Early access — Spring 2026

Your jokes,
organized.

Caligari is a joke cabinet, set builder, and performance log for working comedians. Get your jokes out of the Notes app and into something that actually helps you build a set.

Get early access See how it works

You have 200 jokes and no idea where 180 of them are.

Every comedian manages material the same way — scattered across apps that were never built for this. You can't search by topic. You can't see what your set looks like. You can't remember what killed in Austin.

The Notes App

One long scroll of untagged text. Good luck finding that airport bit from 2023.

The Google Doc

47 pages. No structure. You Ctrl+F "dating" and get 30 hits with no context.

Your Head

The worst filing system. Excellent at forgetting the thing that worked last Thursday.

How it works

Three rooms. Everything you need.

The Cabinet

Every joke you've ever written. Findable.

Add jokes with tags for topic, energy level, edge rating, and type. Search by anything. See your whole catalogue at a glance.

  • Tag by topic, energy, edge, type
  • One-liners, bits, closers, callbacks
  • Keyword and tag search
  • Topic clustering — see your blind spots
Search jokes...
The airport security bit
travel energy: 7 bit
Dating app opener — the photo thing
dating energy: 5 one-liner
My mother calls EVERY day
family energy: 8 closer
Friday — The Improv 18:30 est.
Dating app opener 2:00
Airport security bit 4:30
The muffin thing → callback 3:00
Mom calls every day 5:00
The Green Room

Build your set. See the shape of it.

Drag jokes into a set list. See estimated runtime. The energy curve shows you the arc of your set — where you're building, where you peak, where you cool down.

  • Drag-and-drop set building
  • Estimated runtime per joke and total
  • Visual energy curve across your set
  • Pull from your cabinet, arrange on the fly
The Logbook

Remember what worked. And where.

Log every performance with the set you ran, the venue, and your notes. Build a history you can actually learn from.

  • Set history with venue and date
  • Personal notes per performance
  • See which jokes you keep returning to
  • Track what works where
The Improv — FridayMar 21
18 min · 5 jokes · "Best set in weeks"
Corporate — SalesforceMar 14
12 min · 4 jokes · "Wrong crowd for the edge stuff"
Open mic — Laugh FactoryMar 8
5 min · 3 jokes · "New airport bit landed clean"
" I have 300 jokes in my Notes app and I can't find any of them. I just scroll until I give up and do the same seven bits.

— Every comedian, eventually

From the blog

Written for working comedians.

How to Write Stand-Up Comedy

Setup, punchline, tag. The anatomy of a joke that works — and why most beginners only know one of the three parts.

How to Organize Your Stand-Up Material

The system for managing bits, sets, and show history — so nothing good gets lost.

The Best Apps for Stand-Up Comedians

Notion, Apple Notes, Google Docs — an honest look at what works and what falls apart for comedy-specific workflow.

Get in early.

Caligari is launching to a founding group of working comedians. Early access members lock in Founding Member pricing: $72/year ($6/month) — 500 slots only.

Founding Member pricing — 500 spots only. No spam.