TITLES
Live from the Front
Good Girls Don’t, but Indian Girls Do
DESCRIPTION
Hiphop spoken-word artist and radio correspondent who went to Iraq
Indian journalist who mortified her parents by quitting her job and her fiancé to become a comedian
RESUMÉ HIGHLIGHTS
The Mark Taper Forum, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam
The 2003 Smirnoff International Comedy Festival, South Africa
STUNNING REVELATIONS
War is bad
Monsoon Wedding is worse
SECRET WEAPON
Hiphop is an automatic 15 percent increase in Authenticity (or “Street”) Factor
Comedy about the “minority experience” bumps up the Obligatory-Laughter-from-Guilty-Liberals quotient by 15 percent
WINNER
Tie
Jerry Quickley performs Live from the Front at the Bagley Wright Theatre Sat 6:30–8 pm. Vijai Nathan performs Good Girls Don’t, but Indian Girls Do at the Charlotte Martin Theatre Sat 1:30–2:30 pm.