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Geek Comedy Showcase II: Laugh Harder
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It’s back folks! The laughs strike back with the Geek Comedy Showcase II: Laugh Harder. Featuring five of Middle Tennessee’s FINEST comedians, the Geek Comedy Showcase brings you the best in fandom funniness.

What is geek comedy? If the content can be found at GMX, that’s what you will find at the showcase. Material focusing on comic books, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, science and technology, action figure collecting, video games, cartoons, Dungeons & Dragons, cosplaying….these are the bricks that make up the Castle Greyskull of humor which we know as the Geek Comedy Showcase. We’ve heard all the jokes before about one’s lack of athletic prowess, flailing marriage, lackluster bedroom life, inane run-ins with law enforcement and arguments with the in-laws. That humor is for the Muggles! GMX is the Geek Media Expo, and it calls for a special brand of comedy and a special type of comedian. Prepare yourselves. These special comedians will have you laughing into the Delta Quadrant!

Featuring the comedic stylings of:

Matt McInnis
Matt McInnis and Matt Keck
mattm@straightouttacomicon.com,

Grant Schinto
“schinto tds.net” <schinto@tds.net>,

Chad Riden
chad.riden@gmail.com,

malindamay@gmail.com,
sean.ricco@gmail.com

Cool Springs Conference Center & Franklin Marriott
700 Cool Springs Boulevard
Franklin, TN 37067 USA

http://www.geekmediaexpo.com/index.php

“She’s a nine, I’m a one.” says Ralpie May. “When we stand next to each other, she looks like a one and I look like a big 0. Together we’re the perfect 10.”

Ralphie May and his wife, comedian Lahna Turner have announced that they will launch “The Perfect 10” Podcast on August 1st on iTunes and Stitcher. “It’ll be different from everybody else’s. We’ll mix sketch comedy with music recorded live from the Mercy Lounge in Nashville. We’ll have segments like ‘Cooking with Porn Stars’, ‘The Redneck Report’ where we call up a bonafide redneck buddy and a black friend for ‘The N****r News.’ Lahna never smokes weed, so we’re gonna get her high as balls and recreate my greatest stoner moments. I’m going to be her weed sherpa.”

our friend Steve Goodie got a glowing write up on @thelaughbutton’s Funny Music Friday column: http://thelaughbutton.com/features/funny-music-friday-nashville-parody-king-steve-goodie/

In the Nashville Scene’s Critic’s Pick write up for Broads & Brews 12/22 at The Five Spot, Stephen Trageser writes, “The show offers a platform for local female comedians to flex their funny bones without getting shouted down by insecure dudes..”
I just wanted to point out that EVERY comedy show in Nashville “offers a platform for local female comedians to flex their funny bones without getting shouted down by insecure dudes.” There are absolutely ZERO shows in town where women are being shouted down by ANYBODY. I don’t understand what prompted such a line to be included in something promoting a show but the implication that behavior like that is acceptable or even exists at other comedy shows around town is incorrect and disturbing to read.

I understand the problem may be that you guys just don’t pay enough attention to local comedy and don’t know what the culture is like and what is and is not happening but that’s a lazy excuse for printing a potentially damaging incorrect characterization of our supportive, healthy, inclusive, fun local comedy scene. Get out to more shows or get somebody who does to write about them. There’s a lot going on.

In the Nashville Scene’s Critic’s Pick write up for Broads & Brews 12/22 at The Five Spot, you wrote “The show offers a platform for local female comedians to flex their funny bones without getting shouted down by insecure dudes..”

I just wanted to point out that EVERY comedy show in Nashville “offers a platform for local female comedians to flex their funny bones without getting shouted down by insecure dudes.” There are absolutely ZERO shows in town where women are being shouted down by ANYBODY.

The implication that behavior like that is acceptable or even exists at other comedy shows around town is disturbing to read and I’m concerned that this is a potentially damaging incorrect characterization of our supportive, healthy, inclusive, fun local comedy scene.

It’s rare when problems arise but they’re delt with quickly. Most incidents involving intolerance on any level at or around local comedy shows has generally been instigated by out-of-towners and handily squashed by locals. Was that line prompted by something I’m not aware of?