The Smokeout: A Comedy Rap Battle and Variety Show
Sat, Jun 20
|The Cats Crawl
Comedy & Variety Acts · Zheryk · Ages 18+ · 90 mins
Time & Location
Jun 20, 2026, 11:30 PM – 11:35 PM
The Cats Crawl, 660 Heliotrope Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90004, USA
About the event
THE SMOKEOUT: A COMEDY RAP BATTLE& VARIETY SHOW
32 ICONS. 5 NIGHTS. 1 BELT.
Born in the smoldering underground of Chicago and reimagined for the neon nights of Los Angeles, THE SMOKEOUT is a destination for the dedicated. For five nights at the 2026 Hollywood Fringe, we invite you into a late-night sanctuary where cinematic bass, surgical wit, and artistic audacity collide in a haze of pure gold.
The Star: The Tournament of Icons
This is the undeniable heartbeat of the night: a high-stakes, single-elimination mastery of rhythm and ego. Thirty-two fictional heavyweights, from misunderstood historical legends to hyper-surreal modern archetypes, have been summoned to the circle for a lyrical gauntlet. This is the Main Event of the Fringe: an exchange of wit so sharp it feels like a secret shared between us.
The stage is the spark, but the room is the fuel. You are the jury. Through the low-end theory and the golden smoke, your collective pulse decides who ascends and who gets extinguished.…