The
High Plains Comedy Festival will return next month, and SexPot comedy will whet fans' appetites tonight with another weed-and-jokes pizza party at the
Oriental Theater. The lineup is packed with crushers from start to finish: SexPot host Jordan Doll and comics Sean Patton, Ashley Barnhill and
Ian Douglas Terry will join headliner Aparna Nancherla for an evening that promises to be a greasy slice of laughter pie. Nancherla is a fast-rising star on the alternative comedy scene whose absurdist perspective informs a wide-ranging act that can touch on everything from the gross combo of orange juice and toothpaste to imperialism within the same five-minute set. Nancherla has appeared on
Conan and
@Midnight, and contributed several memorable segments as a performer and staff writer to the prematurely cancelled
Totally Biased with Kamau Bell. In advance of tonight's show,
Westword caught up with Nancherla to chat about about SexPot, Australian audiences and avoiding the dregs of Twitter.
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