Comedy Heights is back at Lestat’s this Friday and Saturday, September 11 and 12, with a lineup that covers everything from midlife crises to television writing to getting banned from Twitter.
Chris Angell is a married father of twin girls who started in improv before deciding that stand up comedy was apparently a reasonable response to a midlife crisis. A former marketing executive for an insulin pump company, Chris now puts that same attention to detail into jokes about marriage, aging, gummies, gray hair and the general nonsense that arrives with adulthood. He has performed at venues including National Lampoon’s The Yellow Door, Haha Comedy Club and The Ice House.
Paige Weldon brings an entirely different résumé. Her stand up has appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden and Comedy Central, and she has released two comedy albums. She has also acted on Heathers and Corporate, where she later wrote an episode for the show’s third season. Her acting credits also include, according to her bio, several commercials where she successfully portrayed the demanding role of “woman in glasses.”
Then there’s Jon Alcabes, a Brooklyn based comic and writer for the satire site ClickHole. Jon has performed at comedy festivals around the country and apparently spends his nonperforming hours standing outside bars with other comedians and blocking the sidewalk. He has also been banned from Twitter, which may be the strongest comedy credential on the poster.
Emily Rowe and Al Gavi round out the weekend lineup.
So this one should be interesting. A Southern California dad turning aging into material, an LA comic with television credits, a Brooklyn satire writer who lost Twitter privileges, plus two more comics who get to follow all of that.
Friday and Saturday, September 11 and 12
8 PM
Lestat’s, 3343 Adams Ave., San Diego
$5 cover, which converts to same day café credit
Five bucks for a night of stand up.
That’s cheaper than therapy, and this weekend at least one of the comics has already tried the midlife crisis route.
