’s-smart humor, and now they’re bringing the best of their best to one of their favorite cities! And then after Dayton, Ohio, they're heading straight to Seattle!! Field Trip’s shows have been described as “refreshingly positive,” “surprisingly touching,” and “cured my IBS.” They regularly perform in the Boston area and at festivals across the country, including New York, DC, Philadelphia, Denver, Portland, Seattle, and Montreal (you got us, that one’s actually in Canada).

9:00 PM:

Sam Demboski

Following Achilles through the events of the Iliad, "Achilles on The Beach" explores (with jokes, of course) how men have evolved from ancient Greece to the modern world. The answer? Remarkably little.

Spoucho

Our current show takes the audience on an emotional journey as we kick off with a high energy intro celebrating Spoucho's latest invention of chapstick that we find out unexpectedly makes people unable to love. We also jump into a character study of a factory worker who is disappointed their employee of the month reward is only a certificate when they work at a trophy factory. This leads us down a spiral of logic and disappointment from his boss and family. We have a few black outs and a connect the dots to bring the show home in a fun conclusion (don't worry, everyone will fall back in love)!

Everything’s Fine Tonight Live! w/ Jordan

Everything’s Fine Tonight LIVE! w/ Jordan is Seattle’s own late-night talk show. Webster’s dictionary defines “late-night” as happening or appearing late at night, and “talk show” as a program in which persons engage in discussions or are interviewed. Webster, we couldn’t have said it better ourselves! This show has it all: a guest, a desk, and a host. Oh! And also jokes. (Can’t believe we almost forgot the jokes.)

Saturday 9/26

7:00 PM:

NOT CLICKBAIT

While our improv shows are internet-themed, we aren't sticking to strictly internet sketches. We have a wider variety of interests when it comes to sketch and while some may reference internet culture, you don't have to be as chronically online as we are to understand and enjoy our show.

All Four Seasons

“All Four Seasons combines physical comedy, dry humor, smart dialogue, and chaotic energy to create the most hilarious, perfect whirlwind of a show you’ve ever seen. And they are hot women.” - Some magazine someday, probably.

Time to Kill

Writers and producers at "The Daily Show", "The Tonight Show", and more of the best comedians in New York City come together for “Time to Kill: A Sketch Comedy Show!” — with each performance packed with sketches, musical numbers, celebrity impressions, and more! Time to Kill's show is like watching an episode of SNL, but *live* in a theater in your city…and much more unhinged.

9:00 PM:

Avery & Sabrina

Avery and Sabrina have been performing sketch comedy for over four years. As founding members of the Dallas Comedy Club Sketch Team in 2023, they quickly became known for their on stage chemistry, talent, and dedication. Following numerous successful performances, Avery and Sabrina now serve as both coaches and performers, leading the DCC Sketch Team. Their latest venture, “Avery and Sabrina are Doing a Sketch Show,” premiered at the inaugural Dallas Independent Comedy Festival in April 2025. 

The show has since toured through Dallas Comedy Club, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, New York Sketchfest, First Coast Comedy Festival, DC Sketchfest, San Francisco Sketch Fest, and Denver Sketchfest where the show won Best Of Fest - Ensemble.  Between Sabrina’s extensive improv background and Avery’s theater degree, these co-writers and friends(?) continue to develop their distinct brand of chaos and laughter on stages across these grand United States of America."

Big Ol' Mess

Big Ol' Mess is a sketch comedy group from Denver, CO. They have performed in shows and festivals across North America, with appearances in New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, Austin, Montreal, Portland, Dallas, and Washington D.C. They are also the winners of the $10,000 Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Cam Wyllie Sketch Comedy Invitational. Big Ol' Mess shows have a loose, improvised feel that will leave you saying “that was so dumb, I loved it”. Come see the dum-best live show in the world!

 Maple Daddies 

Clad in Hawaiian shirts, and desperately waiting for Tommy Bahama sponsorship, a Maple Daddies show features Geoff, Sophie, Courtney, Nick, Cassia, Steven, and Darrin performing fast paced bits, intricate space work, fluid transitions, and live performances of uncomfortably catchy songs. It’s narsty and wholesome at the same time.

Sunday 9/27

6:00 PM:

Noble Rot

Kasia and Darrin feed off of each other’s complimentary energies to produce sketches they think are funny for different reasons. This is sketch comedy for people who need time with their boys, appreciate art on a very deep level, and think we should be out there, not in here. They’re ready for the big time, and their therapists agree.

Indie Game Dev Meetup 182

We are a brand new group fresh on the Seattle sketch scene, and we bring with us an esoteric style of comedy which relies on physicality and use of props. Featuring three standup comics, an improv comic, and one new comedian who is just happy to be there, we each leverage the strengths of our own styles to synthesize sketches that will catch the audience off guard. We Indie Game Devs play fast and loose with much of our dialogue, always retaining a strong sense of structure and pacing while allowing for room to experiment and really get creative.

Sarah Conway

Sarah Conway is a Toronto-based comedian, actor, and writer with roots in Vancouver and St. John’s. She brings mischief and delight to the stage in a sort of live-theatre appetizer platter that includes characters, music, burlesque, and, of course, several wonderful dips. She is heavily inspired by DIY and alternative comedy. Her work is raw, earnest, and deeply silly. She finds inspiration in both her own experiences and the dumbest stuff she can think of. Sarah Conway reaches for low-hanging fruit on a sky-high ladder and NO she is not working at heights certified!!! 

Jordan Moeller

"Whispers on the Adriatic is the story of Giovanni DeMontessori, ascendant 14th-century Venetian shipwright, as he sails south atop the cool waters of the Adriatic Sea on a secret and deadly quest for utter glory. Guided by the stars and charged by the Doge of Venice to deliver a mysterious package to the Governor of Crete, will Giovanni overcome the pirates, monsters, and strange temptations that plague him on his quest? Or will he become lost, forever adrift in the blue and boundless waves of the Adriatic?

Directed by sketch comedian Connor Bowen and based on the unreleased narrative historical fiction comedy podcast of the same name, Whispers on the Adriatic is a new project by award-winning character comedian Jordan Moeller."

8:30 PM:

Amanda Gemmill

Amanda Gemill a solo performer with a background in sketch and stand up who loves to explore the humor in complicated or terrible or terribly complicated people. Her comedy often resides at the accident-prone intersection of capitalist status politics and niche pop cultural reference.

DC Raclette Club

Once the National Guard was activated in DC, DC Raclette Club knew they needed to respond. DC Raclette Club: Special Cheeses Unit is a send up of all things law enforcement. Covering police ineptitude, legal ineptitude, kazoo ineptitude and more, the show is a tight 25 minutes of big movement and big laughs. The show contains our recurring bit of cheese being passed out to the audience and then the audience being prompted to throw the cheese (sealed in plastic) at Andy, though this bit can be dropped if it violates any rules of a performance space. 

Public Breakup

Public Breakup keeps the audience on their toes and leaves them thinking, "That was so funny, I wish I'd thought of that.” We surprise and engage audiences with inventive formats, unexpected epilogues, technical elements, and free merch (branded hot sauce and chapstick!). We fill our scene changes with video sketches to squeeze every possible laugh out of our time for our audience. A Public Breakup show feels like staying up until 1am laughing with your friends on a weeknight.

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