{"id":12633,"date":"2026-10-16T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/?p=12633"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:54:01","slug":"booking-a-comedian-for-a-fundraiser-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/booking-a-comedian-for-a-fundraiser-in-winnipeg\/","title":{"rendered":"Booking a Comedian for a Fundraiser in Winnipeg (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comedian at a fundraiser in Winnipeg can get guests laughing before the asks and give them a reason to stay. The evening has a purpose, so plan where the comedy falls, what the material avoids and how it fits with the auction. Send us your date, venue and guest count, and you can compare options with prices for comedians who are available that day.<\/p>\n<h2>Where it falls in the program<\/h2>\n<p>A fundraiser has its own running order: arrivals, dinner, speeches about the cause, the asks and any auction. Tell the comedian where you&#8217;d like them, and how long. If you&#8217;d like them to host the whole evening as well, say so: that&#8217;s a different job from a single performance.<\/p>\n<h2>Material that respects the cause<\/h2>\n<p>Give the comedian a short brief: the cause, who&#8217;s in the room, and anything to leave alone. Ask for clean material, and ask how they&#8217;ll keep the jokes away from the people the evening is raising money for.<\/p>\n<h2>The auction<\/h2>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a live auction, ask whether the comedian can keep it moving between lots, or whether you&#8217;ll have a separate auctioneer. If you have one, tell the comedian, so they can work together.<\/p>\n<h2>Get the room ready<\/h2>\n<p>Check with your venue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a microphone and a sound system everyone can hear;<\/li>\n<li>light on the spot where the comedian stands;<\/li>\n<li>seats facing that spot, not turned away;<\/li>\n<li>the bar and kitchen quiet during the performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Questions to ask before you book<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Have you performed at fundraisers before?<\/li>\n<li>Where in our program would your performance work best, and for how long?<\/li>\n<li>Is your material clean, and will you work from our brief about the cause?<\/li>\n<li>Can you host the evening as well, or help with the auction?<\/li>\n<li>What do you need from the venue: a microphone, sound, lighting?<\/li>\n<li>Can you send a short video of a recent event?<\/li>\n<li>If our venue asks for proof of insurance, can you send it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>What changes the price<\/h2>\n<p>The price depends on how long they perform, whether they host the evening, whether it&#8217;s a Saturday or in the holiday season, and travel outside Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<h2>How booking works with AGNT<\/h2>\n<p>AGNT is a booking company. You send us your date, venue and guest count, and we check which comedians in Winnipeg are available that day. We send you options with prices. You pick one, and it&#8217;s booked once the deposit is paid. If your first pick isn&#8217;t available, we&#8217;ll tell you and suggest comedians with a similar style who are.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more on <a href=\"https:\/\/agnt.com\/hire\/comedian\/MB\/Winnipeg\">comedians for hire in Winnipeg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How we put this together<\/h2>\n<p>We wrote this from what people ask when they book a comedian for a fundraiser: where it fits in the program, the material, the auction and the room. It doesn&#8217;t list prices, because they depend on your date, how long they perform and the comedian you choose. You&#8217;ll see prices with the options we send.<\/p>\n<h2>Your next step<\/h2>\n<p>Tell us your date, venue and guest count, and we&#8217;ll send you Winnipeg comedians who are available that day, with prices: <a href=\"https:\/\/agnt.com\/hire\/comedian\/MB\/Winnipeg\">book a comedian in Winnipeg<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-credit\">Featured photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@bogomi?utm_source=AGNT%20Blog&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bogomil Mihaylov<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=AGNT%20Blog&amp;utm_medium=referral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comedian at a fundraiser in Winnipeg can get guests laughing before the asks and give them a&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[134],"class_list":["post-12633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guides","cs-entry"],"authors":[{"term_id":134,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin_gvut7zlq","display_name":"Viet Nguyen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4c460e03b3114d72267fa815c82730296e87ad2d7365d149a653483e40a7f817?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Viet","last_name":"Nguyen","user_url":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12637,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions\/12637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}