LAFF HOLE FEATURING IAN KARMEL

Last year, Ian Karmel won Portland's Amateur Comedy Contest and wound up on a few episodes of Portlandia. This year, he won the titles of Portland's Funniest Person and Portland's Favorite Ian, two of the city's most coveted prizes for the enduringly unemployable. And this week, he and a Subaru full of other Portland comedians are caravanning up to Seattle's Laff Hole to vie not for more accolades, but for your approval, a few free beers, and maybe a bag of chips (because only journalists and the homeless make less than career comics). If the Portland troupe is half as funny as funny people claim they are, you should go, chuck it up, and maybe throw a few chips their way—or at least let them siphon a mouthful of gas from your newer, shinier Subaru for the long car ride home. Chop Suey, 9 pm, $10 adv/$15 DOS, 21+.

RAINN WILSON FEATURING ALLEGED SUPERHERO PHOENIX JONES

Rainn Wilson, primarily known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the less funny American version of the British television comedy The Office (which featured a truly funny man whose name doesn't matter), returns to his hometown for "an evening of music and comedy" with special guests like that guy from the Decemberists (music) and alleged Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones, who made national headlines last month after video surfaced of him appearing to pepper-spray the shit out of a group of strangers in Pioneer Square while screaming, "I'm a superhero!" (Comedy?) Don't laugh too loud. BYOPS. Paramount, 8 pm, $31.25–$51.25, all ages.