Comedy Houston is the operating layer of Houston stand-up: we track every comedy listing in the city, run the venue guides Houston audiences use, and produce and promote live shows ourselves. When a production needs comedy talent, a room, or an audience in Houston, we are the local call that already has the map.
This page is for TV and streaming productions, branded content teams, casting professionals, agencies, and production companies working in or routing through Texas.
Talent sourcing and local casting
We watch every working comic in Houston across every room, every week, because our listings machine tracks all of it: currently 500+ events on sale across 23 venues, updated twice a day. Tell us the brief, the age of the joke you need, the language (Houston has active English, Spanish, and clean-comedy scenes), and the budget, and we come back with a shortlist of working comics who fit, not a directory dump.
Venue and location knowledge
We maintain the city’s venue guides: rooms from a 450-seat headliner club to a speakeasy above a bar, with seating layouts, sound, parking, and the personalities who run them. If you are scouting where to film stand-up in Houston, we know which rooms look right on camera, which have house PAs worth using, and which owners pick up the phone. Start with our venue directory and our venue logistics guide.
Audience recruitment
A taping needs a real crowd that laughs. We reach Houston comedy fans through the site’s listings traffic, a 15K+ social audience, and a weekly show email, and we have filled rooms for our own productions. If your shoot needs seats filled with people who chose to be there, that is a service we run, not a favor we ask.
Local production and promotion support
Production coordination, venue introductions, local crew and talent connections, and the promotion machine described on our services page. If the date needs selling to the public, our show promotion operation handles that end.
Who you are working with
Comedy Houston is run by Sanjay Manaktala: a working stand-up and corporate comedian who helped kickstart the modern Indian comedy scene, with 45 million+ views across video and digital content, 500+ corporate shows for Fortune 100 clients including Google, IBM, Porsche, and McKinsey, and a parallel 20-year career building data and AI products. He is based in Houston. The listings platform, the venue guides, and the promotion machine on this site are his operation, which means one point of contact who understands both the production side and the comedy side.
How fast we respond
Email is read the same day. Scoped requests get a concrete answer, a shortlist, or a plan within two business days. Tight turnarounds are normal in this business; say so in the subject line.
Reach the producer desk
Email creative@comedyhouston.com with what you are making, the dates, and what you need locally. The contact form works too.
Working in the wider Houston film ecosystem? The Houston Film Commission is the city’s hub for cast and crew calls, and we are glad to coordinate with productions routed through it.