Manifest Destiny 2008: Secret Pants at The M Room, $10

Laugh Until Until You Puke Up The Shrimp Cocktail: Joe Devito at Helium Comedy Club, $35-39

“You and The Giants Are Both Gay” But the Money Must Be Good: Artie Lange is at the Tower Theatre AGAIN, $39.50 – $75

“Let’s Do Something Classy This Year, Darling, Like Go To The Borgata and Listen To A Comedianne Talk About Bangin’ Black Guys”: Lisa Lampenelli at The Borgata, $50

Comic Vs. Audience will be on hiatus for the holidays (Christmas), thus the lazily posted LOLCats picture above. BUT, we’ll be back next year up in yo face with tons of new stuff, so check back and have a good holiday season!

Totally random…and totally awesome!

It’s Monday again and time for another Die, Actor, Die show at The Khyber (56 S. 2nd St.), 8PM, $5. Come out for jokes from:

Chip Chantry
Secret Pants
Aaron Hertzog
Gregg Gethard
Nolan Gilbride
and a Christmas Story from
Buddy Felch

Very exciting shows coming up from the Helium Comedy Club in the upcoming year:

1/2 – 1/5 – Jo Koy
1/9 – 1/12 – Kevin Brennan
1/17 – 1/20 – Dana Gould
1/23 – 1/26 – Doug Benson
1/30 – 2/2 – Bob Marley
2/6 – 2/9 – Ted Alexandro
2/13 – 2/16 – Tom Rhodes
2/20 – 2/23 – John Heffron
2/27 – 3/1 – Jim Florentine
3/5 – 3/8 – Robert Kelly
3/12 – 3/15 – Paul Mooney
3/19 – 3/22 – Nick DiPaolo
3/26 – 3/29 – Gary Owen

Mark your calendars now and cancel all dates with loved ones and the other people that hold a special place in your heart.

We’ve got more from the latest Bedtime Stories at the Shubin Theatre. The theme was dating and relationships and Samantha and Brian C. from Secret Pants went up with this:

Is this a good time to mention the super-exciting Secret Pants show at the M Room on New Years’ Eve? I hope so!

BEDTIME STORIES is a monthly show at the Shubin Theatre where performers do sketches, monologues, readings, or whatever else around one central topic. The topic for last month’s show was dating and relationships. Luckily, pick-up artist Diz (aka Kent Haines) was there to give us a few pointers on how to get the ladies.

More video from the show later this week!

Dave Attell is back with a new hour of stand-up tonight on HBO at 10PM. It was filmed at the Lincoln Theatre Theatre in Washington D.C., so it will be interesting to see if his material changes when he’s in a proper theatre. Probably not though.

He talks about vibrators…

Hybrid cars…

Juices and:

- Why you shouldn’t drink too much Jägermeister
- His visit to the Middle East
- The “accidental” death of “the Crocodile Hunter”
- Global warming
- whether it’s ok to start telling tsunami jokes
- “Fat dreams” about new soups
- dinosaurs and pot smoking (there’s a connection)
- And more

SIDE NOTE: Suddenly, there’s a reason for everyone to wish they had HBO again. Once Flight of the Conchords ended, there was a lull, but now with Captain Miserable, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, the Extras special (12/16) and next January a new season of The Wire (!), it’s time to get on your HBO friend’s good side again!

As Dead Frog reports, the 2008 Comedy Grammy nominations have been been announced:

* America’s Mexican, George Lopez
* Dirty Girl, Lisa Lampanelli
* The Distant Future, Flight Of The Conchords
* I Still Have A Pony, Steven Wright
* Songs Pointed & Pointless, Harry Shearer

Two of these releases I’ve heard and loved, the other three I have not but am fairly sure would be a snooze. Can you guess which ones?

Would’ve liked to have seen Paul F. Tompkin’s Impersonal or Michael Showalter’s Sandwiches & Cats up there, but obviously that’s out of the question. How crazy would it be to have an AST Records release up for a Grammy? And how doesn’t Mike Birbiglia get a nomination? Lisa Lampanelli, seriously?

We end our Die, Actor, Die! week with the headliner of the evening, stand-up Pat Barker. It was difficult for me to decide what to include from Pat’s set as it had a lot of solid stuff, so I made my mind up on his first 5+ minutes.

Thanks again to local comic Kent Haines for helping film this.

This week of video is something of an experiment here, so please email us at comicvsaudience at gmail dot com with your thoughts if you’d like.