Knockout Agency  ·  Beirut, since 2017

A Homegrown Entertainment House.

Music, stand up comedy, and the writing around it. Knockout is the agency that turned Lebanon's open mics into a movement, and its new wave of sound into a scene.

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One house. Three disciplines. Built in Beirut, for the voices that grew up here.

Knockout started as Lebanon's first dedicated stand up comedy agency, the infrastructure that gave a generation of comedians a stage. Today it is a full entertainment house: a music roster, a comedy agency, and an editorial arm writing the scene as it happens.

The House

Three ways Lebanon gets heard.

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Music

A new wave of homegrown sound. We sign it, shape it, and put it on the map.

YAOELSHAR3IAfro Bangaz
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The Regulars on stage
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Performance Art

The first dedicated stand up comedy agency in Lebanon. The Regulars, the flagship night at Forty Licks Tavern that built the scene.

The RegularsForty Licks Tavern
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Knockout Editorial
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Editorial

Entertainment articles and journals. Two running series and a general read on the culture around us.

The Comedic JournalSound & SceneThe General
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Featured

From the floor.

The Regulars at Forty Licks Tavern
Heritage  ·  The flagship

The Regulars,
at Forty Licks Tavern.

The night that turned Lebanon's open mics into a movement. Brick, low light, a mic, and a room that came to laugh.

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WOW by YAO, original art apparel
Wear the sound  ·  Street & Rave Apparel

Original art you wear, by YAO. Made to order, shipped worldwide.

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2017
House founded
3
Disciplines under one roof
1
Home stage, Forty Licks
∞
Nights, and counting