Martin Amini Live: Albuquerque Tickets & Dates
See Martin Amini perform stand-up comedy in Albuquerque, NM. Get official ticket information, show dates, and venue details for his upcoming performance.
Hyena's Comedy Nightclub in Albuquerque is one of New Mexico's most reliable comedy venues, a room that has served the Albuquerque market for decades. The May date makes it one of the more intimate stops on the 2026 tour at roughly 200-250 seats — smaller than the theater-scale bookings in Chicago or San Antonio, closer in feel to the club intimacy Martin Amini built his career in.
The Show
Venue: Hyena's Comedy Nightclub, 202 Yale Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Date: May 21, 2026
Tickets: Available through Hyena's website and martinaminitickets.com
About Hyena's Albuquerque
Hyena's is in Albuquerque's Nob Hill neighborhood, adjacent to the University of New Mexico campus. The UNM-adjacent location gives it a crowd that skews younger and more diverse than the typical suburban comedy club. Nob Hill's Central Avenue is one of Albuquerque's most walkable stretches — restaurants, bars, and the specific street energy of a neighborhood that's had a creative class presence for decades.
At 200-250 seats, the Albuquerque show is among the most intimate dates on the 2026 tour. For Martin Amini's crowd work format, smaller capacity consistently produces the most memorable results: the matchmaking segment works best when the comedian can see every face and every person can feel the full weight of what's happening onstage. People in Albuquerque at this show will be closer to the material than audiences at any of the theater-scale stops.
May in Albuquerque
Late May in New Mexico is desert spring at its best: warm, dry, clear evenings with the Sandia Mountains visible to the east in the long sunset light. The Albuquerque entertainment calendar in May is active without the summer heat that makes outdoor activities difficult later in the season. May 21 is a Thursday — the self-selected comedy fan crowd. Buy tickets early. The small capacity makes this one of the most likely sell-out dates in the Southwest.
How the Room Will Read That Night
Hyena's on Yale Boulevard is the kind of room where the matchmaking segment has the shortest distance to travel between recognition and result. Two hundred seats in a proper comedy club configuration means Martin can see individual table arrangements from the opening joke — who is holding hands, who has arrived in a group of four with one person slightly apart, who showed up alone on a Thursday in Nob Hill because a TikTok clip kept appearing in their feed.
Albuquerque's character plays to the format. The city sits at the crossroads of Pueblo, Hispanic, and Anglo cultures that have been sharing space for four centuries — an audience that is comfortable with difference, with self-deprecation, and with being asked specific questions in public. New Mexicans do not perform discomfort the way audiences in some markets do. When Martin asks who is single, hands go up. When he asks who moved here from somewhere else, at least half the room responds. That is the soil the format grows in.
Planning the Thursday Night
Dinner before the show on Central Avenue is the move. Frontier Restaurant three blocks away is a Nob Hill institution that has fed UNM students and Albuquerque families since 1971 — green chile stew, sweet rolls, and the specific kind of open-all-hours dining room that has no pretensions and moves fast. If you want something more polished, Zacatecas on Central does solid tacos and aguas frescas; Sophia's does New Mexican plates with more kitchen ambition. The walk from any of these to Hyena's takes under ten minutes.
Park in the neighborhood streets west of Yale — Silver, Coal, Lead — and leave yourself the five-minute walk back to the venue. Doors will open about 45 minutes before showtime. Settling in early matters here because the small capacity means the pre-show read is happening before you notice it has started.
Tickets and Follow-Through
Buy through Hyena's website when the date opens. The 200-seat rooms on this tour have closed fastest; Albuquerque is unlikely to be the exception given the local comedy calendar's tendency to sell through for touring names when the venue is this well-known. Secondary pricing in smaller Southwest markets has been running at significant multiples of face value, which makes the timing of the first release the only part of this worth paying attention to.
If the date closes before you can buy, Martin's Room 808 residency in Washington DC at 808 Upshur Street NW remains the closest thing to a guaranteed seat — 50 capacity, Thursday and Friday runs, original room where the matchmaking format was built. Flying in for one is a real option for audiences who care enough about seeing the show in its purest form.