Now in our 13th year, Retro Game Show Night is Tucson’s longest-running live comedy show! C’mon down and join us for hilariously warped versions of TV game shows every month at Hotel Congress in downtown!
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12/6/2025 – You Don’t Say! Retro Game Show Night’s 14th Anniversary Episode! The sound of a rubber chicken was a constant, and Chatty Kathee was mesmerized with a vagina artist. Photos: Jimmer O’Rourke
We’re kicking off ✨2026✨ with the first Retro Game Show Night of the year – and it’s a big, juicy Family Fuss! Our wonderfully warped parody of that famous feuding show returns to downtown Tucson on Saturday, January 3!
Guest host Fulta Burstyn will guide you through the madness with sparkling showmanship and suspiciously encyclopedic survey knowledge. Meanwhile, Swish Manley returns as our assistant—performing the absolute minimum legally required of him and somehow still stealing the spotlight.
Celebrity guests include the incomparable Bernaise (the reigning monarch of sauce-based glamour) and the inexplicably numbered Nelmar 27 McGee, whose origins remain a mystery even to us.
🎉 15th year!
🕕 Doors 6pm
🕖 Feuding 7pm
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🎟 Tickets at the front desk or GoldenGravy.com
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Start your year with a fuss instead of a resolution!
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🚨 HEADS UP, RETROVERTS! 🚨
Tomorrow (Sat Dec 6) is our 14th Anniversary All-Star Episode of Retro Game Show Night at Hotel Congress — but it’s ALSO the Downtown Parade of Lights, which means some streets south of Congress (around Armory Park) will be tied up in festive, glowing traffic knots.
Good news: You can skip all that merriment-mayhem by simply coming in from the north side of downtown. Easy breezy!
👉 Parade route map: downtownparadeoflights.com/parade-route/
We HIGHLY encourage everyone to arrive early to park and stroll on over to the club — doors at 6pm, the chaos of You Don’t Say starts at 7pm, and you do not want to miss this anniversary spectacular.
🎟 Tickets are going fast but still available at the Hotel Congress front desk or online at GoldenGravy.com.
See you under the lights — parade-approved or otherwise! ✨
📣Tucson’s longest-running live comedy show turns FOURTEEN this Saturday December 6 at Hotel Congress!📣C’mon out for an all-star anniversary episode featuring our Taboo-on-Adderall original game, You Don’t Say! Get your tickets at Hotel Congress’s front desk, online at GoldenGravy.com or at the door until we run out! Photos by Jim O’Rourke
Retro Game Show Night is turning 14, which is wild because most shows lose steam after two years and a Groupon. 🎉🔥
Join us Saturday, December 6 at 7pm at Hotel Congress for an anniversary episode overflowing with attitude, chaos, and the kind of energy Swish Manley calls “Tuesday.” 💁♂️✨
We’re bringing back our wildly addictive Taboo-on-acid game “You Don’t Say” — the one that turns perfectly normal adults into twitching puddles of competitive panic. 🤯💬
Starring:
• Chatty Kathee, who will absolutely talk you into submission
• Swish Manley, who keeps the show running through sheer force of will
• Bernaise, dramatic enough to require her own OSHA manual
• Nelmar 23 McGee, who may or may not be from this timeline
• Parker, effortlessly cool in ways that should be illegal
• Fireman Todd, who continues to test the city’s fire code just by existing 🔥
Tickets at GoldenGravy.com, the Hotel Congress front desk, or at the door. Come celebrate Tucson’s longest-running live comedy show before Swish files an HR complaint. 💫
✨🏳️🌈❤️CLUB PRIDE THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AT LA ROSA!!❤️🏳️🌈✨
Battle Mimes hits tonight at Hotel Congress. Charades on Adderall—bring a helmet. 🤐🔥 Photo by Jim O’Rourke
✨Please put your hands together for the sponsor of our October episode, The Make-A-Swish Foundation! ✨
Get your tickets NOW for our charades-on-adderall original game – Battle Mimes! – this Saturday at 7pm with celebrity guests Fulta Burstyn and Nelmar 23 McGee! Tickets at GoldenGravy.com, at Hotel Congress’ front desk and at the door until we run out!
🎤✨️🌈 NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT! 🌈✨️🎤🎤✨ BITCH IT’S MY TURN! ✨🎤
Step aside, divas — it’s time to grab that mic and slay some karaoke realness!
Join Tucson Pride and the ever-effervescent Robin Bousel for the gayest karaoke night in town! Sing your heart out, cheer on your friends, and help raise funds for Tucson Pride — because giving back never sounded so good. 💅
📍 Monkey Bar – 1120 S. Wilmot
📅 Saturday, November 1
🕘 8PM – Midnight
🎟️ No cover | Donations encouraged | 21+ welcome
Come belt, laugh, and sashay your way through the night. Because honey… it’s your turn too! 🌈🎶
#TucsonPride #KaraokeQueens #LGBTQIA #BitchItsMyTurn #MonkeyBarTucson
