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The first annual Austin Sketch Comedy Festival is happening May 27th – 29th over Memorial Day weekend and will showcase the very best scripted comedy America has to offer.

Among the headliners are Dave Holmes (Reno 911) and his sketch comedy group, the Friday Forty. The Friday Forty is the smash-hit sketch-slash-game show featuring some of LA's most notable up and coming talent. Other notable acts appaearing at this year's festival include Arthur Simone's hit one-man show Dear Frailty, New York City's Audience of Two and ColdTowne Theater's Shanty Town Lake. (See below for full schedule and descriptions).

The festival will take place at ColdTowne Theater (4803-B Airport Blvd) and at the United States Art Authority (2908 Fruth St.). Tickets for all shows are available through coldtownetheater.com.

About ColdTowne Theater:

The ColdTowne Theater is Austin's main stage for alternative comedy, with improv, sketch and stand up shows Thursday through Monday, featuring the smartest, brightest, and hardest-working comedians in Central Texas. ColdTowne’s resident comedians are three time winners of the Austin Chronicle’s “Best of Austin” Readers Poll for “Best Comedy Group” and have appeared all over country at festivals, on college campuses and at house parties.

ColdTowne Theater is home to the ColdTowne Conservatory which offers six levels of improv classes and three levels of sketch classes. ColdTowne has hosted improv and sketch workshops by nationally renowned performers and writers, such as the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and former SNL writer and People's Improv Theater owner Ali Farahnakian.