Let someone else make the debate jokes for you
By Josh Richman
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 at 12:27 pm in 2012 presidential election.
“Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
Going to the candidates’ debate
Laugh about it, shout about it when you’ve got to choose
Every way you look at it you lose.” –Paul Simon
Might as well laugh about it, right?
But rather than having to provide your own snarky comments during the upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates, now you can have a professional do it for you.
Stand-up comedians Dhaya Lakshminarayanan and Samson Koletkar are producing a series of events coinciding with the four debates at The Washington Inn, at 495 10th St. in Oakland, at which audiences watch the debates with comics who afterward dish up their best political material.
Four different headliners will be accompanied by “a cast of comics including a lesbian Latina, a black lesbian single mother, a single father of three daughters, a transsexual, a Mormon, a non-U.S. citizen and, just to balance things out, a fistful of straight white men,” the producers say:
All shows are from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tickets for each show cost $10 and are available online.
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October 1st, 2012 at 8:56 am
“Dhaya Lakshminarayanan?”
Did someone suddenly have an outbreak of Parkinson’s Disease while typing out her birth certificate?
Oh, God, now I’ve offended the PC crowd — my bad — even if the comedienne herself thinks it’s funny…