Comedy Workshop

Comedy Workshop

The Comedy Workshop and attached Comics Annex was a comedy club in Houston, Texas. It was quite popular in the 1980s and the breeding ground for a group of influential comics, once known as the Texas Outlaw Comics that included Ron Shock, Riley Barber, Bill Hicks, Jimmy Pineapple, Steve Epstein, John Farnetti and Andy Huggins. Comedienne Brett Butler of Grace Under Fire fame and SNL longtime writer T. Sean Shannon honed their skills as members of the CW competitive dysfunction. In addition, the great Sam Kinison had his beginnings at the Workshop as well. It closed in the early 1990s and is now a dry cleaners.