Ashland Sarcasm Festival

Black Market Comedy is helping to organize and program this awesome 3-day festival in Ashland, Oregon this December 2025. The Ashland Sarcasm Festival is the brainchild of STORYTOWN (via the non-profit ACEA), who’s mission is to entertain, inspire, educate, and foster collaboration across industries, the arts, and our community (Ashland, OR). Learn more here.

Highlighted by two nights of great stand-up comedy on the stage at Angus Bowmer Theater (OSF), with three days of surrounding venues throughout downtown ashland offering additional regional headliners, local showcase shows, comedy game shows, roast battles, drag queens, and more hilarity throughout the Plaza!

Friday, Dec. 5th at the Bowmer Theater, 2 shows with Moshe Kasher!
Saturday, Dec. 6th at the Bowmer Theater, 2 shows with Ron Runches!

Alongside a Weekend of sarcastic wit to kick off the holiday season.

A new holiday tradition is born… In the frosty embrace of December’s first week, the Ashland Sarcasm Festival shall convene. A royal celebration of Wit to fill the many venues of our simple hamlet. A revelry of grand proportions shall unfold, for rich is the bounty of jest to be garnered!