Dan Alten (Good Stand Up Comedy) at the Goose

The Goose 2-Year Anniversary Comedy Showcase

We're celebrating two years of The Goose with one of our biggest comedy nights yet!

Headlining the evening is Dan Alten, a Kentucky comedian and one of our all-time favorite performers to grace The Goose stage.

Returning alongside him are two comics who have become standouts at our weekly open mics, Alex Cook and Dylan Wenzel, for a night packed with laughs from start to finish.

Over the last two years, The Goose has become home to live music, comedy, art, and community. This show is our way of celebrating everyone who has helped make that possible.

Friday, August 14

8:00 PM

$10 Admission

The Goose • 920 Main Street • Dubuque, IA

Dan Alten is a charming goofball from Kentucky who has been traveling the country for the past decade doing about 200 shows a year bringing his intelligently surreal bebop nonsense everywhere from theaters to punk basements to art galleries to beloved comedy clubs with a knack for making audiences feel like they're on a good psychedelic trip without the drugs. Like if the Ramones were one guy with a mustache and good jokes. Iggy Pop with puns. Clever chaos. Like Jimi Hendrix lighting fire to a Tik Tok reel live on stage. 

He has opened for Kyle Kinane, Bobcat, Sam Tallent, Rory Scovel, Sarah Sherman from SNL, Johnny Pemberton, Hari Kondabolu, rapper Open Mike Eagle, DJ Doug Pound & David Leibe Hart from Tim & Eric, various punk bands with silly names, and a guy at an open mic who tried to throw his father’s ashes into the crowd. He has recorded 2 albums, written a zine, and filmed a pilot for an Amazon Prime stand up show that was lost to history. But most importantly he’s very funny and unique. You will enjoy him. And if not you can mud wrestle him after the show.