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.