(STANDUP) The 27th Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition’s week of preliminaries lands at CHAC for a night of standup yuks. Among the 15 comics competing for five semifinalist slots are a dude with Tourette’s, a guy with spina bifida and polio, a Czech national employed by Microsoft, and the undiagnosed recent Stranger profilee Daniel Carroll. (Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1620 12th Ave, brownpapertickets.com. 7:30 pm, $15, 21+. For full schedule, see www.seattlecomedycompetition.com.)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...