I was at the Laugh Attic this past Tuesday night, and managed to get some pictures.
No videos or pictures of me performing, but I did get someone to take few pictures of the show, to give those who haven't come out yet an idea of what's going on.
As you can tell from most of the pictures, there are a lot of Christmas lights hung around the bar. Also a lot of nets. And boats...like small wooden boats hung on the wall.
But don't let that deter you from the fun!
(You can click on the pictures to see them bigger too, but they're all iPhone quality, and not new iPhone quality.)
This is Jeff Buck (right), owner of Funny as Buck, hosting the show. He's recently been at the Funny Bone where he did some shows with Chris Porter from Last Comic Standing Season 4.
And this is Aaron Chatelain (left) sitting at a booth, before going on stage, where he did a bit with some of the audience, demonstrating how creepy he gets at clubs. It also looks like he may have been doing some light reading before performing. I wouldn't know, I wasn't sitting with him. In fact, the person responsible for these pictures is Bryan Wooldridge (below), owner of Salami Vice, and one of the classier comedy promoters in Baton Rouge right now.
His company hosts the Laugh Attic every other Tuesday at Boudreaux and Thibodeaux's on 3rd street downtown, and consistently promotes major comedians traveling through the South. Salami Vice has done shows with some major names like Mike Russo, Craig Gass, Howard Hall, Chris Tompkins, Joe Barbor, Caroline Anderson, and even more big name comedians from New Orleans.
And yeah, some of those names are local, but they're people who are better than some national performers.
Either way, this is just a bit of an update about local comedy, but the more people showing up to the shows and telling their friends, the larger the audiences etc.
The main point being: this is a growing community in Baton Rouge, who appears to be gaining a substantial amount of notoriety throughout the south. It's hopefully something that will lean more towards Alternative comedy and strain far, far away from anything typically attributed to southern comedy like Blue Collar or even just shitty comedy like Jeff Dunham.
I'll try to update with news about upcoming shows, and anything major going on around town.
Here's a picture of an oily bird.
