Comedy Club Show Night Checklist

Running a successful comedy show requires coordinating dozens of moving parts—from technical setup to talent relations to front-of-house operations. This Comedy Club Show Night Checklist gives you a single, organized system to ensure nothing falls through the cracks on performance nights.

Built specifically for comedy clubs, theaters, and live entertainment venues, this template walks your team through every critical checkpoint: verifying sound and lighting systems, confirming seating arrangements, managing performer hospitality, and reconciling ticket sales at the end of the night. Whether you're running an intimate open mic or a sold-out headliner show, this checklist keeps everyone aligned and accountable.

The form is designed to be completed collaboratively by your venue staff—sound techs, front-of-house managers, talent coordinators, and box office leads can each log their tasks as they're completed. You can add conditional logic to flag issues that need immediate attention, and use Paperform's calculation fields to automatically tally ticket counts and revenue totals.

Once submitted, this checklist creates a clear record of what happened each show night, which is invaluable for spotting trends, training new staff, and improving your operations over time. You can connect your form to Google Sheets or Airtable to build a master log of all performances, or use Stepper to automatically notify managers when critical tasks are incomplete or revenue discrepancies are detected.

For clubs that also need contracts with performers or liability waivers from audience members, you can layer in Papersign to handle secure eSignatures—keeping your entire show night workflow in one connected system. With Paperform's flexible design, you can customize this checklist to match your venue's unique setup, brand, and operational needs, all without touching a line of code.