If Franklin Street seems a little funnier this week…here’s why.

The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival is now in full swing. Hosted by Chapel Hill’s DSI Comedy Theater and now in its sixteenth year, the NCCAF brings in hundreds of standup, sketch, and improv comics from coast to coast (and Canada) for one of the largest comedy festivals in the nation.

Read the history of the NCCAF.

This year’s edition got under way on February 1 and runs through Valentine’s Day, Sunday the 14th, with shows at DSI, the ArtsCenter, Local 506, the Cave, and Flyleaf Books. Headliners include standup icon Emo Philips and Kevin McDonald of the legendary sketch group Kids in the Hall. (Not to mention hip-hop improv pioneers North Coast, all-stars from New York’s Magnet Theater, sketch favorites the Defiant Thomas Brothers, and the annual Carolina’s Funniest Comic competition.)

Zach Ward of DSI and NC Comedy Arts Festival headliner Emo Philips joined Aaron Keck on WCHL Friday.

 

Emo Philips will be performing at the ArtsCenter on Wednesday, February 10, at 9:00 pm. Kevin McDonald will be at the ArtsCenter on Thursday, February 11, at 7:30.

Get the full schedule of the NC Comedy Arts Festival, including ticket information.

Emo Philips and Zach Ward with Aaron Keck at WCHL studios.

Emo Philips and Zach Ward with Aaron Keck at WCHL studios.