Crosstown Comedy festival round 1 with headliner DANIEL VAN KIRK.

Bombs Away! Comedy and Commonwealth Sanctuary are proud to present the Crosstown Comedy Festival, a comedy contest and celebration of the best comedians from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, and across the country to compete to win the Festival. Join us each week on Thursdays at Commonwealth Sanctuary and Saturdays at Bombs Away! Comedy @ The Comet as we laugh and celebrate local comedy.

Each Round the audience will vote for their favorite Rookie and Veteran Comedians to move on to the next round.

Rookies competing are: Gregory Mark, Kenton Baer, El Murphy, Jules Wagner, Helen Jenny

Veterans competing are: Alex Leeds, Lindsay Jane, Andrew Pinnell, Mike Franke, Cali Botkin, Ian Miller, Dyke Michaels

Daniel Van Kirk is a stand-up comedian whose comedy album “Thanks Diane” debuted at #1 on Apple Music and last April released his first comedy special, “Rose Gold”, which has over 100k views on YouTube. Daniel has been named a “Comic To Watch” by Comedy Central and you may know him from his characters on Bob’s Burgers (FOX), Physical (Apple TV+), Central Park (Apple TV+), and the lead in the feature film, Wine Club (Prime). Daniel can also be heard every week on the hit podcasts, “Pen Pals” with partner Rory Scovel, and co-hosting “Dumb People Town” along with The Sklar Brothers. Daniel has preformed and headlined at the top festivals in North America, including Moontower, 10,000 Laughs, JFL 42, and JFL Montreal

Commonwealth Sanctuary is Cincinnati’s home for exquisitely curated live entertainment. Each week we bring you hilarious stand-up comedians, intimate concerts, unique theater productions, live podcast recordings, and so much more.

Commonwealth Sanctuary is housed in the recently renovated, historic former Tower Methodist Church, originally built in 1914. It is no longer a church! Rather, we have converted the purpose of this beautiful old building to bringing you exquisitely curated live entertainment. We have, however, gone to great lengths to preserve the original character of the building while updating for it’s new purpose. We retained all the original stained glass windows and custom-built, curved pews.

We have added a full concession stand with draft beer and wine, as well as many canned drinks, including cocktails. We partner with local Dayton, KY business Kate’s Catering for our prepared food options. We have added full lighting and sound systems, as well as a complete broadcast-quality video system for recording events and live podcasts. We are exclusively partnered with Third Rule Media to produce our recorded content.