What we are
The PNW Comedy Rag is a new publication distributed alongside the month-long Seattle International Comedy Competition, which takes place every November and celebrated its 46th year in 2025.
We’re also up to other stuff year-round too, which you can keep up with on this here website or, even better, by subscribing to our mailing list. Which we won’t spam your inbox with.
Where to find us
You’ll find the Rag at all the official SICC venues during the competition, where it’s free for all audience members.
These venues are located throughout Western Washington, from Seattle north to Bellingham, west to the Olympic Peninsula in Port Angeles, and south all the way down to Olympia and Longview by the Oregon border. The exact venue lineups may change somewhat year-to-year, but every November for 46 years, 32 comedians have come to Seattle to perform in over a dozen venues in Seattle, the Puget Sound area, and beyond.
A Note From Our Editor
The next comedy tsunami is launching from the Pacific Northwest. And there will be no survivors.
We have been the most influential-yet-underappreciated comedy scene for the last 40 to 400 years and if we don't get our flowers soon I fear there will be violent recourse. In order to avoid bloodshed, the PNW Comedy Rag is determined to spread our sweet Cascadia comedy gospel to the edges of this even sweeter Earth. We’ve birthed incredible clubs, celebrity comedians (we’re talkin’ stars who are such a big deal they’ve dated ex-NFL quarterbacks’ ex-wives), massive podcasts, glorious indie shows with cult followings, actual cults with cult followings, and the most eclectic geniuses of anywhere on the planet.
And they're plotting despicable feats if they are not acknowledged soon. Pay attention to us now, for your own survival.
A Note From Our Editor’s Editor
I thought he was gonna write some platitudes about how arts and community are intertwined and in the current digital, algorithm-driven ecosystem it’s more important than ever to seek out these things out with intention, but uh… Well, don’t worry about it, you’re definitely safe from any Cascadian comedy uprising.
We’re like, 92% sure.