Comedian Korey Herrera performing in a previous AtomiComedy show. Photo by Thomas Graves
COMMUNITY News:
AtomiComedy returns to Los Alamos 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, in a show sponsored by Los Alamos Little Theatre and presented at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.
The show, part of the Creative District’s Day of Art and Culture, will include the usual blend of home-grown comedic talent and imported performers from Santa Fe and beyond. Tickets are $10 and available at the door or through Zeffy (see link to tickets at lalt.org). The doors will open at 7 p.m.
Smoke and Crepes, an improv group that does short, audience-inspired sketches, will open the evening. Their performance philosophy is that comedy comes from truth and we all laugh harder when we all listen to each other. Except when you’re laughing so hard you can’t hear anyone else.
Los Alamos comedians on the bill include Wendy Caldwell Lanchier, making her stand-up debut and promising to be either awesome or terrible; Scott Bailey, a single parent with two teenage daughters who is learning cat herding on the fly; Andrea Albert, aka the Asexual Astrophysicist, who enjoys Taco Bell and making fun of rich people (or was that enjoys rich people and making fun of Taco Bell?); John Gustafson, who hopes to live long enough to kill (at comedy!); and AtomiComedy founder and organizer David Zimmermann, whose style of humor tests the scientific limits of dryness.
Imported talent includes Tripp Stelnicki, who apparently was the forearm model for the cover of Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” (we don’t make this stuff up, folks); Susanne Caro, who will be promoting her series of erotica based on Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder; and host for the evening Tyler Lovely, the mainstay at Albuquerque’s Dry Heat Comedy Club and one of the nicest people imaginable — but don’t turn your back on him if he’s holding a Ripstick.
This is your chance to show the world that Los Alamos is more than just a scientific hotbed but a place where laughter thrives. See you there!