The Oklahoma City Gridiron Club was founded in 1928 and has performed annual political satire for Oklahoma City audiences for 70 years. The club did not perform during the war years, 1942 through 1946, but has staged the annual show in various sites in Oklahoma City, including the Hall of Mirrors at the Civic Center Music Hall, the Skirvin Hotel, the Biltmore Hotel, the Myriad Convention Center, and the Lincoln Plaza, now called the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center.

Proceeds from the show fund scholarships and grants for Oklahoma student journalists.

Club members are actively engaged in newspaper, radio or television work.

From our Bylaws:
"The Oklahoma City Gridiron Club is formed for educational and benevolent purposes:
To disseminate political information and encourage political education, each in a non-partisan manner;
To encourage the public at large to take an active part in public affairs; To encourage by scholarships, grants and any other proper fashion, training of students in journalism; and to accomplish these purposes, the Oklahoma City Gridiron Club shall, among other things, stage an annual show to be known as the "Gridiron," a political satire. Guests at the Gridiron shall be Oklahoma publishers and editors, political figures, civic, business and political leaders and other members of the public."
--Article Two, Articles of Association, Oklahoma City Gridiron Club