WHAT: Our annual Best Of Pants On Fire! shows.
WHEN: Friday, November 27th 6:00 early all-ages show / 9:00 21 & over late show
WHERE: White Eagle Hotel & Saloon
HOW TO VOTE: Choose your favorite storyteller from the images above by midhight September 28th, and shoot as an email here - or click on the VOTE button below.
It’s officially Fall, so that means it’s time to vote for which storyteller you’d like to see perform in our annual Best Of Pants On Fire! Show.
The Best Of show is easily our most popular show of the year. It is also, in our humble opinion, the most fun. As always, the Best Of shows will happen the day after Thanksgiving — which this year is Friday, November 27th.
In order to qualify for the Best Of show, storytellers must meet at least one of two criteria: they must have either performed in a Pants On Fire! show during the current calendar year, or been a storyteller previously voted into a past Best Of show. Above you will see everyone eligible for 2026.
Voting will close at midnight Monday, September 28th. We’ll then take a couple of days to make sure that the storytellers you chose are available; if any are not, their slot will go to the remaining storyteller(s) who received the most votes.
Votes received after September 28th will not be counted, so get your votes in soon. Then check back on October 1st, when we will announce the winners and the lineups.
TICKETS: Most of you will probably want to wait and see who’s in which show before getting your tickets. Remember, though, that the Best Of shows always sell out will in advance. So if you want to snag a table or even just a ticket before the rush, you can get them for the early show here, and the late show here.
The Absolute Worst Show: Wildcard
Wednesday, October 21st
The Absolute Worst is an interactive, open-mic comedy/storytelling show hosted by Meg Ferrill and Travis Abels, where audience members face off against three curated comedians and storytellers to find out who can lay claim to having gone through the worst experience ever based on that night’s theme, with both absolutely fabulous and absolutely terrible prizes at stake.
And for our August show, we’re trying something different: a Wildcard Show — which is to say, the theme is whatever each storyteller wants.
So if you have a great story about literally anything that’s ever gone wrong for you ever, you might walk away with the evening’s grand prize!
Maybe your worst experience was that one blind date you went on that made you swear off all other blind dates, forever. Or maybe it was the first roadtrip you went on with your new love when you ended up being wrong about being able hold it until the next rest stop. Or the time you had to explain to your spouse how you lost all of next month’s rent money on your Vegas trip, or when your parents got divorced and had a vicious court battle over who got to not have custody of you, or that one afternoon you decided to go down the Black Diamond ski slope even though you were a beginner because, hey, what’s the worst that could possibly happen?
Don’t want to tell a story? No problem! You can still win a prize by winning our It Could Be Worse Game, or giving the best answer to our Absolute Worst Question Of The Night, or being crowned the Absolute Best Audience Member, or some other prize that we’ll probably just make up as we go.
Also, we may ask everyone to howl at the moon. Or we may not. (We’ll see.)
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