Upcoming Events

Join us every 3rd Tuesday at 8pm at the Backline for Brooke Barsell Presents: Babes in Joyland! Featuring local comedy greats, people new to the scene, and sometimes headliners from out of town. This is a great chance to see a wonderful show on a Tuesday! Also stick around for the Open Mic at 9pm!

Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8.

Tickets are $5 per person

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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

The Backline hosts an Open Mic for standup every Tuesday at 9pm. Each comedian will be allowed 4 minutes, and names will be drawn from a hat for those who show up before 9pm, people who show up after will be added at the end. Whether it's your first time or you perform weekly, why not try out your material in front of a great crowd at one of the best standup venues in town?

The 1st 20 names put into the hat will be pulled at random until all 20 have gone and each will receive the full 4 minutes, after them you will go up in the order you submitted and possibly lose 1-2 minutes depending on overall turnout. Since names are pulled at random, comics are encouraged to sit and watch everyone else, creating a fun and encouraging audience. 5 seconds of grace period before music plays you off. Prepare accordingly.

The show rotates hosts each week (Andrew Morton, Carmela Anderson, Stephanie Finklea)

This show is FREE for everyone!

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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

This show will feature improv teams in Omaha that are specifically dedicated to their talents and practice together regularly. Featuring both well-seasoned and newly-formed teams, and a mix of veteran and somewhat newer performers, so you won't want to miss WTWICIV2! (Also ending with a special Deuces Wild improv jam, where anyone can get a couple minutes of fame.)

Every 4th Thursday at 8pm!

Tickets are $5 per person
*FREE for Backline Students & Alumni
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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

ATTENTION!

Backline Comedy Theater has a spanking-hot new monthly comedy showcase fresh-off-the-press featuring the Midwest’s funniest up-and-coming local and touring comedians! Hosted by the Queen of Omaha Comedy herself, join Pretty Much Entertainment's cast members for Thirsty Thursday’s with Carmela Anderson every 4th Thursdays of the month!

Get ya drink on, get ya smoke on (before,) and get your funny on at this raw and uncut Def Comedy style showcase!

BE THERE OR BE A SQUARE!!

Tickets are $5 per person
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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

The ARENA is Omaha's #1 Improv Competition pitting together 2 improv teams to find out which Omaha team is the best. Each competition is followed by previous Champions that get their own weekly slot until someone beats their record! With 9 consecutive wins and 15 total wins in The Arena, you will not want to miss "Zip-Zopera: The Improvised Hip-Hopera" performing each week!

Whichever team wins the votes of the audience comes back the next week to face a new Challenging team, each getting 15 minutes to win over your votes. The #1 team (4 Average People) has won 16 weeks in a row! Will a team ever beat that record? You decide!

Tickets are $7 per person
FREE for Backline Students & Alumni

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We've got 20 beers and ciders!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

This bad-ass group of seven improviser started of as a Backline House Harold team and graduated into one of the funniest teams in Omaha. They now perform something called a Slacker, and if that means nothing to you, just know it is fast-paced and super fun. Expect a great guest team to open for them each month!

Tickets are $7 per person

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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

INTERROGATED is the #1 improv show in Omaha and feature's Backline's top improvisers (sometimes featuring special guests!) This fast-paced and very much 'adult-friendly' improv where we'll ask you, the audience, to confess true stories from a time where you got away with something. Maybe you stole a brownie from a roommate, or spun cookies in a football field, either way we'll take them!. Our performers will create scenes based off these stories in a structured 'game-based' style of improv you'll only see similar to in LA and NYC.

Each month also features an opening team of improvisers that are either top Omaha teams or special guests from out of town. If you haven't been here and want a great introduction to what we do best, see this show!

Tickets are $7 per person
*FREE for Backline Students & Alumni
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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

Hosted by Ali Kareem, this diverse lineup of comics get right to it. Up close and personal, be ready to laugh at anything.

Featuring
Alex Preston

Rashod Vaughn

Brooke Barsell

Patty Fanciullo

Rome Dailey

Tickets are $7 per person
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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

The Broken Magic Comedy Hour is a new comedy series brought to you by founding OK Party Member and national touring stand up comic Zach Peterson. Featuring some of the best stand up comics in the midwest and beyond, The BMCH is a professionally run stand up show that will have you coming back for more month after month.

Tickets are $10 per person

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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

Come check out the latest group of improvisers in this graduation show from the latest Level 1 Improv Class! They worked for 7 weeks to get this good, don't miss their very first improv show ever!

Tickets are $5 per person
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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

LATE NIGHT at the BACKLINE w/ CAMERON LOGSDON !

Featuring stand up comedy, sketch comedy, improv, live music, and whatever else we can fit on stage at the Backline, this hour-long show is guaranteed to entertain you for better or for worse! Every month we'll bring in new musicians, stand up comedians, improvisers, comedy writers, and live interviews with the most interesting people in the city of Omaha and beyond all hosted by Cameron Logsdon.

Cameron is a comedian & writer from Omaha. He likes it here, but travels often. In 2016, he was selected to write for the NBC Late Night Writer’s Workshop, was nominated Best Comedian in Omaha, is an actor/writer in the televised sketch show Omaha Live, he's a Communication Studies professor at UNO, & he gave TEDtalk about teen dads. He cool.

Tickets are $10 per person
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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).

Date Night is here. Gather up your special someone (or any someone) and come see three great two-person teams improvising their little hearts out. Whether you actually bring a date, this show will be just as fun to watch alone or with some friends. Who knows, maybe you'll meet a future date here.

Kalee Olson and Michael Johnson host as the duo Swipe Right, and always bringing up only the best 2-person teams Omaha has to offer.

Tickets are $7 per person.

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We've got 19 beers, ciders, and hard sodas!

Please arrive no later than 5 minutes prior to showtime. Tickets may be released for resale at that time, no refunds will be given.

Free parking available 1/2 a block away at 17th and Harney. Parking also available on the street (metered until 9pm).