Austin Sketch Fest: Hot Property and Spirit Desire

The third annual Austin Sketch Comedy Festival is happening May 23rd to May 27th over Memorial Day weekend and will feature two headlining shows from comedian Paul F. Tompkins as well as other incredible local and national acts.

Hot Property is a sketch-prov powerhouse made up of Mac Blake and David Jara of KOOP radio’s Mascot Wedding and Austin movie-mocking institution Master Pancake Theater, and Nick Ramirez and Lance Gilstrap of Austin improv and sketch institution Midnight Society. They write every show the day before, then forget all the lines, and try to put everything back together again. Their Sketch Fest set will be a best-of from their vault of mischief, which is the name of a shared Google doc. Nerds.

Cast: Mac Blake, Lance Gilstrap, David Jara, Nick Ramirez

Spirit Desire formed in January 2010 through the power of friendship and The New Movement Theater. Since then this quartet of mostly bearded bros has played throughout Texas and have been on stage at The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, Dallas Comedy Festival and Hell Yes Fest in New Orleans. Wild and unpredictable these four attack whatever stage they are with complete comic abandon. Their monthly variety show at The New Movement, which showcases improv, sketch and videos from the troupe has become one of the biggest draws The New Movement has.

Spirit Desire is: Micheal Foulk, Brady James, James Patrick Robinson, Rob Gagnon