Soma Showcase Opening Night

Entrance to Soma

The first 8pm show for the NEW Weekly Stand Up Comedy Showcase was held at Soma on Wednesday April 29th. After 5 1/2 years at Memphis on Main the biggest stand up comedy show in town moved to a new venue. It's a great place in downtown Champaign that we hope to make better than any of our previous shows before. 

Front bar at Soma

There is a terrific front lounge area for people to hang out at before and after the show. Soma has a rep for being a place that is expensive or snooty. $2 Mixed Wells on Wed Night, folks. It's clean, it's big, and the best part for us is it has a private show room in the back. Not to mention a secondary bar so you never have to go too far from the show!

All full for Opening Night!

 It was a packed night. Standing room only all the way back through the covey of the second bar area. There were a few small issues we will fix going forward. The picture to the right was taken from the balcony which is used as a green room for all the performers. 





After every show DJ Mike Ingram starts spinning in the lounge area. 90's and more every Wed at 9:30 directly following the show. It's a very diverse crowd that comes out to stand up comedy shows, you really get to meet a lot of new interested people hanging out post show.





We really look forward to having so many different performers in. Already have people from Chicago, St Louis, Peoria, Boise, and more coming up soon! Here are some of the performers from week #1:

Chris Hightower

Host: Jesse Tuttle (me)

Esteban Gast

Andrew Hicks

Katie Prosise

Justin Tuttle

Steve Schaberg

Mikel Matthews