The Onion And A V Club Give A Comedy Fest A Go

• Larry Hirshowitz
• Marc Maron headlines the First Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival’s final night

Once you get over being amused at the tongue-in-cheek, that’s-so-Onion name, the First Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival is pretty straightforward. It’s four shows of comedy in three days (June 12-14) at the Athenaeum Theatre—the one that looks like a “theater” from the outside and a “theatre” from the inside—and presented by, yep, the Onion and its sister publication, the A.V. Club. The acts are mostly familiar names made popular by the overlapping universes of stand-up comedy and and stand-up comedians doing podcasts. (The Reader has actually written a thing or two on most of the performers, which you can discover via links below.)