2025 lookout comedy FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL DATES

Wednesday, October 22 - Saturday, October 25, 2025

VENUES

The Comedy Catch

JJs Bohemia

Granfalloon

Wanderlinger

…and more!

headliners

NICK MURPHY

Nick Murphy is a stand up comedian based out of Atlanta, Georgia. He is a regular performer at Atlanta's Punchline Comedy Club and Laughing Skull Lounge, having worked with acts including Ron White, Jim Jeffries, and the Lucas Brothers. Nick was selected to perform in the Moontower and Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Festivals. In 2025, he was chosen to be on the Netflix Is A Joke 'Introducing' Showcase. Nick credits his abilities onstage to years of observation, life experience and hard work while his beautiful, supportive mother prefers to take all the credit herself.

CASEY BALSHAM

Casey Balsham is a comedian, writer and cheese lover working in New York City. You may know her from one of her viral jokes, “A Message to Gen Z” or “Childbirth = Women’s Super Bowl” which have both been viewed over 20 million times. She has kept busy as a warm-up comic for shows on Comedy Central as well as The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV. You have heard her on her parenting podcast Never Not Tired or her True Crime pod, Shady Sh*t or on her newest endeavor, the It’s Broadway Bitch podcast. Her debut album Son of a Barb hit #1 on iTunes and her real life look at becoming a parent through her IVF journey in her solo show “Inconceivable” earned her rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

TRIXX

Taboo shattering, searingly honest, and painfully funny, Frankie “TRIXX” Agyemang is one of North America's rising comedic stars. Trixx is the 2021 winner of the Boston Comedy Festival, the 2018 Winner of the World Series of Comedy, also 2013 Winner of Just for Laughs’ JFL42 Big Break Competition. He’s been featured on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, Sirius XM Radio and has opened for such stars as: Tracy Morgan, Damon Wayans, Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Ryan Hamilton and Sugar Sammy

Trixx has written and performed sold out theatre shows including his last show, a two-hour solo show, TRIXX: Unspoken Words, was sold out Toronto’s Jane Mallett Theatre. He has also performed internationally including: London, Boston Comedy Festival, Jamaica Comedy Festival and New York Comedy Festival. Trixx also performed regularly at such top venues as the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, The Canadian International Comedy Fest and at Kenny Robinson’s Nubian Disciples of Pryor Comedy Show.

Trixx has developed a cult following with his no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners brand of comedy. Mixing boisterous commentary on topics like pop culture, relationships, music, clubbing, and sex, with acute insights on being black in North America, Trixx’s streetwise, boundary-pushing humour is unafraid of taking on everyone and everything in his sights.

JOE ZIMMERMAN

Known for his inventive writing and playful persona, Joe Zimmerman brings insightful observations and a curiosity to the stage that achieves a level of joy rarely accomplished. His jokes are first and foremost on himself, while also touching on pop culture, relationships, history, nature, and pop-science.

A regular at New York city’s iconic Comedy Cellar, Joe grew up in Morgantown, WV, and began his comedy career in North Carolina after graduating from Davidson College. His television appearances include The Late Late Show with James Corden, John Oliver’s New York Comedy Central show, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, Last Comic Standing, and his own Comedy Central Half Hour.

His debut album Smiling at Wolves reached number one on the iTunes comedy charts and his second, Innocence, is a favorite on SiriusXM and Pandora. Joe also hosts his own podcast and is a humor writer, having published in The New Yorker, and New York Times.