Stand-Up Comedian
BIG AL
BIG AL
GONZALES
17+
Legends opened for
2018
Funniest in S. Texas
2HRS
Clean or not
VR
Pioneer
Two hats. One first drop. Cast your vote and the people decide what hits the store first.
Big Al teaches stand-up through the Armed Services Arts Partnership — and the classes are free for veterans & active-duty military. Whether you want to try it once or go all the way to a real stage, there's a room for you.
A 3-hour intro to stand-up — find your funny, write your first jokes, and learn the fundamentals in one afternoon.
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Albert "Big Al" Gonzales is a Mexican-American comedian and U.S. Marine Corps veteran whose career started in San Francisco's legendary rooms — the Punch Line, the Purple Onion — and now runs through Austin's Comedy Mothership, Kill Tony, and clubs across the country.
He's opened for Robin Williams, Ali Wong, Russell Peters, Sinbad, and a dozen more legends. Named Funniest in South Texas, he's appeared on GSN's Idiotest, Comedy Time, and ESPN Radio's Whiskey Neat.
Al also helped pioneer comedy in virtual reality at Failed To Render, the world's longest-running VR comedy club, alongside Kyle Render — bringing names like Howie Mandel and Kenan Thompson into the room for VR sets along the way.
A veteran who shows up for veterans, Al serves as Director of Comedy for the Austin Veteran Arts Festival and has performed overseas for the troops. He lives, works, and laughs sober in Texas.
Before any of this, Al co-hosted Set Up Punch — a weekly comedy show on San Francisco's Pirate Cat Radio with Drew Harmon back in 2010, mixing comedy news, clips, and stand-up culture talk, including an old sit-down with Marc Maron. No video exists. Just the tapes.
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