Are you in need of some serious laughter? How about a place to forget about all your worries or the day's stressful events? Then look no further. I have the answer for you right here. It's called Wiseguys Comedy Club.
Wiseguys Comedy Club is located in Utah and has four locations across the Wasatch Front to cure your funny bones desires. This comical club has found homes in West Valley City, Orem, Ogden and in the heart of Salt Lake City at Trolley Square. Wiseguys feature the finest and funniest in live stand-up comedy. The club is open to all ages but the comedian's routines are not censored so attend at your ears own risk. The clubs highlight "different national touring comedians every weekend and have hosted numerous celebrities including Lewis Black, Dave Attel, Joe McHale, Margaret Cho, Caroline Rhea, Carlos Mencia, Harland Williams and more. Wiseguys has twice been named Utah's Best Comedy Club by Salt Lake City Weekly and has been featured several times in the Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, Standard-Examiner, KUTV2 News, and Fox 13."
I have personally been to the West Valley location and Wiseguys is not your average comedy club that you may have seen on TV. The clubs ambiance is cozy, intimate and features a small stage in the front and center. Long tables are set up diagonally on either side of the main isle, leading up to the stage. The first couple rows of tables are perfect for the brave souls who wish to engage in humorous repartee with the wisecracker. For those of you who wish to stay out of the comedians view point. There is additional table's setup on the far side of the diagonal rows and also in the back.
And what would a comedy club be without a heckler? There has been at least one at every show I have attended. Unfortunately, there is not one "designated" spot for those few belonging to the peanut gallery. But if you should find yourself sitting next to one, don't worry. A good comedian will usually make them the butt of their jokes. Leaving you to laugh at their expense and out of the entertainer's routine.
Looking for something cheap to do on the weekend? No problem. Wiseguys has a 2 for 1 coupon valid only on Friday and Saturday shows. The clubs have a café-style menu of appetizers, sandwiches, desserts, bottled beer and soft drinks. But something I didn't know the first time I enjoyed these fine comedic routines is that one menu item must be purchased during the show.
So where ever you live, you are just minutes from chuckling, giggling or whatever your brand of laughter may be, at Wiseguys Comedy Club. For more information and scheduled performers visit their website at www.wiseguyscomedy.com.
Sources: www.wiseguyscomedy.com
Image Credit: IFCGood news, fellow comedy nerds: Death Comes to Town, the eight-part “gothic comic murder mystery” the Kids in the Hall shot for the CBC last year, will air in the U.S. this summer on IFC, premiering August 20. The Kids — Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Dave Foley and Scott Thompson — play nearly all of the 20 characters in the series about Death (McKinney) stepping off a Greyhound bus in Shuckton, Canada.
When we chatted with McCulloch, who served as executive producer, last fall, he admitted that Foley still made the prettiest woman, and this photo confirms it. Presumably, Dave’s shown as the murdered mayor’s alcoholic wife, who, in McCulloch’s words, “shakes the martini shaker like she hates it.” Bruce, meanwhile, is clearly in character as Ricky, a 600-lb. shamed ex-hockey star who has been in his house since he lost the big game and has one friend, a woman (McDonald) who’s the local pizza delivery person and has Alzheimer’s. Thompson is the town coroner, Dusty Diamond. Watch a trailer after the jump.
I’ve watched South Park for years, and have watched other Comedy Central programming more occasionally, believing until recently that it provided a cutting-edge environment for satire. Unfortunately, the network has now caved twice to radical Islamist terrorism, once in 2006 and again last month, in two episodes of South Park that skewered major religious figures while censoring the satire of Trey Parker and Matt Stone on Mohammed. Instead of staying out of religious satire altogether, the brave souls at Viacom have apparently green-lit a new series that will poke fun at Jesus … again:
Comedy Central might censor every image of the Prophet Muhammad on “South Park,” yet the network is developing a whole animated series around Jesus Christ.
As part of the network’s upfront presentation to advertisers (full slate here), the network is set to announce “JC,” a half-hour show about Christ wanting to escape the shadow of his “powerful but apathetic father” and live a regular life in New York City.
In the show, God is preoccupied with playing video games while Christ, “the ultimate fish out of water,” tries to adjust to life in the big city.
“In general, comedy in purist form always makes some people uncomfortable,” said Comedy Central’s head of original programming Kent Alterman.
Yes, Kent Alterman, you’re quite the brave individual for making “some” people uncomfortable. Those would be the “some” people who won’t issue threats of violence for your satires. Comedy Central and Viacom have no appetite for making some other people uncomfortable — the very people who would not waste a moment in shutting down Comedy Central if given the opportunity.
South Park takes an honest approach to satire by skewering everyone equally. They lost a major cast member when they satirized Scientology, and no doubt have had complaints from many groups about their portrayal of Jesus, Buddha, Joseph Smith, Lao Tze, and other religious figures. But one never got the sense that Parker and Stone had it out for any one group because their satires ran the entire gamut, at least until Comedy Central began censoring them.
And even that would have been understandable — had CC made the decision to avoid religious satire altogether. Instead, they’re launching a new effort to parody Christianity while imposing the rule of radical Islamists on satires of Islam. There’s a word for the kind of people who only pick fights with no risk whatsoever: pussies.
Update: I agree with The Anchoress on this one:
As a Christian, I am unoffended by this move. The Triune God has awfully big shoulders; he can take it.
It is Comedy Central that betrays the tiny fragility that lies behind its strut.
I am embarrassed for them.
Offended? Not really. It’s more like utter contempt for their blustery cowardice.
Update II: The Verum Serum headline sums it up: “Comedy Central: Unlike Mohammed, Jesus a Constant Source of Amusement.”
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