Fountain City Comedy Pre-Fest Show – Big Dawgs Tour feat. Emma Dalenberg & Sunny Laprade
Boulevard Brewing and Fountain City Comedy Fest are partnering to bring the Big Dawgs Tour ft Emma Dalenberg and Sunny Laprade to KC!
Fountain City Comedy Fest is gearing up for year 5! This year, we’re partnering with Boulevard Brewing for pre-fest shows every quarter until the festival in October.
Doors: 6PM – Show: 7PM
About Emma and Sunny:
Emma Dalenberg – A natural heavy hitter, measuring up at over six feet tall, Emma Dalenberg approaches her sets with good vibes and a genuine love to connect with audiences of all backgrounds. She has taken her “big dawg” energy to venues across the world, from her Minnesota home, Acme Comedy Club, to theaters and clubs in Europe, and all the way to a cat populated stage in the back of a tattoo shop in Istanbul, Turkey. She was voted ‘Racket Magazine’s 2022 Minnesota Comic to Watch,’ is twice featured in the Minnesota Star Tribune, won 2024 Best of Fest at Rip City Festival in Portland, has opened for Michael Che, Dave Attell, and Big Jay Oakerson, recently was chosen to be featured on Only Fans LMAOF TV Comedian highlight series, and her Highschool basketball team, The Winona Winhawks, made it to the State tournament three times. Emma is proud to have come up from her small town Midwestern trailer park beginnings, and continue to travel the world with a good handful of subversive jokes, goofy stories, and intercultural observations to share. is a stand-up comedian known for his one-liners about butterflies, frogs, and such, and for performing with Tourette’s syndrome.
Sunny Laprade – Based in NYC, Sunny Laprade is a standup comedian, storyteller, writer, producer, and director who has amassed over 15 million likes and 240,000 followers on TikTok alone. With over a quarter of a million followers combined across all platforms, she was at one point the second most followed trans woman standup comic in the world.
Sunny performed her first hour of comedy at Alfred University in 2017 at just 17 years old. She is the current host and producer of T4T Comedy, a monthly all-transgender comedy show, which
sold out the Bell House in June 2025 and was the largest live all transgender comedy show of all time. Her first 75 minute comedy special, Queer Enough, which she wrote, performed, and produced, ran for two nights to sold out audiences and was released to the public on YouTube in 2022. It was named one of 6 Queer Comedy Specials That Will Restore Your Faith in the Craft by Autostraddle and currently has over 4 stars on Letterboxd. Her story F It, We Ball won the Moth GrandSLAM at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in 2024, and a short film based off of that story is currently in post-production. Laprade was a semifinalist in the 2021 New York Queer Comedy Festival, a finalist in the 2023 P3 Comedy Festival, a finalist in the 2023 Far Out Comedy Festival, and a finalist in the 2023 New York Queer Comedy Festival. She was a staff writer for Late Stage Live, and is currently a staff writer for Going Down with Ella Yurman. Her variety show Dolls on Tour was featured as a part of New York Comedy Festival. Her new hour Trans! At The DMV is currently touring all over the country.
Tickets:
$20 Early Bird Special until 4/20
$25 until 5/4
$30 until 5/9
Grab them early to save!
