After its debut in 2025, VARIETY PACK is back and leveling up. Philadelphia’s festival dedicated to the chaotic, theatrical, unclassifiable corners of alt-comedy returns January 22 – 31, 2026 with two weekends of shows, twenty acts, and even more gloriously unhinged performances.

What started as a one-time experiment has now officially become its own producing entity: Variety Pack, an independent festival committed to giving Philly’s strangest comedic minds a home…

7:00 PM, 5 Stagehands Fall Out of a Closet (Take TWO)
Shapeshifter Grace Lazarz, with the support of a mysterious chorus of stagehands, attempt to perform a bevy of lovably grotesque characters for an audience. But other things also happen. An absurdity that sticks to you until your cosmic punchline.

8:30 PM, The Best Friends Variety Hour with Kris & Alli
Spend an hour with Kris Finger & Alli Soowal, comedians and best friends who have been performing together for almost 20 years, as they take you on a journey through the joys and laughter of their own friendship, your own friendships and even some famous friendships like Lucy and Ethel, Dorothy and Sophia, and Betty and Judy. Kris and Alli’s variety hour will feature comedy sketches, improv, story-telling, and song & dance.

10:00 PM, Cartoon Club with Joe Bell
A late-night block of freaky original cartoons hosted by Joe Bell! Featuring bits, characters, games but most importantly cartoons!