Kathleen Madigan

Kathleen Madigan plays ACL Live at The Moody Theater on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 7 PM. If you've caught her on a screen before, this is a chance to see her in person here in Austin.

Madigan has been at this for 33 years, built on a touring schedule of roughly 250 nights a year that's taken her from comedy clubs to sold-out marquee theaters. She's made more than 40 late-night talk show appearances and released several specials on Netflix, Comedy Central and HBO. Bothering Jesus was her fifth hour-long special and her third on Netflix, and its album version became the highest-selling and most-played comedy album on streaming services since 2014. Hunting Bigfoot premiered as an Amazon Original on February 21, 2023.

Beyond the stand-up, she's a familiar face in a few other spots. She starred in Jerry Seinfeld's Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and hosts the weekly podcast Madigan's Pubcast, which has over 4 million downloads. She's also performed internationally at festivals in Ireland, England, Hong Kong and Australia.

A St. Louis native, she won the American Comedy Award and the Phyllis Diller Award for Best Female Comedian, wrote and produced for Lewis Black's Root of All Evil on Comedy Central, and has done multiple USO tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The show is at ACL Live at The Moody Theater on Saturday, September 12, starting at 7 PM.