Nashville-native comedian / author / lecturer / Vanderbilt graduate / funny person Jeff Havens is currently touring with his “How to Get Fired!” lecture / presentation / funny thing. The Kokomo Perspective recently wrote up his upcoming appearance at IUK:

Jeff Havens

Some questions Havens will ask his audience include, “Does the idea of working for a living depress you?”, “Would you rather play video games and update your Facebook profile than suffer through a lifetime of stable employment?”, and, “Does paying your rent seem like just too much of a hassle?”
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“How to Get Fired!” is also available in the quaint “book” format (an archaic form of communication involving something called “paper” that does not work at all on your iPad), available on his website, JeffHavens.com. NashvilleStandUp only wishes Jeff would have told us how not to get fired 10 years ago when we were still “employable” – now, we’re just damaged goods. Way to go, Jeff. Way. To. Go.

Nashville’s own Billy Wayne Davis has been tapped to join the Dirt Poor Comedy Tour line-up. Open auditions were held at comedy clubs across the country, and producers selected B.W. along with Dustin Chafin, Ricky Peardon, Big Kenny, Etta May and J. Scott Homan to perform at a show to be taped for television on March 20th & 21st in Knoxville, TN, at the Bijou Theater. If you’d like to see Billy Wayne perform right here in Nashville, he’s the middle act for Ralphie May at the Ryman on March 2nd @ 8 p.m.

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Nashville native Keith Alberstadt just completed another tour of the Middle East entertaining the troops. He has returned safely and posted the first in a two-part recap of his trip.. which covers Afghanistan, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Djibouti, Kuwait, and the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise:
Keith says, “Here’s some geography trivia.. Djibouti, in the horn of Africa, is only 12.5 miles away from the sun. Not only was it miserably hot, but everything was a warning with ominous undertones. Don’t drink the tap water, take malaria pills, turn your boots upside
down at night so spiders don’t get in them. Basically, Djibouti is Fear Factor for germ-a-phobes. I was waiting for Joe Rogan to pop out of a tent with a glass of yellow water and a bag of mosquitoes.”
Read the rest of Part 1 on KeithComedy.com
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