What Is Dead-Frog? A Guide to the Live Comedy Discovery Site

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Dead-Frog is a live comedy discovery site. Its homepage headline is "Find Comedy Near You," and it is built around helping you locate stand-up shows by city or ZIP code, browse comedians with upcoming dates, and explore comedy by metro area. It is a listings and discovery tool, not a ticketing platform based on the available site information.

What Dead-Frog Does

The site's stated purpose is "comedy dissected with comprehensive coverage of stand-up comedy tours, festivals and events from top headliners to rising stars." In practice, the homepage surfaces several distinct ways to find comedy:

  • Search by location — Enter a city or ZIP code and set a radius: within 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, or 200 miles.
  • Live Comedy Tonight — A feed of same-day shows with time, lineup, venue, and city.
  • Comedians with New Dates — A list of performers with upcoming tour dates, each with a show count.
  • Comedy By City — Browse shows by major metro area.
  • Who's Funnier? — A head-to-head voting game between two comedians.

Finding Shows Near You

The core workflow is location-based. You provide a city or ZIP code plus a distance radius, and the site returns comedy events within that range. The radius options run from 10 miles up to 200 miles, which makes it usable both for finding something in your own city and for deciding whether a show is worth a longer drive.

The "Live Comedy Tonight!" section shows how listings are formatted. Each entry includes:

Field Example from the site
Date and time Sep 22, 8:00 PM
Lineup Rachel Feinstein, Keith Robinson, Geoff Chaser, Sharief Johnson and more
Venue Comedy Cellar @ Village Underground
City New York, NY

This structure lets you scan a lineup and venue at a glance before deciding whether to look further.

Browsing by City

If you are not tied to a specific date, the "Comedy By City" section lists show counts for major markets. From the site:

  • New York — 1318 shows
  • Las Vegas — 1289 shows
  • Los Angeles — 1063 shows
  • Austin — 695 shows
  • Chicago — 611 shows
  • Washington DC — 595 shows
  • Atlanta — 363 shows
  • Nashville — 355 shows
  • San Francisco — 295 shows
  • Boston — 246 shows

These counts give a rough sense of how much comedy activity exists in each city, which is useful if you are traveling and want to know whether a destination has a dense comedy scene.

Tracking Comedians

The "Comedians with New Dates" section lists performers alongside the number of shows they have coming up. Examples from the homepage include Bruce Bruce (63 shows), Drew Lynch (62), Brad Williams (55), Tim Meadows (55), Carlos Mencia (51), Willie Barcena (50), Mark Normand (49), and Natasha Leggero (37).

This is helpful if you follow a specific comedian and want to see whether they are touring near you, rather than browsing by city and hoping a familiar name appears.

The "Who's Funnier?" Game

Dead-Frog includes an interactive voting feature called "Who's Funnier?" You are shown two comedians — for example, Emmy Blotnick versus Mark Normand — and you tap a side to vote. The site aggregates these votes into a ranking. The homepage's current top five, based on the game, are:

  1. Chris Rock
  2. Eddie Murphy
  3. Dave Attell
  4. Steven Wright
  5. Dave Chappelle

The site also links to a "25 Funniest Comedians Ever" list. Treat these rankings as an engagement feature reflecting user votes, not a critical or industry ranking.

What Dead-Frog Is Not

Based on the available site information, Dead-Frog presents itself as a discovery and listings resource. There is no indication on the homepage of ticket purchasing, pricing, or account requirements. If you find a show you want to attend, expect to follow through with the venue or a ticketing service separately.

Who It Is For

Dead-Frog is most useful if you:

  • Want to find stand-up comedy in a specific city or within a set driving distance
  • Are looking for something to do tonight and want a same-day listing
  • Follow particular comedians and want to see their upcoming tour dates
  • Are curious about how a crowd-sourced "funniest comedian" vote is trending

It is less suited to someone looking to buy tickets directly or to read long-form comedy criticism, since the homepage is organized around listings, browsing, and voting rather than reviews.