There’s a particular kind of comedian who thrives in rooms that don’t have a safety net, and Kim Congdon has built her entire career in exactly those rooms.
This October, that career lands in Toronto, when the Los Angeles-built, Austin-based comic headlines four shows at Catacombs Cabaret, one of the city’s strangest and most talked-about underground venues.
If you’ve spent any time inside the world of alternative stand-up over the last decade — Kill Tony bucket pulls, Comedy Store late-night lineups, Joe Rogan’s podcast, or the credits of a hidden-camera prank show — there’s a decent chance you’ve already crossed paths with her work without realizing it.
Here is everything you need to know about seeing Kim Congdon live at Catacombs Cabaret on October 16 and 17, 2026.
Who Is Kim Congdon? A Comedian Built in Comedy’s Toughest Rooms
Kim Congdon, born Kimberly Congdon, is a stand-up comedian, television writer, podcast host, and producer whose reputation was forged inside some of comedy’s most unforgiving environments rather than on a traditional sitcom-writers’-room path.
She has appeared on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, performed at stand-up showcases across the United States, and been a guest on major podcasts including The Joe Rogan Experience, Getting Doug with High, and Kill Tony. That combination — roast comedy, road showcases, and long-form podcast interviews — is a fairly accurate summary of the three pillars her career rests on.
The Comedy Store, arguably the most storied comedy club in the world, lists her as part of its Paid Regular Class of 2023, a status that isn’t handed out casually; it means she earned a standing slot among the club’s professional roster after years of grinding through open mics and guest sets on the Sunset Strip.
Around the same period, she was working as a touring opener for Joe Rogan, Ralphie May, and Joey Diaz, three names that carry serious weight in the stand-up world and whose stages don’t tend to go to comedians who can’t handle a rowdy, unpredictable crowd.
While earlier bios and her original social media accounts place her in Los Angeles, her more recent public profiles describe her as an unapologetically bold comedian and comedy writer now based in Austin, Texas, reflecting the broader migration of comedians out of Los Angeles toward Austin’s increasingly influential live-comedy and podcast scene over the past several years.
From Impractical Jokers to Roast Writing: Kim Congdon’s Television Career
What separates Kim Congdon from a lot of touring stand-ups is the amount of behind-the-camera credibility she’s built as a television writer and producer, which is a genuinely useful signal for anyone trying to gauge whether a comedian’s material is going to be sharp or scattershot.
She worked as a writer on the long-running truTV series Tefi, contributing to all 82 episodes across its 2019 season, and wrote for the comedy special Entre Nos: About Last Night the same year. That’s a substantial writing résumé for a stand-up comic, and it predates most of her viral podcast moments.
Her most widely cited TV credit, though, is her work on Impractical Jokers, the hidden-camera hit that helped define a generation of prank-based comedy on truTV. She served as a comedy producer on Impractical Jokers across its 2019 and 2020 seasons, as well as on the spinoff series Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes in 2021.
Congdon also wrote for The Roast of Tom Brady, the 2024 Netflix roast special that put her name alongside some of the biggest names in the roast-comedy genre.
In 2024, she also worked as a creative consultant on multiple episodes of Netflix’s The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman, extending her prank-and-hidden-camera resume beyond the Impractical Jokers universe.
Earlier in her career, she hosted the TV series Stoned Science in 2018 and appeared as an actress in the 2020 short Fetal Fury: Escape the Womb, and her IMDb page currently lists her as a writer, actress, and producer on an in-production series titled Half Full.
Kill Tony, Roast Battle, and the Comedy Store: How She Built Her Reputation
If you follow the modern stand-up ecosystem at all, you’ve probably encountered Kim Congdon on Kill Tony, the live podcast hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe that has become one of the most influential launching pads in comedy.
Her appearances go back years — in fact, she started out in comedy on Tony Hinchcliffe’s Kill Tony podcast — and she has remained a recurring presence on the show ever since, including a 2025 episode alongside comedian Ali Siddiq recorded live.
Her Roast Battle work is another key piece of her identity as a performer. Before becoming a paid regular at the Comedy Store, she performed on a handful of MTV and truTV shows, as well as on Comedy Central’s Road to Roast Battle, the competition format where comedians trade insult-comedy rounds in front of a live audience and celebrity judges.
Roast comedy is a notoriously difficult skill to develop because it rewards speed, precision, and an ability to read a room in real time, and Congdon’s years inside that format are a large part of why so many club bios describe her, almost uniformly, using words like “bold,” “sharp,” and “unapologetic.”
Her podcast interview circuit tells a similar story. She has been a guest across a wide range of long-form comedy podcasts, including two separate appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience alongside fellow comedian Sara Weinshenk — including a November 2023 episode in which the two comedians were introduced as co-hosts of the “This Bitch” podcast — as well as guest spots on Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank and the long-running Legion of Skanks-affiliated Real Ass Podcast.
“Childless Milf”: Kim Congdon’s Debut Comedy Special and Comedic Voice
For anyone trying to get a sense of what to actually expect on stage, Kim Congdon’s debut hour-adjacent special is the best available reference point
“Kim Congdon: Childless Milf” is a 2024 TV special directed by Jack Higgins, written by Congdon herself, running roughly 30 minutes.
It was filmed for the Jam in the Van concert-and-comedy series, and according to coverage of the release, the special covers a wide range of topics including the chaos of modern dating, the specific absurdities of being a woman in stand-up comedy, dealing with stalkers, and even the unsettling reality of school shooters — a combination of lighter observational material and genuinely dark, current-events-adjacent subject matter that’s become something of a signature move for comedians who came up through the roast and podcast circuit rather than a clean-club, sitcom-adjacent path.
Coverage of the special also frames it as a showcase of her range rather than a single-note hour, noting that it moves between the awkwardness of new attraction, the familiar frustrations of dating apps and tech mishaps in modern romance, and her own perspective on living as a child-free woman in a culture that still asks women constantly about their reproductive choices — hence the title.
What ties her television writing career to her stand-up voice is a consistent willingness to sit inside uncomfortable, occasionally taboo material without flinching, then find the joke inside it rather than around it.
Podcasting: This Bitch, The Kim Congdon Takeover, and a Decade of Broad Topix
Long before “podcast comedian” became a crowded lane, Kim Congdon was already building an audience through audio.
Her earliest well-documented show was Broad Topix, a podcast she co-hosted for several years that became a recurring feature on the GaS Digital Network’s Real Ass Podcast circuit, with guest crossover appearances going back to at least 2018 and 2019.
That early run gave her a foothold in the same alternative-comedy podcasting scene that would later produce Kill Tony’s massive audience.
Her current flagship efforts are two distinct podcasts. She co-hosts “This Bitch” alongside fellow comedian Sara Weinshenk, and also hosts her own solo show, “The Kim Congdon Takeover.” The latter has become the more consistently active of the two in recent years.
The Kim Congdon Takeover releases episodes twice monthly, covering everything from comedy-festival recaps to candid conversations about therapy, family dynamics, and her Puerto Rican heritage, with recurring guests including fellow comedians Rachel Wolfson and Mat Edgar.
Her YouTube channel promotes both shows as releasing new episodes every Wednesday, blending laugh-out-loud moments with genuine conversation about comedy and life, which is a fairly accurate description of the format: less a scripted comedy podcast and more a hangout show that leans on her rapport with co-hosts and guests.
For anyone attending the Toronto shows who wants homework beforehand, the podcasts are arguably a better preview of her actual sense of humor than any single review or bio.
Kim Congdon’s Off-Stage Candor: Industry Disputes and Internet Moments
Part of what’s made Kim Congdon a recognizable name beyond stand-up circles is her willingness to talk openly, and often bluntly, about her own experiences in the comedy industry — including uncomfortable ones.
One frequently cited example is the story of how she got verified on Instagram: after a successful stand-up performance, she says a man in the crowd groped her while pretending to be blind and disabled, and after confronting the situation and the incident later being covered by Deadline, she used that press coverage to finally secure her blue checkmark after a decade of unsuccessful attempts.
She’s told the story on multiple podcasts, including The Joe Rogan Experience, treating a genuinely unpleasant experience with the same dark, matter-of-fact humor that runs through her stand-up material.
More recently, she’s been candid about a payment dispute from earlier in her career.
On an episode of The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly, Congdon discussed being frustrated that a fellow female comedian she had ghostwritten jokes for never paid an agreed-upon invoice, a story that circulated widely across TikTok recaps and comedy-podcast clip accounts in the weeks after it aired.
She doesn’t seem inclined to stay quiet about things other comedians might handle privately, and that transparency is a big part of her appeal.
Inside Catacombs Cabaret: Toronto’s Hidden Underground Comedy Venue
The venue hosting Kim Congdon this October is, on its own, worth knowing about before you buy a ticket.
Catacombs Cabaret is one of Toronto’s most intriguing underground performance spaces, tucked behind a rear entrance at 474 Queen Street West and known for an eerie, immersive atmosphere that feels pulled straight from an urban legend.
The room leans hard into a specific aesthetic — dark, theatrical, and often described as ghoulish, bizarre, and delightfully unconventional — which is a fairly unusual pitch for a comedy room and part of why it’s developed a cult following of its own, separate from any single act on its calendar.
Tucked away at the rear of 474 Queen St W, the venue feels like a secret room you weren’t supposed to find, and its regular showcase format typically features six to seven comedians performing tight ten-to-twelve-minute sets in a close, intimate space designed for big laughs.
That format is a good indicator of the room’s general programming philosophy, even on nights like Congdon’s headlining shows, where the structure typically shifts toward a smaller number of acts building toward a feature performer rather than a rapid-fire showcase.
The venue’s own promotional material describes itself simply as home to “Toronto’s best late night comedy and side show,” seen after a few drinks — a tagline that captures the room’s blend of stand-up and slightly theatrical, sideshow-adjacent programming, which has previously included offerings like Zac Amico’s Midnight Spook Show alongside more traditional stand-up nights.
Kim Congdon Live in Toronto: Dates, Times, and Ticket Details
Here are the specifics for anyone planning to buy a ticket to Kim Congdon in Toronto.
Kim Congdon is scheduled to headline four total shows at Catacombs Cabaret across two nights: Friday, October 16, 2026, with performances at 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., and Saturday, October 17, 2026, with performances at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
For all of these shows, there is an age restriction of 19 and up, and a maximum event capacity of 60 people.
That capacity figure is worth emphasizing on its own: sixty seats is an intentionally small, club-style room rather than a theater, which means even the “cheap seats” put you within close range of the stage, and it also means these shows carry a real risk of selling out well before the date, particularly given how frequently the venue’s other showcases are described as selling out in their own listings.
Given the venue’s small footprint and the fact that Congdon draws crowds from her podcast audience, her Kill Tony fanbase, and general comedy-club regulars simultaneously, anyone planning to attend both nights, or hoping to catch a specific set time, would be well served by booking sooner rather than closer to the date.
Tickets are being sold through Ticketscene, the venue’s primary ticketing partner, with separate listings for each of the four individual performance times.
Enjoy Kim Congdon’s Latest Set of All-Original Material with a Ticket in Toronto
Kim Congdon’s two-night, four-show run at Catacombs Cabaret this October brings together a comedian whose career has been built almost entirely inside comedy’s most demanding rooms and a venue that has carved out its own reputation as one of Toronto’s strangest and most atmospheric places to watch stand-up.
Between her television writing credits, her debut special “Childless Milf,” her two active podcasts, and her well-documented candor about the messier side of the comedy business, Congdon arrives with a genuinely deep well of material and a fanbase that spans multiple corners of the comedy internet.
With only four shows scheduled across October 16 and 17, and a room that holds a maximum of sixty people per performance, this is very much an intimate-venue booking rather than a theater tour stop, which for comedy fans in Toronto is exactly the point: a rare chance to see a comedian with national television and podcast credits in a room small enough that nobody in the audience is more than a few rows from the stage.
Get your tickets here to Kim Congdon in Toronto at the Catacombs Cabaret on October 16th and October 17th.
