TNM News - General
The most ambitious comedy marathon in the country is back! The 4th annual Megaphone Marathons kicks off on July 18th in Austin and makes its way to New Orleans over the course of one week. Two cities, dozens of teams from multiple states, over 56 shows, amazing parties, and the most badass improv Summer intensive in the country. Each city kicks off with a sprint on Thursday featuring exciting troupes giving you break-neck comedy all night. On Friday and Saturday, we have shows broken up into heats. Each heat features openers doing 20 minutes and a 30-minute headliner set. The lineups in both cities are packed with incredible groups each night. Come to one heat or be there for all of them! Tickets and schedule are below.
50+ performances, 100 performers, 2 weeks, 2 cities… The most ambitious comedy festival in the South is looking for sponsors. The only comedy festival to take place over the course of two weeks in two different cities (Austin, Tx and New Orleans, La) is looking for local businesses that want to get eyeballs on their brand. The Numbers Your brand will be seen on our website and ticket pages, as well as on all of our printed promotional materials distributed weeks before the event. July 15th-21st Austin: 15 shows; 1 venue; 80 capacity per show July 22nd-28th New Orleans: 15 shows; 2 venues; average of 120 capacity per show While the actual Marathon officially begins on Thursday in each city,...
GET YOUR NOLA TICKETS HERE! GET YOUR AUSTIN TICKETS HERE! “Watching Jamie reminds me of why I got into comedy. It is like watching a combination of George Carlin and Bill Hicks” – Janeane Garofalo Jamie has been seen on The Conan O’brien show, MSNBC’s Up with Chris, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Showtimes The Green Room, CNN’s The Joy Behar Show, The Paramount Comedy Channel in the UK, The BBC, The Comedy Channel in Australia, HBO Canada, and Showtime Comedy in the Middle East. He Co-Hosts Citizen Radio which has been praised by Janeane Garofalo, Noam Chomsky, Robin Williams and him and his co-host were named by The Nation Magazine as top “media heroes” . Most importantly Glenn Beck has...
The New Movement founders Chris and Tami are pumped to be heading out on their fourth national tour this Spring, The Second Honeymoon Tour. Since opening their second wildly successful comedy venue in The South (Austin and New Orleans locations), Chris and Tami have been too busy doing things like offending the nation on America’s Got Talent (Chris did Air Sex on national TV!), managing a wrestling stable (ACW) getting hitched (to each other) and raising an army of young comedians (TNM Conservatory) to hit the tour circuit. Married in December of 2011, Chris and Tami are taking advantage of this two week tour schedule as literally their second honeymoon – but a honeymoon for performance obsessed comedy kingpins. @christrew...
